Bookworms

Bookworms, a single-price children's bookshop

Bookworms is a British bookshop focused on children's and young adult books, selling all its titles at a single price of £3.50. It operates mainly through its online shop, with deliveries within the UK, and complements remote sales with a network of outlets run by local franchisees.

Catalogue by age and book type

The catalogue is organised by age ranges —0 to 1 years, 1 to 3, 3 to 5, 5 to 7, 7 to 9, 9 to 12 and teenagers— and by format and content categories. Featured sections include:

• Board books and books with textures and tactile elements.
• First words, numbers and counting, shapes and rhyming books.
• Picture books and bedtime stories.
• Books about animals, dinosaurs, feelings and emotions, and fairy tales.
• Chapter books for independent readers, with humour, mystery, adventure and graphic novel titles.
• Educational material on STEM subjects, languages, religious education, parenting and history.
• Educational and wellness activity books, with puzzles, stickers and activities for under 5s and for children aged 5 and over.

Schools programme

The company works with schools to make books more affordable and accessible. It offers virtual sales organised for each school, where parents buy and the school receives a free book for every five copies purchased. It also handles wholesale orders for schools, with discounts agreed directly, and is exploring the possibility of setting up temporary or pop-up bookshops in schools themselves.

Monthly prize draw for online orders

Every order placed on the website is sent with a raffle ticket attached to a leaflet. The draw is held monthly and the winner can choose any book from the catalogue, which the company sends free of charge. Unwinning tickets are automatically re-entered into subsequent draws until they win.

Network of local franchises

Bookworms operates through a franchise structure with a head office and several outlets across England. Among the locations identified are Nottingham, Louth, Boston, Norwich, Tynemouth, Sutton Coldfield, Dartford, Milton Keynes, Leicester, Sheffield, Liverpool, Newcastle, Norfolk and Waveney, among others. The company remains open to welcoming new franchisees.