Kid's Republic, the bookstore children won't want to leave

One of the ways to encourage children to read is to accompany us to bookstores, to see books on the shelves, to browse through them and to choose the titles that interest them. And much more if that space is intended for them as a place of film, like the one they have shown us today in Traveler's Diary. Is about the Kid's Republic Bookstore in Beijing, especially for children.

Here the young readers have an activity room on the first floor, an area wrapped in ribbons of all colors of the rainbow and carpets that serve as a seat for children who attend the multiple readings and animations that take place in the bookstore .

Following the rainbow that goes up the stairs you can access the second floor, where the library itself is located, but where the colors and curves on the shelves do not disappear, with round windows, slides and recesses where to hide or sit and dream of imaginary worlds.

This particular library from which children will not want to leave It is the work of the avant-garde Japanese architect Keiichiro Sako, a design commissioned in 2006 by the largest children's publisher in Japan, Poplar publishing Co, Ltd. They have been able to think about future great readers ...