San Francisco-based publisher Chronicle Books celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. On Wednesday, June 21, Shelf Awareness published a dedicated issue for the celebration. Featured throughout all the festivities this summer is Lummi Island author and illustrator, Nina Laden. Laden’s board book, Peek-a Who?, was originally published in 2000. The bright, simple, funny book for babies …
World-renowned Seattle photographer and animal rescue advocate Robin Layton has recently released her first book, A Letter to My Dog: Notes to Our Best Friends. Her own rescue pup, Monkey, not only landed the cover gig for the book, but the starring role in this entertaining and endearing video too. Look at his jammies!
We learned today from Shelf Awareness, one of our favorite sources for information about the book industry, that Patti Pattee, owner and bookseller extraordinaire at Watermark Books in Anacortes, Washington, won the Award for Grossest Smoothie Ever! from Chronicle Books, the publisher of the Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook series. Chronicle featured the contest at the …
