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Dec

22

2015

James Patterson

Nine PNW Booksellers Awarded Patterson Bonuses

The holidays are a little brighter for nine Pacific Northwest independent booksellers chosen as recipients of author James Patterson’s bookseller holiday bonuses. Congratulations to: Charnee Rose of Grass Roots Books & Music, Corvallis, OR Earl Dizon of Green Bean Books, Portland, OR Carol Easter and Kevin Sampsell of Powell’s Books, Portland, OR Joan Terselich of Village Books, …

Jun

4

2014

Magic Is in the Air at Green Bean Books’
Summer Camps

  Summer is coming, and if you have kids, that means summer break is coming… What to do, besides sign up for every summer reading program you can find and stock up on books from your local independent bookstore? If you’re in the Portland area, children’s bookstore Green Bean Books is offering two half-day camps. …

Oct

31

2013

15

remarks

Zombies and Bigfoot and Free Stuff,
Oh Boy!

We’ve recently featured a couple of Halloween lead-up posts featuring Bigfoot and Zombies, both scarily good. We’ve shown Green Bean Books’ extremely rare, real and actual, big hairy foot! We’ve recapped Queen Anne Book Company’s “Bigfoot Double Feature,” replete with Sasquatch poopcorn, howling and footprint casting. And we introduced a collection of Bigfoot books. We …

Oct

16

2013

Bigfoot from Green Bean

Bigfoot Takes the PNW by Storm

Have you heard more howling than usual in your neighborhood? Are kids examining the ground for tracks and unusual scat? Bigfoot/Sasquatch Fever seems to be catching in the Pacific Northwest, in large part due to the creativity and stamina of Martha Brockenbrough and Suzanne Selfors, Washington authors who are promoting their books about elusive,  large, …

Sep

18

2013

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Red Tricycle Celebrates Bookstores for Kids in Portland

We’re delighted that Red Tricycle Portland highlighted six Portland-area bookstores for their kid-friendliness in a recent post, “6 Great Bookstores for Pint Sized Bookworms”. Red Tricycle, which has city-specific sites for nine cities (including Seattle) as well as a national focus site, declares that its mission is “to help parents have more fun with their kids.” …

Mar

28

2013

Blue Bunnies and More

The Bad Easter Bunny by Isabel Atherton, illustrated by Stephanie Rohr. “The Easter Bunny doesn’t feel appreciated for all his efforts. This literally makes him blue. But his sadness soon turns to anger and he causes lots of havoc in the neighborhood. When a little girl expresses her gratitude, things change for the better. Fun illustrations …

Jan

18

2013

I Have a Dream by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., illustrated by Kadir Nelson

“We love Kadir Nelson’s new beautifully illustrated version of Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech. Please come enjoy our many wonderful MLK books in celebration of his life and heroism! MLK Day is January 21st!”—Green Bean Books, Portland. Buy I Have a Dream from Green Bean Books.

Apr

5

2012

Green Bean Books Celebrates National Poetry Month with Paulann Petersen and a Rhyming Zine

From the cool idea department: Portland children’s store Green Bean Books will celebrate National Poetry Month with an event featuring Oregon’s Poet Laureate and a children’s reading from its 2nd annual Green Bean Rhyming Machine Poetry Zine. The Alberta Street store will host Paulann Petersen April 22 at 2 pm. Petersen will share poems and MC the …

Feb

13

2012

Oddfellow's Orphanage by Emily Winfield Martin

What do an onion-headed boy, a child-sized hedgehog, and a tattooed girl have in common? Find out when Emily Winfield Martin, creator of the The Black Apple’s Paperdoll Prime, celebrates her beautiful new book—Oddfellow’s Orphanage—at Green Bean Books on Sunday, February 19 at 2 pm.—Green Bean Books, Portland. Buy Oddfellow’s Orphanage from Green Bean Books.

Dec

8

2011

28 Authors, 28 Variations on a List: Day 8. Johanna Wright

Our Day 8 list-maker, author/illustrator Johanna Wright (Bandits, The Secret Circus), says she’s been painting snow scenes and ice-skating rabbits for her upcoming book Bunnies on Ice (Roaring Brook, 2013) since summer. “So I’ve actually been in a holiday frame of mind for a long while now,” she writes. “Holiday music and Christmas-themed audio books …

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