Lupine Books

Every bookstore needs a mascot, right? What should we name this little creature? #suggestionswelcome

🌈 Our very first TikTok! 📖 We’re kicking off the Rainbow Room read-aloud series with The Wind in the Willows. 🐸 Cozy up and listen in! #booktok #readwithme #thewindinthewillows #bookstoretok #storyt... TikTok video by lupinebooks

We've started a new read-aloud series on TikTok (and YouTube)! #readaloud #thewindinthewillows #storytime

Creating a Joyful Community of Readers Please help bring a magical, socially-conscious children's bookstore to Providence! | Check out 'Creating a Joyful Community of Readers' on Indiegogo.

💜 25 donors. Nearly $5,000 raised. Just 5 days in.
We’re so grateful for this community’s belief in Lupine Books, Providence’s future children’s bookstore! 📚✨
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#backthisproject #togetherwecan #shoplocalri

Creating a Joyful Community of Readers Please help bring a magical, socially-conscious children's bookstore to Providence! | Check out 'Creating a Joyful Community of Readers' on Indiegogo.

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This campaign isn’t just about dollars; it's about community. 💫 Every small gift + every share matters. Together, we’ll reach our first goal (and beyond)! 📖💜

Creating a Joyful Community of Readers Please help bring a magical, socially-conscious children's bookstore to Providence! | Check out 'Creating a Joyful Community of Readers' on Indiegogo.

Today's the big day! We're officially launching our crowdfunding campaign to bring a children's bookstore to Providence! Please click the link below and consider donating if you are in a position to do so. Sharing the campaign with the booklovers in your life is also tremendously helpful.

In Wake of Court Losses, Rhode Island Codifies ‘Right to Read’ Rhode Island signed into law the Freedom to Read Act on July 10. The law is the first to guarantee writers and readers a right to sue for censorship, and shields librarians from criminal prosecution.

So proud of the coalition who worked on this bill.

As a Midwesterner transplanted in New England, I feel like I'm perpetually shouting this into the void.

"[E]ven if you think you’re in a “good,” “safe,” “blue” state when it comes to book censorship, you aren’t. You need to be [...] putting as much time and energy into protecting your public institutions of democracy as those in “bad,” “unsafe,” “red” states have been for the last half-decade."

I think that the laptop for our first point-of-sale station is finally appropriately festooned. Well, maybe there's a little more room...

Now is an awfully strange time to be opening up a bookshop.
Against the backdrop of rage and terror, I've been struck by a sense of futility regarding this project that now fills my days and has long filled my thoughts. This passage from Peter Miller's Shopkeeping has restored a bit of my resolve.

NOT NOW, MELVILLE. READ THE ROOM.