Author: NW Kids

It’s parade season and we’ve got the fever. Marching bands, floats, pets on parade, glow-in-the-dark costumes, crazy rainbows and a ton of community spirit equal a whopping good time.

Northwest publisher, Sasquatch Books, has a new children’s imprint called Little Bigfoot which has recently published a bounty of books perfect for the Pacific Northwest! Here are just a few:   Portland ABC: A Larry Gets Lost Book By John Skewes (Hardcover $14.

By Silvia Smart, Tulen Center I couldn’t hear myself think. Parents shouting. Fans screaming. The gym was shaking.

Photo by Owen Carey Oregon Children’s Theatre’s world premiere of Zombie in Love will totally eat your brain…er…worm its way into your heart.

1. Help keep our beaches pristine and litter free with the annual Solve Spring Beach Clean-up on the Oregon Coast.

Reviews by Cat Wiese and Earl Dizon of Green Bean Books   Spoonful! By Benoit Marchon (Board Book $7.

We are lovers of puppets in our family (and even have a puppeteer among our ranks), so when the chance to see “Monkey King” by Tears of Joy Theatre came up, we were excited to see what these particular puppets were all about.

By Maya Barbon I was so excited as I walked into the beautiful Portland Center for Performing Arts to seeCharlotte’s Web.

Here’s a list of 7 great Portland-area New Year’s events!  What are you doing with the kids New Year’s Eve? Portland Children’s Museum New Year’s Eve Day 10:00am-2:00pm New Year’s at Noon Greasy Kids Stuff will be on hand to help your kids get down and celebrate the New Year.

One of my kids’ favorite things to do on winter evenings is to go Christmas light hunting. Wherever we need to drive somewhere, we make a game of finding as many lights as we can, hollering “CHRISTMAS LIGHTS!” whenever a new set is spotted.