(UFPR - 2019- 1 FASE)More Than Just Childrens Book
(UFPR - 2019 - 1ª FASE)
More Than Just Children’s Books Krumulus, a small bookstore in Germany, has everything a kid could want: parties, readings, concerts, plays, puppet shows, workshops and book clubs. “I knew it was going to be very difficult to open a bookstore, everyone tells you you’re crazy, there will be no future,” says Anna Morlinghaus, Krumulus’s founder. Still, she wanted to try. A month before her third son was born, she opened the store in Berlin’s Kreuzberg district.
BERLIN — On a recent Saturday afternoon, a hush fell in the bright, airy “reading-aloud” room at Krumulus, a small children’s bookstore in Berlin, as Sven Wallrodt, one of the store’s employees, stood up to speak. Brandishing a newly published illustrated children’s book about the life of Johannes Gutenberg, the inventor of the printing press, he looked at the crowd of eager, mostly school-aged children and their parents. “Welcome to this book presentation”, he said. “If you fall asleep, snore quietly”. Everyone laughed, but no one fell asleep. An hour later, the children followed Wallrodt down to the bookstore’s basement workshop, where he showed them how Gutenberg fit leaden block letters into a metal plate. Then the children printed their own bookmark using a technique similar to Gutenberg’s, everyone was thrilled.
(Disponível em: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/20/books/berlin-germany-krumulus.html)
In relation to the owner of the bookshop, it is correct to say that:
in spite of knowing the problems she would have to deal with, she decided to open her bookstore.
after being aware of the difficulties people had told her, she postponed the idea of refurbishing her bookstore
as she was conscious of the idea that bookstores are important, she started thinking about buying a second store in Berlin
shortly after she became pregnant, her bookstore was sold back to its original founder.
as a result of her frustrated marriage, she planned to start a business on her own
