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This
is a far from exhaustive list of specialist booksellers and
suppliers of children's books for parents and teachers. It includes large suppliers
as well as smaller local shops. Many booksellers and suppliers
offer discounts to schools. Some also offer services such as
book covering and strengthening - enquire about these before
placing your order. Book covering is an important consideration
in prolonging the life of school book stock. Thanks to the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education for providing the majority of this list (www.clpe.co.uk).
www.achuka.co.uk
The Achuka website provides information for anyone interested in books for children and young people. It features up-to-date reviews of books from a wide range of genres including ficiton, non-fiction, picture books, poetry books and first books, as well as interviews, author profiles and literary news.
Bags of Books
A specialist children's bookshop
that includes audiotapes for which they produce a mail order
catalogue. They also supply big books including some American
imports.
Contact: 1 South Street, Lewes, Sussex BN7 2BT. Tel: 01273 479320.
Fax: 01273 479320. Website:
www.bags-of-books.co.uk
The Bargain Bookshop
A small local shop stocking
mostly half-price books, including many reduced price children's
titles, and also takes book orders. Local
schools can collect books from the shop to be sold through
events at their own premises on a sale-or-return basis, keeping
15% of the proceeds. Otherwise, they may purchase books directly
and receive a 10% discount.
Contact: 135 Station Road, North Chingford, London E4 6AG Tel: 020
8524 9002. Fax: 020 8559 3432. Email: bev@bookservice.biz. Website: www.bookservice.biz
Blackwells Children's Bookshop
Contact: 8 Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3BQ. Tel: 01865 792792 ext 456/7/8.
Fax: 01865 794143.
The Book Room
Contact: 7 Carrs Lane, Birmingham B4 7TG. Tel: 0121 643 9235. Fax:
0121 633 4311.
Bookaday is a specialist children's literature consultancy
and book supply service for schools and teachers, university
PGCE courses. Also offers advice to parents on choosing books
for their children. Tel: 01434 689432
Website: www.bookaday.co.uk
Bookworm
Provides specialist advice and supplies schools offering educational discount and free local delivery
Contact: Meltham Children's Books, 13 Huddersfield Road, Meltham, Holmfirth, W Yorks HD9 4NJ. Tel: 01484 859913.Email: info@bookworm.org.uk Website: www.bookworm.org.uk
Cat and the Fiddle
The Cat and the Fiddle is a specialist children's book and toy shop for children 0 - 12. It stocks educational, multi-cultural and traditional toys and games. Events include Story time and author visits. The shop owner is an ex Teacher of English. Contact: 88 George Lane, South Woodford, London E18 1JJ. Tel: 020 8989 8100 Website: www.thecatandthefiddle.co.uk
The Children's Bookcase is an online bookshop that categorises books according to age and theme and all the titles are read and reviewed in partnership with parents, teachers and children. Website: www.thechildrensbookcase.com
The Children's book company website, although essentially an online bookshop, also has an information centre that includes a wide range of advice and resources for parents, information on children's book awards, and book reviews. Website: www.childrensbookcompany.com
Corbett's Children's Bookshops
Specialist children's
bookshops, in Ealing and Ruislip. A wide range of
books for children, from pre-school age through
to teenagers and covers a broad range subjects. Staff can provide specialist advice and supplies
to schools, with a discount. The Ealing branch runs Saturday
Story time each week, which is open to all ages and free of
charge.
Contact: 46 Ealing Broadway Shopping Centre, Ealing W5 5JY. Tel: 020
3255 0100.
51 High Street, Ruislip, Middlesex HA4 7BD. Tel: 01895 678269.
CoverSave Books of Knaresborough
Local
bookshop providing a large selection of discount and popular
children's books, learning and development resources and teaching
books and resources. School and library ordering service.
Teacher discount available.
Contact:
1 Kirkgate, Knaresborough, North
Yorkshire, HG5 8AD. Tel: 0870 745 2969.
Website: www.coversavebooks.co.uk
Jubilee Books
The website has a recommended books section and offers help
in arranging author visits to schools
Contact: Eltham Green School Complex, Middle Park Avenue, London SE9
5EQ. Tel: 020 8850 7676. Website: www.jubileebooks.co.uk
Letterbox Library
A bookshop specialising in non-sexist
and multicultural children's books.
Contact: 71-73 Allen Road, Stoke Newington, London N16 8RY. Tel: 020
7503 4801.
Website: www.letterboxlibrary.com.
