Bookshop Santa Cruz Birthday Sale Friday - Sunday, November 4 - 6 Bookshop Santa Cruz is celebrating our 56th year with a three-day birthday sale! Friday: Readers Club Only Sale. Friday: EVERYONE is invited to our birthday party: Join us for music and cake at 7:00! Saturday & Sunday: Public Sale in-store ONLY. Receive 20% […]
Bookshop Santa Cruz Presents: Aida Salazar | A SEED IN THE SUN Wednesday, November 9, 6 - 7pm Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes critically acclaimed children's author Aida Salazar, who will join us to share her tender-hearted middle grade novel in verse, A Seed in the Sun, in which a young girl with big dreams meets […]
Wallace J. Nichols | DEAR WILD CHILD Monday, January 30 6 - 7:00pm FREE IN-STORE EVENT: Local author Wallace J. Nichols will share his very special book, Dear Wild Child: You Carry Your Home Inside You, which was written with his daughter and inspired by the CZU Lightning Complex fires of 2020 that destroyed their […]
Bookshop Santa Cruz Presents: Brian Selznick | BIG TREE Tuesday, April 25, 5 - 6:30pm Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Brian Selznick, the #1 bestselling creator and Caldecott Medalist of The Invention of Hugo Cabret. Selznick will share his new book Big Tree, an epic adventure in which the fate of all life on Earth may […]
Bruce and the Legend of Soggy Hollow Monday, October 16, 4 - 5pm FREE IN-STORE EVENT: #1 New York Times bestselling author Ryan T. Higgins will join us to share his newest book Bruce and the Legend of Soggy Hollow—the perfect way to celebrate all things spooky! Bruce is a bear who does not like […]
Bookshop Santa Cruz Presents: Jacqueline Woodson | Remember Us Wednesday, October 25, 6 - 7pm Free In-store Event Join us to welcome acclaimed author and National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson (Brown Girl Dreaming) to the store for a reading and signing of her new middle grade novel, Remember Us, which has received starred reviews […]
Diary of a Wimpy Kid Book 18: No Brainer Friday, October 27, 6 - 7pm SPECIAL TICKETED OFFSITE EVENT Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes #1 New York Times bestselling author Jeff Kinney to the Civic Auditorium for a celebration of the latest installment in his Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, No Brainer! This highly entertaining […]
Meet the Grinch at Bookshop Santa Cruz Sunday, December 2, 2pm Join the Bookshop Santa Cruz for a free story time for the whole family with a reading of the new book Dr. Seuss's How the Grinch Lost Christmas. Story time will be followed by a ticketed photo opportunity with the Grinch himself! The event […]
Meet Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Where Sleeping Girls Lie, at Bookshop Santa Cruz Wednesday, March 27, 7 - 8pm Join us to meet author Faridah Àbiké-Íyímídé (Ace of Spades) in conversation with Kalyn Josephson about her new YA contemporary mystery Where Sleeping Girls Lie. In this "exquisitely crafted paranormal mystery," (Publishers Weekly, starred review) a girl new […]
George O'Connor Reads ASGARDIANS: ODIN at Bookshop Santa Cruz Thursday, March 28, 5-6pm FREE IN-STORE EVENT: Bookshop welcomes bestselling author George O'Connor to the store for a reading and signing of his new graphic novel Asgardians: Odin, which Kirkus, in a starred review, called, "A rainbow bridge to a fresh set of mythological places and […]
Bookshop Santa Cruz: Katy Farina, Karen's Sleepover Wednesday, May 16, 6-7 FREE IN-STORE EVENT Katy Farina, creator of New York Times bestselling graphic novel adaptations of the Baby-sitters Little Sister series by Ann M. Martin, will join us to share Karen's Sleepover, the newest book in the series. Kristy’s little stepsister Karen is having her […]
Meet the Authors and Illustrator of the Princess Black Series Wednesday, September 18, 6pm Bookshop welcomes authors Shannon Hale and Dean Hale and illustrator LeUyen Pham—the award-winning team behind the bestselling Princess in Black series—for a celebration of their new book, The Princess in Black and the Kitty Catastrophe. Ten years after she first donned […]
Storytime with Ivy Last Wednesday of the Month 11-11:15am Join Ivy, our children’s book buyer, at 11:00 am on the last Wednesday of the month for a storytime presentation of some of her favorite picture books! Meet in the kids’ section. Kids Event
Storytime with Ivy Last Wednesday of the Month 11-11:15am Join Ivy, our children’s book buyer, at 11:00 am on the last Wednesday of the month for a storytime presentation of some of her favorite picture books! Meet in the kids’ section. Kids Event
The Little Chefs with author Rosemary Wells Sunday, November 10, 4-5pm FREE IN-STORE EVENT: Bookshop welcomes award-winning author-illustrator Rosemary Wells for a reading and signing of her wonderful new picture book The Little Chefs. "A dash of magic and a whisk of expertise." —Publishers Weekly, starred review Your RSVP helps us plan for your arrival […]
