Dawh, thanks Clare! Hope to welcome you back again soon ☺️ (we need to check our bluesky more often!!!)

A tray with tea and biscuits sits on a wooden table with a range of children’s books displayed behind it.

Whatta bookshop! Loved visiting the Norfolk Children’s Book Centre @childrensbooks.bsky.social this morning, so many books and super helpful staff. Thank you for the tea and biscuits!

Another Reading for Pleasure Conference complete, this time in Doncaster ✅

Taking our pop-up bookshop to these events is always a joy, for the brilliant authors, teachers, librarians and reading advocates we meet.

#OURfPConference @sufiyaahmed.bsky.social @openuniversity.bsky.social

Well, we're not quite au fait with bluesky yet, but we aim to get more into it! 🙈

We'll be in Doncaster with our pop-up bookshop, supporting this conference! Always a brilliant day - we highly recommend ⭐ 📖 ⭐

"Research shows that children who choose to read have better life chances. They are more likely to do well in school, to have better mental health, better paying employment and better lives"

Our bookseller Kate has written a blog on reading for pleasure: norfolkearlyyearsgarden.wordpress.com/blog/

Yes!! And picture books are for everyone!

Our booksellers, Kirsty and Emily are! We're backing soldier barbie as our winner 👊

Shout out to libraries 🔥

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3. Hitting the road in our bookshop vans 🚌

We attend conferences across the UK and will set up a pop-up shop complete with expert staff anywhere we can. Visits to university PGCE classes, book sales and read-aloud sessions at schools, festivals and other events.

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2. Having one of the most well-stocked children's bookshops in the country.

With around 50,000 books on the shelves of our little solar-powered shop, we hope to meet every child's niche interest and help them to discover new ones 🔎

We host author events here (and at schools) too!!

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... supply collections of books to teachers on any subject. Family trees for year 2? Egyptians for year 3? Picture books mentioning adoption?

We send hand-picked selections of the best books available for teachers to choose from, all returnable and at a 10% schools discount.

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1. Working with schools.

We have a dedicated & extremely knowledgeable team who go into school libraries. They assess current stock, weed out old titles, replenish, label, shelve & list books on a lending system.

As well as working to create brilliant, up-to-date libraries, we...

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We've joined Bluesky with the hope of connecting with teachers, schools, authors, publishers & anyone with an interest in children's books 📚

For a small, independent business, we have a big dream: to inspire a love of reading in all young people across the UK.

We try to achieve this by...

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