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Urchin Books

Locality: Marrickville, New South Wales

Phone: +61 2 9572 7277

Address: 238 Marrickville Rd 2204 Marrickville, NSW, Australia

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25.01.2022 Travel stickers...to add to the hundreds of stickers here!

24.01.2022 At 40, Franz Kafka (1883-1924), who never married and had no children, walked through the park in Berlin when he met a girl who was crying because she had lost ...her favourite doll. She and Kafka searched for the doll unsuccessfully. Kafka told her to meet him there the next day and they would come back to look for her. The next day, when they had not yet found the doll, Kafka gave the girl a letter "written" by the doll saying "please don't cry. I took a trip to see the world. I will write to you about my adventures." Thus began a story which continued until the end of Kafka's life. During their meetings, Kafka read the letters of the doll carefully written with adventures and conversations that the girl found adorable. Finally, Kafka brought back the doll (she bought one) that had returned to Berlin. "It doesn't look like my doll at all," said the girl. Kafka handed her another letter in which the doll wrote: "my travels have changed me." the little girl hugged the new doll and brought her happy home. A year later Kafka died. Many years later, the now-adult girl found a letter inside the doll. In the tiny letter signed by Kafka it was written: "Everything you love will probably be lost, but in the end, love will return in another way." See more

23.01.2022 Books galore! Today's treasures...

22.01.2022 Urchin supports local authors! This is Louisa (with her author in training sidekick) holding her book about local Marrickville history! Join a walking tour or check out the exhibit this month at Marrickville Library :) The book is here @ Urchin Books!

22.01.2022 Happy 80th birthday to Margaret Atwood. "The moment when, after many years of hard work and a long voyage, you stand in the centre of your room,... house, half-acre, square mile, island, country, knowing at last how you got there, and say, I own this, is the same moment the trees unloose their soft arms from around you, the birds take back their language, the cliffs fissure and collapse, the air moves back from you like a wave and you can’t breathe. No, they whisper. You own nothing. You were a visitor, time after time Climbing the hill, planting the flag, proclaiming. We never belonged to you. You never found us. It was always the other way round." ~ Margaret Atwood Photo credit to Tim Walker

22.01.2022 Stacks of new cards!

20.01.2022 This week's treasures! New books, stickers, soaps, cards! :)

19.01.2022 New! Star Trek stickers to add to the hundreds already here @ Urchin :)

19.01.2022 Counter help today @ Urchin Books :)

19.01.2022 This weekend's treasures! New books, cards, stickers and cushions! Here @ Urchin Books :)

18.01.2022 New! Retro cushions :)

16.01.2022 Happy Father's Day to all you Dads out there who have helped to create kind and caring individuals on our shared earth x

16.01.2022 New! Handmade bibs and bunny snugglers made by one of our Urchins! :)

13.01.2022 Father's Day @ Urchin :)

12.01.2022 New games, kits and puzzles! :)

10.01.2022 Urchin helpers making mystery books...surprise books chosen by kids...for kids! :)

10.01.2022 The lovely Helen of #helenashleydesigns showing off her coasters, crafted here in Marrickville :)

10.01.2022 Animal madness! Cushion critters here @ Urchin Books :)

10.01.2022 Just in! This week's cushion arrivals! New and old favourites...

09.01.2022 Unpacking boxes and boxes of new board games!

07.01.2022 Urchins Gia and Soleil displaying new ganes and kits here @ Urchin :)

05.01.2022 Memories of kitten fostering.. #adoptdontshop

05.01.2022 Come take a tour of Urchin Books with me :)

02.01.2022 This weekend's treasures :)