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Nov

16

2021

Finding Contentment

From Rebel Heart Books, Jacksonville, OR   [TW: suicide] “The pressure to be great, not just good, is unrelenting.” –from What Made Maddy Run Not long ago, a fifteen-year old girl came into the store and stayed awhile. After picking out a few books, she shyly asked if I could set aside the books she …

Sep

10

2021

The Purrfect Pairing: Pets + Books from Third Place Books

From Third Place Books in Seattle, WA: When I didn’t have a dog, I dreamed about the days when I finally would. I pictured long walks to far flung parks where I would spend an afternoon reading and dozing in the sun with my beloved pal resting against my legs. Or maybe a chilly fall …

May

15

2020

Celebrate 2020 PNBA Award-winning
Dylan Meconis and “Queen of the Sea” with Green Bean Books

How the world has changed since January, when the 2020 Pacific Northwest Book Award winners were announced and authors, bookstores, and publishers were making happy plans for celebratory events. Green Bean Books jumped at the chance to host the award presentation event for Dylan Meconis and Queen of the Sea. The original idea was to …

Apr

7

2020

Keeping Kids Entertained (and Learning)
at Home

This or That? What Will You Choose at the British Museum? by Pippa Goodhart Books take us places when we are staying home and This or That? is an up close, engaging and interactive trip to the British Museum. Flush with color and detail, you really can’t get any closer to the real thing right …

Feb

19

2019

Gavlin Family reading

Galvin Family Reading: A Guest Blog Post
from a Customer of Island Books

This piece was originally published on the Island Books blog. Growing up, I loved getting lost in books: It didn’t matter to me if the book was adventurous, dramatic, suspenseful, or fantastical; as long as it transported me somewhere else, I was happy. I’d be so immersed in my book that I’d barely hear my …

Aug

21

2018

The Next Big Thing(s)

from Andrea Dunlop’s newsletter August 15, 2018 One of the biggest challenges of being a working novelist is balancing the deep, focused work of actually writing your books with the promoting of those books, the part that requires you to be in the world both online and off. Both are necessary and I generally enjoy …

Mar

9

2018

Laurie Frankel

Raising a Transgender Child in the Age of Trump

LAURIE FRANKEL: BEING A GIRL IS HARD BUT AWESOME published on LitHub March 2, 2018 In my twenties, in graduate school, I thought a lot about my daughter. She didn’t exist yet, but when you’re studying fiction for a living, this doesn’t matter as much. I had long observed that being a girl in the …

Sep

11

2017

1

remark

September 11 memorial

Resources for Talking with Kids about 9/11 and Other Tough Topics

Today marks the sixteenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks. There are now several books for children about the topic: historical fiction as well as nonfiction. Scholastic, the children’s publisher, put together a helpful resource page for adults to help children understand and process 9/11 as well as other general tough issues that are in …

Aug

18

2017

Seattle Author Lynn Brunelle’s Eclipse Science on TV:
Try This at Home!

SEATTLE – Learning about science doesn’t have to be boring. In fact, it can be really fun for kids and parents. Lynn Brunelle stopped by New Day to show us some fun solar eclipse experiments you can do at home. She also shared a creative way to explain lunar phases to kids … with Oreo cookies! Brunelle and …

Feb

3

2017

Laurie Frankel (photo by Natalia Dotto)

Laurie Frankel: The More Things Change…

Laurie Frankel writes novels, reads novels, teaches other people to write novels, and raises a small person who reads and would like someday to write novels in Seattle, Wash. In Frankel’s latest novel, This Is How It Always Is (Flatiron Books), the youngest of five boys decides he wants to be a girl, and his …

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