The Beauty of Independents
This story originally appeared in Children's Bookshelf on July 27, 2006 Sign up now!
by Judith Rosen, Children's Bookshelf -- Publishers Weekly, 7/27/2006
 A day at the salon for a pint-sized reader. |
For starters, Mager has begun partnering with nearby independent businesses on related book events. For Judith Caseley's In Style with Grandma Antoinette (Tanglewood Press), about a girl who doesn't want to go to work with her grandmother but ends up having a great day at the hair salon where her gradmother took a new job, Mager contacted Lynne Ann Donchez, owner of L.A.D. Hairdressing of Distinction, the beauty shop around the corner, and turned the book event into a moveable feast. "She was just in her glory," Mager said. "She dressed up as Grandma Antoinette and had someone doing nail polish. She did more than I asked for. So did everybody."
 Young readers pose in Booktenders with author Judith Caseley. |
Apparently she wasn't the only one who felt that way; afterwards a local framer came over to Mager's store and asked if he could pick out a book for a neighborhood event.
