Around the world with 6 (and counting) bookstores/bookmarkets

You may think that the tittle is too exaggerated :-) but hey... im still counting, i may have the chance to visit more bookstores or bookmarkets in many different countries yet.

These are the bookstores that i managed to get the picture so far. They are either independent bookstore or bookmarket, not that i dont like chain bookstores.

In no particular oder but im gonna start with the bookmarket from my home country Indonesia.
Blok M Square, Jakarta, Indonesia.

Ririe & Ruru
di Pasar Buku Blok M Square, Jakarta

Løvås Bruktbu, Stavanger, Norway.

Løvås Bruktbu

Pedersgata 25, 4013 Stavanger

Southbank Book Market, London, England.

Southbank bookmarket

under waterloo bridge, London

De Boekenmarkt op het Spui, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
This book market open every fridays.

Spui

1020 Amsterdam

Strand Bookstore, New York City, USA.
18 Miles of books!!

Strand Bookstore

828 Broadway, New York City

Shakespeare and Company, Paris, France.

Shakespeare and Company

37 Rue de la Bûcherie, 75005 Paris, France

Mick and Mandy (Take Care)

Seriously, i like to hunt and became obsessed with the duo Annie M. G. Schmidt and Fiep Westendorp´s works. Its not easy to find their books though! So far i have never had luck to find their works in the bookstore´s (unless you are in the Netherlands).

Mick and Mandy is the one of the three english versions of Jip en Janneke (Dutch). The other two are Jip and Janneke and Bob and Jilly. While Mick & Mandy and Jip & Janneke published with Fiep´s illustrations, Bob & Jilly using different illustration which i personally don't like! Why didn't they keep the original illustration?..

Take Care Mick and Mandy

I got this book from one of the online marketplace and got a very good deal (happy!!). It was published by Odhams Press Limited in 1961.

Top: Jip and Janneke
Bottom: Mick and Mandy

If you notice, the drawing between the two are slightly different in size. I think the old drawing of Jip en Janneke (Mick and Mandy) is taller. I read on Fiep Westendorp biography, that from the year 1977 - 1984 she made all of Jip and Janneke stories with a new drawing.

I like the new drawings much better. I think they are cuter :-*

im back

Hi, im back! its been more than 2 years since my last post. In that 2 years my very good friend Ruru always asking me when will you start blogging again? and i always reply later Ru later :D.
Here iam now Ru. I will try to write again.