Bank Street Bookstore - View this location on map With more than 60,000 titles in its window-lit, two-floor space 66 shelves of fiction, 42 of picture books, and a center table loaded with prizewinners and staff picks the Bank Street Bookstore is the mother lode for kids lit, with the largest variety, the best selection, and the most unusual and provocative books for young readers and the adults around them. Staffers are  voracious, passionate readers who are paid to read weekly, says manager, buyer, and onetime preschool teacher Beth Puffer. Their breadth of knowledge puts chain stores to sorry shame, as does a well-edited selection of educational toys and games. Regular events include an ongoing reading series headlined by Cynthia Nixon and superstar kids author Jon Scieszka. Books come in seventeen languages, including Urdu, Bengali, and Vietnamese. In the market for Winnie-the-Pooh? Find it here three ways: in English, Latin, and Yiddish. Or snap up the hotly awaited The Talented Clementine, hitting the shelves on April 1. Broadway and 112th St, New York, New York Shopping

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