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A Children’s Place

Jul

10

2015

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Ice, Ice Baby

I started writing a piece about Comic-Con and missing it this year and what I was doing to get my nerd on while stuck in Portland and which books and authors I was going to miss most by not being in San Diego, but then a couple of things happened. First, I looked at this …

Apr

21

2015

Billie Bloebaum's Alice in Wonderland

So many books, how little time?

Well, it’s begun. The first of the nominees for the 2016 PNBA Book Awards has arrived in my mailbox. Which means I am now in my last few weeks of being able to read books for any other reason. Which gets me all in a panic because I don’t know what to read first and …

Mar

24

2015

A Children’s Place Grand Re-Opening

A Children’s Place Bookstore (ACPB) just celebrated its 40th birthday last June, commemorated its grand re-opening last weekend, and today is still Portland’s oldest and most beloved independent children’s bookstore. I visited owner Pam Erlandson and her team during the grand re-opening festivities on Saturday, March 14 and here’s what I learned. Why the Move As …

Feb

13

2015

Counting on Crossover: When Only YA Will Satisfy

I started a new post weeks ago, all about my favorite Romance authors beyond the Pacific Northwest. It was full of enthusiasm and excitement and some outright pleading to y’all to give Romance a chance. And then I realized it would run in February, just in time for Valentine’s Day and I just couldn’t bring …

Jan

6

2015

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Post-Holiday Brain Drain

The holidays are over and my brain feels full of holes. I’m still tired (and cranky, truth be told) and I just can’t seem to focus on anything for too long. I can barely remember what I read last night, much less last week or last month. I feel like my reading should be confined …

Dec

30

2014

Sex Criminals Volume One

Sex Criminals Volume One: One Weird Trick
by Matt Fraction & Chip Zdarsky

This book. This [bleep]ing book. Each of us has one: that one book that you’ll fight to get into the hands of readers who are so sure it’s not for them because of the genre or the title or whatever. For me, this year, this is that book. I’ve read a lot of big, important …

Sep

26

2011

King in Residence at A Children's Place

Children’s author Bart King will work on his next young adult novel in the window of the Northeast Portland store A Children’s Place on several days in October. The Oregonian reports that King, who’s maybe best known for his The Big Book of Boy Stuff, will work on No Vampires. No Zombies. One Demon and …

Jan

22

2011

River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams by Jennifer Bryant, with illustrations by Melissa Sweet

“In this picture book biography, Bryant’s engaging prose and Sweet’s stunning mixed-media illustrations celebrate the amazing man who finds a way to earn a living and to honor his calling to be a poet.”—Pam, A Children’s Place Bookstore, Portland

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