Take Your Child to a Bookstore Day 2015

On Saturday, December 5, the annual Take Your Child To a Bookstore Day takes place, celebrating neighborhood bookstores and the love of reading.

Take Your Child to a Bookstore Day was created by Jenny Milchman, a local mom and author. Milchman loves bookstores. In fact, every summer, she packs her family in the car and they drive across the country visiting independent bookstores and spreading the word about Take Your Child to A Bookstore Day. Why? Because, explains Milchman:

Take Your Child to a Bookstore Day began when my children were little and I was going to story time at bookstores nearly every week. Did all children know the pleasure of spending time in a bookstore? I wondered. Of being drawn into a magic world for a while, then being left to choose treasures on the shelf? I wanted to begin a holiday that would expose as many kids as possible to this joy.

Bookstores hold a place in the hearts and times of our community. They are places to discover an author, a story, a life. Nothing affords the conversation and interaction among books and book lovers that a bookstore does. In the future, whether you download your story or pluck a volume off a shelf, a bookstore will be able to accommodate. But in order for bookstores to flourish and thrive, we must expose future generations to the unique pleasures they offer.

Take your kids to Watchung Booksellers for a special storytime with Montclair author Daniel Kirk who will be reading from his new picture book the perennial favorite and holiday classic Twas the Night Before Christmas.

Take Your Child to a Bookstore Day: Daniel Kirk, Twas the Night Before Christmas
Saturday, December 5 at 10:30 am
Watchung Booksellers, 54 Fairfield Street, Montclair, NJ, 07042
Free