Book Review - 'Dear Bookstore' by Emily Arrow (Writer), Geneviève Godbout (Illustrator)

What a beautiful, dear, charming, loving, touching, personal picture book, by author, children's songwriter, ukulele player, and all around creative heart, Emily Arrow. The soft, blueish-purple, yellow, and orange pastel colours are darling, transcendent.

There is a story here, too, in this book about books. It is semiautobiographical, about a little girl who grows up visiting and loving her favourite local bookshop. It is her safe space, her one constant in her life. Unlike her and the rest of the world, it won't change, and it will stay put.

Books and bookshops (and libraries!) shall continue to inspire and uplift for generations to come.

'Dear Bookstore' - you're right, bookshops are magical.

'Dear Bookstore' - you're so terrific, wonderful, heartwarming and sweet it hurts. I almost cried near the end.

Yes, the children's picture book is that good.

Bookshops are worth keeping. They are worth living for. Like books themselves, they should last forever. Please keep them alive.

Starry, shining and bright.

Also recommended:


'A Library'

'No Cats in the Library'

'The Bookshop Cat'

'The Midnight Library'

'Stacey's Remarkable Books'

'Little Red Reading Hood'

'Reading Beauty'

'Love in the Library'

'Dreams for our Daughters'


Final Score: 5/5