Planning on visiting Wandering Raccoon Books during the Iowa Indie Bookshop Tour? Here's all the information you might need!
First up - you can find all the 100% official information on the Iowa Indie Bookshop Tour Website.
Where and when can you visit? Where: 250 W 1st. St., Suite A in Grimes. When? Monday-Saturday from 10am-6pm. We also provide a UPS Access Point within the shop. For more information about this service, please visit our UPS Access Point page.
Let's talk about the Iowa Indie Bookshop Tour!
2026 marks the 3rd Annual Iowa Indie Bookshop Tour and there is a record 62 bookshops participating! The tour runs every year from July 1st - September 30th. Each bookshop where you make a purchase (any value, no restrictions) gets you a stamp on your passport, where you can win fabulous prizes! And don't forget about the BINGO card & the brand new Murder Mystery Game!
The Prizes:
- Get two (2) or more stamps and you could win:
- One of three (3) $100 gift cards to the participating bookshop of your choice
- One of four (4) $50 gift cards to the participating bookshop of your choice
- Get fifty-five (55) or more stamps and you could win:
- One (1) $300 gift card to the participating bookshop of your choice
- One (1) $100 gift card to the participating bookshop of your choice
- Get social and use the tour hashtag (#IIBT26) and tag both the Iowa Indie Bookshop Tour & the bookshop in the post!
- One (1) $50 gift card to the participating bookshop of your choice
- Play BINGO with us in collaboration with Libro.fm!
- One (1) Golden Ticket worth twelve (12) free audiobooks from Libro.fm
- One of three (3) 3-Credit Bundles from Libro.fm
- Solve the Murder Mystery Game in collaboration with Sourcebooks!
- One (1) $50 gift card to the participating bookshop of your choice + a tote bag & set of advance reader copies (ARCs) from Sourcebooks
- One of three (3) tote bags + set of advance reader copies (ARCs) from Sourcebooks
Past Tours
In 2025, we started a Map Game to see where folks on the Iowa Indie Bookshop Tour were visiting us from - and boy were we surprised! We met people from 69 of Iowa's 99 counties, plus 24 states outside of Iowa and 3 countries!
