Thank you to our fellow sponsors HudCo, Bloomy, Insurance on Hudson, Alan Block Insurance & My Sherry & More. Event details available on the Chamber of Commerce website here. Event photos below!
Here are some special books to gift this year that you can pick up from Picture Book in HudCo. Email picturebookny@gmail.com if you would like more personalized recommendations! If you need to ship books further than the Rivertowns, please use the Picture Book Bookshop.org site.
Treat your loved one to a beautiful book to cherish the content and share on their coffee table year round. Sophie Taeuber-Arp: Living Abstraction is the exhibition catalogue for the newly opened exhibition at MoMA on the multitalented modern artist. The Garden by Toby Musgrave examines over 200 modern and historical garden styles, features, types and ornaments, with more than 500 spectacular images. This gorgeous cloth-bound book is perfect for both amateur gardeners and specialists alike. Collective Wisdom: Lessons, Inspiration, and Advice from Women Over 50 by Grace Bonney features beautiful photography and interviews with inspirational women who have forged their own paths.
Here are some newly released picture books recommended for ages 5-10, but I believe picture books are good for every age. Aaron Slater, Illustrator is the latest from the beloved series which brought us Ada Twist and Rosie Revere. It features a young boy who struggles with reading, but discovers that he can use other talents to be a great storyteller. It’s written in a special font that is easier for people with dyslexia to read. Fuzzy Inside & Out: A Story about Small Acts of Kindness and Big Hair from Picture Book favorite Zacharraiah Ohora is the story of a fuzzy and kind skateboarding friend. This Is a Gift for You by Emily Winfield Martin is a poetic tribute to the simple joys of life and nature, and a reminder that the greatest gift we have is time spent together. These three books are brand new releases, so they will make perfect additions to any home library.
Here are some chapter books great for your young readers aged 7-12. Beloved children’s author Kate DiCamillo‘s latest book The Beatryce Prophecy, has an unforgettable cast in a magical medieval setting, and is recommended grades 3-6. For the graphic novel lover, Witches of Brooklyn: What the Hex!?!, is the second book in this fun series following a girl discovering her own powers after moving in with her aunts in Brooklyn, recommended for grades 4-7, but could even be enjoyed by younger readers. For a quirky, funny book, Egg Marks the Spot by Amy Timberlaks, illustrated by Jon Klassen, is the second book in the Skunk and Badger series, recommended for grades 2-5. Stand Up, Yumi Chung! is recommended for grades 3-7. Maya and the Robot is recommended for grades 3-7. Ways to Make Sunshine is recommended for grades 2-5.
Sturdy board books that help foster conversations with our youngest little readers about the world around them, happiness, & friendship.
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So many wonderful things going on this December!
The HudCo Atrium is transforming into a magical holiday extravaganza featuring Adonia Floral Design, Birdie Lou, Cooper’s Daughter’s Spirits, Falena Fine Jewelry, In2Green, Parson Brown, The Space Sanctuary, The Swans House, and HudCo resident shops Bloomy & Picture Book.
Details TBD! The Rivertowns Chamber of Commerce Trolley will roll through the Rivertowns bringing you to local businesses for a wonderful day of town spirit and supporting small business. Picture Book and Bloomy will be open inside HudCo along with some special treats!
Picture Book has collaborated with The Good Witch’s Joanna Prisco to offer some excellent cookbooks and other wonderful witchy reads inside the coffee shop all holiday season. On Saturday December 18, we will be popping up outside with even more wonderful books to gift your loved ones. There will be other amazing vendors and even a visit from a jolly, red-suited special guest!
Details TBD! Kyle Lukoff, author of When Aidan Became a Brother, is coming to Dobbs Ferry! Stay tuned for more details on this event organized by Dobbs Ferry Diversity Committee, Dobbs Ferry PTSA, Dobbs Ferry Public Library, The Children’s Village, with books available from Picture Book.
From Camila of Living Notes Photography:
This year I want to help you shop local, sustainable and small. I created this guide with the desire to feature some of my favorite female entrepreneurs and makers in NY and beyond.
