We promised a 4000 follower giveaway. It's late but here it is!
Who wants to win this bag of goodies? Think bookmarks, books...
Simply like this tweet and follow us. We'll select a winner at random 11am Sunday 28th August 2022. UK followers only
#ChooseBookshops
#BooksAreMyBag
"You're only a children's bookshop."
To that we say, there is nothing "only" about children's books.
Books for children and young people are magic. They change lives. They give children something that is theirs.
Children's books are magic ❤️
BOOKSHOP DAY GIVEAWAY
Win this Books Are My Bag tote bag of goodies!
UK only.
Like, follow, tell us your favourite book by 11.59pm 7/10/22. Winner selected at random on 8/10/22 - Bookshop Day!
You will be alerted ONLY by this account if you win. 📚
Three years ago today, I opened the doors to what is now Wonderland Bookshop.
Wonderland has gone through lots of changes and we've had so much fun and made lots of friends.
Happy birthday Wonderland! 🎂 🎉
#ChooseBookshops
#BooksAreMyBag
GIVEAWAY TIME
To celebrate my birthday, we are giving away a three month book subscription! Receive a handpicked giftwrapped book each month for a month!
1) Follow us
2) Like this tweet
3) Recommend us a book!
UK & NI only. Comp closes 9am GMT 12/11/22. Random winner chosen.
It's the final day of
#IndieBookshopWeek
so we're celebrating with a giveaway!
Win a limited edition How to Train Your Dragon tote bag with surprise bookish goodies inside!
Like and RT this Tweet and give us a follow by 10pm 25/6/23. Winner drawn at random.
#choosebookshops
Someone walking past the bookshop and loudly saying "oh look, a bookshop."
"Oh, it won't be there long" says the person with them.
We have been here for over three years and there are over 1000 indie bookshops in the country.
Bookshops are magic ❤️
It's International Children's Book Day 📚 🎉
To celebrate, we are going to
#giveaway
this tote bag of bookish goodies! To win, follow us, and RT this Tweet 📚
Giveaway ends 04/04 at 11.59pm. UK only.
We're very quiet today - we've not sold a book yet! We've refreshed the picturebook shelves though - don't they look pretty?
Anyway, anyone for a book? Online orders will get a free bar of chocolate today (while stocks last, vegan and gluten free)
❤️
PLEASE don't download free PDFs of books. A huge amount of work by creatives goes into books, and they often earn very little. Websites offering free PDFs books don't have permission to share these - they have stolen from the creator.
Libraries are magic and are free <3
We don't stock many celebrity authors. Not because we want to tell you what to read, but because there is such a glorious world of children's literature that expands far beyond what you see in supermarkets. ❤️
We're not saying don't read them. We're just saying there's much more
Every school should have a library.
Every school should have a school librarian.
Every child deserves access to good quality books.
Every child deserves a book for their own.
Well. For those of you who were keen to see the next instalment of Danger Sausage…
I was snuggled up in bed (early train to London tmrw) and heard something drop through the letterbox…
So, here we have a one-pager backstory for Danger Sausage and Black Pudding, plus THE SEQUEL.
We have deleted and started this tweet so many times. As an independent bookshop (small but perfectly formed), it is simply not possible for us to stock every book in print. However, we can order in for the next day and even deliver directly to you. ♥️ 1/2
Lovely things in the bookshop today:
1) A boy coming in, staring at the ceiling and exclaiming OH MY GOD.
2) A boy doing a happy dance when he found a copy of Skellig
3) The joy in a girl's voice talking about The Elemental Detectives
Being a bookseller is the best.
WIN - a SIGNED proof copy of Artezans: The Forgotten Magic by LD Lapinski.
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Winner chosen at random 7pm GMT 5/2/24.
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#Artezans
IT'S BOOKSHOP DAY!!!
Look, aren't we just the cutest? Come on down, explore our shelves, grab a booky dip, free tokens with purchases! We've also restocked the free book box, no purchase necessary ❤️
#BookshopDay
*waves* Hello new followers! Allow us to to take you on a tour around Wonderland, our children's bookshop ❤️
As you enter, feast your eyes on picture books and don't forget to look up!
Every child deserves to see themselves and their families represented in a book. Someone today came in and objected to a book featuring two mums. Every child deserves to see their families in books and we will not budge on this ❤️
It looks like
#childrensbooks
is trending!
Hi there! We're a children's bookshop in Retford, North Notts. We have an upside down tea-party on our ceiling and our passion is kidlit! Say hi, stick around for the book recs and coffee dramas <3
**COMPETITION TIME**
Books sold: -1
Coffees drunk: 2
Ferroro Rocher eaten: 3
Reply to this Tweet and tell us your favourite chocolate. We'll pick someone at random to receive a mystery book and box of Ferroro Rocher. Competition closes 11:59pm GMT 12/2/22. UK only. Go go!
