Event Schedule Fall 2021

Picture Book continues it’s residency at HudCo through the Fall!
Open Monday-Friday 9am-6pm

September 1-17 self-service checkout
Beginning September 20, Sara will be on site Monday-Friday 11am-2pm for recommendations

September

Jenny Rosenstrach’s The Weekday Vegetarians cookbook launch
Tuesday September 21 - Details TBD
HudCo ticketed event

South by Southside at The Good Witch
Picture Book’s Reading is Self Care Pop Up
Saturday September 18 2-6pm in Hastings
(Follows Community Accupuncture 10-12)

October

River Arts Studio Tour
Art Book Fair inside HudCo
Saturday October 23, 11am-6pm

Greenburgh Nature Center Fall Festival
Sunday October 24 10am-3pm

November

Greenburgh Nature Center Holiday Market
Saturday November 13, 2021 10am-2pm

A conversation with Hitha Palepu, author of We’re Speaking: The Life Lessons of Kamala Harris
Zoom link upon RSVP, Tuesday, November 16, 5-6pm EST


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Local Rivertown Authors

You can shop local Rivertown authors at the links below on the Picture Book Bookshop..org website that ships nationwide.

Check in with Picture Book at HudCo too to find signed copies of books by Dawn Masi, Danielle Claro, Veera Hiranandani, Jennifer Orkin Lewis, and Janine Annett, Jenny Rosenstrach, Tom Lechy, and Jeremiah Dine soon too!

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Fundraiser for SPRING Community Partners

Picture Book will donate 10% of sales to SPRING Community Partners on Thursday, July 22

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Shop at Picture Book on Thursday July 22 to help raise money for SPRING Community Partners! SPRING provides funding for Dobbs Ferry families with school-aged children challenged by the costs of school supplies, clothing and food. Summer is a crucial time to support them as SPRING and the Dobbs Ferry Food Pantry provides nourishment for over 100 children in Dobbs Ferry (food made more essential when school meals stop), will provide 72 children with the opportunity to attend Summer Camp, and will provide school supplies to nearly 150 Dobbs Ferry students for the upcoming school year.

Picture Book will donate 10% of sales to SPRING Community Partners on Thursday July 22 inside HudCo (145 Palisade Street, Suite 200, Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522) from 9am-6pm. New releases like Intimacies by Katie Kitamura (it’s on Barack Obama’s summer reading list!), more chapter books for kids, and beautiful art books , and of course picture books have been added to the table this week to prepare.

You can also shop online at the following links all day long:

Local pickup: www.picturebookny.com

Nationwide shipping: https://bookshop.org/shop/picturebookny

Audiobooks: https://libro.fm/picturebook

School Summer Reading Lists

These are the Springhurst Summer 2021 Reading Lists carefully prepared by Ms. Lauren Rodriguez, Library Media Specialist, and Mrs. Michelle Yang-Kaczmarek, K – 8 Literacy Coordinator. These books are wonderful, age-appropriate suggestions, for children entering each grade range, but not required reading. Many of these titles are available at the Picture Book pop up inside HudCo, but you can shop the full lists on our bookshop..org website at the links below. You may also find these titles at the local library.

 
 
 

Mother's Day Gift Guide

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We’ve all had quite a year, and a lot of the hardships of the pandemic have particularly landed on mothers, so there is every reason to give them all the love and attention and presents we can shower them with this Mother’s Day. Here are a few recommendations for treating the moms in your life.

FOR THE BRAND NEW MOM

Probably not the time to get her a long involved novel. This mom needs sleep, appreciation, and good maternity leave policies. Give her something sentimental that works with her attention span. A Mother Is a House is a sweet picture book that celebrates all that a mom is to their baby. A mother is a nest, a mirror, a moon. The baby sees their mother in every aspect of their day. As the pages go by, the child grows. The mother who was a refuge becomes a road, a story, and a show. Mothers Before: Stories and Portraits of Our Mothers as We Never Saw Them is a collection of short essays and photographs by top writers, poets, & artists meditating on the mystery of who our mothers were as individuals before they became our moms. This is a perfect collection for the mom contemplating the identity transitions of new motherhood.

FOR THE MOM WHO IS A GRANDMA

Give the gift of time with their grandkids with these special grandmother themed picture books she can read to them! Maud & Grand-Maud celebrates a special sleepover at Grandmas house complete with matching PJs. Encyclopedia of Grannies is a whimsical & hilarious book for a Grannie with a big sense of humor.

