Musician Laura Veirs turns the spotlight on folk singer Elizabeth “Libba” Cotten for her debut picture book. Veirs traces the story of a girl who was meant to play music despite all the things going against her. Even the guitars weren’t made for a left-hander like Libba. But plucky Libba just “turned the guitar upside …
The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association, a trade association of independent booksellers, publishers, authors, and librarians, announced the winners of the 2019 Northwest Book Awards. The awards are selected by a committee of independent booksellers from Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Alaska. From more than 400 nominations written or illustrated by creators from the Pacific Northwest …
Biography at its finest. I couldn’t put it down. As a Jackson fan, I was delighted to learn more about the author of my favorites: The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, and “The Lottery.“ As a woman, I was heartbroken to learn how sexism and misogyny affected Jackson. As a …
This book may be more for ex-kids like me, for whom the mysterious M. Sasek created a fascinating world of cities and landmarks in the ’50s and ’60s in his This Is… picture books. This Is Paris, This Is San Francisco, This Is Hong Kong, This Is Cape Canaveral: all told, he made eighteen locations his own, …
This quaint and beautifully illustrated children’s book is sure to capture the heart of any Jane Austen fan. It is the story of young Jane, growing up in a house bustling with activity, her nose buried in books from her father’s impressive library. It tells of her passion for writing, her independent spirit, and the …
Local author’s newest book delves into his father’s double life AUGUST 09, 2017 by JOHN PRENTICE for Seattle Refined For many people as we grow up, there’s a moment when we start relating to our parents as adults instead of children. And sometimes, they aren’t quite the people we thought they were.For John Clauson of …
Did you know that Einstein’s brain saw more of the US than he did? True story. Forty years after he died, a piece of his brain took a road trip with a journalist and the pathologist who performed the autopsy on Einstein in 1955 (and kept his brain! What?). You can read about it in Driving …
Mark your calendars for this great event coming up at Tacoma’s King’s Books April 1. King’s Books is excited to welcome Peter Bagge to talk about his new graphic biography, Fire!!: The Zora Neale Hurston Story. Following on the heels of his New York Times bestselling biography of Margaret Sanger, Fire!! is a dazzling graphic novel …
By Michael Upchurch Special to The Seattle Times Looking for Betty MacDonald: The Egg, the Plague, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle and I by Paula Becker University of Washington Press, 221 pp., $29.95 Seattle writer Betty MacDonald (1907-1958) was a beloved best-selling humorist who wrote about her life with a biting sense of the absurd. But if she’d …
“My goodness. This week, when a customer’s special order of two copies of Naifeh and Smith’s recent biography of the doomed painter arrived, I was almost overcome by a physical desire to abandon the register, take one of the copies to the back of the store, put on my headphones, and read. It’s a beautiful book—compact but …
