The Bigfoot Kids’ Book Festival kicks off Friday October 10, 2025 at 5:30 at the Archer Hotel in Redmond, WA with a keynote by author, illustrator, and Caldecott Award winner Dan Santat. Free tickets are required and are available at the event link. The following day, Saturday October 11, the festival runs from 10:00- 4:00 …
Illustration and video by WA author and illustrator Suzanne Kaufman The text at the bottom of her illustration of kids holding “VOTE” signs says, “Vote because we can’t.” If you are registered to vote, please exercise your right! Our future depends on it.
Head to Redmond, WA for a kid lit extravaganza, Bigfoot Kids’ Book Festival, hosted by Brick & Mortar Books outside the store at the Redmond Town Center! Dress for the weather. Check out the schedule. Have a blast! Here’s a detailed schedule for who is when (click to go to their website, which might be …
Hooray! Brick & Mortar Books of Redmond, WA announced the stellar line-up for this year’s Bigfoot Kids’ Book Festival. Check out all this talent! Margaret Peterson Haddix Marissa Meyer Shannon Hale Dean Hale Suzanne Selfors Amanda Abler K. R. Alexander Aaron Bagley Jessixa Bagley Ashley Belote Audrey Barbakoff Mike Boldt Mary Boone Leslie Barnard Booth …
Brian Juenemann, the Executive Director of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association (as well as 950+ booksellers around the country, including many from our region!) went to Cincinnati for the American Booksellers Association Winter Institute, an annual bookseller and publishing education conference hosted at different cities around the country. Before he headed to the airport (across …
Brick & Mortar Books of Redmond, WA is hosting the first Bigfoot Kids’ Book Festival at Redmond Town Center September 9, 2023 from 10:00 am- 4:00 pm. There will be oodles of amazing local authors with fun for the whole family! You can click here to see the full line-up and more!
On Saturday, October 12, 2019, booklovers gathered at the Seattle Public Library Central Library to celebrate books at the 2019 Washington State Book Awards ceremony and reception. The event was recorded for a podcast; as of this posting, it was not yet live on the website, but we will continue to check back here. The …
From the Stacks: Back to School We have books on just about any topic you can imagine on the Page Ahead shelves, and this month, in keeping with the back-to-school season, we’d like to feature All Are Welcome by Alexandra Penfold, illustrated by [Seattle illustrator] Suzanne Kaufman. This colorful picture book details a school community …
The first Seattle Children’s Book Festival will be held Saturday, September 28, 2019 from 11:00- 3:00 at Greenwood Elementary (144 NW 80th St) in Seattle. The event is free and open to the public. It is sponsored by The Innovation Press, Madison Books, Phinney Books, Seattle Public Schools, Seattle Milk Fund, the Seattle Office of …
We know you’re never at a loss for what to read next, but just in case you want some summer reading inspiration, look at the wonderful titles by Washington authors and illustrators selected by bookseller and librarian judges. The 2019 Washington State Book Awards (WSBA) are for outstanding books published by Washington authors in 2018, …
