{"id":118,"date":"2009-08-10T16:09:46","date_gmt":"2009-08-10T16:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=118"},"modified":"2009-08-10T16:09:46","modified_gmt":"2009-08-10T16:09:46","slug":"the-book-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/08\/10\/the-book-store\/","title":{"rendered":"The Book Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"beach hut\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/beachhut-2.png?resize=101%2C53\" width=\"101\" height=\"53\" \/>August and at last a space in the diary for clearing the store of books. Well that is in the plan.<\/p>\n<p> There are approximately 8,000+ books. What is it about books from the past, those children's novels that just have to be re-read? From The Weirdstone of Brisingamen by <a title=\"Alan Garner\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fantasticfiction.co.uk\/g\/alan-garner\/\">Alan Garner <\/a> and The Butterfly Lion by <a title=\"Michael Morpurgo\" href=\"http:\/\/\/www.michaelmorpurgo.org\/\">Michael Morpurgo <\/a> to 100+ways to make paper aeroplanes.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"books\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/books-1.png?resize=101%2C79\" width=\"101\" height=\"79\" \/>Way back in the winter we completely changed a school library into a community library. It's a fantastic space, with comfy chairs, computers, smart shelving units and  books, of course.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the sorted books will be going back into school, but the majority will be taken to places, mainly overseas, where books are in short supply. We are lucky that people we work with have many contacts with groups and can get the books direct to the children who need them.<\/p>\n<p>So, I'll just read one or two more, then get back to packing into boxes.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Community Library\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dolphinbookbox.co.uk\/libraries.htm\">Dolphin BookBox<\/a> will give you information about our Community Library service, plus other things that we can supply too!<\/p>\n<p>Visit the home page of <a title=\"Dolphin Booksellers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/index.htm\">Dolphin Booksellers <\/a> for latest information.<\/p>\n<br>\r\nDolphinbooksellers.co.uk is part of <a\r\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.smithmartinpartnership.com\" target=\"_blank\">SmithMartin\r\nLLP<\/a><br>\r\n<br>\r\nA retail resource for the best children's books, entry point into our\r\nchildren's and community library procurement and supply service. Offering a miscellany of news and featured authors for all our readers,\r\nwhatever their age.<\/small><br><br><br>\r\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August and at last a space in the diary for clearing the store of books. Well that is in the plan. There are approximately 8,000+ books. What is it about books from the past, those children's novels that just have to be re-read? From The Weirdstone of Brisingamen by Alan Garner and The Butterfly Lion <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/08\/10\/the-book-store\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"The Book Store\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<br>\r\nDolphinbooksellers.co.uk is part of <a\r\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.smithmartinpartnership.com\" target=\"_blank\">SmithMartin\r\nLLP<\/a><br>\r\n<br>\r\nA retail resource for the best children's books, entry point into our\r\nchildren's and community library procurement and supply service. Offering a miscellany of news and featured authors for all our readers,\r\nwhatever their age.<\/small><br><br><br>\r\n<\/body>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[69,71,64,501,68,70],"class_list":{"0":"post-118","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-featured-authors","7":"category-featured-childrens-book","8":"tag-alan-garner","9":"tag-dolphin-bookbox","10":"tag-dolphin-booksellers","11":"tag-dolphinbooksellers","12":"tag-library","13":"tag-michael-morpurgo","14":"h-entry","15":"hentry","16":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqnT3-1U","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}