Mostly Books are launching a regular children's story time which will be taking place every Thursday at 11am. To kick off our series of regular events, we are excited to announce that the Gruffalo will be in the shop IN PERSON!
Bring your little people along to hear some Gruffalo stories and to meet the beast in real life. We will have price promotions on all Gruffalo titles and plenty of goodies for the children to take away with them. No booking required - just turn up on the day!
To help us celebrate Independent Bookshop Week 2016 - and as part of our tenth birthday celebration - the Gruffalo is coming! And we'd love you to come too!
We will be running two special Gruffalo Storytimes at 10am and 3.30pm on Wednesday, June 22. The storytimes are free, but space is limitedso you must book!
We will be reading the Gruffalo, and you may even be able to have your picture taken with him!
To celebrate our being awarded "Julia Donaldson's Children's Independent Bookshop of the Month" for August, we received a visit from The Gruffalo. When you run an independent bookshop, it doesn't get much better than this...
Once we knew The Gruffalo was coming, we thought we'd best invite some people to celebrate with us. So over two sessions in the afternoon, approximately 50 children joined us in the courtyard garden.
There was a special reading of 'The Gruffalo'...take a look at what happened when someone made his entrance at a certain point in the story...
(Notice we did our best to reduce the overall scariness of the situation, but a few of the children were, quite frankly, terrified) There was quite a lot of posing for photographs...
And Imogen had baked some rather splendid Gruffalo cake, which also helped relax everyone into the mood of the thing...
After the cake was eaten, and goodie bags passed around, The Gruffalo had a VIP tour of Mostly Books:
Huge thanks to everyone who came and made the day so memorable - and apologies to those that wanted to come, but we were too full. There is still time to enter 'Mouse's Gruffalo Pie' competition - and The Gruffalo's Child seems to have taken up residence at the back of the shop...
