Children’s Bookselling

BEA has announced the authors who will speak at the 2016 Children’s Author Breakfast on Friday, May 13, at the McCormick Center in Chicago.

Programming for children’s booksellers at the upcoming Winter Institute includes four sessions presented by the ABC Children’s Group at ABA, plus opportunities to learn about new children’s, middle grade, and young adult books and authors.

Quail Ridge Books to relocate; One Grand opens permanent shop in the Catskills; Parnassus Books plans expansion; St. Mark’s GoFundMe campaign underway; Phoenix Books launches annual food drive

Baby Boomers featured as pillars of indie bookselling; Utah goes local during “Shift Your Spending” week; Unabridged Bookstore to mark 35 years; Battenkill Books opens new children’s room

Newbery Award-winning author and literacy advocate Kwame Alexander will deliver the Tuesday breakfast keynote “The Idea Business: A Life Spent Writing and Selling Books” at Winter Institute 2016. Alexander talks here about his writing career, literacy action projects, and more.

This holiday season, booksellers in New England and Northern California are participating in hand-selling initiatives to show the power of independent booksellers to influence the sales and success of diverse books for young readers.

This holiday season, We Need Diverse Books is challenging booksellers to shine the spotlight on Margarita Engle’s Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl’s Courage Changed Music, an initiative to effect change through the power of the hand-sell.

BookHampton South finds new owners; BookBar opens bed and breakfast; Second Star to the Right nurtures young readers; Mitchell Kaplan reflects on Books & Books’ success 

Adam Shaughnessy is the author of The Entirely True Story of the Unbelievable FIB, a Summer/Fall 2015 Indies Introduce pick for middle-grade readers, which Kathleen McGonagle of Buttonwood Books & Toys called “an entertaining and engaging mixture of adventure, sleuthing, and mythology.” 

Here are the titles, along with bookseller quotes, featured on the Winter 2015–2016 Kids’ Indie Next List flier, arriving at stores in the upcoming Children’s White Box.

Booksellers can supplement their supplies of the 2015 ABC Best Books for Young Readers Catalog by placing an order now via an online form.

Kate Scelsa is the author of Fans of the Impossible Life, a Summer/Fall 2015 Indies Introduce title for young adults, which features a trio of friends that Laura Donohoe of Malaprop’s Bookstore/Café called “three of the most interesting and authentic young adult voices I have ever read.”

U.K. indies report book sales up 30 percent during “Books Are My Bag” campaign; Authors share #BooksThatHooked in Twitter campaign; HarperCollins acquires e-Book deals newsletter The Midlist

Nicholas Gannon is the author of The Doldrums, a Summer/Fall 2015 Indies Introduce title for middle-grade readers. Katie Orphan from The Last Bookstore called The Doldrums “a charming novel, sure to please fans of A Series of Unfortunate Events and Joan Aiken.”

ABA’s new Revisit & Rediscover program aims to highlight favorite backlist titles through a regular feature in the monthly Indie Next List and quarterly Kids’ Indie Next List fliers.