A Children's Place Bookstore

08/12/2026

Who's ready for more friendly spooky stories from the world of Wimpy Kid? Jeff Kinney is back with Rowley Jefferson's. Awesome Friendly Spooky Stories 2!

08/06/2026

Join us for a special story time tomorrow, Friday, Aug. 7th, with local author/illustrator Zoey Abbott as she shares her latest book: How to Draw a Zombie, written with her son August Wagner. 10:30 am.

Zombie Rob hasn't had his coffee yet...
But he does have ACP merch that you can find at the store or through our website (shameless plug).

08/05/2026

The first New Book Tuesday of each month always has a heavy stack of great new reads. So many that it usually takes two posts to highlight them all. Here is the second wave of new books this week:

Giant Preschool: My Letters & Numbers Workbook -
Sticker Dolly Dressing: K-Pop -
Build Your Own Norse Gods Sticker Book - Usborne Books
The Baseball Encyclopedia -
The Impossible Fortune - Richard Osman
Thorn Season - Kiera Azar .azar
Carl’s Doomsday Scenario (Dungeon Crawler Carl book 2 in paperback) - Matt Dinniman
Ghost in the Night - Tiffany D. Jackson
King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation - Scott Anderson
Time Travel for Beginners - Jaclyn Moriarty
Giant Toddler Sticker & Activity Backpack -
Fake Out Fun: 20+ Easy Pranks Anyone Can Do - Klutz Press
Ivy and Bearlock Holmes: The Case of the Missing Flower - Kristyna Litten
Cabin Head and Tree Head Feeling Good! - Scott Campbell
The Unlikely Aventuras of Ramón and El Cucuy - Donna Barba Higuera with Juliana Perdomo
Diary of a Dinoghost: Unlikely Friends - Monica Arnaldo
A Haunted Halloween Jigsaw Puzzle (500 pc) - Ridley’s Jigsaw Puzzles
The Break-In - Katherine Faulkner
Play Nice - Rachel Harrison
My Other Heart - Emma Nanami Strenner
Moderation - Elaine Castillo
A Land So Wide - Erin A. Craig
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen (Puffin in Bloom Deluxe Edition)
Hot Desk - Laura Dickerman
Make Me a Monster - Kalynn Bayron
Total Nightmare Mad Libs
The Gruffalo’s Child (board book) - Julia Donaldson with Axel Scheffler
Boo! from The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Did You Fart? - Claudia Boldt
Mini Craft Kit: Bag Charm Pals
Mini Craft Kit: Toadstool Purse
Dog Parade: Shaped Floor Puzzle

08/05/2026

August is here, and it brings stacks of new books to our shelves!

A new Mr. Wolf’s Class, the latest Dragon Masters, the second Dungeon Crawler Carl is finally in paperback, and a whole lot of other good stuff.

The Magical Orchestra - Lauren Crisp & Ella Hobbis .hob
Wide Load on the Road - Stephen Savage
The Next Shiny Object - Hudson Talbott .talbott
I Spy Fantasy: A Book of Picture Riddles - Jean Marzollo with Walter Wick
Bob Books: Picture Dictionary -
Pete the Cat Cool & Cozy Coloring - Kimberly & James Dean
Look Inside: Dinosaurs - Kaley McKean
Easy Oragami -
I Love You Just the Same - Keira Knightley
Little Kids First Big Book of Space - Catherine Hughes
Myths of Japan - Masako Carey with Katie Ponder
Witches & Wizards - Angela Puca with Cinthya Álvarez .alvarez
Choose Your Own Adventure: Space and Beyond - Jeremy Lambert with Dani Bolinho
Stepping Up: A Graphic Memoir - Kiara Valdez & Diana Tsai Santos
Mayhem at Misfit Mansion - Kay Davault
Mr. Wolf’s Class: The New Student - Aron Nels Steinke
Shook - Julian Randall
Immortal Game - Allison Saft
A Mastery of Monsters - Liselle Sambury
Strange and Terrible Things - Devin Forst
The Poisoned King - Katherine Rundell .rundell
Dragon Masters: Heart of the Ruby Dragon - Tracey West
Rex Rocket: Cosmic Weiner Dog - John Gallagher
Choose Your Own Adventure: Snare Your Crush (In Three Easy Steps) - Emma Carlson Berne
Cute Stickers: Unicorns
Cute Stickers: Kittens
Where’s Waldo? Advent Calendar 24-Book Collection
Minecraft Incredible Cross Sections

08/04/2026

Author Tracey West is back with a new Dragon Masters that's already walking off the shelves!