COMPETITION TIME 🌈
Today is the FIRST Retford Pride which Helen has been involved in organising. To celebrate, we are giving away TWO
@MrEagletonIan
book bundles - one each to two lucky winners!
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UK Only. Enter by 11pm 30/7/23. Winner drawn at random.
We're a super cute little children's bookshop in Retford. We cater for babies to young adults and although we may be little, we are mighty! We aim to bring you a huge range of the best kidlit around 💕
Contact us for book recs and what kids love reading! Kidlit is our jam.
Tweeting for the afternoon crowd! We think it's a real shame that no children's books were included in the BBC Best 50 Books of the Year. So we're compiling your thoughts instead! Tell us what you think and we'll present the results on Dec 31st.
#ChooseBookshops
#KidLit
Despite Indie Bookshop Week, we've had possibly the quietest month we have ever had.
We have sold fewer than 20 books this week so far. This has never happened before.
The weather, the football, election anxieties, we get why.
But please
#choosebookshops
if you can! ❤️
Happy birthday Wonderland!
Two years ago, the shop was reopened under my ownership and we've not looked back since! ❤️
Thank you for your support Retford and beyond x
We apologise for over excited Tweets today. But we're over the moon to have been shortlisted for a Nibbie as Children's Bookseller of the Year in the British Book Awards. We're off to find cake now. Took on the shop in November 2019, and what a rollercoaster!
#nibbies
❤️📚
We're a children's bookshop but we feel compelled to speak here.
We have customers who are ill themselves, or have unwell family members including children 💔
If you are ill you are NOT "lesser" because you need to rest. This is a cruel and insensitive comment.
*waves* Hello new followers.
And thanks new and old friends for your kind words ❤️
For the benefit of new people, we also have a tea party on our ceiling.
And just to add...THIS is why comics matter.
Comics are fun, they transmit information, they change lives, they inspire kids!
COMICS are an amazing medium and they should be celebrated and appear on lists, just as prose novels do.
Meanwhile, I am invested in Danger Sausage.
Well. For those of you who were keen to see the next instalment of Danger Sausage…
I was snuggled up in bed (early train to London tmrw) and heard something drop through the letterbox…
So, here we have a one-pager backstory for Danger Sausage and Black Pudding, plus THE SEQUEL.
BOOKSHOP BIRTHDAY GIVEAWAY
We're giving away a 4 book bundle consisting of our top 3 selling books
Strangeworlds Travel Agency
@ldlapinski
Amari & the Night Brothers
@bb_alston
Rainbow Grey
@Lillustrator
AND a surprise book!
RT by 5pm GMT. Winner selected at random. UK only!
We know that books are not for everyone, but please don't stand in the doorway and call us a rubbish shop. We are doing our best and we think we do pretty well. Be kind and love and hugs to our bookish friends!
Every day, I wake up and I am filled with joy that I get to spend all day in Wonderland 💕
Children's books and YA books are the best! Seeing the joy when a young child selects a book, saying "wow" when they enter through the door ❤️
Booshops are magic
#choosebookshops
Ice Cream Boy is due in tomorrow and we will put it forward facing. As an indie children's bookshop, we're absolutely committed and dedicated to promoting and sharing children's books that deserve to be celebrated yet don't get privilege of the shelf space.
The children’s bookshelf in WH Smith always makes me wonder why I keep trying. Alesha Dixon, Geri Halliwell, Stephen Mulhern, Jamie Oliver, Matt Lucas are all prominent… 😫
Your periodic reminder that there is nothing "just" or "disappointing" or "only" about a children's bookshop. Children deserve spaces for them and children's books are life changing.
Our £2 book sale has gone so well! We're here until 7. 30pm if you want to come on down. Books are reduced due to having excess stock from book fairs, minor damages, new covers, etc - lots of AMAZING books. Can't make it? We can put a surprise bundle together and post!
Lovely customer sent a photo of her son's book collection and asked me to put together a bundle based on what he had and to also move away from Walliams. This is the finished stash ❤️
#ChooseBookshops
Thread 👇
Earlier this year we came up with the idea for the Wonder Book Award and started making plans on a piece of paper. As a loose concept, it was to occupy the 10-13 age group which we feel isn't shouted about enough, with young readers making the decision.
