The Blue House Bookshop

Friendly helpful staff.

Lovely bookshop. Good range of books from board books to older children/teens and some adult books. Very friendly service, well worth a visit.

Lovely little bookshop with great choice of children's books.

What a fantastic book shop. I wish this was around when my young 'uns were, well.....young! A great combination of some all-time classics (Maurice Sendak, Kenneth Grahame, Eric Carle) and more modern ones (and not the 'obvious' ones too). Some beautifully illustrated books in here.Above all, the welcome and the service was great. Now you can't get that level of customer service when you order from a faceless online organisation. Well worth a visit. (The shop is quite quirky too!).

A bookshop so wonderful you have to buy something. Lovely range of books.

I cannot rate this bookshop highly enough. I was unable to visit the bookshop in person so contacted Karen explaining that I wanted to buy books for 4 young relatives. She asked for details of age, gender and likes and sent me a selection of 5 suitable books for each child to 'browse'. She gift wrapped them beautifully and added a card. Nothing was too much trouble. Even when I discovered, just prior to delivery, that one of the children had already got the book I had chose, Karen just changed it and sent it on it's way, even though she had had to order in my new choice and repackage it at what must have been a very busy time. Excellent, friendly service from an independent little shop. I look forward to visiting the bookshop and thanking Karen personally.

Great atmosphere, could have spent the whole day there.

Lovely independent book shop, very helpful staff

The most delightful children's bookshop in all of England, bar none. The selection is a perfect blend of the familiar and the unexpected so that every child - even the most reluctant reader - will find something they love. To top it off, Karen is exactly the kind of person you hope to find in such a magical place; knowledgeable, full of love for books and people who read them. I can't recommend it enough. If I lived in York I'd be there regularly; as it is, it's always our first stop when visiting York!

A beautifully curated space filled with a beautifully curated collection of books