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The Children's Bookshop

The Children's Bookshop

Toll Cottage, Hay on Wye, HR3 5EW GBR 01497 821 083
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We specialise in children's books and children's literature from the 19th century onwards, covering both popular and collectible works.

The Children's Bookshop is located near the border of England and Wales in Hay-On-Wye, in the county of Herefordshire. As our name implies, we sell only children's books. With a stock in excess of twenty thousand books we cater both for children and for collectors, teachers and researchers.

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Alibris UK seller since October 2008


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