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How do you get kids ages six to eighteen and their teachers excited about writing and classes about writing?

Strategy: design & create themed street-front retail stores filled with unusual products, entertaining signage, and, of course, our books for sale. 

Hmmmm what type of themes might excite kids & teachers?

The Pirate Store. The Bigfoot Research Institute. Superhero Supply Co. Space Travel Supply Store. Robot Supply & Repair shop. A Time Travel Mart.

The Pirate Store, San Francisco, CA

Posters from the Pirate Store.

Superhero supply co., Brooklyn, NY.

A Space Travel Supply Store. Seattle, WA

Poster from the space travel online store. (Seattle, WA.)

The Greenwood Space Travel Store organizes a Pluto is a planet protest! ”With a loud explosion of cheers, we marched to protest the 2006 IAU decision to redefine ‘planet’, thus removing Pluto from the planetary pantheon. Over 30 protesters participated, chanting ‘Hey hey, ho ho, the IAU has got to go’ and ‘Damn it, Janet – Pluto is a planet.’”

Check out the The Museum of Unnatural History. 

Robot Supply & Repair, Ann Arbor, Michigan 

Robot Supply & Repair, Ann Arbor, Michigan 

Robot stuff! Robot Supply & Repair, Ann Arbor, Michigan 

The Boring Store (AKA not a secret agent store).

Time Travel Mart, Echo Park, LA

Bigfoot Research Institute.

Goals: Create writing workshops & tutoring for kids & adults… To raise funds, inspire creativity, and advertise our programs to the local community, most of our centers include a street-front retail store filled with unusual products, entertaining signage, and, of course, our books for sale. 

826 National is a nonprofit tutoring, writing, and publishing organization with locations in eight cities across the country. Our goal is to assist students ages six to eighteen with their writing skills, and to help teachers get their classes excited about writing. 826 Stores. 

http://826national.org/stores/

Books of kid’s letters to Michelle & Barack Obama!