A Children's Place Bookstore

05/22/2026

Calling all students and families of The Madeleine School!

Your Spring Book Fair is just around the corner! Only a little over a week away: Monday, June 1st through Thursday, June 4th.

This year, your local bookstore A Children’s Place is hosting it. And we have so many books ready to go. Books for all reading levels, more books, graphic novels, activity books and kits, stickers, stuffies, and more!

You will be able to preview the book fair during your regular Library period, and if you are a 5th-8th grade student, you will also be able to make purchase during Library.

Everyone (including parents and families) will be able to buy the exciting things you picked out in your head during Library each day after school. To make things simpler, all purchases will need to be made with a card, not cash. Families can also pre-load a Digital Wallet for their 5th-8th graders to use during Library.

Go to: achildrensplacebookstore.com/bookfair

for more details, and to see the preview videos we will post. That is also where the Digital Wallets can be loaded. This video is just a small sampling of what we are bringing, and we will have a longer one next weekend after we unpack everything at your school!

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05/21/2026

We had another sunny day today, and we have more books that are new in the store this week!

Cake Picnic - Elisa Sunga
The Shrew Detective: The Case of the Pilfered Pearls - Margi Preus with Junyi Wu
The Knight and the Moth - Rachel Gillig
A Wish with Wings - Sarah Guillory
On Witness and Respair - Jesmyn Ward
Renegades: Book One: The Magic Awakens - Erin Hunter
The Art of a Lie - Laura Shepherd-Robinson
Both Sides Now: A Story About Young Joni Mitchell - Lydia Corry
Great Big Beautiful Life - Emily Henry
Gus and Glory - Sarah Guillory
Descendants: A Lost Revenge (graphic novel) - Kalynn Bayron with Asiah Fulmore
The Hidden Dominion of Geordie James - Mike Dawson
El Dorado Drive - Megan Abbott
The River Is Waiting - Wally Lamb
Fox - Joyce Carol Oates
Fever Dream - Elsie Silver
Western Washington and Oregon In Bloom: Find & Identify the 150 Most Common Wildflowers - Ellen Kuhlmann and Mark Turner

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05/19/2026

The sun is out in Portland, and so are these new books:

Reaching Across the Sky: A Celebration of Sky - Christy Hale
Bear for a Day - Corey R. Tabor
The Great Frog - Katie Palazzola
Princess Pete - Zoey Allen with Frenci Sanna
Tiny T. Rex Tries Soccer - Jonathan Stutzman with Jay Fleck
See, Touch, Feel: ABC - Priddy Books
The Outermost Mouse - Lauren Wolk with Kristen Adam .lauren
The Dinosaur and the Bird: A Tale of Prehistoric Friendship - Richard Ho with Jamie Green
Bearsuit Turtle Plays a Game - Bob Shea
Because of a Bee - Lola M. Schaefer with Frenci Sanna
The Bedtime Book of Nighttime Animals
I’m My Own Dog - David Ezra Stein
The Crayon’s Book of Manners - Drew Daywalt & Oliver Jeffers
10 Little Monster Trucks - Annie Balley with Jeff Harter
Tomato, Tomato, Tomato! - Sarah Finan
Hello, World! Soccer - Jill McDonald
10 Little Airplanes - Annie Balley with Jeff Harter

05/15/2026

We had a sticky situation at story time today!

And that’s because it was a bring-your-stick-to-story-time-and-music kind of day!

Today’s theme was all about sticks, so our fantastic crowd of regulars brought in some of their favorite sticks, and we shared some of our favorite stick books.

Stories and music, every friday at 10:30.


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05/13/2026

05/07/2026

We had so many books this week, I couldn’t highlight them all yesterday when they were released (on Tuesday)!

Round 4 of 4 of new books this week:

Little Explorers: Construction Site
Little Explorers: Fire Station
Pop-up Peekaboo!: Seashore
Where’s the Soccer Player? - Ingela P. Arrhenius
My Box of Feelings: 5 Mini Board Books!
Minecraft
Daniel Takes a Breath
Thomas & Friends: Thomas on the Moon (Little Golden Book)
Spidey and his Amazing Friends: House-Sitting at Tony’s
Nat the Cat Sets a Trap - Jarrett Lerner
Pookie and Bean - Sandra Boynton
Elvis & Romeo and the New Stuffie - David Soman and Jacky Davis .kid.books
Chicka Chicka Sun and Sea - Blake Marsden
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? Deluxe Edition - Bill Martin Jr. & Eric Carle
Peek-a-Clue: Animals at Home - Gideon Sterer with Marcos Farina
Peek-a-Clue: Safari Animals - Gideon Sterer with Marcos Farina

05/07/2026

We had so many books this week, I couldn’t highlight them all yesterday when they were released (on Tuesday)!

But we have new Murderbot!

