An ambitious second grader has started his very own pop-up book stand in Winchester, Massachusetts, and it’s all to benefit a local charity.
When 8-year-old Bobby Atchinson had books piling up in his bedroom, he wanted to give them away to give other kids the chance to enjoy them. But with help from his mom, Jeanna Atchinson, Bobby was able to take his idea to the next level.
“We started donating them and then I said to my mom, ‘why can’t we make a bookstore?’ And she said yeah and then she said we could give them to charity, and I said, ‘yeah, we can do that.'”
So Bobby and his mom put together “Bobby’s Books” — a pop-up book stand right in Winchester’s town center.
“It got on the newspapers and the radio and the newspaper and it started spreading out,” he said.
On the stand’s first day, 200 …