Congratulations to Bel & Bunna's Books children's bookstore in Lafayette, Calif., which is celebrating its fifth anniversary this Saturday with day-long festivities, including special bookmarks, giveaways, a raffle, $10 hardbacks, a discount table "and obviously donuts (because... always). We are working on holding story time too--more on that later this week!"
When the bookshop opened in 2016, owner Clare McNeill told Bookselling This Week: "I am so passionate about this, I really am. I've never been as passionate about anything in my life. Having children read and encouraging them to read is so fundamental. I'm an example of somebody who somehow stumbled her way into following her dream and her passion."