I am owner and photographer at Living Notes Photography, but of course you may already know that. I fell in love with my camera and how it made me feel alive. I get to share how I see the world and others with you and hopefully encourage and inspire you to see your everyday as something more beautiful than anything you could ever imagine. I'm here to help you see that the best life is the one you're creating right now! And to give you heirlooms that not only look pretty but that will hold your history long after you are gone!
Picture Book recommends the Wildsam Field Guide to the Hudson Valley and Catskills in DVEIGHT Magazine
Picture Book is popping up at the women’s clothing boutique Lola this Fall with a brand new selection
I’m bringing hot new fiction for some cozy fall reading.
L.A. Weather -the latest Reese Witherspoon book club pick
I Love You, But I've Chosen Darkness -A darkly funny, soul-rending novel of love in an epoch of collapse--one woman's furious revisiting of family, marriage, work, sex, and motherhood. Receiving rave reviews
A Slow Fire Burning -the latest from the author of The Girl on the Train
The Husbands -a Good Morning America Book Club pick from the queen of the feminist thriller
Also some gorgeous cookbooks:
Columbiana
Lemon, Love, & Olive Oil
Cuba: The Cookbook
The Italian Table
Friday flowers from Flower Barr, whose awesome arrangements grace the Picture Book instagram feed. Treat yourself to bouquets, books, & beautiful new clothes all in one stop!
I was so thrilled to get to be the bookstore partner for the launch of The Weekday Vegetarians by Jenny Rosenstrach at HudCo. It is a fabulous cookbook that helps us to enjoy eating in a way that’s better for the planet, made by a truly wonderful, kind person so it is a complete joy to promote it. There is no better space around than HudCo to celebrate and it was especially perfect given that Jenny was one of the founding members and she wrote a lot of the book here. It was a night to remember with food by Hooked & Hungry, cookies by Bake, cocktails by Spare Food Co., swag bag goodies by Tatcha and Rancho Gordo Beans. Couldn’t have done it without the amazing team behind HudCo including Shannon who pulled it all together, and her amazing sisters (all the flowers are by Sam’s Flower Barr!). Thank you @larufoto for capturing the night so well!
Join us for an outdoor celebration on Southside Avenue in Hastings on Saturday, September 18, 2-6pm. Picture Book will bring a great selection of this Fall’s hottest new books to the circle in front of The Good Witch Coffee Bar at the Hastings Metro-North Railroad station house, 134 Southside Avenue. The Good Witch is known for it’s coffee, community, & magic and this event will surely have all three!
There will be live music from Bone Doctor, and food and drink specials by The Good Witch, Maud’s Tavern, and St. George Bistro. Along with Picture Book’s wonderful books, the brand new Bloomy Rind will be bringing a selection of delicious artisan cheeses for you to take home. Wild Flower will also be leading a workshop on making beautiful Fall/Winter planters. With food, drinks, music, books, flowers, cheese, and activities for kids, it is sure to be an outdoor event for all to enjoy!
Celebrate Jenny's new cookbook and hear from the author herself! Includes signed copy, drinks, and more goodies.
Tuesday, September 21, 2021 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
HudCo, 145 Palisade Street, Suite 200, Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522
$40 HudCo members, $45 public
About this event
She's been researching, testing, and writing about this venture into vegetarian cooking for the past few years, and we've been frantically devouring the crumbs she's shared in her new Substack newsletter. Now the big day has finally arrived—The Weekday Vegetarians has been released (August 31), and we're eager to celebrate!
Our friend and long-time HudCo member Jenny Rosenstrach, creator of the beloved blog Dinner: A Love Story and Cup of Jo columnist, knew that she wanted to eat better for her health and for the planet but didn’t want to miss the meat that she loves. But why does it have to be all or nothing? She figured that she could eat vegetarian during the week and save meaty splurges for the weekend. The Weekday Vegetarians shows readers how Jenny got her family on board with a weekday plant-based mentality and lays out a plan for home cooks to follow, one filled with brilliant and bold meat-free meals.
