Each has its own cage or enclosure with a sign detailing what type of animal it is, its name, and how the patrons can get to know them. Given their own shelf space in the back half of the store are all manner of rodents, reptiles, birds, and fish.
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Given free reign of the floor are four Manx (tail-less) cats and several chickens who live in apparent harmony with shoppers and employees alike.
While many bookstores may feature a live-in cat or dog, Wild Rumpus goes further. Most notably and memorably, the store is constantly moving, not only because of the energetic child customers but because animals roam throughout the store. The back of the store is done in exposed brick with tree and vine motifs and even a “spooky shed.” Scattered throughout are reading nooks and story-time spots.
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A canoe is attached to the ceiling, seeming to spearhead the crack that opens the white ceiling into an artificial sky. From front to back, the store progresses from picture books to classic novels and from formal indoors to constructed outdoors. Within the purple, adult-sized door there is a child-sized door inset, showing immediately that this store’s focus is clear: books for all but children first.
The Salamander Room tells the story of a young boy whose bedroom dissolves when he brings home a pet, a transformation wrought by his mother’s questions and his answers.Įven if you don’t know the book the store was drawn from, however, when you first approach the storefront it is immediately clear that this is no ordinary shop. Based on The Salamander Room by Anne Mazer, the design of the inside of the store is magic itself. Wild Rumpus is a specialty bookstore nestled in a boutique-saturated corner of southwest Minneapolis. Because of this, I couldn’t help but feel a mixture of regret and excitement when I visited Wild Rumpus, not as a child growing up in Minnesota, but as a college student on a winter-break scouting mission. Homeschooled and incredibly bookish, I experienced trees through paper and water through ink.
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