The 5th Annual Hawaii Book & Music Festival (HBMF) is this weekend, and we’re all abuzz with excitement here at HBB! Although we won’t have a table set up we’ll definitely be around wearing our “Shaka for Books” t-shirts and handing out fliers. If you see us around, stop us and say hello, we’d love to [...]
March 11, 2010 – 11:31 am
There’re only 2 DAYS left before our live Rec-Fest to support First Book-Oahu’s Bookfair and Fundraiser at Barnes & Noble Kahala Mall!
We’d love to review keiki Hawaiiana books suggested by HBB readers but no one has suggested anything yet! And we’re getting closer to our goal of having 50 retweets to encourage people to spread the word regarding [...]
By M.L. Sanico
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Also posted in Book Events, Giveaways, Rec-Fest
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Tagged book reviews, bookfair, First Book-Oahu, Fundraiser, Giveaway, HBB t-shirt, keiki books, Rec-Fest, shaka for books
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February 24, 2010 – 1:46 pm
HBB is volunteering to blog and tweet live book reviews from First Book-Oahu‘s Book Fair & Fundraiser! Last year the fundraiser was in August and HBB did 8 book reviews in 8 hours! We asked kids in the store and First Book Members to give us suggestions and we learned/reviewed some great keiki books! It [...]
By M.L. Sanico
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Also posted in Book Events, Rec-Fest
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Tagged Barnes and Noble Kahala Mall, Book Fair, Cassie Sumimoto, Clifford the Big Red Dog, Duane "Dog" Chapman, First Book, First Book-Oahu, Fundraiser, keiki books, Miss Teen Hawaii USA, Rec-Fest
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November 13, 2009 – 12:09 am
posted by A.Alba
Another weekend, and another busy week finished!
Don’t forget to continue donating to both the Hawai’i State Public Library and the Friends of the Library of Hawai’i. For the HSPL, you can donate money to the statewide system, or to your local library. One of the best ways of doing so is visiting the [...]
September 18, 2009 – 11:59 am
posted by A.Alba
The big news this week is that Hawaii is #1 in the vote to win 50,000 books from First Book’s “What Book Got You Hooked?” campaign. When we first tweeted about this in August, Hawaii was #46. Then, last week when we wrote this post, Hawaii was at #6. Thanks to everybody who has contributed [...]
This is it! As we are actually ahead of schedule I will be posting our final entry a little early, since we are slowly wrapping things up here. Phew! We accomplished our goal of doing 8 keiki book reviews, all of which are available from the Barnes & Noble Kahala children’s section. In the process [...]
By A.Alba
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Also posted in Book Events, Children's & YA, Fiction, Rec-Fest
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Tagged Barnes & Noble, Brent Ching, Celeste Gonsalves, First Book-Oahu, James Rumford, Jordan Santos, keiki, Little Lima Bean, Rec-Fest, Watermark Publishing
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posted by M.L. Sanico
Our Book Fair Fundraiser and 8/8 Rec-fest is almost coming to a close, Celeste Gonsalves is all set up now and talking to teens about her new book Teen Wise. She’s a fantastic lady and her enthusiasm and drive have made me an instant fan and admirer. Keep an ear out for [...]
By A.Alba
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Also posted in Book Events, Children's & YA, Fiction, Rec-Fest
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Tagged Barnes & Noble, book reviews, Celeste Gonsalves, First Book-Oahu, Mutual Publishing, Peggy Chun, Rec-Fest, Shelly Mecum, Teen Wise, Watercolor Cat
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Well, we are fast approaching Hour 6 here at Barnes & Noble Kahala. The First Book Oahu gang are here helping to promote the cause and we are still here, closing in on accomplishing our “8 books in 8 hours on 8/8″ goal. I have not eaten since breakfast and I’m starting to get a [...]
By A.Alba
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Also posted in Book Events, Children's & YA, Fiction, Rec-Fest
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Tagged Barnes & Noble, Bess Press, book reviews, First Book-Oahu, keiki, Musubi Baby, Musubi Man, Musubi Man's New Friend, Pat Hall, Rec-Fest, Sandi Takayama
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posted by M.L. Sanico
James Rumford was just here signing books and drawing flowers with the kids (I even drew a flower, it’s a brown plumeria and not nearly as nice as the flowers he draws). He’s promoting his book Max and the Dumb Flower Picture, but Alex and I took this opportunity to buy a [...]
By A.Alba
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Also posted in Book Events, Children's & YA, Fiction, Rec-Fest
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Tagged Barnes & Noble, book reviews, Dog-of-the-Sea-Waves, First Book-Oahu, Hawaiian language, James Rumford, M.L. Sanico, Rec-Fest
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We are halfway through our book recommendation marathon and we are trying our best to keep up! Things have settled down a little as Clifford the Big Red Dog and the keiki song and reading is finished. For the past hour, local author James Rumford has been signing books and promoting Martha Alexander’s wonderful book [...]
By A.Alba
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Also posted in Book Events, Children's & YA, Fiction, Rec-Fest
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Tagged Barnes & Noble, book reviews, First Book-Oahu, Frances H. Kakugawa, James Rumford, Martha Alexander, Melissa DeSica, Rec-Fest, Watermark Publishing, Wordsworth Dances the Waltz
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