Poplar Kid’s Republic
Beijing
What a cool design concept: Start with an all white bookstore interior—white floors, white ceiling, white walls, white stairs, white bookshelves,
white everything—and to that liberally add rainbow splashes of bright color.
Stock your shelves with a huge multi-language selection of kid’s books,
add reading cubbyholes and padded activity areas,
and you have Beijing’s Poplar Kid’s Republic, our favorite children’s bookstore in the world.
(Sadly, our previous favorite children’s bookstore, the Cheshire Cat outside of
Washington, DC, closed down several years ago—we hope endowing our current favored status
upon the Kid’s Republic won’t condemn it to the same fate).
Our few photos below don’t really do this huge store justice so check it out yourself next you are in Beijing.
Kid’s Republic also has a branch, nearly as cool, in Shanghai.
