Elm Street Books

I make a point of visiting Elm Street Books any time I’m with family in New Canaan. It’s an excellent locally owned bookshop with a very good selection of offering from fiction, to cookbooks, to travel books and children’s books. Helpful staff, too.

What an amazing bookstore! We were visiting from out of state and loved the charm of this fun shop. They employees were beyond helpful- we would love to come back if we are ever in the area again.

This is an independent bookstore with a friendly staff. I am a fantasy reader and that selection was not that big, but they have a lot of fiction and a beautiful children’s section!

Cool space etc. enjoyed my experience, have shopped her a lot UNTIL I’m checking out tonight and this beautiful woman with a sick kid asks where she can change her kid’s clothes. The mom has two other kids waiting patiently next to her. The woman at the register says the bathroom “is full Of boxes” and there is not a single space in which she can go change her kid’s Outfit (despite the open air office being visible to all). Her staff is notably weirded out by this and starts offering up different spaces at which point she snaps and directs the mom to the Dunkin’ Donuts bathroom across the street, with a crying kid in her arms. If you’re the owner, fire this woman asap (the whole store stared in shock); otherwise, do not do not go to this store.