FOR THE MOM WHO NEEDS A VACATION

We all need this. Give your travel-bug mom a mental vacation with these cookbooks that double as travel books. Bonus points if you also cook her something from it.

FOR THE LITERARY MOM

Does your mom know that Jhumpa Lahiri finally has a new novel out after we’ve been waiting for nearly a decade? Does she need to complete her Rachel Cusk shelf with the latest release? Get her these books ASAP!

FOR THE MOM (OR ANYONE) WHO MISSES HER MOM

This is a tender time of year for anyone already mourning the loss of a mom. If they are ready for a cathartic cry, Crying in H Mart is Michelle Zauner’s beautiful ode to her mother. Many Shapes of Clay: A Healing Story is a picture book about grief and how the creative process can guide us in healing. Mother’s Before helps explore the mystery of who our moms were as people before they became ours.

FOR THE CANNABIS MOM

New York became the 15th state to legalize recreational marijuana this Spring, so it’s time for the cannabis moms and the canna-curious to delve deeper into their hobby. These fun books show the way as well as Picture Book’s complete reading list of new ideas on cannabis on Bookshop_org. Also check out the Via Viaggio CBD products for sale in the kitchen at HudCo!

FOR THE MOM WHO IS THRILLED IT IS FINALLY GARDENING SEASON

For the moms who love the gardening life (get them the Piet Oudolf book!) to those who have better luck keeping the flowers inside a book alive

FOR THE MOM WHO WANTS TO CHANGE THE WORLD

For the moms who want to stay informed to keep up the good fight

FOR THE MOM WHO MISSES MUSEUMS

These gorgeous exhibition catalogues can take her there from the comfort of home!

FOR THE MOM WHO LOVES STORY TIME

FOR THE QUIRKY MOM

FOR THE MOM WHO APPRECIATES BEAUTY

FOR YOUR FRIEND THAT IS NOT A MOM

Let’s hold space for all the women who do not have kids either through joyful choice, or difficult circumstances. They deserve books too! Here are some good ones.

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Free Audiobook!

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Special #IndieBookstoreDay offer! When you spend at least $15 USD at your local bookstore between 4/24 and 4/26, you can get a free audiobook from @librofm. Details at libro.fm/ibd

You can shop Picture Book online on our website for local purchases or on our Bookshop.org page for nationwide shipping on a huge selection of books.

You can shop Picture Book in person at HudCo on the 25th-26th from 9am-6pm.

Back to School Book Fair

Come celebrate the return to full day school with a little book fair for grown ups on Monday! Drop the kids off and have some "me time" browsing. Picture Book, a pop up bookstore inside HudCo co-working space, will donate 10% of sales on 4/12/2021 to the Dobbs Ferry School Foundation. Picture Book carries a selection of new fiction, cookbooks, art books, middle-grade chapter books, and of course picture books. HudCo is located at 145 Palisade Street, Suite 200, Dobbs Ferry, New York and open from 9am-6pm and there will be a Hand Held Kitchen food truck outside selling sandwiches from 11:30am - 2:30pm. For those who want to shop the book fair from the comfort of your home, you can use the website www.picturebookny.com with free shipping within town.

Picture Book is an independent bookstore created by Springhurst parent Sara Davidson Johns. You can find the best books for your kids with ease from the curated selection, while also discovering your own grown up “picture book” -a gorgeous new cookbook, that hot new novel you keep hearing about, or a stunning monograph on a contemporary artist.

The Dobbs Ferry School Foundation is a not-for-profit organization that partners with the District to fund a wide array of creative programs, initiatives and equipment that go beyond the school district’s budget.

Remember that HudCo is CoVid compliant, so please remember your masks and your temperature will be checked at the door, and you can wash your hands or use hand sanitizer when you enter. Those shopping from home on the website can pre-order books coming out on April 13th like All Adults Here by Emma Straub, The Rock from the Sky by Jon Klassen.

Women's History Month Reading Lists

March is Women’s History Month, with International Women’s Day observed on March 8th. Please see Picture Book’s suggested reading lists below for ways to celebrate the lives and achievements of women. The pictured books are available at the HudCo popup and the click on the link in the heading view the fuller lists on the Bookshop.org website for books available for nationwide shipping.

