Every Wednesday, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association publishes the regional bestseller list. On Thursdays, we celebrate Thursday Themes to shine a spotlight on some of the books from the list and give our brains a different way of thinking about books. It’s a new year, but some of the bestsellers on our list have been on bookstore shelves …
Liberty Bay Books in Poulsbo, WA has a wonderful line-up of kids’ book creators for the first Poulsbo Kids’ Book Festival this weekend, November 15 and 16. Friday, November 15, will be School Visit Day. Authors and illustrators will be at schools throughout Kitsap County, with an emphasis on visits for Title One schools. …
The Washington Center for the Book announced the winners of the 58th annual 2024 Washington State Book Awards. Congratulations! Books for adults Creative Nonfiction/Memoir: “Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City” by Jane Wong, Seattle (Tin House Books) Fiction: “The Laughter” by Sonora Jha, Seattle (HarperVia) General Nonfiction/Biography: “A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to …
Available new in paperback store on September 17. Watch the replay of our interview with the author here. River can see monsters and is destined to be the hero, a job they definitely don’t want. They’re just trying to survive middle school, especially the class where the teacher keeps misgendering them on purpose. But when …
Head to Redmond, WA for a kid lit extravaganza, Bigfoot Kids’ Book Festival, hosted by Brick & Mortar Books outside the store at the Redmond Town Center! Dress for the weather. Check out the schedule. Have a blast! Here’s a detailed schedule for who is when (click to go to their website, which might be …
Hooray! Brick & Mortar Books of Redmond, WA announced the stellar line-up for this year’s Bigfoot Kids’ Book Festival. Check out all this talent! Margaret Peterson Haddix Marissa Meyer Shannon Hale Dean Hale Suzanne Selfors Amanda Abler K. R. Alexander Aaron Bagley Jessixa Bagley Ashley Belote Audrey Barbakoff Mike Boldt Mary Boone Leslie Barnard Booth …
Every Wednesday, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association publishes the regional bestseller list. On Thursdays, we celebrate Thursday Themes to shine a spotlight on some of the books from the list and give our brains a different way of thinking about books. What are the elements of an instant bestseller, a book that makes it onto the bestseller list …
In June, 1974, Jan Bruton and Lynn Kelly, filled with a passion for children’s books and music, opened A Children’s Place Bookstore in a tiny storefront just off NE Broadway [Portland, OR]. Over the years, the bookstore would move locations, change owners, and expand in size but always with the same mission: provide the very …
Ai Weiwei‘s art and story fuse together in this picture book. As you learn about his art and his story, ask yourself what the color orange means to you. That’s what author Joanna Ho asked me, and and I hope that you ask others. —Laura DeLaney, Rediscovered Bookshop, Boise, ID Think about the world in …
Sashiko’s Stitches is a new picture book from local favorite Sanae Ishida (Little Kunoichi: The Ninja Girl). Sashiko is a little girl with overwhelming fears and worries. One day, her mother teaches her about a style of decorative traditional Japanese stitching also called sashiko, which was originally used to repair fishermen’s clothes. As Sashiko begins …
