To celebrate National Bookshop Day on Saturday 8 August, here are some fictional bookshops for children to visit in their imagination.

Flourish and Blott’s in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling

They bought Harry’s school books in a shop called Flourish and Blotts where the shelves were stacked to the ceiling with books as large as paving stones bound in leather; books the size of postage stamps in covers of silk; books full of peculiar symbols and a few books with nothing in them at all.

The beautiful illustration here is from a new hardback edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone that will hit bookshops on Tuesday 6 October. The art is by Jim Kay who won the prestigious Kate Greenaway for A Monster Calls.

Uncle Mort’s shop in I Kill The Mockingbird by Paul Acampora

The three friends in this lovely (not to mention timely) children’s novel – Lucy, Michael and Elena – all help out part-time in a used bookshop owned by Elena’s Uncle Mort, a wonderfully outspoken character who has a great relationship with the kids. In the story, the friends decide to use a bit of reverse psychology in order to drum up some enthusiasm for To Kill A Mockingbird being on the school summer reading list. Using Uncle Mort’s shop as a kind of clubhouse, they hatch a plan that involves hiding existing copies of the classic, as well as running a social media campaign. But their initial idea cannot be contained and ends up having wider reaching consequences that they could have imagined.

Carl Conrad Coreander’s Old Books in The Neverending Story by Michael Ende

Mr Coreander is a grumpy, pipe-smoking bookseller who resents pesky children coming in and getting their sticky hands on his precious books. While he probably needs to attend a couple of customer training sessions, full respect to him for being the keeper of a store that draws in Bastian from the cold, grey streets where he’s being mercilessly bullied, and leads him to a magical book that will take him on a life-changing journey. And as with most grumpy characters, we also find out that there is more to Mr Coreander than meets the eye – he has been to Fantasia, too.

The artwork here is from Mauro Mazzara.

Monsieur Labisse’s bookstore in The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick

Monsieur Labisse keeps a very messy, cluttered bookstore in this stunning 500-page story told in words and pictures (nearly 300 of those pages are illustrations). Like all the best booksellers, Monsieur Labisse will surprise you by knowing exactly where the book you want is situated. Although we have some concerns about his business model, we secretly love the fact that he loans books to his younger customers. For the film version, Hugo, the set reportedly used 40,000 books – although many of those were fibreglass, whereas we’re certain that everything in the book version is completely real.

The illustration detail shown here is from the book.

The Little Bookshop in The Little Bookshop and the Origami Army by Michael Foreman

We first met Joey and his origami superhero friend in Newspaper Boy and Origami Girl. In the new story their mission is to save a bookstore from being demolished to make way for a ‘superstore’. With a single, powerful HAII-YAH!, Origami Girl awakens characters from children’s books, who pop out and become origami figures themselves: an origami army! So it’s up to Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland, Elmer, the Little Princess and other favourite characters to save the day.

The illustration shown here is from the book. This book is available from Tuesday 1 September.