Bath delivers accessible, family-focused experiences that balance playful activities with architectural charm. Visitors can explore alleys hunting for costume jewellery and enjoy pizza while admiring sweeping crescents and 18th-century design. The city is highly walkable, with hills and downhill stretches that help manage pacing for children. The Bath Sweet Shop on North Parade Passage provides colourful sweets to revive tired little ones. Seasonal events include a major children's literature festival featuring top authors and masterclasses. Independent bookshops such as Topping & Company and Mr B's Emporium offer immersive book-focused experiences and curated recommendations for young readers.
This is a place that's easy to hop around by foot without needing to navigate buses, and for every lung-busting hill that you climb up, there will be a downhill to reset the pace with your charges. And if all else fails? Make a beeline for The Bath Sweet Shop on North Parade Passage (the oldest in town), where the shelves are lined with technicolour jars of sherbets and bonbons, primed to cure the fiercest case of city break fatigue.
Each autumn, Bath Children's Literature Festival descends on venues across the city, with the A-list of children's authors and illustrators from Jacqueline Wilson and Cressida Cowell to Julia Donaldson and Michael Morpurgo inspiring the next generation of bookworms with masterclasses and book readings (expect winding queues for signings with the biggest names). At any other time of year, make a beeline to Topping & Company Booksellers, sprawling over three floors in a former Quaker meeting house, with storybook-worthy rolling ladders to reach the highest shelves.
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