Fun Bookish T-Shirts for Kids Who Love To Read

I don’t remember ever owning any bookish T-shirts as a kid. I don’t even know if they existed quite as they do now, in a world where we have instant access to about anything we could want. What I do remember is sometimes feeling like I was a bigger reader than most of my peers. I kept a secret stash of books in my backpack in 3rd grade that my classmates would borrow from me during silent reading (they were a bunch of horror books, natch), and there was the time when I got to leave school early with a friend’s mom, as she took my friend and me to meet Ann M. Martin at a bookstore. I’ve got scores of photos of me reading in my room, in my living room, and anywhere else you could image. If there were bookish T-shirts for kids that would have been easy to find at Walmart, Kohl’s, or the thrift store, chances are my wardrobe would have been so much nerdier.

Today’s young readers have it different. You can find any number of fun, creative, funny, and perfectly nerdy bookish T-shirts for kids, courtesy of adult book lovers who wish they could have sported such style growing up. My kid has certainly gotten to show off some bookish clothes already in her young life, and I can’t wait to help my burgeoning book nerd find those perfect clothes to share her literary love as she grows.