From Portland, Oregon

Portland, Oregon

Portland is a city located in the Pacific Northwest, near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 Census, it had a population of 583,776, making it the 29th most populous city in the United States...

, Bart King is an American author of adult and children's non-fiction

Non-fiction

Non-fiction is the form of any narrative, account, or other communicative work whose assertions and descriptions are understood to be fact...

, specifically guidebooks

GUIdebook

GUIdebook is a website that contains screenshots of computer software.It shows a visual history of the software's user interface. It includes operating systems like Mac OS and Windows, desktop environments like GNOME and KDE, portable operating systems like Newton OS and Windows CE, and...

. He is also a middle school teacher and public speaker. At PSU

Portland State University

Portland State University is a public state urban university located in downtown Portland, Oregon, United States. Founded in 1946, it has the largest overall enrollment of any university in the state of Oregon, including undergraduate and graduate students. It is also the only public university in...

, his one non-fiction book for adults, An Architectural Guidebook to Portland, is required reading for a course covering the history and current affairs of the city.

Works

• An Architectural Guidebook to Portland (2001)
• The Big Book of Boy Stuff (2004)
• The Big Book of Girl Stuff (2006)
• The Pocket Guide to Mischief (2008)
• The Pocket Guide to Games (2008)
• The Pocket Guide to Brilliance (2009)
• The Pocket Guide to Boy Stuff (2009)
• The Pocket Guide to Girl Stuff (2009)
• The Pocket Guide to Magic (2009)
• The Big Book of Gross Stuff (2010)
• Bart's King-Sized Book of Fun (2010)
• The Big Book of Spy Stuff (2011)

Awards

In 2004, King's The Big Book of Boy Stuff won ForeWord Magazine

ForeWord (magazine)

ForeWord is a trade journal published six times yearly with the tagline, “Reviews of Good Books Independently Published.” The magazine is distributed primarily to librarians and booksellers to familiarize them with upcoming books from small, independent, and university presses, as well as...

's Book of the Year gold medal award for best young adult book. The following year the book won the Independent Publisher Award

Independent Publisher Book Award

The Independent Publisher Book Awards , launched in 1996, are designed to bring increased recognition to titles published by independent authors and publishers...

in the Children's Interactive category. Two years later, in 2007, The Big Book of Boy Stuff won the New York Book Festival's award in the teenage category.