@Yukari welcome to the community thank you for sharing this with us … i hope you can get the pagestory book store soon 
I read a lot of Agatha Christie in my pre-teen years as well. I’ve never read her since though.
Those are some VERY tiny books! @Lucy_Antony
Definitely one that I would like. I really enjoyed the same study so this looks wonderful.
Welcome to the community @Yukari Which two kits have you already built? I hope yoyu will share them here with us.
They sure are! I think I made a few hundred for this. Mind you I’ve also made a wand shop and i made about 500 wand boxes, all with labels on!
Oh my goodness. I could Never… @Lucy_Antony
Maybe you should give her a second chance? I think they have deeper meaning when you are an adult but yeah when i was young there was mostly a thrill “who is the bad guy xD”
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I love this kit! the aesthetic is so inviting, and I’m in love with the geography corner upstairs!! this reminds me of the bookstore on the university campus of my hometown.
my favorite childhood reading memories… it’s a hard choice? actually? I don’t read as much as I used to, which is sad, but I had such great memories reading growing up. I even got an English degree because of my love of poetry.
My earliest bookseries I remember devouring was the Warriors series by Erin Hunter. I read The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton over and over and over after I read it the first time in 7th grade. I shred through the Flowers in the Attic series by V.C. Andrews when I had chickenpox in 8th grade. edited to add: my middle school language arts teacher gifted me The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver when I “graduated” middle school - I cried for hours when I finished it. In high school, there was a Hastings (anyone remember these?) next door to my school, and I’d walk there after school every day and sit in the manga aisle reading for hours. I loved a good romance, so I got really into Nicholas Sparks for a while - Message in a Bottle particularly stuck with me. In college I developed a love for Sci-Fi and have since enjoyed Samuel R. Delaney, Ursula K LeGuin, Andy Wier, and more. But I think currently my favorite contemporary author is Haruki Murakami. His writing makes me feel things. The Wind Up Bird Chronicles had some of the most beautiful scenes, juxtaposed with some of the most brutal depictions of savagery. It hurt to read, but it was so compelling. A Wild Sheep Chase was my first love of his, read in an introductory course in college. Kafka on the Shore made me sob like a baby. I’m getting ready to tackle 1Q84. Best book I’ve read in recent history is Project Hail Mary by Andy Wier. The book is so much better than the movie.
don’t talk to me about Harry Potter unless you want to be really mad at me 
editing again to add: my spouse puts on an audio book to go to sleep every night, authors include Garth Nix, Eoin Colfer, John Flanagan, Orson Scott Card, Dennis E. Taylor, and more. He and I took turns reading to each other through The Seventh Tower series by Garth Nix about a year or two ago. I honestly can’t express how important reading has been to me throughout my life 
As much as I’m ashamed to admit, I was a wattpad girly growing up 
so I don’t really have a book that stuck with me!!
But there was a book/stationery store in the centre of the town (it’s still open which I very much appreciate because I still love checking it from time to time), so whenever my dad took us to town he’d take the boys while I choose mom to go with and we’d split and do our things, and almost each time me and mom would finish first and go there to wait for them, and then we’d sneak to the patisserie (bakery) right next to it and eat some goodies, it was such a fond memory that I had completely forgot about but to got to reminisce about it again thanks to this challenge so please kiss whoever came with this idea for me please
I also love Sherlock Holmes! It is truly timeless. 
There’s just something so captivating about the Titanic. I get goosebumps evertime I read or watch documentaries about it.
I love R.L. Stine’s books too! Those were the best growing up
Books like that leave such a lasting mark on the heart.
I’d love to watch the movie too. I really like genres that spread awareness like this.
E-books are convenient but nothing beats the smell and feel of a real physical book. 
This is such a lovely kit. I was such a bookworm when I was a child, I was always reading. Favourite authors for me were Roald Dahl and Margaret Mahy, because they had such imagination about unlikely things in the ordinary world. But I read again and again the Narnia books, and the Hobbit. I was also of the generation that suffered through waiting twenty years for the conclusion of the Obernewtyn series by Isobel Carmody. If we are counting years, The Red Queen stayed with me the longest for having to wait for it to be written!
But I was a library reader, not a bookstore reader. We didn’t have much money, so I was a regular at the library, checking out enormous stacks of books - as many as they would allow me to borrow. The number permitted grew month by month, however, as I returned them so diligently to borrow more. The library had this fantastic little reading pit for children’s story time. It was built like an amphitheatre, and I loved going there for story time. Such happy memories!
Yay, another Narnia fan! I reread them so many ties as a child that my copies started falling apart. I bought a box set but haven’t brought myself to open it - when I feel the need to reread I pick up the tattered old ones!
I’d love this kit. I remember the Faraway Tree series was my favourite books. I loved the endless, unpredictable wonder of escaping into a world where the rules of reality vanished. The Faraway Tree offered ultimate freedom, letting me climb away from the daily routines of life and I loved the thrilling, bizarre realms like the Land of Topsy-Turvy and the Land of Do-As-You-Please. I liked the characters such as Moon-Face and Silky. The vivid sensory details like tasting Pop Biscuits or riding the Slippery-Slip turned ordinary reading into a highly tactile, safe adventure where magic felt tangible and just one branch away.
I like being able to increase the font size on my tablet, though… 