Tuesday, July 9, 2019, Green Bean Books in Portland celebrates its tenth birthday! Congratulations, Grean Bean Books. This charming bookshop in a darling red house in the Alberta Arts District in Portland (just a quick walk from Salt & Straw ice cream, if you like to double up your treats) focuses on kids’ books and …
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 …
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 …
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 …
