Monday night I gave a talk to the Southern California chapter of the American Jewish Library Association. The event took place in Van Nuys at Beyda for Books, a wholesale distributor of children and young adult books and teaching materials.
I arrived early (with traffic, you never know....) and met the owners, David Paulson and his wife Lynn, who bought the twenty-seven-year-old company two years ago and are the nicest people you'd want to meet. They had prepared coffee and refreshments for the thirty or so librarians who attended the event. I helped myself to a cup of nuts (one of my downfalls) and followed David, who took me on a tour of the warehouse of the company he clearly loves.
Fifteen thousand and counting, on over a mile of shelving.
Including the collected tales of Curious George. And the newest Eloise. And so many pop-up books and puzzle books and multi-lingual books.
Beyda for Books provides shopping carts. If you're a teacher or librarian and you visit their warehouse, you'll need the cart.
They had to shoo me out of the warehouse to do my program.
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