Join us to not only get your very own signed copy of The Weekday Vegetarians, but to also hear a short talk from the author herself, ask her some questions, and walk away with some free goodies courtesy of the Rivertowns independent bookstore Picture Book.
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
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!
Picture Book will donate 10% of sales to SPRING Community Partners on Thursday, July 22
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
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.
I picked out some fun, page-turners to for a Picture Book pop-up inside the beautiful Lola New York boutiques in White Plains and Crestwood/Tuckahoe. Lola is open Monday-Saturday 10am-6pm.
Lola has the best breezy dresses and summer bags, so now you can stock up on these great beach reads to complete your summer getaway! I picked out some fun, page-turners like Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid the New York Times bestselling author of Daisy Jones & The Six. It's a story about four famous siblings throw an epic party to celebrate the end of the summer in Malibu in 1983, but over the course of twenty-four hours, their lives change forever. What Comes After by Joanne Tompkins is a propulsive mystery, but also a moving account of strangers and friends in a small town in coastal Washington uniting to help one another after great tragedy. Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam, is a suspenseful story of two families stuck together in a Long Island vacation house, with imagery that will stick with you. Now in paperback, New York Times notable book Saint X by Alexis Schaitkin is a smart, socially conscious, thriller set in a resort on a Caribbean island. New York Times bestseller Friends and Strangers by J. Courtney Sullivan is a great read about modern motherhood and female friendship. And if you still haven't read Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens, it's time to pick up a copy in paperback now! Leave the World Behind is an eerie suspenseful book about what happens when two families are stuck in a vacation home together during an uncertain disaster. You won’t be able to put it down! If you can’t make it to Lola to get these books in person, you can buy them online here on my Bookshop page with nationwide shipping.
LOLA NEW YORK LOCATIONS
WHITE PLAINS
396 Mamaroneck Avenue
White Plains, NY 10605
Monday - Saturday
10am-6pm
914.358.1314
CRESTWOOD/TUCKAHOE
300 Columbus Avenue
Tuckahoe, NY 10707
Monday - Saturday
10am-6pm
914.268.0862
If you can’t make it to Lola to get these books in person, you can buy them online here on my Bookshop page with nationwide shipping.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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 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 moms who want to stay informed to keep up the good fight
These gorgeous exhibition catalogues can take her there from the comfort of home!
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.
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.
Come see Picture Book at The Good Witch Coffee Bar’s Mother Faire!
Mother Faire is a celebration of female makers, artists and entrepreneurs sharing their goods in the outdoor area in front of The Good Witch Coffee Bar, the Hastings train station coffee shop. Picture Book will have a great selection of books, including the perfect gifts for your cool mamas for Mother’s Day. Special books featured include Why We Cook: Women on Food, Identity, and Connection by Lindsay Gardner and Skate Like a Girl by Carolina Amell.
Hastings Yoga will be doing a slow-flow outdoor yoga in the morning, and live music will come on after! Other vendors include VW Picture Bus, Christin Ripley, Heartsease Candle Co., Ashley Toth, Julie & Jane, & many more!
134 Southside Avenue
Hastings-on-Hudson, NY 10706
Picture Book is curating a selection of books inside Women's Clothing Boutique Lola New York in White Plains and Tuckahoe from April 23-May 8th. Leading up to Mother’s Day, this is the perfect opportunity to get the mothers in your life wonderful presents. Pair Lola’s chic collection of clothing, jewelry, and bags with a great new novel, cookbook, coffee table art book, or picture books to read with kids. Mothers Before: Stories and Portraits of Our Mothers as We Never Saw Them is a remarkable collection of more than 60 original essays and photographs about our mothers before they became mothers. Burnt Sugar is an acclaimed new novel by Avni Doshi about a tumultuous mother-daughter relationship set in India. Joan Mitchell is a beautiful new monograph on the artist released by Yale University Press. Saturday by Oge Mora is a perfect picture book about a Mother & daughter having the best day out together, even though nothing seems to be perfect.
Lola New York
396 Mamaroneck Ave, White Plains, NY
300 Columbus Ave, Tuckahoe, NY
Photo by @livingnotesphoto Dress on Sara from Lola New York!
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.
