Dear Reader, I had a great time launching Kitty at A Children’s Place in Portland […] this fall! The event at Boulder Book Store has some history behind it. The last time I appeared on their stage (and they really have a stage!) was to support Noah McNichol and the Backstage Ghost. The date was Wednesday, March 11, 2020, …
From Port Book and News in Port Angeles, WA: Attention Clallam County Teachers! Teachers in our community come into the bookstore quite often to buy books for their classrooms. They are often paying for these books out of their own pocket. Port Book and News would like to share this cost of getting books into …
From Secret Garden Books in Seattle, WA: It’s back-to-school season and we’ve put together a great display of picture books for some of the smaller school goers! We’ve got books to help with back-to-school nerves, tips for making friends, and even a book to remind your kids not to eat their classmates! From Eagle Harbor …
From OregonLive/ The Oregonian September 4, 2021: The start of the new school year makes it a fitting time to pick up Portlander Margot Wood’s debut young adult novel, Fresh, a queer retelling of Jane Austen’s Emma that spans its protagonist’s freshman year of college. Quick recap for those who haven’t encountered Emma in a while: …
It’s time for a Thursday Theme, where we shine a spotlight on some of the titles featured in this week’s Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association regional bestseller list. Big thanks to Cannon Beach Books of Cannon Beach, OR for the idea. So many of the bestsellers had blue elements, I had to be a little subjective when making …
Phung Nguyen Quang and Huynh Kim Lien have created My First Day, a delightfully illustrated children’s story book about the magic and excitement of the “first day.” In this case, An is leaving home for his first day of school. It’s also the first day his mother has allowed him to take a boat out on …
From the Stacks: Back to School We have books on just about any topic you can imagine on the Page Ahead shelves, and this month, in keeping with the back-to-school season, we’d like to feature All Are Welcome by Alexandra Penfold, illustrated by [Seattle illustrator] Suzanne Kaufman. This colorful picture book details a school community …
It’s not only kids who get first-day jitters, as we see in School’s First Day of School written by Adam Rex and illustrated by Christian Robinson. This charming picture book introduces a freshly built school who is wondering how the students will like him! He worries about making a good first impression and not everything …
Celebrate all the ways children get ready for the first day of kindergarten in The Class written by Boni Ashburn and illustrated by Kimberly Gee. It’s a cute and chaotic romp of a rhyming book which follows twenty different kids as they prepare for their first day of school! –Green Bean Books, Portland, OR School is …
Last evening we had a couple of groups waiting to check out. The two ladies first at the register were talking about students and books. The couple behind them pardoned themselves and asked if they were teachers. One the ladies said that yes she was a teacher. They offered to buy her books for her …
