Fascinating story about Major Taylor, the first Black person to become a world champion in sports. Biking was then the most popular sport in America. The extraordinary Taylor was a heroic athlete who broke racial barriers, battling Jim Crow laws and attitudes, even those of his colleagues. Inspiring and riveting. –Krijn, Queen Anne Book Company, …
Seattle7Writers, the nonprofit collective of Pacific Northwest authors, partners with independent bookstores this summer to introduce readers to favorite authors and raise money for literacy nonprofits. In July, Island Books hosted the Seattle7Writers cookout to benefit Team Read, a nonprofit organization that pairs struggling young readers with trained teen reading coaches for one-on-one tutoring after school and …
As bookstores and communities around the country take part in the Where’s Waldo? local business campaign, bookseller Hanna Fischer of Rediscovered Books in Boise, ID, took it to a whole new level. Folks from the store took part in the Boise Green Bike Celebrity Race at the Twilight Criterion on Saturday, July 14, and bookseller …
I’ve mostly avoided the coloring book fad, but The Bicycle Coloring Book: Journey to the End of the World still captures my attention every time I open it. It’s fascinating and bizarre, like a tome of bicycle-themed science fiction dreamscapes, and this is a coloring book worth diving into and exploring. –Cyn Marts, Microcosm Publishing, …
