The store will sell new books for all ages, with a focus on local and regional authors, and will reside in a roughly 3,000-square-foot space that once housed a bar. The store's owners are looking to raise $60,000, and so far have raised more than $32,000 from more than 250 backers. It's been really exciting.'Īll Good Books, a bookstore, cafe and bar coming to Columbia, S.C., next year, has launched a Kickstarter campaign to help open the bookstore, the State reported. 'I don't think I believed it for a while, but everything fell in place. 'When things let up a little with Covid, I started looking and then I was able to find this space, and then it really happened,' Bloom said. She started looking for commercial spaces in 2019, but the start of the Covid-19 pandemic put her plans on hiatus for a couple of years. The idea of opening a store of her own was in the back of her mind for a long time, and she remarked that when her sons were little, she always wished there was a place she could take them within walking distance where she could 'set them free for a little bit, and it wouldn't hurt to have a cup of coffee while doing that.' Prior to opening Sleepy Hollow Bookshop, Bloom was a librarian at SUNY Purchase for more than a decade. In a store that's not this massive space, I can actually do that very well, and be able to provide recommendations to people.' 'So, I thought, here's something I love-I love getting books into kids' hands. 'For me, if I had tried to do too many things all at once, I couldn't have done any of them very well in a small space,' said Bloom, explaining her choice to focus on young people's literature. She also hopes that the bookshop becomes a place where children and families naturally gravitate and interact with each other. She told the Journal that she wants to bring in authors to read to children and illustrators to draw with them.

Once the store finds its footing, owner Leah Bloom plans to start serving coffee and pastry as well as hosting a variety of community events. and welcomed customers for the first time on November 5. The store, which carries everything from board books to YA titles, is located at 95 Beekman Ave. A children's bookstore called Sleepy Hollow Bookshop is now open for business in Sleepy Hollow, N.Y., the River Journal reported.

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