It is our goal to listen for recommendations and ideas from all our customers and stay on the lookout for great literature, fun and educational toys, essential art supplies, and interesting, story/word-related trinkets and baubles. Our hope is that each visit to the shop will provide a new discovery, something you didn’t see the last […]
Here, hold my coffee…. and watch me review 100 books in 6 months!
The year we opened Once Upon a Trapeze Bookstore, my goal was to read and review 100 books – this, on top of everything that goes with starting a new business, working as a full-time teacher, tutoring kids after school, and training to run a marathon . . . yes, a marathon. What was I […]
I was 23 years old when Margaret Atwood first published The Handmaid’s Tale. I assumed then it was an historical fiction novel set in Puritan New England. Interested, I put it on a long and growing list of books-to-read-once-I-finished-college-got-married-raised-kids-started-a-teaching-career . . . Thirty-plus years later, I’m finally getting to it. Turning the first page, I […]
See images from our great summer opening.
Kids like non-fiction books, too! A reliable, soon to be third-grade source informed me that I need more books about stuff. Of course, the first thing I thought of was how much kids in my classrooms loved DK Eyewitness books on topics from animals to wars!
“Someone needs to tell those tales. When the battles are fought and won and lost, when the pirates find their treasures and the dragons eat their foes for breakfast with a nice cup of Lapsang souching, someone needs to tell their bits of overlapping narrative. There’s magic in that. It’s in the listener, and for […]
Mary Pipher is a clinical psychologist and cultural anthropologist. She is author of several reflective, insightful books and an activist for various causes, including the wellbeing, rights and health of women of all ages. In 1994, she wrote Reviving Ophilia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls, drawing on case studies from her own practice, examining the […]
Daisy Jones and the Six, by Taylor Jenkins Reid, is a 1970’s rock-and-roll print docudrama. It is written in interview format and follows the rise of rock band, The Six, and flower child, Daisy Jones. Predictably, there is an extensive supply of drugs, sex, and all manner of dysfunction to go along with what might […]
Anthony Peardew is The Keeper of Lost Things. Forty years ago, his fiancé, Theresa, gave him a token expressing her love, which Anthony loses on the very same day he loses her to an unfortunate accident. He vows to find this cherished token and, in the meantime, also vows to collect all the lost items […]