It’s time for a Thursday Theme, where we shine a spotlight on some of the titles featured in this week’s Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association regional bestseller list. The first list of October shows that our region is getting ready for Halloween! Despite unusually summer-like temperatures in some parts of the Pacific Northwest, the youngest readers are …
Jeffers, one of my very favorite children’s book authors, has penned a book for our time: what it’s like to live on this scary planet and just what is our place in the universe. Of course, Jeffers makes light of and enlightens both the scale and complexities of life on our planet, which is reassuring …
First let me say, though while not a Luddite per se, reading books electronically is anathema to me, and children’s books in particular. Who among us hasn’t gone back to books we read or had read to us as children, to revel in the stories, words and pictures, and had wonderful memories flood back? …
This week, Liberty Bay Books of Poulsbo, WA, celebrated the release of The Day the Crayons Came Home by Drew Daywalt, illustrated by Oliver Jeffers, with a double-crayon book story hour with their fantastic kids’ buyer, Madison. But the fun (and goodness) continues: Liberty Bay Books is offering a discount on the sure-to-be-bestselling new book for a …
“Another hilarious picture book by the author of Up and Down. Every time I read it I get the giggles. One day a boy named Floyd is out flying his kite when it gets stuck in a tree. All the tugging in the world won’t dislodge it so he gets the bright idea that maybe …
