I visited nearly seven or eight bookstores in America. Except one or two bookstores in China, all the bookstores are very big. There are seats in the bookstore, where you can sit down and read. Many primary and middle school students also come to the bookstore after school, study homework in the children's books and periodicals department, and wait for their parents to take them home. There is also a coffee shop in the bookstore, which provides coffee and various snacks. Readers can read while drinking, and some will sit for half a day.
BARNES AND NABIE, one of the bookstores (it was later learned that it was a big bookstore, and there were chain stores in many places), browsed the picture books in California and Los Angeles, which contained many books introducing countries around the world. There are at least 20 books about China. The content is also very detailed, introducing China's cities and tourist attractions, covering all aspects of food, clothing, housing and transportation, and even many China dishes, such as beggar chicken, white meat and blood sausage, Man-Han banquet, kung pao chicken and so on. There is a detailed traffic map of Shanghai in a book about Shanghai.
The most unique Bart open-air bookstore is located in a small town called Ouhai, which is in the valley and is a charming tourist attraction. The location of the movie "Lost Horizon, A Paradise" was shot here.
The open-air bookstore has a large zigzag shape. The outer ring is surrounded by roads and sidewalks where people come and go. The inner ring is surrounded by rooms with an open-air courtyard in the middle. There is a century-old tree in the yard, and it takes about three or four people to hold it. There is a circle of long chairs around the ancient trees, and there are other benches and chairs beside them for readers to read and rest in the shade. There are layers of bookshelves inside and outside the bookstore, and there are many big tables outside the room in the inner ring of the yard. Books are everywhere on the shelves and tables. The bookstore is open from 10 to 5: 00 pm. After closing, you can pick up the books on the outermost shelf by coin. There is a coin box at the door with a few inches of slit on it. You can take any book you want, just put the money in the box at the price listed in the book. Doing business with conscience like this has become a unique skill in the local area. On a table in this bookstore, there is a customer's signature book, thick and spread out. All English names and country names have been left behind. Between the lines of a foreign language, there is a China reader's name, and those three words are somewhat different!
In a word, American bookstores are as free and open as American society, but children's thirst for knowledge is actually similar to that of our country.
In fact, it is not easy for foreign children to learn. They have to learn to look through their own information and solve their own problems very early, which is very stressful!