Backstory Books & Yarn

Happy Caturday, dragon-style.

We are taking the weekend off from buying books or yarn. You can start bringing your beloved items in for us to buy on Wednesday 7/24.

Family is visiting. Thanks for understanding.

New books

Happy zen Caturday!

Backstory will be closed July 4th

Did you know one of the best downtown coffee shops also sells books?
You can visit our friend Cup of Joe on the bottom floor of Big Pink Monday through Friday.

Happy crocheted Caturday!
Eep! So cute!?

Today we are highlighting a little collection of elephant picture books.
Never enough picture books!!

is happening until 8pm today.
We will be back at it tomorrow 10am-5pm

Never fear, the store is also open all weekend for and our month-long sale.

New books

Some of these will be at the this weekend.

is here - June 10-16th and it turns out there are now 51 bookstores participating. We all have bingo cards to give out and there are a lot of prizes to be won. And a lot of bookstores to discover.

Here are some of the squares Backstory Books and Yarn can tick off on your bingo card:

-Rose City Book and Paper Fair bookseller
-sells used books
-sells rare, collectible and out of print books
-hybrid bookstore
-in SE Portland
-LGBTQAI+ owned bookstore
-your favorite independent bookstore

Choose carefully, you can only get one stamp from us.

Oh what a busy week!
We are pausing all buying for which will be a big, amazing book party all week.

Buying will resume June 17th.
Thank you for your patience.

Happy crochet Caturday!

To the we will be bringing this fantastic and idiosyncratic book of cats and kittens photographed in front of textile backgrounds, many of them crocheted.

Happy sale month Caturday!

For the month of June, buy 3 books or yarn and get one free.

Backstory Books & Yarn Backstory is a neighborhood bookstore and second-hand knit shop. Books & yarn bought and traded.

Happening now at our neighbor

An interesting and timely poem in an altogether odd book from 1929


Also we are open as usual this Memorial Day. 12-6pm.

This week’s favorite picture books - bold graphics, anthropomorphic animals knitting, racing, and otherwise being adorable: what’s not to love?!

I neglected to mention the lovely locally made yarn bowls that has been making for the shop.
Here are a couple of pretty adorable ones.

Newly organized and color-coded circular needles, plus some other yarn room stuff. We are newly stocked up on felting needles.

Portland Book Week is coming - June 10-16

Join us all over the region for a 48-bookstore bookstore crawl, including the Rose City Book & Paper Fair

Below is a link to buy shirts celebrating the first year of this very exciting event. Buying shirts helps us fundraise for the costs of the event.

https://www.bonfire.com/store/portland-book-week/

Boy, do we have board books!? There are so many used and new, classics, science, and on and on.
Come shopping for the baby in your life.

Happy country Caturday!
With news that we are open until 7pm on Fridays and Saturdays, until the sun starts going away in September.