Barrett's Bookstore recently closed for several days in August in order to rearrange the store in several ways.
One of the biggest changes is a new section for pre-teenage "middle readers" separate from the rest of the children's books section. All fiction books are now at the left end of the store, as you enter it from the street. The cash registers are now a bit closer to the front doors and along the wall. Nonfiction books are toward the back, nearer the fireplace.
The store is scheduled to celebrate its reopening with a ceremony Thursday and again on Saturday. Come take a look at the rearranged store in the photos attached to this article, but go see it for yourself as well -- on Saturday, you can get 10 percent off on your book purchases, and you can enter a raffle for various prizes.
“We moved everything around to give the store a more inviting, open look and to create a special area for middle readers, a growing audience for us,” says Sheila Daley, owner of Barrett Bookstore since 1997, in a post on the Barrett Booknotes blog on Darien Patch. “We also added a lovely cherry library case that will contain a collection of modern first editions from Marvin Minkler, a dealer from Vermont. Part of the new design includes an area easily converted to accommodate author events and book club gatherings.”
Barrett Bookstore is located in the Noroton Heights Shopping Center on Heights Road in downtown Noroton Heights.
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