“I have always been surrounded by books at home”

The face has changed but the welcome. Similarly, the atmosphere of the shop are always the same: this universe of childhood and beautiful children’s books which calls on nostalgia and transmission.

Wendy Novaresio succeeds Marie-Laure Pitout. In addition, who has been officiating for about ten years in this Ali Baba cave for young people, parents and grandparents.

Documentalist by training. In addition, graduate in master’s master’s degree in art history, she turned to the bookstore sector, in particular to the cultural space of the Ibos meridian where she worked for 14 years in the youth department.

“Young literature gives me emotions” – "i have always been surrounded

Wendy Novaresio has bathed in the world of books, from her “i have always been surrounded earliest childhood. Therefore, “I have read a lot since the age of 12. My father has been reading a lot of everything, from the thriller to more classic literature via documentaries. I have always been surrounded by books at home. It was he who passed on his passion.”

Over time, this mother has learned to devour children’s literature which often gives her “emotions and surprises. I like to be jostled in my certainties”.

Today it is part of the Reading Committee for the Ados Prize “Hautes-Pyrénées. all in authors” at the departmental media library. From the youth department of the meridian to an independent bookstore specializing in childhood. there was only one step that Wendy dared to “jump”.

“I wanted to be more independent. It was not necessarily a childhood dream to resume a bookstore but it was something that came over time through the experience. the opportunity of meetings, “i have always been surrounded like that of Marie-Laure who is an extraordinary person who transmitted a lot of things to me. I also had the chance to be very well accompanied.

“I will try to bring my touch”

I will try to show myself up to Marie-Laure. worthy of “the inheritance” that she bequeathed to me and that the life of the shop continues for a long time “explains Wendy Novaresio who considers that” being in the city center, it is great “. Even if it admits a preference” for teen novels “. there is no question, for it, to give up what is the DNA of a cultural place, stationery, postcards, etc.

If she wants to register in the footsteps of her predecessor. in her continuity, the bookseller intends to “bring her touch”, in particular by developing “a corner for parenting” by proposing books to provide advice to parents on the education “i have always been surrounded of young children, in the broad sense of the term. Perpetuate the spirit of “scribble”, beyond even the people who embody it.