Bluebird Book Bus Rolls Into Tampa

Tampa's Mitzi Gordon recently launched a "half used bookstore on wheels, half nonprofit cultural center" by the name of Bluebird Books.

Gordon also launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for the mobile bookstore. Sales will support a pending nonprofit that will organize plays, book and poetry readings and bookmaking workshops.

Tampa is also home to Bess The Book Bus, a mobile literacy outreach whose 2011 Success is in Sight tour will give away 100,000 books to families in 44 states.

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