Liberty Bay Books welcomes readers to the second Poulsbo Kids’ Book Festival this Saturday, November 15, 2025. The event runs from 11:00am – 3:00pm and will be held at the North Kitsap High School in Poulsbo, WA. For more details, visit the festival link. Here’s a direct link for the list of authors. If you would …
On Wednesdays, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Bestseller list is published. Every week, we love to see what books have been most popular in independent bookstores around our region. As we peruse the list, we ponder patterns. Then we present this weekly feature: Thursday Themes. Do you notice language patterns differently when you read aloud than when you …
Every Wednesday, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association publishes the regional bestseller list. On Thursdays, we celebrate Thursday Themes to shine a spotlight on some of the books from the list and give our brains a different way of thinking about books. This week, the list is refreshed with some new-to-the-list titles. Until August Gabriel García Márquez, Anne McLean …
From the Seattle Public Library’s Shelf Talk blog August 23, 2022. Title links go to SPL page; book cover links go to Bookshop.org. Your local independent bookstore is happy to help you find these books! Congratulations to 39 finalists in eight categories for the 2022 Washington State Book Awards (WSBA) for outstanding books published by …
Here is an absolutely lovely companion to last week’s NWBL original featured interview with Olympia artist Nikki McClure. May the Starts Drip Down: buy the book and treat yourself to a full listen of the song that inspired it.
Nikki McClure has deservedly become a well-recognized artist, author and illustrator. Walking down a street near my home I can easily find her books displayed in the window at Secret Garden Bookstore while prints of her work hang on the wall at the framing shop next door and are collected in greeting card boxes that …
“The work Nikki McClure does with paper cuts is incredible, taking simple lines to create magnificent, intricate images, and all from a piece of black paper and an exacto knife. In this book, she walks us through the seasons to summer, illustrating a child’s discovery of what nature’s details mean. It’s a beautiful meditation on what makes …
We mention Olympia artist and author Nikki McClure a lot around these parts (here and here, most recently). It’s easy to do with her combination of talent, energy and genuine niceness—and not to mention that we see her charming calendars hanging up at just about every potluck we attend. So we were not surprised to learn …
Northwest booksellers love Olympia, WA artist Nikki McClure’s work so much that they gave her an Award this year for illustrating All in a Day, written by Portland author Cynthia Rylant. Megan Zabel at Powell’s Books in Portland called McClure at home about ten days ago and yesterday posted the interview on Powell’s blog. It’s …
