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Children's Book of the Week
(20% off for everyone through February 9)
If You Lived Here, by Giles Laroche (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $16.99)
Imagine a log cabin in the woods of New England, or a house on stilts off the Pacific coast of Chile. Imagine a pueblo built of adobe clay, or a whitewashed village on a Greek island. Imagine If You Lived Here. Giles Laroche explores the lives of people all around the world through the houses they live in. Each dwelling is depicted in a cut-paper collage and accompanied by basic facts: where is this house located, what is it made of, and who lives there. Ages 7-11
Children’s Blast from the Past
(20% off for Members through February 9)
After Tupac & D Foster, by Jacqueline Woodson (Putnam, $15.99)
There is something about listening to Tupac’s music. On the surface the lyrics are violent and ugly, but the more closely you listen, the more you notice the music’s deeply introspective beauty. It is this Tupac, the Tupac who wrote songs about poverty, social injustice, and inner-city crime, that Jacqueline Woodson uses for the backdrop of her novel After Tupac & D Foster. At its heart, this is a story of friendship among three young girls – two best friends and a foster child who joins their lives for awhile – but it is also a look at the social conditions that draw them together and eventually push them apart. Ages 10-14
Congratulations to the 2012 American Library Association award winners! Remember to try us first when you're shopping for all of these award-winning books. We are especially pleased that two of last year’s signed first editions and many of our events are among those listed as winners of this year’s ALA awards:
Our July Signed First Editions selection, A Ball for Daisy by Chris Raschka, is the winner of the Randolph Caldecott Medal for best picture book. Our November selection, Balloons Over Broadway by Melissa Sweet, is the winner of the Sibert Award for nonfiction. Please click here to preview our upcoming selections and to sign up for the 2012 season.
Additionally, Politics & Prose hosted these award-winning authors in 2011: Jack Gantos (Dead End in Norvelt, Newbery Medal), Maggie Stiefvater (Scorpio Races, Printz honor), Allen Say (Drawing from Memory, Sibert honor), Roz Schanzer (Witches, Sibert honor), and Sue Macy (Wheels of Change, YALSA nonfiction award finalist). Please click here to find our events calendar for upcoming 2012 Children and Teens’ events.
We have signed first editions, first printings of Heart and Soul, for which author/illustrator Kadir Nelson won both a Coretta Scott King illustrator honor and the Coretta Scott King author award.
Did you miss getting a signed copy of Diary of a Wimpy Kid 6: Cabin Fever when Jeff Kinney visited us in November? We have signed copies available now, so come pick yours up today!
Read about - and buy - more of our favorite books for children and teens by clicking here.
Click here to see the Children and Teens' Department 2011 Favorites.
Story Hour
Each Monday at 10:30 a.m., BearSong offers storytelling and guitar music for children from birth to 5 years old. Click here to sign up to receive email updates. We will inform you of special story hours, changes or cancellations.
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In 2011, members of our Signed First Editions Club received two American Library Association award winners (Randolph Caldecott Medalist A Ball for Daisy by Chris Raschka and Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award winner Balloons Over Broadway by Melissa Sweet). Would you like the chance to have a signed first edition of next year’s award winners? You can sign up to have a first edition, first printing of a newly released children’s picture book delivered each month directly to your - or another collector’s - doorstep or you can pick up your book at the store. You may choose to enroll in the program for six or twelve months at a time, or enroll indefinitely.
There is no enrollment fee. The cost of each book ($30 or less, including shipping) is the only charge and will be processed every month when the books arrive at Politics & Prose. You may choose to have us cover your book with an archival book cover for an extra $1.50. P&P members will receive 20% off all selections.
If you are not currently a member, we encourage you to register for membership. You will save in the long run, and also receive all of the other member benefits - discounts on bestsellers, author event books, our notifications of the events by mail and email, the opportunity to participate in our four annual storewide member sales, and other discount promotions.
Our current selections are:
January: One Cool Friend, written by Tony Buzzeo and illustrated by David Small (Penguin, $16.99)
February: And Then Its Spring, written by Julie Fogliano and illustrated by Caldecott-winner Erin Stead (Roaring Brook Press, $16.99)
March: Kali’s Song, written and illustrated by Jeannette Winter (Schwartz, $16.99)
Quantities are limited so sign up early!
Call 202-364-1919 or email Amy Kane at akane@politics-prose.com at the store for more information about the Politics & Prose Signed First Editions Children's Book Club or register here today.
We also have an Adults' Signed First Editions Club. Click here to learn more.
Our irresistible children’s bookends($20, $28, $38), are handmade by a small locally owned business in Hagerstown, Maryland. They are made of multi-ply birch and painted with nontoxic acrylic paint. They come in three sizes, many styles and colors. Click here to see a larger selection and to order online.
