Check out photos from Camp Anderson's

Activities, projects, experiments, games and hands-on fun! From the bookstore to the backyard, we're offering ideas to engage, excite and inspire kids all summer long. Geared for ages 6 through 10. Highlights included the baking soda cork blast off, double-barreled balloon rocket, bird feeder, painting project and dancing raisins.

Click here to see photos from Camp Anderson's.

* With the purchse of The Whizbangs of Oohs and Ahs by Ron Solberg you will receive a free download of an 85 page lesson plan covering the feats of 30 of the most prominent U.S. and Illinois traveling salesmen and saleswomen in history. To receive this offer contact the author.

Fallen
by Lauren Kate
(Delacorte Books for Young Readers)

“Angels, both good and bad, are among us! Fallen is romantic, dark, thrilling and at the same time puts a new twist on immortality. So take wing with exciting romance and adventure and take a break from immortals who want your blood!”
__-Becky Anderson, Anderson's Bookshop, Naperville, IL

Your generosity and enthusiasm touched us all, and resulted in gifts to nearly 2,000 children this holiday season. We appreciate and thank you for bringing so many smiles to local children in need.

Watch our 3-Question Interview with Jon Scieszka from today.

Crime Scene “Fleshed Out”
Gene and Joanne Wagner of Naperville were amazed Sunday to find that their grandson, Henry, who was visiting from out of state “fit” the description of the victim in the Anderson’s Bookshop crime display.

Sisters Maisie, Maddie, and Emily were not in agreement as to their brother’s ultimate fate. Some experts might say the Henry already has “victim issues” by virtue of having three older sisters. Henry would not comment on the incident.

Thanks to the Wagner Family for helping us all have some fun at Anderson’s Bookshop.

Please stop in and let us take your crime scene photo. Some of our featured Crime in the Summertime books are: Public Enemies, The Vendetta, American Lightning, Stiff, Mug Shots, Charlatan, The Good Rat, Freeze Frame, Go Down Together, Bonnie and Clyde and many more...

UPDATE:
Naperville resident Allison Huff underwent successful heart transplant surgery in mid-May, and the family reports that she is doing well! The Heart of a Warrior Raffle raised almost $1200 for the Huff Family and nine lucky winners received various Warrior titles and audio books, all signed by author Erin Hunter. Thanks to all who helped. Visit Allison at www.aheartofawarrior.com

Laurie loves Independents. To show her love, she’s giving a limited edition copy a gorgeous 14×20” broadside about Russell and Holmes (and bees!) to some lucky Independent bookstore customer. Click here to read the full article.

7th Annual Children's Literature Breakfast
Saturday, February 21 from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

The morning will feature a full breakfast, Illinois authors and illustrators, new award-winning and notable books, a book talk by Kathleen March and Jan Dundon, CPDU credits, raffles, door prizes, giveaways, book sales and guest authors: Meg Cabot, Sharon Draper, Steven Kellogg and Peter Yarrow, of Peter, Paul and Mary.
(Click here for more info)

According to a study by the National Endowment for the Arts for the first time in more than 25 years, American adults are reading more literature. To read the full article please click here.

Through January Anderson's Bookshop in Downers Grove and Naperville would like to offer to its customers a 40% discount on selected books, gift items and toys in store. This sale is for a limited time only, through the end of January. All sales are final on sale items. Click here for more info.

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B.Y.O.B.
Bring Your Own Bag

J K Rowling says: “There was understandable disappointment among Harry Potter fans when only one copy of The Tales of Beedle the Bard was offered to the public last December. I am therefore delighted to announce that, thanks to the generous support The Tales of Beedle the Bard will now be widely available to all Harry Potter fans. Royalties will be donated to the Children’s High Level Group, to benefit institutionalised children in desperate need of a voice. The new edition will include the Tales themselves, translated from the original runes by Hermione Granger, and with illustrations by me, but also notes by Professor Albus Dumbledore, which appear by generous permission of the Hogwarts Headmasters’ Archive.”

Containing clues that were to prove crucial to Harry Potter’s final mission to destroy Lord Voldemort’s Horcruxes, The Tales of Beedle the Bard is the volume of five wizarding fairy tales left to Hermione Granger by Albus Dumbledore in the seventh and final book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Only one – The Tale of the Three Brothers – is recounted in the book. In The Tales of Beedle the Bard, the four remaining stories are revealed for the very first time. Their titles are as follows: The Wizard and the Hopping Pot, The Fountain of Fair Fortune, The Warlock's Hairy Heart, Babbitty Rabbitty and her Cackling Stump and The Tale of the Three Brothers.
Stop in to get your copy NOW!!
Downers Grove (630) 963-2665 * Naperville (630) 355-2665

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Anderson’s Bookshops are happy to announce a literary debut from someone in our own backyard. Trisha Prabhu, of Naperville, is a third grader at Welch Elementary School, but the eight-year-old has a new title: author. Her new book, Christmas and Commitment Go Together ($6.00) is available at Anderson’s in Naperville.

“Ever since I was six, I’ve been writing,” explains Trisha, who credits her second grade teacher with inspiring her to write. But this book, from a holiday story she posted on Kidpub.com, is the first she’s published.

When the finished books were delivered to Trisha’s house, she was understandably excited. “I was jumping and whooping and hooping because they had my name on them and everything,” Trisha says.

Trisha stopped in recently, autographed copies of Christmas and Commitment Go Together and talked about some of her favorite things: spelling, math, reading, politics, environmental solutions and Hannah Montana. Anne of Green Gables is her favorite book.

Better make that was her favorite book!