Literary tote bags—often emblazoned with the names of bookstores, the titles of classic novels, or the logo of a magazine—are no new sartorial fare. But the diminutive size of Library Science’s bag ...

LAKE CITY, Minn. — Traffic jams in Lake City are not common. Unless you’re Jeri Prigge, trying to navigate the start of a school day in any hallway at Bluff View Elementary. “I'll see you in ...

Third grader Sutton Hudgins reaches for the book bag her paraprofessional Jeri Prigge (left) made for her. “Sutton had one and then her little best friend wanted one,” Whitney explains.

The book-sized tote—which reads “Back to literature” on its front—dropped in January as a limited-edition product from Library Science, the book club that Gerber and Walkup Studio founder ...

So when she released her own tote, it quickly garnered attention online and off. Its design, however, was of a different ilk than the designer pieces she’d often modeled: Made of natural canvas with a ...