Water Street Bookstore

09/25/2026

Oh my goodness what a beautiful night! I hope you enjoyed the pink sky! 🌇🩷📚

09/17/2026

Ooh, Back of Beyond Books is a gem!

🔎 one of our local faves, E.B. Goodale’s Robin and the Stick 🤩

09/15/2026

Return to the deep dark wood…

The first new Gruffalo book in more than 20 years (the finale to the series) is on our shelves today!!
🥹 🎉 🤩

Fun fact: The Gruffalo has been translated into 119 languages and dialects!

09/08/2026

YAY, we’re getting another ROBIN story!

Join us on Sunday, October 11th at 1 pm for a fun read-aloud, drawing demo, book signing, and craft with amazing author/illustrator E.B. Goodale! We’ll be celebrating the release of her new picture book, ROBIN AND THE MOON!

We had so much fun with E.B. during the Exeter Literary Festival - we can’t wait to welcome her back to the shop!

cc Abrams Kids

Author photo credit: Susannah Bothe

09/04/2026

The Exeter UFO Festival kicks off tomorrow, Saturday Sept. 5th! It’s always a super cool event (amazing visiting speakers/fun activities for all ages/cool merch/all proceeds donated to Seacoast kids and families in need) and this year marks the 65th anniversary of the Barney and Betty Hill abduction! 👽

Loads of stuff going on through Sunday, full schedule here: exeterufofestival.org/festival-events

Looking for fantastic kids and adult books? We got you! (We’re in love with Skelton Crew Studio LLC’s absolutely gorgeous KEYS TO THE CLASSICS collection - come get your War of the Worlds key to the tripod before they sell out!)

09/02/2026

Love this! (Link is in the comments)

Treat yourself and watch this library staff run through books that have titles that match up to the lyrics of the song at the link in the comments. 🤓

09/01/2026

🎶 First Tuesday in September 🎶 is a song about how there are always a lot of new books out in September and how there are always a lot of new books out on the first Tuesday of the month 📚📚📚

08/30/2026

We are so honored to have received the SAU16 Community Partnership Award! We love working with our schools, from bringing authors for free presentations to the students to helping librarians and teachers fill their bookshelves. We are so honored to be invited into the wonderful schools in this SAU and to be able to share our love of reading with the next generation. A big thank you to our kid's bookseller/buyer/event planner, Jill Sweeney-Bosa for everything she does. She makes the magic happen! Check out the photos from some favorite school author events over the years.

Thank you to those who nominated us and for inviting us to share the special moments at this year's convocation. It's going to be a great year! 📚❤️📚

08/26/2026

To the sweet lady who just handed us $20 to “surprise a kid with a book” 🥹

🦋📚🦋