Platform Decay - Martha Wells
Wombat Waiting - Katherine Applegate
Change of Plans - Sarah Dessen
The Things We Never Say - Elizabeth Strout
Styx and Stones - Gary D. Schmidt & Ron Koertge .schmidt
Homebound - Portia Elan
Not Quite Dead Yet - Holly Jackson
Young World - Soman Chainani
The Sweet Spot - Elaine Vickers
The Creatures’ Guide to Caring - Elizabeth Preston .elizabeth.preston
Our Perfect Storm - Carley Fortune
Enormous Wings - Laurie Frankel .frankel
Library Girl - Polly Horvath
My Name Is Emila Del Valle - Isabel Allende
The Book of Lost Hours - Hayley Gelfuso
Don’t Let Him In - Lisa Jewell
The Director - Daniel Kehlmann
Turning to Birds - Lili Taylor
The Starving Saints - Caitlin Starling
The Supper Club Saints - Claire Swinarski
The Undergrads: Student Union - Julie Murphy
Spectacular Things - Beck Dorey-Stein
The Girls Who Grew Big - Leila Mottley
The Parisian Chapter - Janet Skeslien Charles
The Retirement Plan - Sue Hincenbergs
As I Dream of You - Jennifer Lee & LeUyen Pham
The Wish - Heather Morris
Flashlight - Susan Choi

05/06/2026

It’s May, and there are so many new books today!

All the Ice Cream in the Land - Emmy Kastner
Wicked: A Seek & Find Book
Our Islands - Phoebe Roze
Otis Knows (How to Be a Bear) - Liz Garton Scanlon & Martha Brockenbrough with Stephanie Laberis
Make Believe: On Telling Stories to Children - Mac Barnett
Honey - David Ezra Stein
Find the Sun - Andy Harkness
The Little Bee - Nicola Killen
The Thing Lou Couldn’t Do - Ashley Spires
A Believer’s Guide to Unicorns - Jenni Desmond
I Love You Like a River - Nancy Tillman
Tama & Baby - Kaya Doi
Clive Penguin - Huw Lewis Jones & Ben Sanders .sanders.illustrator
The White Rave - Kathryn Otoshi
El Hilo Invisible - Patrice Karst y Joanne Lew-Vrielhoff
Science Explorers: Search for a Mysterious Mushroom - Amy Seto Forrester & Andy Chou Musser
Rainbow Cookies - Lesléa Newman with Z. B. Asterplume .b.asterplume
Little Helper - Regina Linke
Is This a Plum? - Dan & Finn Ojari

05/05/2026

It’s May, and there are so many new books today!

This Is a School - John Schu with Veronica Miller Jamison
We Laugh Alike / Juntos nos reimos - Carmen T. Bernier-Grand with Alyssa Bermudez
Sweet Dreams, Bluey coloring & activity book
Backpack Explorer: Ocean Adventure sticker book
Brain Quest: Learn to Write Cursive
The World’s Best Soccer Book
Look Baby Look Outside - Louise Lockhart
A Comic Book History of the Big Bang and Beyond - Anna Claybourne with Rikus Ferriera
Bad Kitty: Gets a Job - Nick Bruel
Dory Fantasmagory: Center of the Universe - Abby Hanlon
Rolls and Rivalry - Kristy Boyce
Sweet Valley Twins: The Grahpic Novel: First Place - Nicole Andelfinger & Knack Whittle .pascal
The Last Immortals: Rise of the Rebels - Kit Brooks
The Last Immortals: Dawn of the Axolotl - Kit Brooks
Ken Jennings’ Junior Genius Guides: Ancient Egypt - Ken Jennings with Mike Lowery
National Geographic Kids: Almanac 2027
The Brainstormerz: Money Talks - Kwame Alexander with Cassidy Dyce & Rashad Doucet .doucet
To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before - Jenny Han with Barbara Perez Marquez, Akimaro & Li Lu .art
A Strange Thing Happened in Cherry Hall - Jasmine Warga
The Mystery of the Stolen World Cup Trophy - Angela Cervantes
Stella & Marigold: Mermaids and Mix-Ups - Annie Barrows & Sophie Blackall
Polly Diamond and the Topsy-Turvy Day - Alice Kuipers & Diana Toledano
Dog Meets Dog: On the Loose in London! - Dan Yaccarino with Ethan Long
The Super Roomies: Lake of Slime - Jarrett Lerner
Sherlock Roach and the Case of the Crunchy Crumb - Joe McGee with Jannie Ho
Mini Murdle Jr. Summer Fun! - G. T. Karber

05/05/2026

05/02/2026

Young writers are also young readers!
We're stocked up on next year's OBOB books and other fun reads down at Woodburn High School for this year’s Oregon Writing Festival, and we brought a car full of books.

With writing festival presentations by Leslie Barnard Booth, William Ritter, and Sara Ryan.

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