Monday, December 24, 2012

The store is alive with the sound of shoppers...

New-minted readers at round wooden tables.
Young browsers squealing at Anne of Green Gables.
Rhyme-reading parent who quietly sings.
These are a few of my favorite things.

Readers of ponies and dinos and kittens.
Scrooges and Grinches and warm woolen mittens.
Booksellers flying - caffeine gives you wings.
These are a few of my favorite things.

Folks with old favorites, and folks trying new books.
Stories outlandish, and eye-catching true books.
Crazypants winter, whence all this joy springs.
These are a few of my favorite things.

When the store's closed,
when you're cold-nosed,
home and filled with cheer,
we hope you're surrounded by favorite things
to bring you a glad new year.


1 comment:

Julia said...

http://brooklinebooksmith.blogspot.com/2011/12/booksmith-holiday-poem.html

Last year's Christmas Eve Day was marked with a poem, too. Is this a new holiday tradition? :)