Books, books and more books! So many to read, just not enough time. Enjoy exploring the many independent bookstores and book covers by Iowa authors. With so many books and activities near the stores, it is no wonder many things have gone amiss.

Were you able to find the 42 differences between the puzzle you assembled and the box image?

Iowa Indie Bookshop Tour Revealed:
Refer to box art below for location of each of these changes.

1.    Lily book cover moves to #26 (book covers referred to in the reveals are the titles of books shown In the blue background)

2.    Windmill is added to the scene

3.    Did the bunny eat the ice cream? (fitting image as Blue Bunny Ice Cream Parlor is in LeMars, Iowa)

4.    Background art underneath Book People store is replaced with “Sioux City”

5.    The Little Mermaid is added to the sand sculpture with a Ferris wheel behind them (sand sculptures are part of the annual Art in the Park event, and the Ferris wheel is a popular attraction in Arnolds Park Amusement Park, both overlook the shores of Lake Okoboji)

6.    The Water-Method Man book cover moves to #7...

7.    and The Overnight Guest book cover moves to #6

8.    Wizard appears here

9.    Title, The Crystal Desert, is added to this book

10. Rockford is now labelled on the map here

11. Stumptown Kid book cover moves to #28

12. The Luck of the Buttons book cover moves to #23

13. Well-read, famous cat joins the scene...Dewey Readmore Books was the cat that resided in the Spencer Public Library for 19 years; the book is based on Dewey’s real adventures in the library

14. Fossils are now shown from the Fossil & Prairie Park Reserve, best known for the Devonian fossils; the building is the Rockford Brick & Tile Company that is credited for the accidental discovery of the fossils and maintains the historic site

15. Love Finds You in Homestead Iowa book cover moves to #38

16. The Bridges of Madison County book cover moves to #24

17. Dog with Lewis & Clark book, canoe and trees are added to the scene (there are several Lewis & Clark sites and a park to visit in Iowa)

18. “West Branch” is now called out here (the birthplace of Herbert Hoover)

19. Baseball is added to the scene here (perhaps from Field of Dreams in nearby Dyersville, Iowa)

20. Knitting needles and a ball of yard appear here (might be from Wren & Purl yarn shop located in Mount Vernon, Iowa)

21. Winter in Paradise book cover moves to #41

22. Dinosaur saying “Read!” joins the scene

23. Gilead book cover moves to #12

24. The Sunshine Girls book cover moves to #16

25. Leisurely tuber (reading a book!) is floating on the Missouri river (replaces the star)

26. State Fair book cover moves to #1

27. Old Glory book cover moves to #42

28. Spirit Lake book cover moves to #11

29. What happened to the book, biker is now holding a bottle of water...

30. as the other biker moves out of the frame...

31. and Nan Wood Graham (woman) is sneaking in some reading...

32. Ope! The book appears here!

33. Key is added to the scene, perhaps to unlock the Book Vault bookstore nearby!

34. Herbert Hoover (born in Iowa) joins the scene here, leaning on the small cottage where he was born (part of the Herbert Hoover National Historic Site)

35. Women’s basketball phenom Caitlin Clark replaces the cyclist

36. Rower joins the scene on the Mississippi River

37. Big owl appears carrying away a book

38. Blue Jasmine book cover moves to #15

39. Biker set up a campsite complete with tent, campfire, cooler and books

40. The Iowa Old Capitol building in Iowa City appears here!

41. What’s Eating Gilbert Grape book cover moves to #21

42. Winter in Paradise book cover moves to #27

 

These are the 61 Books by Iowa Authors that are shown in the background grid!

Harmony by Susan Taylor Chehak
Spirit Lake by MacKinlay Kantor
Dear Librarian by Lydia M. Sigwarth
Bottomland by Michelle Hoover
Hot Rod by Henry Gregor Felsen
The Vast Fields of Ordinary by Nick Burd
If You're Reading This by Trent Reedy
Blue Jasmine by Kashmira Sheth
To Catch a Storm by Mindy Mejia
Growing Up Amish by Ira Wagler
The Weight of Silence by Heather Gudenkauf
The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller
Dewey the Library Cat by Vicki Myron with Bret Witter
Home by Marilynne Robinson
A Guide to Midwestern Conversation by Taylor Kay Phillips
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir by Bill Bryson
Trixie Belden: The Happy Valley Mystery by Kathryn Kenny
Mary Ingalls on Her Own by Elizabeth Kimmel Willard
The Lincoln Myth by Steve Berry
Where Courage Began by G. L. Gooding
Squashed by Joan Bauer
These Things Hidden by Heather Gudenkauf
State Fair by Phil Stonc
Old Glory: A Voyage Down the Mississippi by Jonathan Raban
The Growing Season by Violet Olsen
Never on Sundays by Jason M. Steffens
Old Town in the Green Groves by Cynthia Rylant
Here Lies Linc by Delia Ray
Stumptown Kid by Carol Gorman & Ron J. Findley
The Music Man by Meredith Wilson
The Luck of the Buttons by Anne Ylvisaker
Some Luck by Jane Smiley
The Girl from Ames by Jeffrey Zaslow
Then & Now: Dubuque, Iowa by John T. Tigges and James L. Shaffer
Shoeless Joe by W. P. Kinsella
Love Finds You in Homestead Iowa by Melanie Dobson
Alice's Tulips by Sandra Dallas
Eleven Days by Donald Harstad
The Sunshine Girls by Molly Fader
Little Heathens by Mildred Armstrong Kalish
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
Universal Harvester by John Darnielle
Stars Over Clear Lake by Loretta Ellsworth
Winter in Paradise by Elin Hilderbrand
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith
Midnight Assassin by Patricia L. Bryan & Thomas Wolf
Arrowood by Laura McHugh
What's Eating Gilbert Grape by Peter Hedges
The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald
The Book of Famous Iowans by Douglas Bauer
Lila by Marilynne Robinson
Little Mercies by Heather Gudenkauf
Sunny Song Will Never Be Famous by Suzanne Park
This is How I Lied by Heather Gudenkauf
The Water-Method Man by John Irving
An Ocean in Iowa by Peter Hedges
The Snows by Sharelle Byars Moranville
Schoolhouse on the Prairie by Cynthia Mercati
The Overnight Guest by Heather Gudenkauf
Ashfall by Mike Mullin