At the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Fall Trade Show, the PNBA Awards Committee presented an overview of some nominated titles by northwest authors and illustrators that have captured their hearts this year. Committee chair Kim Hooyboer of Third Place Books (Seward Park, Seattle, WA) explained that this year a record-breaking 421 titles were nominated. She …
Those of us who loved the quirkily indomitable spirit of Ishida’s first picture book, Little Kunoichi the Ninja Girl, will be glad to see Little Kunoichi return in a supporting role in the story of her best pal’s search for an animal pal, Chibi Samurai Wants a Pet. Filled with asides both goofy and educational …
Dr. John Herrington, explorer, adventurer, and the world’s first Indigenous astronaut, read and signed his children’s book, Mission to Space, at BookPeople of Moscow in Moscow, ID on September 9. In the book, Herrington shares his passion for space travel and his Chickasaw heritage as he gives children a glimpse into his astronaut training at NASA and his …
This Is How We Do It is not the first book to show kids how other kids around the world live, but it’s a particularly thoughtful and appealing approach. Using photographs and descriptions sent to him by seven real families in seven countries (Japan, Peru, Iran, Russia, India, Italy, and Uganda), Lamothe has drawn everyday aspects …
It’s not only kids who get first-day jitters, as we see in School’s First Day of School written by Adam Rex and illustrated by Christian Robinson. This charming picture book introduces a freshly built school who is wondering how the students will like him! He worries about making a good first impression and not everything …
If you are in ANY way helping to connect kids with books, you are doing amazing things. Immeasurable things. World-changing things! I know it’s easy to believe, in an HDTV, 3-D, virtual reality world, that books are becoming passe. I promise that’s not even remotely so. Kids can connect with books now every bit as …
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 …
This was a book that I definitely judged by its title when I ordered it. A true tale about skydiving beavers??!! Really. And yes, REALLY! This true tale took place in McCall, Idaho just after WWII. Up until then, before people “discovered” the natural beauty around McCall and populated it, it was an area home …
I love this picture book! Readers who are familiar with the original will definitely get a kick out of it, but so will folks new to the idea. It’s full of rhyming fun with just the right touch of absurdity. Up your rhyme game with this rambunctious read-aloud! –Tegan Tigani, Queen Anne Book Company, Seattle, WA …
Kids’ Book of the Week The Book of Mistakes by Corinna Luyken As with so many of the best stories, this one begins with a mistake: specifically, an errant splotch on an otherwise perfect illustration. While this mistake easily evolves into a feature within Luyken’s developing pen-and-ink drawings, the mistakes just keep coming. And they keep turning into …
