Customer Reviews

Guidecraft Safari Book Display

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This bookcase is perfect! It doesn't take up much space and enables my grandchild to see her books and put them away. It is sturdy enough and takes up very little space. Putting this together wasn't difficult..but doing it alone was a tad challenging. I would recommend this to anyone.

If I had seen this in person in a store I would not have bought it due to flimsyness. If my spouse had not already assembled it I would have returned it. The artistic paintings on sides are textured and just fabulous. The pic on here as of time I wrote this does not show the screw holes. These are holes where screws are inserted through painted sides to screw into the cross rods. If they would have only supplied the typical wooden inserts and had them painted to match then it would be no big deal, but it is irritating that the pic on here is deliberately altered to cover up these obvious holes. They are small ( about 1/4 inch, but there are 7 of them on each side and the hole plus screw head makes obvious contrast to the very cute designs. The rods themselves should be 50% larger diameter and then the screws into them need to be longer & larger. I actually broke one screw with a hand screw driver and stripped another hole entirely and I was trying to go easy because I knew they might strip out. Even then it still is wiggly and in my opinion not even close enough to being sturdy enough for a toddler. Bottom line, the engineering (as is so typical these days) is poor, the paintings are awesome, and the manufacturer tried to cut corners too much by using too cheap of hardware and cross rods. Totally not worth the price.
Being it is already together and damaged we will keep it, but most likely we will either replace rods with shelves and paint them to match OR install 2 cross braces diagonally across in back behind book holders. The cross braces will be easiest but shelves would make better look and even more support. If no shelves then for sure longer screws and wood glue to hold screws in. It seems quite reasonable that in one year several screws would strip out holes just from everyday use by a child unless you glue them.
Great idea, great artwork, great size albeit small sized for kids, but too cheap on structure and poor engineering.

This is a nice book display, perfect for toddlers to pull books out and to keep books organized. It was a little smaller then I thought, but it is still good. It's durable and also very cute.