One year ago today, I signed the lease and got the keys to take over a gorgeous bookshop. Today I'm celebrating the first year bookshop birthday by dressing as Malice in Zombieland, dancing the Time Warp and giving customers biscuits ❤️📚🎂
I didn't get to take a finish selfie yesterday due to losing my phone, so here is a day after London Marathon temporary phone medal selfie instead.
Thanks to you, I've raised over £1800 for Samaritans and
@Booktrust
. Thank you all so much for supporting!
CHRISTMAS LIGHT SWITCH ON GIVEAWAY KLAXON 🎄
WIN a signed copy of Can You See the Stars Tonight by
@anna_terreros
AND Stepfather Christmas by
@ldlapinski
.
LIKE and follow us by 7pm GMT 27/11/23. Winner chosen at random.
UK entrants only.
#choosebookshops
#booksaremybag
Morning! If you're on the lookout for a new book, it would be lovely if you could keep us or other indies in mind (or use bookshop org!) ❤️
We ship nationwide and most of our books are giftwrapped with recycled packing paper as a gift to future you!
We've had a very quiet month, anyone would think there was football on!
If you'd like a book and to support a cute little bookshop with a tea party on the ceiling, the code Wonderland gives a 10% discount on our website. Can't see what you want? Ask and we can supply!
Teachers! Last year, we offered a couple of free virtual sessions for World Book Day with authors.
Thrilled to announce that we have done the same this year! Let us know if you'd like access ❤️
These events have been prerecorded just for us.
We are attending The British Book Awards tonight and we are so excited to see everyone. Last year we were over the moon to make the shortlist for Children's Bookseller. Tonight, we're in three categories. Whatever happens, we know it's going to be a great celebration of books 📚
Children's books are magical and change lives. They help to build empathy and understanding. They can take you to whole new worlds and deliver you safely home again.
Children's books are magic.
This is me with my mate
@revkatebottley
on the left.
Kate has a book coming out in September and as her local bookshop, we are pleased to be supporting with signed and dedicated pre-orders. Gonna have lasagne on signing day and everything.
Order here:
Small bookseller: Mummy, can I come help you today in the shop? I need to sit and read in the corner.
Me: Okay.
Small bookseller: I want paying
Me: Oh?
Small bookseller: A gingerbread. Payable in advance. And £10 after.
We're a lovely little children's bookshop in Retford, North Notts. If any publishers are looking for more shops to include on author school tours, please do keep us in mind 💕
We're less than 90 minutes on the train from London, located right off the A1 and our kids LOVE visits!
Wonderland may be small but we are proud of our range of books. We do not stock and will never stock books by one particular big name celebrity children's author.
We offer a broad and diverse range of books and are always happy to recommend alternative titles ❤️📚
It makes us sad when people say children don't read anymore, that they are always playing computer games. Children absolutely do read and it fills us with joy when someone leaves hugging a book!
Not only that, did you know computer games are simply another way to tell a story?
To you, we may be "only a bookshop"
But to many, we open portals to strange new worlds. We take you on a journey. We are a haven of mystery and adventure to explore.
Bookshops are never "only a bookshop" ❤️
#IndieBookshopWeek
#ChooseBookshops
We were delighted to welcome thirty children to Wonderland yesterday for them all to choose a book to take home and keep. ❤️ Books chosen ranged from Bunny vs Monkey to Amari and the Night Brothers.
This was made possible due to donations to our Pay it Forward scheme. Thank you!
Loki is in! However, Loki wishes not to be scanned into stock. He is also refusing to scan through the till. Loki is a trickster and this bad behaviour feels on brand
@Louiestowell
🤣
Just saying, as a children's specialist bookshop we are here, ready and waiting to talk about upcoming children's books!
We're not saying celebrities can't write books. We're just saying there's SO much deserving of the coverage.
Ask us for recs! Talk to us!
Our followers know we are a HUGE fan of comics and graphic novels.
It's sad that the medium remains so misunderstood. From dismissal of "it's not real reading" to "there isn't much text, so they're too easy", or "they're not serious enough" - we've heard it all.
🧵
Can we get to 10,000 followers by the end of the year?
Follow us for
📚 Kidlit recs
☕ Booksellers messing up their coffee
🎂 Tea parties on a ceiling.
Maybe a giveaway when we get there! 🎉
(PS, this is us in the picture)
Boy, Everywhere by
@a_reflective
is one of the most powerful and compassionate books we have ever read and it should be in every school library.
We feel strongly about this and if you want to donate a copy to a school, we have chosen to waive our profit:
What a day! We took a trip to Newark this morning to pick up keys for Wonderland Two!
Left pretty quickly due to snow, got more subscriptions out...and then our doorknob lost his nose to a rogue book!
Home and thawing out... Did we mention we're opening a second shop?