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Today we celebrate Teen Thursday with our BookPeople Teen Press Corps and their celebration of National Poetry month! Here are Hayden and Emily reading some of their favorite poems: If you don't know Shel Silverstein's Runny Babbit, be sure to check it out. And, if you enjoyed Emily's pick, Evgeny Bunimovich's Leaving Home Sadly Plot … Continue reading Teen Thursday
It’s Banned Books Week, the week when we celebrate our freedom to read by remembering those books which have been banned, censored and challenged over the years. We’re highlighting a banned book a day here on the blog. If you’d like to participate in BBW, send us a video of yourself reading an excerpt from a banned book … Continue reading Read a Banned Book: ‘Where the Sidewalk Ends’
It's The Day BookKids Has Been Waiting For!!! Every Thing On It by Shel Silverstein is ON SALE!!! From the publisher: Have you ever read a book with everything on it? Well, here it is, an amazing collection of never-before-published poems and drawings from the creator of Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the … Continue reading New Releases
The day is fast-approaching: Tuesday, September 20th. What happens on this day? Well, the sun rises. The sun sets. And in between those two beautiful moments, when we open at 9am, The New Shel Silverstein Book Goes On Sale!!!! Every Thing On It, a collection of never-before-published poetry and illustrations from the one and only … Continue reading Only Six More Days Until New Shel Silverstein! And so we sing a song.
Only 13 1/2 more days until the new Shel Silverstein book, Every Thing On It, is on sale on September 20th! This is a collection of never-before-published Silverstein poetry and illustrations. In celebration, we've made more videos! Here's Topher, accompanied by Will on the guitar, reading Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me, Too: … Continue reading BookPeople Reads (more) Shel Silverstein
We're big Shel Silverstein fans around here, so we're really looking forward to Everything On It, the brand new collection of never-before-published Silverstein poems and illustrations that goes on sale next month (September 20th - such a long wait!) Indeed, we are impatient to read this book, so impatient that we've been digging back through … Continue reading BookPeople Reads Shel Silverstein
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