Independent bookstores don’t have the space to carry every title, but they celebrate your freedom to read. This week, many stores created displays to raise awareness of censorship through Banned Books Week (September 23-29, 2018). From University Book Store in Seattle: We’re with the Banned. In celebration and anticipation of 2018’s top 10 banned books, we’re …
This is just the tip of the iceberg of summer reading delights awaiting young readers at independent bookstores. Here are some recent bookseller favorites for elementary and middle school students, but the shelves are stocked for a whole season of great reading. What is in your backpack or by your hammock this summer? Lumberjanes Unicorn …
Iturbide is an amazing Mexican photographer who achieves poetry through what she captures with her camera. This graphic novel lets you wander with her through Mexico, India, the birds, and her thoughts. I discovered her with this book and fell immediately in love with her story and her pictures. –-Stephanie Silva, Queen Anne Book Company, …
This graphic novel has it all! Including a dynamic cast of characters that feature racially diverse, queer girls who can slay any dragon all by themselves! What makes this graphic novel so special is that it normalizes diversity without asterisks; it’s just great fun, wonderful graphics, and adventure. –Teasha, Elliott Bay Book Company, Seattle, WA Whether …
Yen Press has just released a graphic novel adaptation of the first volume of Cassandra Clare’s bestselling urban fantasy series The Mortal Instruments, and it’s getting a lot of love from early reviewers—who, overwhelmingly, appear to be longtime fans. If you or someone you know was devoted to the six book set, loved the “City …
The 2018 Pacific Northwest Book Awards Shortlist has been announced! A panel of nine booksellers from the region selected these twelve titles from over 420 nominated books. Up to six winners will be announced in early January 2018. For some history on the awards, click here. Here is the shortlist: All’s Faire in Middle School …
This hilariously funny graphic novel is perfect for any young adult (or kid at heart) who is struggling to live a healthy, fun lifestyle with limited funds. From tips on housing and medical insurance to simple recipes for healthy meals, you are certain to find easy, practical changes that will improve your quality of life. …
Readers are raving about “Fun Home,” the Tony-winning musical based on Alison Bechdel’s graphic novel of the same title. The show is playing at Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theatre through July 30. This is the Pacific Northwest stop in the national tour, but the show is continuing to additional stops around the country.
It happens at least once a week. A well-meaning adult will come to the store looking for a gift for a kid– sometimes with the kid in tow, sometimes not. The adult will be wandering lost, clueless, picking up and dismissing book after book after book. If they’ve come in with a kid, the kid …
Karen Reyes is a precocious ten year-old growing up in 1960s Chicago. Her mother is sick, her brother is dodging the draft, and their upstairs neighbor—an enigmatic Holocaust survivor named Anka—was just murdered. As Karen steeps herself in the past and tries to solve Anka’s murder (think Harriet the Spy meets Maus) the life she’s been avoiding continues …
