Great Libraries & Bookshops - Advent Calendar Card

Name: Great Libraries & Bookshops - Advent Calendar Card
Brand: Bookswares
SKU: ADD101-BWADDVA1VA1D2869
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Great Libraries & Bookshops – 24-Door Calendar for Book Lovers

A hand-illustrated 24-door calendar of 24 famous libraries and bookshops: find the hidden doors and guess the great reading room behind each one.

Step into the greatest library you can imagine. A ladder rolls past soaring shelves, green lamps glow over the reading tables, two stone lions guard the steps and a librarian stamps books at the desk.

Hidden around the scene are 24 little doors: a tiny door is hidden on a book cart, a globe, a clock, a balcony or a lamp. Behind each one is a famous library or bookshop, from the Bodleian and the Long Room to Shakespeare and Company. Every day for 24 days, find the door, open it and guess.

How it works

Find the door. Search the picture for today’s number.
Open it. A hand-drawn picture is waiting inside.
Guess. Guess the library or bookshop and where it is.
Check the answers on day 24. All 24 places, with the city and country, listed on an illustrated answer sheet in its own envelope.

Why readers adore it

A dream trip for book lovers: Oxford, Dublin, New York, Prague, Porto, Buenos Aires and more.
Real buildings you can visit: a bookish bucket list.
Hand-illustrated artwork: a magnificent atrium with a hidden door on every ladder and lamp.
A gift for librarians and booksellers: a love letter to their world.
Screen-free and sugar-free: a daily peek at the world’s best shelves.

Perfect for: Librarians, booksellers, book collectors, travellers, teachers and every reader who has ever been moved by a reading room.

What’s included

1 illustrated 24-door calendar, A4 landscape (21 × 29.7 cm / 8.3 × 11.7 in), with 24 perforated doors
1 illustrated answer sheet
1 illustrated “The Answers” envelope to keep the solutions secret until door 24

Good to know

Buildings are illustrated without signs or logos. The calendar contains no food or treats.
The text is in English. Younger children may need a grown-up to help open the small paper doors.

Delivery

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Production Time: All orders are processed within 5 - 7 business days before shipment.

Shipping Time: Once your item/s is dispatched, the estimated delivery time is:

USA: 7-15 business days
Rest of world: 14-20 business days

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✦ Tap anywhere to stamp it, librarian-style

Quiet, please — there are 24 doors hiding in these stacks.

A 24-door calendar for book lovers

24 of the world’s most beautiful places to find a book.

The greatest library you can imagine — soaring shelves, rolling ladders, green reading lamps and a librarian at the desk — with 24 tiny doors hidden on book carts, globes, clocks and lamps. Behind each is a famous library or bookshop from somewhere in the world. Guess which one. Open them in any order, at your own pace.

LOAN SLIPItem24-door calendarDoors24, any orderAnswerssealed envelopeDue backnever — it’s yours

Overheard in the stacks

For people who plan holidays around bookshops

Librarians, booksellers, readers who have a list of libraries to visit before they die — and kids who are about to start one.

Approved by the librarian — Great Libraries & Bookshops calendar card — **Approved by the librarian**She has visited nine of them. She’s not saying which.

Found in the stacks — Great Libraries & Bookshops calendar card — **Found in the stacks**Every bookseller we know wants one for the till.

Reading-room rules apply — Great Libraries & Bookshops calendar card — **Reading-room rules apply**Quiet guessing only. Pencils, not pens.

Future librarian — Great Libraries & Bookshops calendar card — **Future librarian**“Mum, can we go to that one?”

Warm-up · 4 bonus bookshops

What’s behind the shop door?

Four real bookshops that are not in the calendar — so nothing is spoiled. Each one lives somewhere very unusual. Guess what kind of building it’s in, and the door swings open.

Four doors on the street. Go on — knock.

One for every reader you know

Load up the trolley

One for you, one for the librarian who knows your name, one for the book club — then compare who has been to the most. Every extra copy costs a little less.