Bookish Enchanted Storybook Wallpaper

This bookish wallpaper is made of open books, and every one of them is spilling its story into the room. On a deep forest green ground, gold light and swirling ribbons rise from the pages, carrying stars, moons and moths with them.

A bookish wallpaper where the stories escape the page

A tall ship sails out of one book on a curl of blue water, its lines of handwriting trailing behind like a wake. A humpback whale swims through a starry sea in another, and a castle rises on a hill under a golden sun.

Elsewhere a fox sits in a moonlit wood under a crescent and a constellation, a phoenix lifts out of a meadow of flowers, and a cottage sends a thread of smoke up from its chimney into the dark.

What you will find in the pattern

Between the illustrated books are plain open ones, waiting to be filled, and a closed rose-pink volume with a gold dragonfly on the cover. Small moths drift across the whole design, and gold constellations join the scenes together.

It is a wall for the sort of reader who still remembers the first book that felt like a door. That is the whole idea behind children’s literature, and this design is our love letter to it.

Where this bookish wallpaper works best

It was drawn for reading corners: behind a low bookshelf, around a window seat, or on the wall a child faces from bed at story time.

But it is not only for kids’ rooms. The deep green ground and the fine gold work make it just as good in a home library, a study or a snug, where it behaves like a dark, literary wallpaper rather than a nursery print.

In a small room, papering all four walls turns the space into a book itself. On one wall it works as a backdrop for shelves and framed prints.

Colours and scale

The palette of this bookish wallpaper is forest green with cream, antique gold, rose and soft blue, so it sits beautifully with walnut and oak, brass, leather and cream linen.

The books are drawn large enough to read from across the room, while the constellations, moths and handwriting reward anyone who stands close.

How to style it

Styling a bookish wallpaper is mostly about restraint. Let the wall be the library. Warm lamplight brings out the gold, and a simple reading chair or a low shelf of picture books is all the styling it needs.

For accents, pull a colour from the pattern: the rose of the closed book, the gold of the swirls or the blue of the whale’s sea.

Peel and stick and traditional print the same colours and are both PVC-free, so the choice is only about permanence: peel and stick for a child’s room that will change, traditional paper for a study you intend to keep.

Peel & Stick

Our Peel & Stick wallpaper is printed on a 340 g/m² heavyweight polyester textile with a built-in self-adhesive backing — no paste, no mess. It goes up easily, repositions without damage, and comes down cleanly whenever you’re ready for a change. PVC-free, B1/M1 fire rated, and safe for nurseries. Perfect for renters, first-time installers, or anyone who loves refreshing their space without long-term commitment.

Traditional

Our Premium Traditional wallpaper is printed on a 175 g/m² non-woven paper with a semi-glossy finish, applied with standard wallpaper paste directly to the wall. The result is a seamless, professionally installed look built to last 10+ years. PVC-free and B1 fire rated. Ideal for permanent installations, high-traffic areas, and anyone looking for a refined, long-term result.

Sizes, samples and installation

Every design is printed to order in 24-inch-wide panels, in heights from 76 to 124 inches, and ships in 2–5 business days with free shipping to the US and EU.

Not sure how many panels of this bookish wallpaper you need? Our measuring guide walks you through it, and our material comparison guide explains peel and stick versus traditional.

Colour on screen is never exact, and dark greens vary more than most, so we recommend ordering a sample of this bookish wallpaper first: choose the 7×7″ or 24×24″ sample in the Size menu above.

More designs like this

If this bookish wallpaper is not quite the one, there is plenty more in the same spirit. For more walls made for readers, see our Fairy Tale Castles wallpaper and our Farm Animals Reading wallpaper, or browse the Kids & Nursery collection and the Dark & Moody collection.