Everybody Loves Raymond Set to Include Fictitious Book Sense Bookstore

For the second time this season, Sidewalk Books, a fictitious bookstore with Book Sense, will appear in a new episode of Everybody Loves Raymond, which airs on Monday nights on CBS.

In an episode to air on February 3, during television's Sweeps Week, a scene will take place in front of a row of stores, one of which will be the imaginary Long Island, New York, bookstore with Book Sense. The store window will feature, among other things, a Book Sense 76 counter card.

The set is the work of set decorater Donna Stamps, who is a regular customer of Vroman's Books in Pasadena, California. Stamps first created the independent bookstore with Book Sense for an episode, which aired on October 14, 2002, in which Ray and his wife, Debra, attend an author lecture at the store. That episode featured the interior of the store, in which a Book Sense poster, shelf-talkers, counter card, and cash register decal were visible.

Stamps became familiar with Book Sense while shopping at Vroman's, where she uses the 76 flyers to help choose her personal reading.