How the world has changed since January, when the 2020 Pacific Northwest Book Award winners were announced and authors, bookstores, and publishers were making happy plans for celebratory events. Green Bean Books jumped at the chance to host the award presentation event for Dylan Meconis and Queen of the Sea. The original idea was to …
Tuesday, July 9, 2019, Green Bean Books in Portland celebrates its tenth birthday! Congratulations, Grean Bean Books. This charming bookshop in a darling red house in the Alberta Arts District in Portland (just a quick walk from Salt & Straw ice cream, if you like to double up your treats) focuses on kids’ books and …
While attending the national conference for children’s booksellers from independent bookstores, the American Booksellers Association’s Children’s Institute, in Pittsburgh, PA, I found a PNW friend face-out on the shelves of Spark Books in Aspinwall, PA. My Name Isn’t Oof! is a strong presence in the store’s Resilience subsection of Life Lessons. The book’s author, Michael …
Earl Dizon is a beloved bookseller at Green Bean Books in Portland. He serves on the PNBA Awards Committee and spreads the love of books off-hours as a volunteer at his local library, too. Multnomah County Library recently featured him in their Volunteer Spotlight. “I want to get kids excited to read.” by Sarah Binns Good …
I’d been reading picture books to my kids for years before writing my own. I’d always taken pleasure in them but never really considered what a deep art form the genre is. It took creating Libba to figure that out.First, let’s take the words. Like in a song or poem, I wanted to get them just right. …
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 …
A Children’s Place Bookstore (ACPB) just celebrated its 40th birthday last June, commemorated its grand re-opening last weekend, and today is still Portland’s oldest and most beloved independent children’s bookstore. I visited owner Pam Erlandson and her team during the grand re-opening festivities on Saturday, March 14 and here’s what I learned. Why the Move As …
“ZooBorns showcases the newest and cutest animal babies from accredited zoos and aquariums around the world. With interesting animal facts and background stories on the featured babies, ZooBorns illustrates the connections between zoo births and conservation initiatives in the wild.” —Mockingbird Books, Seattle, WA Need your dose of cute? Visit Mockingbird Books or your independent …
We wish they’d included more of the great in-store discussions going on in indie bookstores in Seattle, but hooray for CBS for celebrating Sue Nevins of Mockingbird Books for her kids’ book groups. The article lists five book clubs in Seattle, but only Sue’s (actually four separate groups) has a bookstore affiliation. Does your local …
