MESSAGE FROM CHILDREN'S BOOKSHOP, CHRISTCHURCH

i’ve enclosed a  photo of inside The Children’s Bookshop. All the staff are safe and well as are their homes, but we have a little mess at work. There is plaster and dust everywhere, stock on the floor, some damaged and the walls are tumbling in places. We’re told it’s not structural, just in-fill, but all the same it’s unnerving – all the concrete blocks upstairs and down will have to come down and the walls rebuilt. That means that the shelving will have to come down, some of it is already damaged.

We have intermittent power and a leak that we think is a burst pipe, but on the whole we have come off really well, the building over the road is coming down! We have lost a couple of windows, but with a bit of plastic, we are now weather-proof (we hope). Because of the power uncertainty and threat of water, we have no computers at the moment, so if we offend anyone by not answering an email – sorry.


Please pass on our thanks to all those people who have sent messages wishing us well – we appreciate it. We haven’t had a chance as yet to contact other booksellers in Christchurch, but I’m sure that they too appreciate the support that we are receiving. When I have a chance I will put some earthquake pics up on our website so that only people who choose to will be bored by them – it’s going to be the new take on the holiday slide.

Mary Sangster
Office Manager
The Children’s Bookshop Ltd
87 Victoria St
Christchurch
mary@childrensbookshop.co.nz