Has anyone else noticed that wiener dogs seem to be of the moment? First there was this in Shelf Awareness on October 5 (which PNBA Executive Director Brian Juenemann commented was “thankfully… when most were too busy to notice”): In the “veeerrry long fold out book” Where’s Brian’s Bottom by Rob Jones (Pavilion Children’s, $9.95), children and …
From Paper Boat Booksellers in Seattle, WA: February is Black History Month, and we are celebrating this year’s theme of Family: Representation, Identity & Diversity by featuring books from wonderful black authors that tell the histories and stories of African Americans in U.S. history. We encourage our customers to ask their bookseller for recommendations as …
In palm-sized notebooks, I collect phrases that won’t go away, lines that arrive in the tunneling moments before sleep or while washing dishes or as I’m descending the last hill home as dusk is arriving. Sometimes, these unbidden words act as a door into a story or chapter or even a promising scene. Other times, …
