I like this book because Claudia’s friends help her when she is sad. –Emerson, age 7, customer at Wishing Tree Books, Spokane, WA Do you look for recommendation cards at bookstores? Did you know they’re called “shelf talkers” in the bookselling world? Whether the recommendations are from a trusted bookseller or another customer, they can …
Tupac Shakur’s poetry collection, The Rose that Grew from Concrete, and the safety of a diary were my entries into becoming a writer. For the entirety of middle school and the first half of high school, I was the kid who came into class late while cracking jokes or quips and sat in the back …
Seattle kids’ author Mark Holtzen interviewed Seattle kids’ author Kim Baker about her upcoming middle grade novel, The Water Bears. Where did the idea for The Water Bears come from? What was the original grain of sand that led to this pearl? (If you have better ideas for jokes or puns in questions, I’m all …
After being diagnosed with brain cancer as a teen, Seattle writer Jeff Henigson made an unconventional Starlight Children’s Foundation wish. He wanted to (and did) travel to Moscow to talk with Gorbachev about nuclear disarmament. But this memoir is less about cancer and the Cold War than it is about surviving high school and searching …
Sometimes you just fall in love with a book and everything it represents. Rosie Revere is back in an all-new chapter book series that might just be the best early chapter book series ever engineered! –Jesica DeHart, Neill Public Library, Pullman, WA This is a fun, well-illustrated early chapter book that encompasses all the zany …
