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Wild Rumpus Books
@wildrumpusbooktore.bsky.social
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For young readers and the young at heart. We're the independent children's and young adult bookstore with a little purple door. Posts mostly by Rumpian Timothy.

Est. 1992
Minneapolis, MN, USA

https://linktr.ee/wildrumpus
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why order books through Am*z*n when you could order from Wild Rumpus Books Dot Com and probably get some cat hair packaged in with it
A tan cat named Booker T. sleeping in a box with his face squished in the corner
July 9, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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closed July 4th so we can focus on keeping Eartha Kitt from entering every hot dog eating contest in the state
A black tailless Manx cat standing on a purple bookstore counter with his head in a white wax paper bag with red text that says BOGART’S DOUGHNUT CO.
July 3, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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hey, uhhh… has anyone seen Waldo?

Waldo is hiding out in 25 Linden Hills business throughout the month of July! pick up a passport at any participating business and get it stamped for a chance at goodies and prizes!

details here: wildrumpusbooks.com/findwaldoinl...
A tan cat named Booker T. looking at the camera through a magnifying glass held by a human hand
July 1, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Minneapolis! it’s dreary and wet, but the bookstore is dry and cozy. plus, tonight at 6pm we have @shanayoungdahl.bsky.social and Selina Li Bi visiting us for a conversation about their terrific new novels. get outta the rain with us!
a colorful chalkboard sign that says, “Come celebrate the release of new YA novel A Catalog of Burnt Objects by Shana Youngdahl in conversation with author Selina Li Bi of Sunlight Playing Over a Mountain. Thursday, June 26th, 6pm to 7pm.”
June 26, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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the Wild Rumpus Summer Reading Challenge is ON!

this charmingly tiny version was printed because the Stinky Cheese Man, our resident created gecko, asked to participate. pop in to get your own people-sized version and join in the fun!
A hand holding up a palm-sized piece of paper on which is printed the 2025 Wild Rumpus Summer Reading Challenge
June 24, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE

you can also visit us at BlackStack Brewing’s Book & Vinyl Fair today from 12-5pm!
A poster with cartoon images of books and a smiling vinyl record pointing up at text that says, BlackStack Brewing Book and Vinyl Fair. Find Your Next Great Read and Listen. May 4th, 12-5pm. 6 book shops, 7 vinyl sellers.
May 4, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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there’s still time to get your Twin Cities Independent Bookstore Passport stamped! we’re open 12-5pm today 🗺️📍
A hand holding the Twin Cities Independent Bookstore Passport with Wild Rumpus’s storefront in the background. Our green awning and little purple door are visible.
April 27, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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happy Indie Bookstore Day! come to the Wild Rumpus Circus! we’re open until 5pm!
April 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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our friend Kao Kalia Yang won THREE Minnesota Book Awards last night (a record for a single year!) and we have copies of all of them available now!
Hands holding out three books by Kao Kalia Yang, winners of the memoir, children’s, and middle grade categories: Where Rivers Part: A Story of My Mother’s Life (Memoir), The Rock In My Throat (Children’s), The Diamond Explorer (Middle Grade)
April 23, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Indie Bookstore Day is on Saturday, but here in the Twin Cities you can start your journey TODAY by picking up a TC Indie Bookstore Passport and getting it stamped at the 37 (!) participating stores!
A hand holding the 2025 Midwest Indie Bookstore Roadmap and the Twin Cities Independent Bookstore Passport. Wild Rumpus’s ceiling canoe is visible in the background. A hand holding the 2025 Twin Cities Independent Bookstore Passport open to the page featuring Wild Rumpus. The Wild Rumpus ceiling canoe is visible in the background.
April 23, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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we had a great Easter break and folks are STOKED about story time. stroller tailgate outside the store this morning. we’re here until 7pm!
Roughly ten strollers parked around a garden with the green Wild Rumpus awning in the background
April 22, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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really excited to host Angie Kang to celebrate her gorgeous picture book Our Lake this Saturday, 4/19 at 10:30am!
A photo of author and illustrator Angie Kang next to the cover of her book Our Lake on a green background beneath the text, “Angie Kang!”
April 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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gonna tell my kids this is Rebecca Yarros
the cover of Choose Your Own Adventure #37: Pirate Treasure of the Onyx Dragon by Alison Gilligan, with an illustration of a young pirate girl holding a telescope and two more modern looking kids in the background.
April 10, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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it’s our boy Eartha Kitten’s sixth birthday today! (not so kitten anymore!)

