If you’ve got kids at home, welcome to the doldrums of winter break. Holiday celebrations are officially done, your offspring are probably already over their toys, and the whining. Oh, the whining flowing forth from those oversugared, overstimulated, overly bored chaos machines. BookPeople is here to rescue you. They’re coming in clutch with an opportunity to pack up the littles and get them to a second location. The Polar Express storytime has all the comfort of a classic story, but without any creepy motion capture Tom Hanks to give everyone nightmares. Instead, the warm tones of booksellers might just lull the children into winter zen. Or maybe the free hot cocoa will do that. Either way, you’re all out of the house and entertained for at least a little while. – Cat McCarrey