Bookselling
At Children’s Booksellers Worldwide we focus on helping enthusiastic booklovers develop their passion, providing support at the beginning of their bookselling venture. Our service may also benefit established independent booksellers and online retailers, keen to offer a wider children's selection. Whatever your bookselling interest, we will be happy to help you further.
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Our aim
Bookselling opens up so many possibilities, with the freedom to be imaginative and discover unique new sales opportunities. We believe in encouraging a creative and innovative approach, exploring new avenues and finding new ways forward.
Our aim at Children’s Booksellers Worldwide is to make bookselling simply the greatest pleasure, providing the very best service and making a career in bookselling fun and easily accessible.
We look for ways to inspire children, parents and teachers, with the aim of making every event fun, educational and meaningful. Our mission to bring top quality English and foreign language books to children is hugely rewarding and fulfilling.
We are dedicated at Children's Booksellers Worldwide to providing support individually tailored to member's needs, whether just starting out on their bookselling journey or already experienced in the field.
Our vision to bring books to children in every town, village and city can be achieved, if we come together, passionate and full of enthusiasm and positive energy.
If your dream is to bring books to children, wherever you may be, I warmly invite you to join us and make that dream a reality.
- Zoë Voborilova
- Managing Director
- Moonwood and Children’s Booksellers Worldwide
What we offer
A ready-made bookshop
The beauty of ordering at Children's Booksellers Worldwide is that both individual and combined orders of English children's publishers can be placed in one go, creating an instant, ready-made bookshop with great variety and ease. There is also the possibility of combining orders of English and foreign language titles too, enabling customers to purchase children's books in whichever language they choose.
Foreign language children's titles
We are delighted to offer a growing number of children's publishers of foreign language titles too, including German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Romanian, Czech, Slovak, Polish, Hungarian, Greek and many more. Please feel free to get in touch and request foreign language children's titles in your language.
Direct delivery
We ship directly to any address requested worldwide - any location can be reached, be it your own address or your customer's final address - we are flexible to your needs. Shipping costs with the combined order system are considerably reduced, meaning customers make just one payment for the shipping of multiple publishers (shipping is charged per warehouse), on one multiple purchase invoice.
A wide selection of English children's books
At Children's Booksellers Worldwide we aim to make ordering a wide selection of children's books a quick and easy process, with over thirty publishers of English children's books to choose from and a growing number of foreign language children's publishers as well. Booksellers can choose from over 65,000 titles with the support of a dedicated customer care team, happy to help in creating the bookshop they ideally envisage.
Centrally-located warehouse
and fulfilment centre in Europe
Moonwood and Children's Booksellers Worldwide is situated in the heart of Europe, shipping children's books throughout Europe and worldwide in cooperation with Moonwood Distribution, based in Prague, the Czech Republic.
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We take care
We take care of your order from the moment it is placed, ensuring the successful packing and shipping of your books, leaving you more time to focus on your business.
Bookselling process simplified
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Selecting your books
and placing an order
Receiving the books and
presenting them to your customers
Taking orders online and delivering / Organising an event where the books are sold to the customer in person / Displaying the books in your retail space for customers to browse and buy in their own time
- Selecting your books
and placing an order - Receiving the books and
presenting them to your customers - Taking orders online and delivering /
Organising an event where the books are
sold to the customer in person / Displaying
the books in your retail space for customers
to browse and buy in their own time
Where can you sell?
Online
Through your own eshop, on social
media (Facebook, Instagram etc.),
through online marketplaces
Bookshop
Through your own bookshop or
retail space, language school or
child-oriented business
Personally
In person at events, such as local
family events, exhibitions,
conferences, school book fairs etc.
Benefits of starting
a bookselling business
- A flexible and enjoyable part-time job that can fit around your other activities
- A rewarding full-time job with great sales potential
- Access to over 65,000 titles from a wide range of English children's publishers
- Foreign language children's titles to include in your portfolio
- The chance to develop new skills / a new career
- Fulfilment from investing time into a product that helps children to learn
- The freedom to be creative and innovative as the owner of your own independent bookshop
- A business that you can grow over time and leave as a legacy for your children
Business potential
of bookselling
- Generous discounts for booksellers
- Combined order system enabling more publishers to be included in one order, meaning lower shipping costs
- Variety increases sales - customers love a wide selection of books to choose from
- Centrally-located warehouse and fulfilment centre in Europe reduces shipping costs and delivery times
- Great demand for English children's books in non-native English speaking countries
Start bookselling today
Get in touch to find out more
Get in touchBook Distribution
Whether you have been selling books for some time or are just getting started with your new bookselling business, it's a great idea to consider building a network of your own, adding a whole new and exciting element to your bookselling career options.
It's hugely rewarding to be able to support others while building a local, national or international network of like-minded and enthusiastic booksellers. Choosing to share the opportunity of selling children's books with others means greater earning potential as you provide a welcome service for more and more children's booksellers.
Children's Booksellers Worldwide provides support both for new members setting up their businesses, and also established businesses looking to branch out into new areas. Business training, including a step-by-step approach for booksellers starting out in their career, is available on the Children's Booksellers Worldwide support group - open to all members.
Business potential
of book distribution
- Bringing more books to more customers increases earning potential, through a combination of your own sales and distributor sales in addition
- A network of booksellers can, in time, create a reliable second source of income
- A ready-made portfolio of English and foreign language children's titles, plus a comprehensive distribution service, provided for your network by Children's Booksellers Worldwide
- Full business support provided by Children's Booksellers Worldwide
Book distribution process simplified
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Sharing the opportunity with others, exploring possibilities to bring children's books to more and more customers
Providing basic information, opening doors, sharing inspiration
Ensuring that the distributor has everything they need to be successful
- Sharing the opportunity with
others, exploring possibilities to
bring children's books to more and
more customers - Providing basic information,
opening doors, sharing inspiration - Ensuring that the distributor has
everything they need to be
successful