The Lion and the Unicorn
A
specialist children's
bookshop in Richmond. Its website includes awards, a top ten, a quartlerly
newsletter and games, as well as online searching and purchasing
facilities.
Contact: 19 King Street, Richmond on Thames TW9 IND. Tel: 020 8940
0483. Website: www.lionunicornbooks.co.uk
Norfolk Children's Book Centre
Provides a highly recommended
service to teachers, parents, schools and children.
Contact: Alby, Norwich NR11 7HB. Tel: 01263 761402. Website: www.ncbc.co.uk
P & G Wells Ltd
Will order anything for anyone (subject to availability), and will send large orders to UK schools and overseas. They take book fairs into schools in Hampshire and Berkshire and have a large showroom of children's books in Winchester. They keep SATs recommended books in stock.
Contact: 11 College Street, Winchester.
Tel: 01962 852016. Website: www.bookwells.co.uk.
The Reading Shop Book Shop Ltd
Specialist children's bookshop providing a wide range of categorised books for children of all ages and abilities.
The shop is run by an ex-teacher and educational psychologist who is on hand to advise and guide parents. Discounts are available on books supplied to schools; staff will also run book fairs.
Contact: 7 The Parade,
Oadby,
Leicester
LE2 5BB. Tel: 0116 2717077.
Website: www.thereadingshop.co.uk
Red House
An
online bookshop that provides affordable
books with the aim of creating a bookloving community for
parents and children.
Contact:
PO Box 142, Bangor, LL57 4ZP. Tel: 0870 191 9980. Website: www.redhouse.co.uk
Serendipity Children's Book Store
Stocks a wide range
of books for children and puppets - from finger
puppets to living puppets- to encourage interactive story
times. Also has Saturday Story Time each week open to all
ages and free of charge.
Contact:
The Children's Book Store, 189a Liverpool
Road, Birkdale, Merseyside PR8 4NZ Tel: 01704 550605.
www.storyplus.com
Storyplus is an online children's book publisher that sells stories via the Internet. Free samples are available.
Tales on Moon Lane Children's Bookshop
A specialist bookshop with two branches, one in north London and one in south London.
The shops hold author events and book fairs in schools
and offer a discounted school service with free delivery
(outside the congestion zone), and a book covering service.
South London: 25 Half Moon Lane, London SE24
0AU.
North London: 9 Princess Road, London
NW1 8JN.
Website:www.talesonmoonlane.co.uk
Tamarind Books Tamarind publishes and supplies a range of aspirational and imaginative books featuring positive, inclusive images for children from pre-school to early secondary. Contact: Tamarind Ltd, PO Box 52, Northwood, Middlesex HA6 1UN. Tel: 020 8866 8808. Website: www.tamarindbooks.co.uk
Toys and Learning
Toys and Learning is an internet retailer that aims to help parents and grandparents choose and buy beneficial educational toys and books. It sells toys and books that enable children to enjoy learning in their playtime. http://www.toysandlearning.co.uk/
Twist in the Tale
A
specialist children’s
bookshop which stocks a wide range of books from birth to
16. Discounts are available for schools and teachers are welcome
to use our activity area for staff meetings and teacher evenings.
Events include craft and story time sessions during
school holidays. Tuition, including 11+, literacy and numeracy
is also available and is provided by fully qualified, experienced
teachers.
Contact: 144 Station Road, Amersham, Bucks HP6 5DW. Tel 01494 726234.
Website: www.twistinthetale.co.uk
Usborne Books
Targeted at pre-school children
through to teenagers, and cover a broad range of subjects. Usborne offers special concessions to
schools, and orders for libraries and classrooms will receive
a discount of up to 30% through the Library Discount Scheme.
It also operates a scheme that provides schools hosting book
sales with their own choice of free books for up to 60% of
the order value. Contact: Usborne Books at Home, Unit 8, Oasis Park, Eynsham
Oxon OX29 4TU. Tel: 01865 883731. Website: www.usbornebooksathome.co.uk
or www.usbornebooksforschools.co.uk
Victoria Park Books
Stocks a wide range of children's
titles including dual language books, culturally diverse stories
and reference books, poetry, and classics and standard fiction
for all ages from birth to 18. It holds author signing sessions
in conjunction with local primary and secondary schools and
runs reading groups for babies and toddlers.
