Lemuria Bookstore Blog

I’m 22 years old, I adore picture books, and I’m not ashamed to admit it.  Picture books aren’t only for children, you know.  I admit that I forgot about picture books somewhere between first and second grade and never looked back until I started working at Lemuria.  And now when I’m negotiating with graduate programs [...]

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Even the mention of the Madeline series brings a smile to my face —for in our family these books have happily spanned three generations—My mother read the first book about Madeline to me when I was a child. Then I, of course, couldn’t wait to read them all to my own daughter. And since I [...]

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I remember the first time I found out about Madeline. My mama and daddy went to London to visit my aunt and uncle and they came home with Madeline in London for me. Being a red-headed little girl, I was over the moon to have a book about another red-headed girl. I had a major [...]

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“In an old house in Paris, that was covered with vines, lived twelve little girls in two straight lines… the smallest one was Madeline.” What do you think of when you think of the children’s book character Madeline? Is it how you had to have it read to you every night before bed, or how [...]

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She’s an illustrator and an author. She has written picture books, books for early readers, books for late elementary kids, and keepsake books. She won a Newbery Honor in 2010 for her book Where the Mountain Meets the Moon and a Geisel Honor (an award named for Theodore Seuss Geisel) in 2011 for her book [...]

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It is such a delight to find an author you love. To read a book that so completely resonates with what you believe that certain kind of books should feel like. That one book was pleasure enough, but to find that they have published another book–well, let’s just all go run around in a circle [...]

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When the Christmas season finally gets into full swing here at Lemuria (which it has) and everyday seems like two (which it does) those books that are our all time favorites really start to shine, especially in Oz, our kid’s section. That book that everyone should own, the book that becomes an instant classic, those [...]

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When I drive Harper (4 years) to pre-school we have to drive right past the bookstore. One day a couple of weeks ago she said, “There’s the bookstore,” and I said, “I like the bookstore.” Her response? “Me too, I like the book part”. No better response could she have given. “I like the book [...]

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Oh Scott. In the past year, I have really gotten to know the kids’ section at Lemuria inside and out. One of my favorite parts has been looking at all of the picture books in Oz, old and new, popular and forgotten. Lately in the classic kids’ books, I have fallen in love with a [...]

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The Night Fairy by 2008 Newbery Medal Winner Laura Amy Schlitz is about Flory, a young night fairy loses her wings and must learn to cope in an unfairy like world. She is a determined young fairy willing to do whatever it takes to survive. Come along and enjoy the adventure as Flory adapts to [...]

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