Category: Bouquinistes

The Black Cat Coffee House in Upper Lafayette now hosts a Bouquiniste, one of the small second-hand book collections that ReadingWithKids.org is adding to local retail establishments.  Owner Geth Aguirre noted, “Books are knowledge. Nowadays everyone is on the phone, learning empty information.  Our Bouquiniste offers a good variety, something for everyone. People are always picking them up and reading …

ReadingWithKids.org, a project of The Acadiana Educational Endowment, today opened the Book-Book Bookstore at the ReStore in Carencro, with the help of a grant from the Acadiana Pediatrics Society.  ReStore is the retail effort of the Lafayette Habitat for Humanity.  Book-Book is the first second-hand bookstore, or Bouquiniste, created by the AEE, and it focuses on books for children, from …