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The Mad Hatters Bookshop

Locality: Manly, Queensland

Phone: +61 7 3393 5130

Address: Shop 3 Manly 7 Day Markets, corner of Stratton Tce and Cambridge Pde 4179 Manly, QLD, Australia

Website: http://www.madhattersbookshop.com.au

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24.01.2022 Sadie the dragon was on the floor this morning when I walked in. I can only assume the shop creatures threw a wild party last night without me. #Rude Were open until 1pm today!

22.01.2022 Kids enter to win a $200 book pack from Walker Books Australia!

22.01.2022 Its Indigenous Literacy Day today and were showcasing Indigenous voices in our story corner. The Indigenous Literacy Foundation are hosting a virtual event at 12:30pm AEST - check out their page for more details.

21.01.2022 Were open until 1pm today!

20.01.2022 Guess who just returned from the North Pole?! Coffee & catch ups with Leffy the Elf He will be back sharing his Twelve Days of Christmas this year!

19.01.2022 If you need a last-minute Fathers Day gift well be open 9am-3pm tomorrow with free gift wrapping

19.01.2022 We're extending the deadline for the Whimsical Tales Creative Writing Competition until Friday October 9th! ----- Calling all creative writers aged 8-14 in Wynnum Manly & surrounding areas! We are now accepting submissions for our second anthology: Whimsical Tales from the Mad Hatters Bookshop to be published in 2021. We are so excited to see what you come up with! ... Please see Terms & Conditions here: https://www.madhattersbookshop.com.au/p/4893-WhimsicalTales

18.01.2022 Oh, the places youll go... Thanks to everyone who came along to our adventure-themed story time & craft today. Loved seeing how everyones hot air balloons turned out!

18.01.2022 Some socially distanced fun at the Bay FM 100.3 Manly Studio Launch in Manly Harbour Village today! Thanks to all the kids who came by for colouring + craft!

17.01.2022 Two fabulous Bluey Story + Craft sessions today. By pure chance, our morning craft was all girls and afternoon all boys! Loving how everyones canvases turned out.

16.01.2022 You might remember Sammy the Sloth and his old pack from awhile ago but now we have a new group of animal friends Puppets are an excellent way to capture attention and promote dramatic play for kids. You can incorporate them into storytelling to teach narrative elements, encourage story retellings or even as an emotional support friend to practice reading and speaking skills. We have mice, rabbit and chick finger puppets as well as larger tortoise, rabbit and corgi hand puppets perfect tools for most animals stories like The Tortoise and the Hare!

15.01.2022 Happy Hump Day, and an update on the shop. 1. We have a new look website! I absolutely ADORE how much cleaner and easier it is to navigate than before. On the left are permanent categories and underneath seasonal categories which we constantly update to include reading challenges, awards lists, and holiday picks - like ideas for Father's Day. I've recently updated the Dyslexia-Friendly category which I'm excited to add to in the future. The website also links directly to our ...blog where we post book reviews and very soon more author interviews! Please take a peek at the first interview posted last night with local author, Ken Linnett - I'll post the link in the comments section. 2. Our bank troubles are very, very close to being resolved. No answers yet as to how the fraud occurred but some of the money is slowly being refunded which is a huge relief to us. The support we've received from this community has been invaluable. I've been pinching myself a lot lately. I don't know how we got so lucky. 3. Submissions are still open for Whimsical Tales until September 30 (I'm pretty sure I told someone September 31st, which turns out isn't an actual date, whoops! ) I've loved flicking through the entries received so far. 4. I have been curating a LOT of book lists for schools and businesses lately. I'll put a separate post out about this later in the week, but please know you can reach out at any time at [email protected] for suggestions - we offer discounts on all school accounts and bulk buys from businesses and I can generally get back to you with a quote and order availability in 48 hours. 5. At the moment, we have no plans to put out a full school holiday timetable but we will host a booking-only storytime or two. More details to follow! Hope your week is going well - I'm exhausted and it's only Wednesday!

14.01.2022 New from Barack Obama: The Presidential Memoirs, Volume 1 released on November 18, 2020.

14.01.2022 Congrats to Maggie OFarrell for winning the Womens Prize for Fiction for Hamnet!

14.01.2022 A couple of stacks of some excellent fiction, non-fiction, YA & kids reads that came in last week

13.01.2022 To celebrate the release of Sherlock Bones and the Sea-Creature Feature Renee Treml - Author and Illustrator has not only sent out signed bookplates, bookmarks, stickers and badges, shes also sent Sherlock Bones himself (plus sidekicks Watts and Grace) on a bookshop tour! We have copies of both books in the series in store. It is hilariously good and perfect for fans of Bad Guys. Allen & Unwin Books

13.01.2022 If anyone needs me, Ill be reading Thank you Kathie & Hachette Australia Books for the advance copy! I definitely didnt cry when I was given it.

