From Oregon Live July 10, 2021 Portland-raised author Renée Watson is the inspiration for a campaign that Portland bookstore Green Bean Books is running on behalf of Vernon Elementary School this summer. The campaign’s goal: To sell 275 copies of Watson’s delightful chapter book Ways to Make Sunshine, which follows a Black girl growing up …
From Grass Roots Books & Music in Corvallis, OR: Thank you to Skyler Remington for this picture: A summer read with one girl, a really large horse and a very interesting book. She’s not horsing around! And because we all want to know, Skylar is reading The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, …
Until We Meet Again is an amazing book! Set in the present day, it follows a girl named Cassandra as she spends the summer at a beach house in Massachusetts. Cassandra meets Lawrence on the house’s private beach–except he claims that it is his private beach, and that the year is 1925! Cassandra soon finds that Lawrence’s life …
Congratulations to new bookstore, The Next Chapter in Hermiston, OR! From the owners of the store: Our story The Next Chapter Bookstore is the passion project of bookish mother-daughter team, Angela Pursel and Alexis McCarthy. As avid readers, we have always had a vision of owning a bookstore; opening one together is the ultimate dream! …
Before the Coffee Gets Cold is a unique heartfelt Japanese story. The story is beautifully told and shows how heartache can be turned into happiness and bring people closer together. An unexpected and enjoyable find. –Trail’s End Bookstore, Winthrop, WA This little gem was a favorite of not just Trail’s End in Winthrop, WA, but …
Street Books is a bicycle-powered mobile library, serving people who live outside. Street Books strives to empower people on the streets through access to literature and create a community of support for people living outside, through a shared love of books. Annie Bloom’s Books is partnering with Street Books by offering 10% off books purchased for their …
from OregonLive.com by Amy Wang Here in Oregon, we have plenty of independent bookstores to celebrate. In our nod to Independent Bookstore Day this year, we’re highlighting bookstores in the Portland suburbs. We visited bookstores in Clackamas, Multnomah, Washington and Yamhill counties that are currently open to the public, though in some cases with limited …
Trees: They provide shelter, sustenance, and sanctuary for vast numbers of creatures. They create the very air we breathe. And they are under threat. For generations, the Greenwood family lives with, destroys, fights for, and monetizes these gentle giants until their very existence is absorbed into the class system designed and upheld by the one …
Poetry is all around us and April is National Poetry Month! Here are some favorite new poetry books for children from Green Bean Books in Portland, OR: *Everything Comes Next by Naomi Shihab Nye *A Songbird Dreams of Singing: Poems about Sleeping Animals by Kate Hosford with illustrations by Jennifer M. Potter *Construction People by …
Green Bean Books of Portland expressed what a lot of us are feeling after the passing of beloved Oregon author Beverly Cleary: It is with both sadness and immense gratitude that we reflect on the incredible life of children’s author, Beverly Cleary. So beloved by so many, she brought us a treasure trove of children’s …
