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Featured Events

Kids Write! Writing Classes for Kids

Introducing our new writing program for kids! So many successful writers talk about how they've been writers since they were children. The writing talent can emerge early. We want to encourage young writers by giving them some new concrete skills that will help them...

Getting Published: A Guide to Getting Your Book on the Market

Part of our ongoing program: "Writers @ Work: Managing the Business of Being an Author" DATES: Monday, April 1 & Monday, April 8 TIME: 7pm - 8:30pm LOCATION: Open Book Bookstore This two-part workshop is for writers who are far enough along on their writing projects...

Dinner with a Book: Women Rowing North

DATE: Wednesday, April 3 TIME: 7pm - 8:30pm LOCATION: Park Plates Restaurant, Elkins Park Our popular Dinner with a Book event returns, featuring a delicious meal especially prepared for us by Chef Owen Lee at Park Plates Restaurant and served in the private...

Booked Up Monthly Subscription Book Club

Sign up for a monthly dose of literature. Join our club and you’ll receive a book a month carefully chosen for you by the loving literary minds who curate the collection at the Open Book Bookstore.

Makes a great gift for the readers in your life!

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Hot off the Press

Join us for a series of lively, monthly book discussions led by Lynn Rosen.
Participants read and discuss new literary fiction. We talk serious book talk, but have a lot of laughs too!

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Location

7900 High School Road
Elkins Park, PA 19027
(inside The Frame House and across the street from Creekside Co-op)

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Book Store Hours

Tue/Wed/Fri: noon to 6pm
Thursday: noon to 8pm
Saturday: 11am to 5pm
Sunday: 11am to 3pm
(closed Monday)
We are also open by appointment.

Our Collection

Open Book in Elkins Park, PA stocks a carefully curated collection of literary and classic fiction and nonfiction, young adult & children’s books, including books by local authors in the Greater Philadelphia area.