Following its debut as an online and mobile bookstore in Portland, Ore., Endless Wonders has opened a pop-up location inside a local bakery, Montavilla News reported.
Endless Wonders is an all-ages bookstore that focuses on titles by and about people from historically underrepresented communities. Its pop-up space debuted at Hungry Heart Bakery, at 414 SE 80th Ave. in Portland's Montavilla neighborhood, on November 13.
Zo Nicole and Mags Burke, owners of Endless Wonders, met Jax Hart, owner of Hungry Heart, at a Pride pop-up event over the summer. After doing the "street fair circuit" and deciding that Montavilla was the neighborhood they wanted to focus on, Burke told Montavilla News, she and Nicole did a three-day pop-up in Hungry Heart before discussing longer-term options with Hart.
The bookstore pop-up has extended the bakery's opening hours. In the morning, Nicole explained, the "Hungry Hearts staff will be able to ring people up for their bookstore purchases" along with coffee, pastries, and whatever else they might order. Previously, the bakery would close in the early afternoon, but now Nicole comes in around noon to run the bookstore until the early evening and extend the coffee and pastry service.
Burke and Nicole hope to open a dedicated bricks-and-mortar space of their own eventually.