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Nancy Traversy, Community Bookseller

Nancy Traversy
Community Bookseller
Community Bookseller Since 06-17-2009
Concord, Massachusetts
US
Nancy's Barefoot Story
Living Barefoot for me is creating beautiful, magical and authentic stories and art and bringing these to a grassroots, global community of people who care about how our next generation of children is raised. 

I was born in Canada into a family with a bit of an artistic bent and moved to the UK in 1985 where I worked for many years in the London design industry.  When I met Tessa Strickland in 1992, my eldest daughter was three weeks old and I had just started my own management consulting firm advising small creative start-ups. As a new mum and an avid explorer of world cultures, I was immediately captivated by the idea of publishing books for children that celebrated diversity and imagination. I didn’t really know much about the publishing industry back then and, in hindsight, that was probably lucky as Barefoot has always done things in its own, rather quirky way.  

Over the next eight years, I had three more children and ran Barefoot Books from my home in north London. My kids were always around and actively involved in testing stories, picking artists and generally helping out.  In 2001, we decided to cross the Atlantic so I could be closer to our North American business. Since then, I’ve lived in Concord, MA with my husband, four children, an ever-expanding menagerie of animals and lots of colour!
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