13.01.2022 "I wonder how many wishes a star can give." ~ Winnie the Pooh, A. A. Milne #winnierthepooh #aamilne #bookshop #lovetoread #booklover #madhattersbookshop #manlyqld #manlyharbourvillage @a.a_milne

12.01.2022 When one of your teen readers buys the first in a series only to return 45mins later to buy both the second and the third... (Recommended for readers 14+)

11.01.2022 Follow, follow, follow the yellow(er) brick road. Re-paint is nearly done!

11.01.2022 I want to tell you all how much I ADORED Betty by Tiffany McDaniel. Betty is a hymn to life and the enduring tradition of storytelling with a narrator as indelible as Scout Finch. It is fiction that swallows you up and leaves you changed from the opening words: A girl comes of age against the knife. Fans of Where the Crawdads Sing and The Vanishing Half will love this and I will certainly be pushing it into your hands! Born in a bathtub in 1954 to a Cherokee father and wh...ite mother, Betty is the sixth of eight siblings. The world they inhabit is one of poverty and violence - both from outside the family and also, devastatingly, from within. When her family's darkest secrets are brought to light, Betty has no choice but to reckon with the brutal history hiding in the hills, as well as the heart-wrenching cruelties and incredible characters she encounters in her rural town of Breathed, Ohio. Despite the hardship she faces, Betty is resilient. Her curiosity about the natural world, her fierce love for her sisters and her father's brilliant stories are kindling for the fire of her own imagination, and in the face of all she bears witness to, Betty discovers an escape: she begins to write. A heartbreaking yet magical story, BETTY is a punch-in-the-gut of a novel - full of the crushing cruelty of human nature and the redemptive power of words.

10.01.2022 Are you coming down to the BayFM Manly Studio Launch tomorrow between 10:30am-2pm? There will be live music, games and giveaways and we'll be hosting a free arts & crafts table for kids!

10.01.2022 Did anyone else LOVE The Paper Bag Princess growing up? It’s one of my all-time favourite picture books and I’m so happy to see it in print again

10.01.2022 We’re excited to be back at Moreton Bay College for the next three days running our annual Christmas Pop-Up Bookshop. Find us at the secondary library with a range of books, games, stationery & puzzles. A portion of your sales will be given back to the school as new books!

10.01.2022 Hope the littles are enjoying their pupil free day today! We did a small top-up of some of our most popular games If youre looking to spend some family time on your long weekend + Fathers Day Click the image links to view more on our website

10.01.2022 Thanks for your patience as we put together our school holiday timetable! Here are the events were hosting during the holidays. We do have limited spots in each activity so please be sure to book in & pay over the phone on (07) 3393 5130 or through our website here: https://www.madhattersbookshop.com.au/c/event-tickets__1 Well also be running an activities table at the BayFM Studio Launch on the morning of Tuesday 22 September so be sure to drop by and say hello!

07.01.2022 You know its a good day when youre given two coffees instead of one! Thanks Keiths on Cambridge!!! Hope everyone is enjoying Fathers Day!

06.01.2022 MG Book Club is on today at 4pm! We're chatting about Her Perilous Mansion and choosing our holiday read!

06.01.2022 Big thank you to Moreton Bay College and their amazing library staff for hosting us again for our annual Christmas Pop-Up Bookshop. It’s always a pleasure to visit!

06.01.2022 Loving these Wizard of Oz enamel pins!

04.01.2022 Have you got your copy of The Survivors by Jane Harper yet?

02.01.2022 Heading into the Christmas market, Ive been curating quite a few book lists for schools at the moment. These are some of our favourite picture books right now. Schools, teacher librarians dont forget we have a shop now, pay later option (payment terms 30 days from delivery) and we offer discounts for school accounts. I know quite a lot of school budgets are coming to an end for the year so if youre looking to top up while you can, feel free to send us an email at [email protected] for our current top ten list in any age range or category. We can also post out copies of our Spring Reading Guide which will soon be available! Were looking forward to being out and about at schools and businesses over Book Week and Christmas. 2020 has been a scattered year but the one constant weve found is the joy in pairing books with readers and promoting access to good quality books by some very, very talented book creators.

01.01.2022 An important message from our new shop mascot, Sir Barksley