WOMEN’S HISTORY FOR KIDS

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New critically acclaimed fiction written by female writers

New Releases February 16, 2021

There are lots of great books released today including the debut picture book Rectangle Time from local author and New York Times Book Review editor Pamela Paul. There are also a ton of new books out in paperback today that you can get through our Bookshop.org website. Prices below are for orders placed through our Bookshop.org site only as discounts are intended to offset the price of shipping. To see what is available locally for free pick up or delivery in Dobbs Ferry please check out our online store here.

 

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Black History Month Reading Lists

In honor of Black History Month, I want to share some important books to contribute to the celebration. There are many more titles selected at the Bookshop links listed below.

BOOKS AVAILABLE AT HUDCO

BOOKS FOR KIDS (BOOKSHOP.ORG)

More titles available at the above link to Picture Book’s Bookshop site

 
 
 

BLACK HISTORY MONTH READING FOR ADULTS (BOOKSHOP.ORG)

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Inaugural Poet Amanda Gorman

National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman was incredibly inspiring at the inauguration of the 46th president of the United States, Joe Biden, on January 20, 2021. A special edition of the inaugural poem The Hill We Climb will be out in April is available for pre-order now. Her poetry collection, including the titular poem, The Hill We Climb and her forthcoming picture book Change Sings, will be released in the Fall.

I think she captured our current moment so well with her words:

"Let the globe, if nothing else, say this is true.
That even as we grieved, we grew.
That even as we hurt, we hoped."

 
 

A special edition of the poem The Hill We Climb, read at the inauguration of the 46th president of the United States, Joe Biden, on January 20, 2021

On January 20, 2021, Amanda Gorman became the sixth and youngest poet, at age twenty-two, to deliver a poetry reading at a presidential inauguration. Her inaugural poem, The Hill We Climb, is now available to cherish in this special edition.

Publish Date April 27, 2021

 
 

The debut poetry collection by inaugural National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman.

Including The Hill We Climb, the stirring poem read at the inauguration of the 46th President of the United States, Joe Biden, this debut collection of the same name reveals an energizing and unforgettable new voice in America poetry.

Publish Date September 21, 2021

 
 

A lyrical picture book debut from inaugural National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman and #1 New York Times bestselling illustrator Loren Long

I can hear change humming
In its loudest, proudest song.
I don't fear change coming,
And so I sing along.

In this stirring, much-anticipated picture book by inaugural Youth Poet Laureate and activist Amanda Gorman, anything is possible when our voices join together. As a young girl leads a cast of characters on a musical journey, they learn that they have the power to make changes--big or small--in the world, in their communities, and in most importantly, in themselves.

With lyrical text and rhythmic illustrations that build to a dazzling crescendo by #1 New York Times bestselling illustrator Loren Long, Change Sings is a triumphant call to action for everyone to use their abilities to make a difference.

Publish Date September 21, 2021

Amanda Gorman is the inaugural Youth Poet Laureate of the United States. She is a committed activist who works on the local, national, and international levels to support girls' education and empowerment. Amanda's activism and poetry have been featured on the Today Show, PBS Kids, and CBS This Morning, and in the New York Times, Vogue, Essence, and O magazine. After graduating from Harvard University, she now lives in Los Angeles. Please visit amandasgorman.com

New Books Out January 12, 2021

There are lots of great books released on January 12th including the new mermaid picture book Oona, by the bestselling author of Poe Won’t Go, Kelly DiPucchio. Prices below are for orders placed through our Bookshop.org site only as discounts are intended to offset the price of shipping. To see what is available locally for free pick up or delivery in Dobbs Ferry please check out our online store here.

 
 

This comical and heartfelt picture book is a winning celebration of invention, creativity, and friendship. With gorgeous underwater scenes and a crowd-pleasing tale, this is one little mermaid who is here to make a splash!

New York Times bestselling author Kelly DiPucchio and illustrator Raissa Figueroa would like to introduce Oona--the big wide sea's littlest mischief-maker.

Oona and her best friend Otto love to search for treasure...and often find trouble instead.

Messy trouble.

Tricky trouble.

Even shark-related trouble.

That's never stopped them before, though!

After all, no proper treasure hunt is without some adventure. But when the grandest treasure yet is stuck in a deep, dark rift, Oona's not sure if she can dive right in. What might be waiting for her in those unknown waters?

 
 

A decade after fleeing for his life, a man is pulled back to Argentina by an undying love.

