Thank You

Small Business Saturday was a huge success at the Monkey this year. We saw more foot traffic and had a significant increase in sales. For that, I thank all of you who made it a big day for us. What are we doing to celebrate? We’ve ordered more inventory, lots of it.
 
We’re doing everything we can to make Monkey See, Monkey Read a better bookstore. Small Business Saturday was amazing. A great kick-off to the holiday shopping season. But it’s just one day. A business needs year round support to succeed. We’ve had a great year so far and look forward to a busy December. I’m grateful that our little bookstore continues to thrive in a challenging economy. We owe our success to our many customers. Thank you.

This commercial says it better than I can.

Small Business Saturday

Saturday, Nov. 24, 2012 is Small Business Saturday. The sane alternative to the mall. Shop small.

20 Books 20% off

We picked 20 of the coolest books in the store and will be discounting them 20% November 23 through the end of the year. The list has a little bit of everything. Four fiction, six non-fiction, five picture books, and five young adult novels. Here they are:

1. Visiting Tom: A Man, a Highway, and the Road to Roughneck Grace by Mike Perry 

2. Leonardo and the Last Supper by Ross King

3. Mighty Fitz: the Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Michael Schumacher

4. One for the Books by Joe Queenan 

5. Dancers Among Us: A Celebration of Joy in the Everyday by Jordan Matter

6. Minnesota  Book of Skills: Your Guide to Smoking Whitefish, Sauna Etiquette, Tick Extraction, and More by Chris Niskanen

7. Illuminations: a Novel of Hildegard Von Bingen by Mary Sharratt

8.  Poe’s Lighthouse edited by Christopher Conlon 

9. The Fall of Alice K. by Jim Heynen

10. Dear Life by Alice Munro

11. Frozen by Mary Casanova

12. Keeping Safe the Stars by Sheila O’Connor 

13. Obsidian Blade by Pete Hautman

14. Son by Lois Lowry

15. Fourmile by Watt Key 

16. Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs by Mo Willems

17. Black Dog by Levi Pinfold

18. Children of the Northlights by Ingri & Edgar Parin D’aulaire 

19. Boot and Shoe by Maria Frazee

20. Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox: the Great Pancake Adventure by Matthew Luckhurst