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Carmichael’s to Open Dedicated Children’s Store

Carmichael’s Bookstore in Louisville, Kentucky, has announced plans to open Carmichael’s Kids, a dedicated children’s bookstore, later this summer. The store will be managed by Kelly Estep, manager of the store’s outpost location on Bardstown Road. Carmichael’s is using an award from author James Patterson’s second round of grants to help fund the the new location.

Estep told WFPL News that children’s books make up between 20 and 25 percent of sales across Carmichael’s locations, and if she had more space, she could sell more.

“The amount of business that we do in the kids’ section is pretty significant,” she said. “I can never meet the demand. People ask for things all the time that I wish we could have that we don’t have the room for.”

Carmichael’s Kids will stock titles geared toward infants to 12 year olds, and the store plans to host many author readings and events in a dedicated space.

Third Tattered Cover Location Opens at Denver International Airport

As part of a license agreement with Hudson Booksellers, Tattered Cover Book Store has opened a third location in the Denver International Airport, located post-security in the C Concourse. A fourth and final location will open inside the terminal later this year, reported Airport World.

Upon completion, Tattered Cover and Hudson News stores will be located in all three concourses as well as the Jeppesen Terminal. Denver International Airport is the fifth busiest airport in the US, serving more than 50 million passengers a year.

Changes for Mysterious Galaxy

Mysterious Galaxy announced this week that both of its California locations –– San Diego and Redondo Beach –– will be undergoing changes.

The San Diego store has outgrown its current space, and the owners are in talks with a new landlord for a larger space in a location nearby. “This new space will enable us to have larger events in the store, and accommodate our need for a warehouse to support our many outside events,” the store’s newsletter said.

The Redondo Beach store will be closing as a physical location on June 15; however, plans call for an expansion of its events business, including partnerships with local businesses, conferences, authors, and publishers.

Mysterious Galaxy will retain its Redondo Beach warehouse to support the events business and will continue creating and supporting many of the store’s established community events.

Iowa Bookseller Profiled

Paul Ingram, longtime bookseller at Iowa City’s Prairie Lights, was recently profiled in the Des Moines Register, with focus on his newly published poetry collection, The Lost Clerihews of Paul Ingram (Ice Cube Press). Ingram described clerihews as poems created as the result of a manic episode and a “Tourette’s-like explosion,” using rhyme, mockery, and the mention of a famous person. In addition to the new book, the paper highlighted Ingram’s dedication and skill as a bookseller, as well as his renown within both his geographical community and the bookselling community at large.

“So profound is his love of the proper assembly of words, he nearly summons a trio of trumpeters every time he finds a book that is deep and meaningful and important,” the Register said.