Author/illustrator Johanna Wright grew up in Eugene and studied puppetry and children’s books at Evergreen State College. After college she moved to New York City, where she sold her artwork on the street outside the MOMA for four years and then worked as a painting assistant, helping with large-scale backdrops for photo shoots, film and …
Green Bean Books, in Northeast Portland, is a tiny store. So maybe it’s no surprise that they have a penchant for tiny things—and we don’t just mean your kids. Recently, the store hosted Portland artist Maggie Rudy, who not only shared her adorable book, The House That Mouse Built, but also left a miniature diorama …
“Bootleggers, train-hoppers, coal miners, fortune tellers, conmen, firecrackers! 2011 Newberry Winner Moon Over Manifest has it all! Rough-and-tumble pre-teen Abilene Tucker arrives in the mixing-pot town of Manifest, Kansas (1936) fated to collect their heartbreaking, heartening and madcap stories and to unearth her own enigmatic family history. With the help of a box full of …
Papertoy Monsters offers 50 fiendishly original designs that are ready to pop out, fold, and glue. Join Green Bean Books in Portland for a Papertoy Monster Making Workshop this Thursday (February 24th) from 4:30-5:30pm. Origami and monster lovers, this is your event! Construct imaginative and elaborate paper monsters to take home with you. Because of …
When we visited Green Bean Books in Portland this summer (this is a great new store that manages to be homey and stylish and full of kid-pleasing nooks and wonders), they were prominently displaying the picture book A Sick Day for Amos McGee, whose illustrator Erin E. Stead won the won the 2011 Caldecott Medal, it was …
Green Bean Books opened in Northeast Portland in the summer of 2009, and we at PNBA are excited about taking our children there. We want to check out the vintage vending machines and the secret cubbies, hang out on the deck with the mulberry bush reading fort and then head down the street for burritos …
