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 …
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. You could use this week’s list as inspiration for book shopping and for what to name a goldfish, dog, hedgehog, cat, houseplant, or other new member of the household. Don’t …
From Oregon Live July 10, 2021 Portland-raised author Renée Watson is the inspiration for a campaign that Portland bookstore Green Bean Books is running on behalf of Vernon Elementary School this summer. The campaign’s goal: To sell 275 copies of Watson’s delightful chapter book Ways to Make Sunshine, which follows a Black girl growing up …
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. We celebrate bestselling Black authors. Stacey Abrams, While Justice Sleeps and Our Time Is Now Hardcover Fiction #5 and Paperback Nonfiction #8 Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb Hardcover …
From Grass Roots Books & Music in Corvallis, OR: Thank you to Skyler Remington for this picture: A summer read with one girl, a really large horse and a very interesting book. She’s not horsing around! And because we all want to know, Skylar is reading The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, …
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. Maybe readers already had hydration on their minds because they knew about the heat wave; we notice that several of the regional bestsellers had water-related titles. The Sweetness of Water …
Portland-based Salt & Straw Ice Cream created flavors for its pint of the month club to go with kids’ summer reading! Each of the five pints is inspired by a different Scholastic author’s book or series. One of the flavors, Fruit of the Gadoba Tree, comes from the Amulet series by WA author and illustrator …
Every Thursday, we shine a spotlight on some of the titles featured in this week’s Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association regional bestseller list. This week, a sense of place came up in quite a few titles. Some you can find on a map. Tokyo Ever After Emiko Jean (#5 Young adult) Hidden Valley Road Robert Kolker (#13 paperback …
From Secret Garden Books in Seattle, WA: The smiling-under-their-masks pair you see to the left are longtime Garden customers Lua and her mother Noelia. The table before them is covered with books they chose from among our selection of bilingual Spanish/English books for children. These books are now ready to be shipped off to the …
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. Maybe it’s the pent-up wanderlust after a year and a half at home, but we think some of the titles of the bestsellers point to happy journeys… So, …
