📚 Book Talks and Shoutouts from Our Staff

What’s New at Linden Tree

Flo,

Last night was our monthly staff meeting where we catch everyone up on the state of the business (good!), various reminders (pay attention when stickering books!), and run through upcoming events (so many!). We also spend a lot of time talking about books–pitching our favorite new reads so our fellow booksellers can recommend them. Among the books “talked” last night: Legends of Lotus Island, Free Period (see below), Snow Globe, Brave the Wild River and Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials.

At the end, we do a round of “shout-outs” where staff members call each other out for going above and beyond the call of duty. This month, some of the shout-outs included Pam for making us beautiful new pillow covers, Alan for being our resident Mr. Fix-It and repairing everything from chairs to tape dispensers, and Isabella for calmly helping a boisterous group of tweens one afternoon. We’re lucky to have such an amazing group of booksellers, working hard everyday to match customers with books (we hope) they’ll love!

📚 Books I’m looking forward to this week: Luigi the spider has found the perfect home, but the owner thinks he’s a kitten. What happens when she learns the truth? Luigi, the Spider Who Wanted to Be a Kitten is absolutely adorable and one of my favorite new picture books. And in a week filled with excellent new middle grade fiction, I LOVED Ali Terese’s hilarious debut, Free Period. Helen and Gracie are best friends with a passion for pranking who channel their creativity into a campaign for period equity, going toe-to-toe with cynical classmates and clueless administrators. It’s full of snark, heart, and lessons for would-be activists.

See you at the store,

Chris

📅 Upcoming Events

Shruthi Rao

Saturday, March 16 at 11am

Join us as author Shruthi Rao shares her delightful new picture book, Kadooboo! A Silly South Indian Folktale. In this South Indian folktale retelling full of playful wordplay and humor, a boy mixes up the name of a delicious dish he is carrying home to his mother.

Kadooboo! Golden brown, puffy, sweet, and crunchy, it’s fresh from the pan—a delicious treat! As soon as it’s ready, Kabir runs home with some to share. He’s got to be quick, before the rain! But wait … can he remember the treat’s name? (His Amma is sure to ask!) Of course he can. That is, if fun and friends aren’t too distracting along the way.

As Kabir makes his way, the sights and sounds of the street and interactions with friends start to jumble his memory. A cool new comic, and suddenly the treat is book-oo-doo! When a ball whizzes toward him—duck-oo-boo! With so much fun to be had, Kabir reaches home with a trail of friends … and a jumble of names. Could he possibly remember the right one?

Dashka Slater

Sunday, March 24 at 10:30am

We’re excited to welcome back New York Times bestselling author Dashka Slater as she shares Escargot’s latest adventure, Escargot and the Search for Spring!

Bonjour! After a long winter spent indoors, Escargot can’t wait to look outside for the first signs of Spring. Will he find a new friend in the fluffy white bunny he meets along the way?

From New York Times–bestselling author Dashka Slater and former Pixar animator Sydney Hanson, Escargot and the Search for Spring is an irresistibly sweet and charming story about unlikely friendship, changing seasons, and springtime fun. This hilarious and interactive addition to the award-winning Escargot series is the ideal read aloud for story time and animal lovers alike.

📅 Mark Your Calendar

Sunday, March 17 at 4pm: Middle Grade Book Club: Alex Wise vs the End of the World
Wednesday, March 20 at 7:30pm: Adult Fiction Book Club: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Sunday, March 24 at 2:30pm: Story Writing Workshops (ages 7-11)
Sunday, March 24 at 3:30pm: Story Writing Workshops (ages 12+)
Friday, April 19 at 4pm: Ben Clanton, Tater Tales: The King of the World!