The Storyteller Bookstore, Lafayette, Calif., will close this month after three decades in business. The Contra Costa Times reported that when the last book is sold and the shelves cleared, owner and co-founder Linda Higham "will undertake her first feather-light relocation in 30 years. Unlike the previous five moves--to four locations in La Fiesta Square and two years ago, to a courtyard spot behind the city's Whole Foods Market--this closing of the specialty children's bookstore she and Sharyn Larsen opened in 1985 will be final and box-free."
Noting that her decision is not due to high rent or diminished sales, Higham said, "I'm 77 years old and I've no immediate family in the Bay Area. I have children and grandchildren I want to move closer to.... I'd love if somebody would say, 'Oh, that bookstore has closed. I'd love to start a store in a community that loves books.' "
