From the blog of Island Books of Mercer Island, WA: It’s finally (almost) here! Our Golden Jubilee, our 50th Anniversary as a Mercer Island landmark. A place where generations of families have walked through the doors and browsed for hours upon hours, year after year. Shopped for gifts, brought their kids—and then grandkids—to storytime and …
If you’d asked me, back in February, if I’d like to put all my time and energy into running an online business, I would have said, “No thank you!” But two months later, that’s exactly what has happened. Selling online might lack the satisfaction you get from perusing a shelf, picking up a book, flipping through …
Maggie Mae’s Kids’ Bookshop of Gresham, OR hosted a wildly popular Wonky Donkey reading with live donkeys! “We knew it would be a fun event but were taken aback by how many people were excited to meet Hattie and Vera. “Booksellers know how to have fun: Bring in animals! We were lucky in finding our donkeys, …
From the Books Around the Corner Newsletter 10/19/18 LATEST NEWS The sign is up and it’s [less than] two weeks until Books Around the Corner opens its doors. We have over $500 of donations through our Indiegogo Campaign and another few hundred received in donations at the Gresham Farmer’s Market. While we don’t want to …
This is the month for monsters, and you’ll find few more appealing ones than the father and child in this rhyming tale. The rhythms and the rhymes are note-perfect for reading aloud, and the monstrous details—the “mummified bass” and “toe-biting stones” the daddy loves not quite as much as he loves his little stinkling—strike just …
One of the great pleasures of independent bookstores is enjoying read-alouds at storytime. Boise’s bookstore, Rediscovered Books, goes one step further, bringing storytime to Guru Donuts every Tuesday for two rounds of reading and Tasty Tales deals for kids and their accompanying adults. From 10:00- 10:25 and again from 10:30- 11:00 on Tuesdays, while staff from …