In 1976, Tomás Orilla is a medical student in Buenos Aires, where he has moved in hopes of reuniting with Isabel, a childhood crush. But the reckless passion that has long drawn him is leading Isabel ever deeper into the ranks of the insurgency fighting an increasingly oppressive regime. Tomás has always been willing to follow her anywhere, to do anything to prove himself. Yet what exactly is he proving, and at what cost to them both?
 
It will be years before a summons back arrives for Tomás, now living as Thomas Shore in New York. It isn’t a homecoming that awaits him, however, so much as an odyssey into the past, an encounter with the ghosts that lurk there, and a reckoning with the fatal gap between who he has become and who he once aspired to be. Raising profound questions about the sometimes impossible choices we make in the name of love, Hades, Argentina is a gripping, ingeniously narrated literary debut.

 
 
 
 

With a strong message of hope, interconnectedness, and empowerment, This Small Blue Dot features a little girl explaining the world to her baby sister. She hits on small wonders, big lessons, and everything in between, from sharing the joy of silly dances to contemplating the nature of this "small blue dot" we all live on.

Author and illustrator Zeno Sworder, who hails from a multicultural background, wrote this story when his daughter was unable to find picture books with characters who looked like her. His precocious young narrator has opinions on plenty of things: nature and the environment, embracing difference, the power of imagination--and the trouble with broccoli.

Rich pencil and crayon illustrations conjure up memories of childhood in this celebration of who we are, where we come from, and where our dreams may take us. In This Small Blue Dot, Sworder captures not only life lessons but also the fun, often strange experience of being a member of the human family on planet Earth.

 
 

Writer and performer on Late Night with Seth Meyers Amber Ruffin writes with her sister Lacey Lamar with humor and heart to share absurd anecdotes about everyday experiences of racism.

Now a writer and performer on Late Night with Seth Meyers and host of The Amber Ruffin Show, Amber Ruffin lives in New York, where she is no one's First Black Friend and everyone is, as she puts it, "stark raving normal." But Amber's sister Lacey? She's still living in their home state of Nebraska, and trust us, you'll never believe what happened to Lacey.

From racist donut shops to strangers putting their whole hand in her hair, from being mistaken for a prostitute to being mistaken for Harriet Tubman, Lacey is a lightning rod for hilariously ridiculous yet all-too-real anecdotes. She's the perfect mix of polite, beautiful, petite, and Black that apparently makes people think "I can say whatever I want to this woman." And now, Amber and Lacey share these entertainingly horrifying stories through their laugh-out-loud sisterly banter. Painfully relatable or shockingly eye-opening (depending on how often you have personally been followed by security at department stores), this book tackles modern-day racism with the perfect balance of levity and gravity.

 
 

A daughter returns home to the Navajo reservation to retrace her mother's life in a memoir that is both a narrative and an archive of one family's troubled history.

"An honest, intimate, and heart-wrenching memoir that explores the fractured family, the damaging effects of alcoholism and poverty, and what it means to seek healing from the legacies of trauma."--Kali Fajardo-Anstine, author of the National Book Award finalist Sabrina & Corina

When Danielle Geller's mother dies of alcohol withdrawal during an attempt to get sober, Geller returns to Florida and finds her mother's life packed into eight suitcases. Most were filled with clothes, except for the last one, which contained diaries, photos, and letters, a few undeveloped disposable cameras, dried sage, jewelry, and the bandana her mother wore on days she skipped a hair wash.

Geller, an archivist and a writer, uses these pieces of her mother's life to try and understand her mother's relationship to home, and their shared need to leave it. Geller embarks on a journey where she confronts her family's history and the decisions that she herself had been forced to make while growing up, a journey that will end at her mother's home: the Navajo reservation.

Dog Flowers is an arresting, photo-lingual memoir that masterfully weaves together images and text to examine mothers and mothering, sisters and caretaking, and colonized bodies. Exploring loss and inheritance, beauty and balance, Danielle Geller pays homage to our pasts, traditions, and heritage, to the families we are given and the families we choose.

 
 

From Sarah Moss, the acclaimed author of Ghost Wall--a "riveting" (Alison Hagy, The New York Times Book Review) "sharp tale of suspense" (Margaret Tablot, The New Yorker), Summerwater is a searing exploration of our capacity for kinship and cruelty, and a gorgeous evocation of the natural world that bears eternal witness.

