We are proud members of the American Booksellers Association every day of the year. Last year the association, and all our bookstore friends in it, did something extra exciting.
It seems our friends over at Queen Anne Avenue Books had an "incident" with beloved author Sherman Alexie the previous year, and if you click on this: Sherman Alexie's letter to booksellers you'll see how that one little author/indie bookseller incident turned into an awesome annual event for all the independent shops across the land!
Last year was the first annual, and we hosted Sherman Alexie (posing with all of the bags the bookstores he visited that day gave him), as well as Peter Brown, Bonny Becker, and a bunch of other local luminary authors.
This year we're super excited to be hosting a new batch of authors. They'll be acting as booksellers on the day - complete with their own list of favorite books that they wait all year to have a chance to recommend! Here are our special author / illustrator guests, in no particular order:
Janet Lee Carey
Jaime Temairik
Elizabeth Rose Stanton
Toni Yuli
Dana Sullivan
Kim Baker
Julie Paschkis
Kira Brady
Kevin Emerson
Bonny Becker
Linda Johns
Laurie Thompson
Margot Page
They'll be signing all their own books (only the tip of the iceberg of which are listed below), so feel free to ask them for a signature while they're here. But even more exciting, perhaps, is they'll also be making custom recommendations for all your reading needs (and all the people on your reading list!)
We couldn't be more proud to host the best volunteer booksellers on the planet!
Thank you!
Henny is a chick who’s just a little different from everyone else in the barn—and who learns to embrace her special gift in this whimsical and charming picture book debut from Elizabeth Rose Stanton.
Henny doesn’t look like any other chicken she knows.
Once upon a time, in Mexico . . . in Ireland . . . in Zimbabwe . . . there lived a girl who worked all day in the rice fields . . . then spent the night by the hearth, sleeping among the cinders.
Curmudgeonly Bear succumbs to Mouse’s entreaties and discovers the joy of books in a hilarious story that fans will covet for their own library.
This is the story of THE LEAGUE OF PICKLEMAKERS
Ben: who began it all by sneaking in one night and filling homeroom with ball-pit balls.
Frank: who figured out that an official club, say a pickle-making club, could receive funding from the PTA.
Oliver: Who once convinced half of the class that his real parents had found him and he was going to live in a submarine.
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Kay Kay lives in the village of Bungoma in the country of Kenya. One day as he is passing by the Star of Hope School, the schoolchildren call out to him. They want to show off their brand-new classroom. When Kay Kay looks at the room with its white walls, he realizes it could use a little artwork.He promises the children that he will paint pictures of animals, from A to Z.
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There’ll be no more hearing “no” after this clever picture book teaches you how to get everything you want.
Have you ever wanted something and been told “No”? Then this is the book for you. Through several simple steps, you will learn the best way to ask for what you want, how to ask for more of what you want, and the importance of not overreaching.
