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Bookshelf:
Still got some summer reading to do? Check out hot-off-the-presses picks from Kira Porton, children’s book buyer
at A Children’s Place on NE Fremont in PDX.
AGES
AGES
3-5
Who doesn’t love
Sandra Boynton? Her
latest introduces ten
rabbits who like to
dance, sing, jump, and
content and pithy hamsters might amass
thousands of Twitter followers, we might
as well start the next generation early.
Bring on “Underwater Doggies:Colors,” by
COURTESY OF CARTWHEEL/SCHOLASTIC.
COURTESY OF HACHETTE PUBLISHING GROUP
Internet’s most popular
the threat of attack is constant. How to
letters and numbers?
survive? The Official Combat Handbook will
Make your bed? Or set
teach you everything you need to know to
the table? Can you do
defend yourself from hostile monsters and
enemy players. By Scholastic, Inc.
Due August 26.
Fisher. In stores now.
bunny ears. Due September 9.
videos are some of the
In Minecraft, you’re never alone and
shoe? Write your
picture book from author-illustrator Valorie
join the chorus line after donning a pair of
In a world where cat
Can you tie your
stones like these are tracked in this new
their audience, but anyone is welcome to
Colors
Minecraft Combat Handbook
I Can Do it Myself
it by yourself? Important childhood mile-
wiggle their noses in unison to entertain
Underwater Doggies:
6 up:
and
Fly Guy’s
Amazing Tricks
The latest in one of the
best series for early
readers we’ve found, Fly
Guy has learned a lot of
new tricks. But showing off at dinnertime
doesn’t work out for Fly Guy or his owner,
Buzz. By Ted Arnold. Due August 26.
COURTESY OF SCHOLASTIC, INC.
COURTESY OF WORKMAN PUBLISHING
Bunny Rabbit Show
COURTESY OF RANDOM/SCHWARTZ&WADE
0-2
AGES
Emma and
the Blue Genie
Younger readers know
Cornelia Funke for
her groovy books on
princesses who are
perfectly capable of
saving themselves
from the dragon, thankyouverymuch. Her
latest is a full-color chapter book for young
readers. Heroine Emma frees Genie Karim
photographer Seth Casteel. The board
from a bottle, but he’s lost his magic mojo,
book pairs simple text on color identifica-
and needs Emma to help him recover his
tion with portraits of swimming dogs. Think
lost powers. Due October 14.
William Wegman, but for the toddler set.
On sale now.
TOP 5...
Places to
Picnic in
Portland
➊ At the top of Mount Tabor ➋ The Skidmore bluffs at sunset ➌ Tanner Springs park,
after you’ve hit the playground at The Fields and the fountains at Jamison Square
➍ On the trail at Cooper Mountain in Beaverton ➎ Under the peach trees at Sauvie
Island Farms.
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