New Books out January 5th, 2021

Here are a few exciting new releases on January 5th! I am particularly excited about the new novel Outlawed by Anna North -described as True Grit meets The Handmaids Tale. Prices below are for orders placed through our Bookshop.org site only as discounts are intended to offset the price of shipping. To see what is available locally for free pick up or delivery in Dobbs Ferry please check out our online store here.

 
 

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The Crucible meetsTrue Grit in this riveting adventure story of a fugitive girl, a mysterious gang of robbers, and their dangerous mission to transform the Wild West.

In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw.

The day of her wedding, 17 year old Ada's life looks good; she loves her husband, and she loves working as an apprentice to her mother, a respected midwife. But after a year of marriage and no pregnancy, in a town where barren women are routinely hanged as witches, her survival depends on leaving behind everything she knows.

She joins up with the notorious Hole in the Wall Gang, a band of outlaws led by a preacher-turned-robber known to all as the Kid. Charismatic, grandiose, and mercurial, the Kid is determined to create a safe haven for outcast women. But to make this dream a reality, the Gang hatches a treacherous plan that may get them all killed. And Ada must decide whether she's willing to risk her life for the possibility of a new kind of future for them all.

Featuring an irresistibly no-nonsense, courageous, and determined heroine,Outlawed dusts off the myth of the old West and reignites the glimmering promise of the frontier with an entirely new set of feminist stakes. Anna North has crafted a pulse-racing, page-turning saga about the search for hope in the wake of death, and for truth in a climate of small-mindedness and fear.

 
 

"The Prophets is easily the most superb tutorial in writing and loving I have ever read. I'm convinced Morrison, Baldwin, and Bambara sat around sipping wine one night, talking about the day we'd read an offering like The Prophets. Robert Jones, Jr. is a once-in-a-generation cultural worker whose art thankfully will be imitated for generations." -Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy: An American Memoir

 
 

"There are some stories that require as much courage to write as they do art. Peter Ho Davies's achingly honest, searingly comic portrait of fatherhood is just such a story...The world needs more stories like this one, more of this kind of courage, more of this kind of love." —Sigrid Nunez, National Book Award-winning author of The Friend

 
 

A major publication about the revolutionary art collective that defined a new Black aesthetic in late 1960s Chicago and whose influence today is stronger than ever

AfriCOBRA (African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists) was founded on the South Side of Chicago in 1968 by a group of five young Black artists. Today, it is one of the oldest continuously active American art collectives. The pronunciation--Af-FREE-co-bruh--emphasizes the second syllable, signaling the group's central principle grounded in Black liberation: creative expression reflecting the Black experience and Black influences.

AfriCOBRA's founding artists--Jeff Donaldson, Jae Jarrell, Wadsworth Jarrell, Barbara Jones-Hogu and Gerald Williams—differed in disciplines and artistic vocabularies but were brought together by the common aspiration to create work that speaks directly to Black people utilizing an identifiably Black aesthetic. This publication celebrates the fifty-year anniversary of AfriCOBRA's founding and marks the collective's powerful relevance today.

 
 

Packed with 100 inspiring, creative, fun challenges for boys, this project from violence-prevention organization A Call to Men answers parents' cries for building healthy manhood, respect, and emotional awareness in their sons.

 
 

The Awakening of Malcolm X is a powerful narrative account of the activist's adolescent years in jail, written by his daughter Ilyasah Shabazz along with 2019 Coretta Scott King-John Steptoe award-winning author, Tiffany D. Jackson.

 
 

A sweeping retrospective exploring the oeuvre of an incandescent artist, revealing the ways that Mitchell expanded painting beyond Abstract Expressionism as well as the transatlantic contexts that shaped her.

Joan Mitchell (1925-1992) was fearless in her experimentation, creating works of unparalleled beauty, strength, and emotional intensity. This gorgeous book unfolds the story of an artistic master of the highest order, revealing the ways she expanded abstract painting and illuminating the transatlantic contexts that shaped her.

 
 

For fans of Sorry to Bother You and The Wolf of Wall Street —a crackling, satirical debut novel about a young man given a shot at stardom as the lone Black salesman at a mysterious, cult-like, and wildly successful startup where nothing is as it seems.

New Books in December

Here are a few interesting titles releasing this December! Prices below are for orders placed through our Bookshop.org site only as discounts are intended to offset the price of shipping. To see what is available locally for free pick up or delivery in Dobbs Ferry please check out our online store here.

