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Inquiring Minds Bookstore and Coffee House sells new books alongside used books, has a super kids section as well as a giant grown-up selection, and pours notably delicious coffee, tea, and lemonade. When it’s too cold or too hot or too rainy to enjoy the outdoors, this Saugerties book shop can really save the day.
Need a rainy day activity in the Catskills? Mountain Top Library in Tannersville should be on every book-lover’s bucket list. With vaulted ceilings, giant windows, cozy seating nooks, and an excellent kids’ section, there is a lot to love about this public library nestled in the Catskill Mountains.
Milkwood, the soon-to-open children’s book retreat in South Kortright, NY, feels like a dream realized. For its wife-and-husband owners, illustrator and author Sophie Blackall and Ed Schmidt, a playwright and high school English teacher, that’s exactly what it is—a dream that took a whole lot of work to come to life.
Just a short drive from Hobart Book Village, they’ve transformed an old dairy farm into a place where authors, illustrators, teachers, and librarians from the can all come together and celebrate children’s literature. Today, Milkwood actually feels like walking into one of Sophie’s illustrations.
Briars & Brambles Books, a cozy little bookstore in Windham, has an incredible selection of winter reads. Their staff picks are perfect for curling up by the fire, their cookbooks are geared toward comforting cabin fare, and their children's section is carefully curated with the exact books you want to be reading at bedtime after a long day of skiing or snow-tubing on Windham Mountain.
Hudson’s Spotty Dog Books and Ale has 12 well-curated brews on tap, wine, French press coffee, and snacks. Plus books, toys, and an art supply shop in the back. Time to crush your gift list with an IPA in your hand.
The hand-lettered signs out front read "ALL BOOKS 50¢ to $1" and "YES! PARK ON THE GRASS!" If you're a bookworm who is a few beers deep (thanks to the nearby Suarez and Sloop tasting rooms), this roadside bookshop is pure magic.
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A magical village of books tucked into a tiny town in the Catskill Mountains? Yes, please.
Our favorite storybooks come and go, but we never get tired of these beautiful non-fiction kids' books. Archer's top 5 animal books have amazing pictures to intrigue little kids and fascinating facts for animal lovers of all ages. They make the best gifts because they'll enchant a reader for years to come.
