Books

This well-known Grimms' fairy tale takes on a new twist in a Pacific Northwest setting. A young girl who lives by the Salish Sea inherits a red-vel...

What is it like to live on an island?Award-winning author Emma Bland Smith explores what it's like to grow up on an island in the Pacific Northwest...

Helen Sommers served in the Washington House of Representatives from 1972 to 2009. She represented the 36th district as a Democrat. At the time of ...

The Washington State Legislature Oral History Program documents the history of the Legislature in Washington State, capturing and preserving person...

Leonard Alson Sawyer represented the 25th district as a Democrat initially elected in 1955, serving until 1975. He was Speaker of the House from 19...

From the Washington State Legislature Oral History Program, these books capture and preserve personal recollections and perspectives of individuals...

The second-oldest town in Washington is Coupeville, founded in 1853. Until the white settlement of the 1850s, the Lower Skagit Indians lived in fou...

Stevens County was first inhabited by a Paleo-Indian culture that occupied Kettle Falls along the Columbia River for 9,000 years. A gathering place...

Mastodons roamed the plains of Sequim and Dungeness in the years following the recession of the Cordilleran ice sheets. Millennia later, the villag...

Color the Pacific Northwest is an inky exploration of the people, places, plants, and popular culture that define Oregon, Washington, and British C...

Ferryboat Ride is a child's eye view, crystallized in a sequence of colourful miniature poems. The exhilirating movement of the boat through this u...

A bright, energetic retelling of a beloved children's rhyme, with a Pacific Northwest twist. "There was an old lady who swallowed a troutThat splis...

Open the flaps to follow an adorable young bigfoot (a.k.a., Sasquatch) on a day-long adventure in a warm and vibrant magical-realist Pacific Northw...

On a sunny August morning in 2016, a baby sea otter was found washed up on the sand. Orphaned and sick, Rialto was taken to the Seattle Aquarium, w...

This beautiful natural history counting book features artist Nikki McClure's stunning papercut artwork of flora and fauna found in and alongside th...

Good Night Washington State features Mount Rainier, Spokane, the Pacific Ocean, Puget Sound, Olympic National Park, volcanoes, the Cascade Range, H...

Thick-framed eyewear and skinny jeans abound in this refreshing rendition of the classic Twelve Days of Christmas carol that finally answers the ag...

The Olympic Mountains rise up from the sea with moss-draped forests growing right to the water's edge. Glaciers crown steep slopes while alpine mea...

Located in western Washington, Pierce County includes much of the southern Puget Sound shoreline, the entirety of Mount Rainier National Park, and ...

The Washington State Capitol Campus is the heart of state government. Olympia was designated the capital of Washington Territory in 1853. The ...

The story of Mount St. Helens is that of an active volcano and human interaction with it. The mountain is culturally important to the regional nati...

A Washington Statehouse Mystery.  Politically active Yakima Valley dairy farmer, Fortis Henry, is found floating face down in his brand-new livesto...

A Washington Statehouse Mystery.  The scenic campus of the Washington state capitol is outwardly calm, but the Legislature is in session and no one...

Sausage is an unvarnished behind-the-scenes look at how Congress works -- or sometimes, doesn't work. Written by former Congressman Denny Heck of W...