About Us

Lollipop Books is a specialist supplier of books for children and young people . We sell high-quality, beautiful books through our high street shop, direct sales to schools, book fairs and educational conferences. We carefully select our books to match the needs of children and young people, early years’ practitioners, teachers and other educationalists.

Lollipop Books is owned and run by Tony and Claire Platt. Tony is an experienced bookseller with an encyclopaedic knowledge of children’s books. Claire is employed as a primary literacy consultant, and has an excellent understanding of both books for children, and current educational priorities.

We pride ourselves on supplying quality books to schools. Unlike many of our competitors, we do not actively promote mass-market titles such as TV tie-ins. Instead, we are particularly interested in high-quality fiction and unusual, beautifully illustrated picture books. We also sell a wide range of books which are not commonly marketed in this country. In addition to this, we can supply all books in print (fiction, non-fiction and educational titles) from either the UK or USA.

We also run bookfairs in schools. We take all the hassle out of these events, by selecting a range of the best quality titles, to meet specified needs. We also make all the arrangements, deliver the books, staff the bookfair and provide schools with money-back vouchers to spend with us in the future. More recently, we have started to provide exhibitions of our books at conferences. We pride ourselves on selecting an inspiring display of titles to meet the needs of any event.