Book 'n' Brush

John Dresow

Really nice selection of brush calligraphy pens. I use these for practicing my Chinese characters. One of our local go to book stores

Oliva Webb

What a great store. We love all the books and arts supplies! They also have the best selection of cards.

Amanda Whalen

Usually, I have great experiences in this shop...but this time was different. We went on an early Saturday afternoon, and there was a woman and an older man working the register. While I was browsing the children's books, my 5 yo daughter was playing with the toys they have set out (for kids to play with), she was about 5 feet from me. The man walks between us and starts picking up the toys at her feet and putting them away, around her. It felt unnecessary, like it could have waited until we left the area, eventhough there were only two things on the ground. And I made sure she cleaned up everything else, like I normally would. We finished up and walk towards the register, we're she started looking at the glitter pens, and he's just watching us like a hawk. I'm not sure what he's expecting us to do wrong, but it was a very unpleasant experience. We got to the counter, while he was ringing us up, she started wandering and found little cards that go with charms and grabbed one card from each that she liked. He made this exasperated sigh when he realized it, " She's messing up the business cards." I smiled, put my full bag of purchases down, turned around, and had my daughter help me put them all back in the correct spots and explained to her that these go with the charms that people purchase, all while he glared at us. Went back to pick up my bag and the handle ripped off the paper bag. He said nothing, while the woman asked if we wanted another. I won't shop there again, while he is working.

Elizabeth Lanaghan

What a great little book shop! I loved coming here on my trip to Washington! I was looking for great independent book stores and I definitely found one! I loved that they had employee recommendations on a lot of the books! One of the employees even came by and talked to me about the books I was looking to get and said that all of them were great! I can’t wait to start reading these and when we move here in a few months, I will definitely be coming back!