Contact: 174 Victoria Park Rd Hackney London, E9 7HD. Tel: 020 8986
1124.Website: www.victoriaparkbooks.co.uk
The Willesden Bookshop
Stocks a good range of multicultural
children's books, including imports from the USA. Booklists
are available, some with brief annotations. They also have
a shop in Kilburn.
Contact: 95 The High Road, London NW10 4QU. Tel: 020 8451 7000. Website: www.willesdenbookshop.co.uk.
The Well Wisher Bookshop
A specialist children's
bookshop committed to providing a wide selection of children's
books to teachers, schools, parents and children. In addition
to a dedicated Teachers' Resource Centre, services offered
to schools include exhibitions, free delivery, jacketing,
discount and help with author visits.
Contact: 51 Long Street, Devizes, Wilts. SN10 1NP Tel/Fax: 01380 722640
Email: wellwisher@btconnect.com.
Words of Wilmslow
Stocks a wide selection of titles
for all ages from babies to GCSE.
Contact: 14 Grove Street, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 1DR. Tel: 01625 527728.
Askews
A libraries and schools supplier with a particular commitment to children's books.
Contact: 218-222 North Road, Preston, Lancashire PRI 1SY. Tel: 01772 555947.
Badger Books
Produce a range of books for reading age six to interest age 14. Specialise in reading boxes - pulling together published titles- and have 100 primary boxes and 30 secondary boxes available. Also provide special boxes for reluctant readers.
Contact: 15 Wedgwood Gate, Pin Green Industrial Estate, Stevenage, Herts SG1 4SU. Tel: 01438 356907. Website: www.badger-publishing.co.uk
www.barefootbooks.com
The Barefoot Books website includes a teachers' section that offers lesson plans, teaching tools and ideas based on Barefoot Books' picture books, as well as general information on their titles.
Bookspread Ltd
A bookshop run by ex-teachers who offer advice and consultation as well as a mobile book service for schools. It also specialises in workshops and help in arranging author visits to schools.
Contact: (Reg. Office) ORMA (Beckenham) Ltd, 6 Croxted Road, London SE21 8SW. Tel: 0845 200 4954. Website: www.bookspread.co.uk
Chameleon books of Peterborough
Specialises in educational books for all key stages but particularly KS1-3.
Contact: 5 Milnyard Square, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire PE2 6GX. Tel: 0870 7704606.
Chapter One
A specialist children's bookshop which stocks a wide range of teaching resource books as well as fiction and non fiction to support the curriculum. Supports book events and author visits in schools.
Contact: 29 Denmark Street, Wokingham, Berkshire RG40 2AY. Tel 0118 979 4909 Fax 0118 979 4973
Email: chapteronebookshop@yahoo.co.uk
www.childrensbooksinprint.com
Children's books in print is an online database of titles and book information for children's and school librarians, available to search for those paying an annual subscription fee.
www.classicalcomics.com
Publisher of a range of full-colour, non-manga, graphic novels of classic texts, which aim to enable readers at all levels to access the story using pictures as well as words. Each title is published in up to three versions, to provide the full original text, a plain English version and a 'quick text' version. They are suitable from key stage 2 onwards. Titles include Shakespeare, Dickens, Charlotte Bronte and Mary Shelley.
Contact:
Classical Comics Limited,
PO Box 7280,
Litchborough,
Towcester
NN12 9AR.
Tel: 0845 812 3000.
Email: info@classicalcomics.co.uk. Website: www.classicalcomics.com.
www.dorlingkindersley-uk.co.uk
Dorling Kindersley is part of the Penguin Publishing Group UK. Its website for schools provides teachers with free lesson plans, classroom help and discounted DK children's books.
G.A. Turner & Co. Ltd
A specialist book supplier to schools in London and the South-East. They can supply any book in print, and offer discounts and free delivery. Jacketing on textbooks and full servicing on library books is available. They have an online book ordering system designed especially for colleges and schools.
Contact: 193/195 Chipstead Valley Road, Coulsdon, Surrey CRS 3BR. Tel: 01737 556311/2. Website: www.turnerbooks.co.uk
www.spaldingbooks.co.uk
H & H Spalding Books is a school book supplier offering discounts and free delivery.
Heath Educational Book Supplies
Diverse showroom for the teaching profession containing reading schemes, big books, teachers materials and a complete range of library books from hundreds of different publishers. Offers discounts to schools and free delivery on all orders. Also runs the CLPE bookshop and a bookshop for NCLL at Reading.
