My Bookshop and I

My Bookshop and I tells, from a child’s perspective, the story of a personified bookstore—a magical space where books breathe and shelves have a heartbeat. With an intimate and poetic tone, the young narrator describes his daily routine alongside this shy yet passionate being: sweeping its floor, admiring how it blushes at compliments, or comforting it when a book leaves forever.
Esther Peces’s illustrations, filled with warm colors and whimsical details, turn each page into a living stage where imagination and reality blend seamlessly.
Fran Nuño uses short, lyrical phrases—almost like verses—that capture the complicity between the boy and his bookstore. Esther Peces enriches this universe with illustrations that mix realism and fantasy: shelves that seem to embrace readers, books that shine like stars, or shutters that close like tired eyelids. The carefully crafted edition enhances the feeling of holding an object as special as the story it tells.
This book is a tribute to the dreams that shape us from childhood and to the places that make them possible. Nuño and Peces weave a story that transcends the realm of children’s literature to speak, with tenderness and depth, about how the spaces we love end up inhabiting us. A reading experience that, like the best books, leaves you feeling as though you’ve been embraced by its pages.

Key points

• A valuable tool for encouraging children to read and for nurturing a positive relationship with books.
• The use of personification as an emotional device strengthens and humanizes the bond between objects and those who love them.
• This work invites readers to dream, imagine, enjoy fantasy, identify with its protagonist, and discover the magic of bookstores as spaces of community and memory.
• Recommended for reading mediators working in workshops on imagination, trades, or emotions.
• A perfect gift for future booksellers, lovers of visual metaphors, or anyone who believes that books can have a heartbeat.