Who needs a new chapter book for summer reading?

08/04/2026

Look at what's out in the wild today! Aron Nels Steinke is back with a new graphic novel!

07/31/2026

07/31/2026

Look at all of these amazing prizes for the Find Waldo Local Wrap-Up Party!

There are so many cool things! And this doesn’t even include the entire cart full of books and book related goodies (posters, stickers, buttons, bookmarks, etc.) that A Children’s Place is donating!

Everyone is welcome to come down for the party this afternoon at 4pm. We’ll have cake and activities, and we will be drawing names for all of these great prizes. Even if you didn’t finish your stamp card, we will make sure that you still go home with something (we just draw names of people who got at least 20 stamps first).

And please make sure you thank and support all of these great Portland small businesses year round.

A Children's Place Bookstore
ADORN
The Arrangement
Backyard Bird Shop
Beanstalk Children's Resale
Beaumont Hardware
Beaumont Market
Broadway Books
Caffe Destino
Cosmic Monkey
Foot Traffic • Go By Foot!
Garden Fever
Grand Central Bakery | 🥖🥐🍴
Green Dog Pet Supply
Helen Bernhard Bakery
Jim & Patty's Coffee
Kitchen Kaboodle
THE PALADINS LEAGUE
Paperjam Press
PETS ON BROADWAY
Plants on Broadway
Puddletown Games & Puzzles
Rose City Book Pub
VilleVelo Bake Shop
WILD Pet Provisions 🐾

Candlewick Press Beaumont Business Association

07/31/2026

Who’s ready for the Find Waldo Party?!

Thank you to everyone who came out in July to hunt for Waldo, and special thank yous to all of the wonderful, local Portland businesses that joined with us to put on such a great summer activity this year!

At 4:00 this afternoon, Friday, July 31st, we will have our annual Find Waldo Local wrap up party. There will be raffle prizes (super generously donated by the participating businesses - so many cool things!), cake, activites, and fun! And if you didn’t fill out your stamp card completely, don’t worry. We have lots of books, stickers, posters, bookmarks and other goodies to make sure that everyone who attends walks away with something besides just cake.

07/29/2026

Here are the last new releases of July to hit the shelves!

Hammers, Drills & Wrenches - Hope Vestergaard with David Slonim
The Knight with No Bottom - Levina van Teunenbroek with Charlotte Bruijn
The Big Book of Useless History Knowledge - Neon Squid
Scritch! Scratch! - Teri Sloat with Zuzana Čupová .illustration
All That’s Unseen - Emilee Hackney
Meet Me in Paris - Kristin Harmel
Beginning Middle End - Valeria Luiselli
How Lucky Am I - Christian Watson
Today Is the Day - Chelsea Lin Wallace with Adam Rex .adamrex
Dare You to Dance - Rebecca Mock
Gold Medal Mysteries: Thief on the Track - Ellie Robinson
The Library of Unruly Treasures - Jeanne Birdsall
Mercy Watson: Three Rollicking Pig Tales (Mercy Watson to the Rescue, Mercy Watson Goes for a Ride, and Mercy Watson Fights Crime) 3 in 1 - Kate DiCamillo with Chris Van Dusen
I Can Read! Comics: My Imaginary Duck - Graham Annable
Birds: A Smithsonian Sticker Book
Buddha at Bedtime - Dharmachari Nagaraja
Calm Buddha at Bedtime - Dharmachari Nagaraja
Too Old for This - Samantha Downing
Wonderful Halloween - Emily Winfeld Martin
Maud and the Very Eventful Week - Lisa Anchin .anchin