Contact: Willow House, Willow Walk, Whittaker Road, Sutton, Surrey SM3 9QQ. Tel:020 8644 7788. Website: www.heathbooks.co.uk
Kent Book Company
Kent Book Company is a well established educational media supplier servicing schools and libraries.
Contact: Kent Book Company, 109 Hall Road, Aylesford, Kent ME20 7RE. Tel: 01622 717827. Website: www.kbc.eu.com
www.lovereading4schools.co.uk
Online bookstore with a range of services created to help schools and parents buy books for children to choose. You can also download and read extracts of the specially selected 'featured books' including picture books.
Madeleine Lindley Ltd
Offers a wide range of services for schools and teachers including carefully selected bookpacks and some big books not otherwise available in the UK. Mail order is possible.
Contact: Madeleine Lindley Ltd, Book Centre, Broadgate, Broadway Business Park, Chadderton, Oldham OL9 9XA. Tel: 0161 683 4400.
www.oup.com/orto/
Information and support materials for the popular Oxford Reading Tree scheme. Includes ideas and guidance for teachers, parents and children.
Peters Library Service
A libraries and schools supplier with a particular commitment to children's books.
Contact: 120 Bromsgrove Street, Birmingham B5 6RL. Tel: 0121 666 6646. Website: www.peters-books.co.uk
Pickabook
Bookshop which supplies books to schools and colleges in the UK, as well as online worldwide.
Contact: Pickabook Limited, 1 Wolseley House, Oriel Road, Cheltenham GL50 1TH. Tel: 01242 544562. Fax: 01242 254322. Email: educational@pickabook.co.uk. Website: www.pickabook.co.uk.
www.schoolsnet.com
Schoolsnet is a website that offers free educational resources to teachers, parents and pupils, has a 'bookshop' section that each week features and reviews twelve new titles: six fiction and six non-fiction. It also has weekly interviews with children's authors which are archived for future access and a fortnightly column on the 'World of Books'.
www.storysack.com
Website of Storysack Ltd which offers commercially produced Storysacks for sale, as well as tips on how to use them.
www.teacherbooks.co.uk
Provides teachers and other educationalists with one place where they can access publisher's and bookseller's catalogues, web sites and online bookshops.
www.topicalbooks.com
A supplier of educational books and books on inclusion.
Book suppliers for reluctant readers and children with special needs
In 2007 the NLT and lovereading4schools surveyed over 1,300 adults to recommend reads for reluctant readers in key stages 1,2 and 3. You can read the recommendations on www.lovereading4schools.com
Badger Books
Specialise in book boxes.
Barrington Stoke
Publishers of fiction for children with dyslexia, those who struggle to read and for those who are reluctant to read for pleasure, aged 8-18 year olds. The website has seperate sections for parents and teachers.
Contact: 18 Walker Street, Edinburgh EH3 7LP. Tel: 0131 225 4113. Website: www.barringtonstoke.co.uk
Chelltune
Offers a range of practical products using British Sign Language (BSL) or based on BSL to help parents and babies/young children sign together. The range of products includes books, audio books, DVDs, flashcards, posters, ebooks and reward charts.
Contact: 3 Wentin Close, Corby, Northants NN18 8NJ. Tel: 01536 743726. Website: www.chelltune.co.uk/
Glowworm Books
Specialises in supplying books for children who find reading difficult, due to phsyical or special educational needs.
Unit 7, Greendykes Industrial Estate, Greendykes Road, Broxburn, West Lothian EH52 6PG. Tel: 01506 857570.
Robinswood High Interest Series
A range of fiction novels with action-packed plot lines which centre around current issues. The series features 24 titles for reluctant teenage readers, with reading ages of 7-10 years old, and 10 primary titles for reading ages of 7-8 years old. Each book has a seperate teachers' handbook available. Cost £4.99 each, also available as sets. For more information, visit www.robinswoodpress.com
SEN Press produces simple, age-appropriate books for 14-19 year olds with learning difficulties who are at or around Level 1. The books feature situations from everyday life which can be explored further in Life Skills and Social Skills courses. For more information visit www.senpress.co.uk/ Ulverscroft Large Print Books
A specialist large print publisher of children's (12-18 years) and adult books. The print size is font 16, and special anti-glare paper and dense black ink is used to facilitate reading for people with sight problems or reading difficulties.
Contact: Wendy Reynolds, Ulverscroft Large Print Books, The Green, Bradgate Road, Anstey, Leicester LE7 7FU. Tel: 0116 236 4325. Website: www.ulverscroft.co.uk
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