Welcome to the Dragonwings Bookstore Blog!
Our favorite books (new and old), fun new products, upcoming store events, Waupaca activities, author visits, Waupaca school district events and more. Comments, share, and visit often!Open With Limited Hours
Dragonwings and The Bookcellar are open this summer with limited hours: Monday – Saturday 10:00 – 2:00. We have lots of games on hand: board games, card games, educational games, and easy games for the youngest players. Really, as young as 18 months! The Roll & Play Game has large, soft, colorful dice and color-coded [...]
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June 18, 2020 |
Category: Activities, Blog, Book Picks, Great Gifts, News, Staff Picks, Toy Picks, Uncategorized | Comments: none | Tags: dragonwings, Kids, Waupaca
Help Break the Reading Record!
On October 6th Dragonwings Bookstore is is planning to help break a world record for the largest shared reading experience in history. You can join us, and more than 2 million children and adults across the country and around the globe, by reading Llama Llama Red Pajama by Anna Dewdney. We will be attempting to [...]
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September 29, 2011 |
Category: Activities, Blog, Events, News | Comments: none | Tags: book, Bookstore, dragonwings, Kids, literacy, Llama Llama, pledge, Read for the Record, Waupaca
Field Trip to Dragonwings Bookstore
Students from the Learning Cottage Daycare and Preschool went on a Field Trip to Dragonwings Bookstore last week. They each wore hand-decorated sun visors and carried slings for their water bottles. At Dragonwings they hunted for dragons, raced cars on the Ramp Racer, set up the train set, held a Fastrack competition, and prepared and [...]
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August 1, 2011 |
Category: Events, Fun Photos, News | Comments: none | Tags: dragonwings, Field Trip, Fun, game, Kids, reading, Waupaca
GUYS READ SUPER SATURDAY
WIN AN ORIGAMI YODA Have you heard of Origami Yoda – a best-selling, middle school book by Tom Angleberger? It’s a funny story, with a strange plot, that will keep you guessing, even after you’ve finished reading it. Amazing Coincidence: Boys will be making origami Yodas at Guys Read Super Saturday at the Waupaca Public [...]
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February 2, 2011 |
Category: Events | Comments: none | Tags: amazing coincidence, mini golf course, ORIGAMI, SATURDAY, strange plot, survival skills, Waupaca, waupaca public library, YODA, Yodas
John Green at the Waupaca Book Festival Oct. 1-2
JOHN GREEN IS COMING TO WAUPACA! Waupaca Book Festival Oct. 1-2 John Green – Keynote Speaker Friday Oct. 1 Waupaca High School 3:30PM John Green with Amy Krouse Rosenthal Saturday Oct. 2 Waupaca Rec Center 9:00AM Waupaca Book Festival Can you believe it? John Green, the bestselling author of Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of [...]
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September 28, 2010 |
Category: Events | Comments: none | Tags: amy krouse rosenthal, book, fellow author, keynote speaker, Oct, plane fare, Printz, Rec, traffic jams, Waupaca
Dragonwings Summer Camp Activities for Kids Fun for Kids at Dragonwings, Waupaca WI
RACING PLANES AND CARS Cars and planes will be racing at Dragonwings Summer Camp workshop on Tuesday, July 20th. Campers will choose and assemble their own balsa wood airplanes and balloon car racers, then construct an obstacle course and start racing! Camp begins at 3:00PM and ends at 4:00PM. For ages 8-12 (ages 4-7 with [...]
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July 19, 2010 |
Category: Activities | Comments: none | Tags: balloon car, balsa wood airplanes, camp workshop, CARS, dragonwings, obstacle course, Waupaca, waupaca wi, wood, workshop
Camp Dragonwings Summertime Activities for Kids Fun for Kids at Dragonwings Waupaca, WI
Darts and Spinners Challenge – Test Your SkillsOur new summer camp series of workshops starts next week! At this first session we will give each camper their very own safety dart set and a dueling spinners set. We will give a demonstration of our amazing skills (yikes!), then everyone gets to practice, and after that, [...]
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June 29, 2010 |
Category: Activities | Comments: none | Tags: distance project, Kids, Registration, series, sharon lovejoy, Spinners, summer workshop series, summertime activities, Waupaca, waupaca wi
Dragonwings Bookstore Fun for Kids Waupaca, WI Our Dragon Friends Are Missing!
Help!We have a problem here at Dragonwings. Our dragon friends Stripe, Flame, and Scales are missing! The last time we saw the mischievous threesome they were reading My Father’s Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett. My Father’s Dragon is the story of a young boy named Elmer Elevator who goes on an adventure to save a [...]
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June 22, 2010 |
Category: Activities | Comments: none | Tags: being held hostage, Bookstore, dragon friends, dragonwings, elmer elevator, Kids, Missing, ruth stiles gannett, Waupaca, wild island
Dragonwings Bookstore Fun for Kids Waupaca, WI The Lonely Hearts Club
The Lonely Hearts Club by Elizabeth Eulberg “Yesterday, love was such and easy game to play…” but now Penny Lane Bloom knows better. As Penny puts it, guys are “lying, cheating scum of the earth.” Rather than looking for romance, she swearing it off, for good (or at least for the next ten years or [...]
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Category: book-reviews | Comments: none | Tags: Bookstore, dragonwings, easy voice, heart ache, initial membership, Kids, lonely hearts club, scum of the earth, Waupaca, Yesterday
Dragonwings Bookstore Fun for Kids Waupaca, WI Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer
Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer by John Grisham While Theodore might not be old enough to take the bar exam or even drive a car, his legal knowledge earns him the respect of his classmates as well as many adults in the legal system. Both of Theodore’s parents are lawyers, allowing Theodore access to the courtroom [...]
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Category: book-reviews | Comments: none | Tags: bar exam, Bookstore, car, classmates, dragonwings, knowledge, legal knowledge, murder trial, trial lawyer, Waupaca