Food critic Dorothy Daniels loves what she does. Discerning, meticulous, and very, very smart, Dorothy's clear mastery of the culinary arts make it likely that she could, on any given night, whip up a more inspired dish than any one of the chefs she writes about. But there is something within Dorothy that's different from everyone else, and having suppressed it long enough, she starts to embrace what makes Dorothy uniquely, terrifyingly herself. Chelsea G. Summers' debut novel A Certain Hunger introduces us to the food world's most charming psychopath.

 
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Laura is a nurse in a pediatric unit. On long, quiet shifts, she and her colleagues, clad in their different shades of blue, care for sick babies, handling their exquisitely fragile bodies and carefully calibrating the mysterious machines that keep them alive.

Laura may be burnt out. Her hands have been raw from washing as long as she can remember. When she sleeps, she dreams of water; when she wakes, she finds herself lying next to a man who doesn't love her anymore. And there is a strange figure dancing in the corner of her vision, always just beyond her reach.

Dark yet luminous, sensual yet chilling, written with a visceral rhythm and laced with dread, Rest and Be Thankful is an unforgettable novel that confirms Emma Glass as a visionary new voice.

 

Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham have brought together this collection of work--images, photos, essays, memes, dialogues, recipes, tweets, poetry, and more--to tell the story of the radical, imaginative, provocative, and gorgeous world that Black creators are bringing forth today. The book presents a succession of startling and beautiful pieces that generate an entrancing rhythm: Readers will go from conversations with activists and academics to memes and Instagram posts, from powerful essays to dazzling paintings and insightful infographics.

In answering the question of what it means to be Black and alive, Black Futures opens a prismatic vision of possibility for every reader.

"An intriguing and beautiful book meant to inspire . . . Punctuated throughout with photography and other artwork and using vibrant colors smartly, the book is as interesting visually as intellectually. In their introduction, the editors state that one of their intentions with this book 'is to encourage readers to follow their interests into a deep warren of rabbit holes and discoveries.' They succeed; every reader will engage with this work differently, and will be able to come back to it again and again for inspiration."—Booklist (starred review)

 

New York Times bestselling author Jen Sincero gets to the core of transformation: habits--breaking, making, understanding, and sticking with them like you've never stuck before.

Badass Habits is a eureka-sparking, easy-to-digest look at how our habits make us who we are, from the measly moments that happen in private to the resolutions we loudly broadcast (and, erm, often don't keep) on social media. Habit busting and building goes way beyond becoming a dedicated flosser or never showing up late again--our habits reveal our unmet desires, the gaps in our boundaries, our level of self-awareness, and our unconscious beliefs and fears. Badass Habits features Jen's trademark hilarious voice and offers a much-needed fresh take on the conventional wisdom and science that shape the optimism (or pessimism?) around the age-old topic of habits. The book includes enlightening interviews with people who've successfully strengthened their discipline backbones, new perspective on how to train our brains to become our best selves, and offers a simple, 21 day, step-by-step guide for ditching habits that don't serve us and developing the habits we deem most important. Habits shouldn't be impossible to reset--and with healthy boundaries, knowledge of--and permission to go after--our desires, and an easy to implement plan of action, we can make any new goal a joyful habit.


 

In this funny, rhyming read-aloud for very young readers, a grumpy Mr. Elephant just wants some peace and quiet--that is, until he gets it.

Packed with hilarious rhymes, fun-to-shout-out sounds, and the frenetic energy of a happy, busy town, this raucous read-aloud follows an exasperated elephant through the course of his day. From barking dogs to clattering dishes at the coffee shop to a boisterous marching band, the noise is just too much. Mr. Elephant wants nothing more than for his loud town to PLEASE QUIET DOWN!!! But what happens when he ends up getting exactly what he wishes for?

Snuck into the fun is an important message about seeing things from the perspective of others. Share this story with anyone who loves to make noise and anyone who loves to hate it!

New Books Out November 10

Many great new books out this week! We should have in-store copies of The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans, Two Many Birds by Cindy Derby, and Kid in the Kitchen by Melissa Clark at our HudCo pop up by the end of the week. Email me at picturebookny@gmail.com to reserve your copy now.

Prices below are for orders placed through our Bookshop.org site only as discounts are intended to offset the price of shipping. To see if these titles are available for free pick up or delivery in Dobbs Ferry please check out our online store here.

 
 
 

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