everyone say HAPPY BIRTHDAY, EARTHA!
A black cat wearing a pointy birth hat that says “6” sitting next to A.A. Milne’s book “Now We Are Six”
March 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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hey publishers, I’ve got the Next Big Thing. the next Dog Man, Hunger Games, and Fourth Wing combined, guaranteed
a bookmark-sized slip that says “Kid Pick!” on the top. handwritten by a child the pick says: Name: (Illegible—Charlotte, maybe?) Age: 9 Book: The Crazy Life of the Pig and Its Owner Why: Because I wrote it.
March 8, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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ily NYRB ski to my house instead. we can make tea and read Tove together
Tove Jansson’s book Sun City translated by Thomas Teal laying on a wooden desk. A caption laid on the photo says, “thrilled to finally have a copy of this book.”
March 5, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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pov you’re my desk in the bookstore basement and I just hit play on the grossest (positive) record imaginable (can’t listen to audiobook because I’m reading emails)
a photo with an iStock watermark of a brown-haired white man wearing headphones and a collared shirt open over a white tee
January 31, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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should we see what the Rumpians are reading this week?

let’s see what the Rumpians are reading this week
A two-level display of face out books, each with a handwritten name bookmark showing, beneath a sign that says, “What are the Rumpians reading?” The books, left to right, top to bottom, are: Bo: Plain Jane and the Mermaid by Vera Brosgol Mayah: The City of Fantome #1: The Dagger and the Flame by Catherine Doyle Heather: The First Cat in Space and the Soup of Doom by Mac Barnett, illustrated by Shawn Harris Beth: The Mythmakers: The Remarkable Fellowship of C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien by John Hendrix Bella: Housecat Trouble: Lost and Found by Mason Dickerson Tim: Big Tree by Brian Selznick Anna: Influencer by Adam Cesare Jess: Mixed-Up by Kami Garcia, illustrated by Brittney Williams Tori: Junie B. Jones and that Meanie Jim’s Birthday by Barbara Park, illustrated by Denise Brunkus
January 22, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Bookseller Booker T is ready to recommend! we’re back to regular hours—thanks for your patience while we conducted our inventory!

Tuesday-Friday: 10am-7pm
Saturday: 10am-5pm
Sunday: 12-5pm
Closed Mondays
a tan cat named Booker T sits on the righthand side of a display table piled high with Rumpian bookseller’s favorite reads of 2024
January 16, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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one more day of this! thank you everyone for your patience! we’re celebrating the end of our inventory with a Pajama Story Time on Thursday evening!
an oval photo of Booker T, a tan cat, curled up next to a plush dog. text around the image says Pajama Story Time! Thursday, January 16th, 6pm.
January 15, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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you get into books because you love stories, but the next thing you know you’re dealing with numbers, especially really intimidating ones like “25,000 Books” and “150 Sections” and you gotta count all of em
a fanned out spread of papers with lists of quantities, ISBNs, and titles crossed out in pencil or highlighted in blue.
January 14, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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closed for inventory today Monday, January 13 through Wednesday, January 15!

no story time on Tuesday, January 14!

thanks for your patience. see you on Thursday!
Wild Rumpus’s brick building, with the green awning, little purple door, and a red wheelbarrow all covered in a light dusting of snow
January 13, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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can I get a fight like hell yeah going in the chat? @kimkelly.bsky.social
A hardcover copy of Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor by Kim Kelly beside an advance copy of the young reader’s edition of the same book, titled Fight to Win: Heroes of American Labor, publishing in May 2025.
January 10, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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the first book I personally finished reading in 2025 is Ali Smith's GLIFF, a book for grown ups which comes out in it U.S. in February. it’s so good it has ruined other books for me for the last few days
A hand holding an advanced reading copy of GLIFF by Ali Smith. the cover features a stylized painting of the legs and hindquarters of a horse against a green background
January 7, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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the first book bought in 2025 was National Geographic’s Puzzle Book of the Ocean. in Minnesota, we are big fans of water: lakes, rivers, oceans, glasses of, etc.

sometimes when water freezes we even play in/on/around it. love that stuff
The cover of National Geographic Kids Puzzle Book of the Ocean beneath the text “First Book Bought in 2025”
January 7, 2025 at 7:08 PM