Children’s Bookselling

Find Waldo Local 2015 begins on Wednesday, July 1, at indie bookstores and other locally owned businesses across the country. The event, sponsored by Candlewick Press and ABA, has become a summer tradition.

Nobrow Press, a London-based graphic novel publisher,  produces unique, sustainably printed graphic novels, comics, and picture books by illustrators from the U.S., the U.K., and other European countries.

Tuesday, June 30, is the deadline for members of the ABC Children’s Group at ABA to submit title recommendations for this year’s ABC Best Books for Young Readers Catalog.

The ABC Children’s Group at ABA is encouraging all member booksellers to submit title recommendations for this year’s ABC Best Books for Young Readers Catalog by June 30.

Booksellers have selected Anything Could Happen, the debut Young Adult novel from Will Walton of Avid Bookshop, as one of the Summer Kids’ Indie Next List’s top picks.

Booksellers, educators, and literacy advocates at April’s ABC Children’s Institute offered insights on what works best for inspiring children to want to read.

The ABC Children’s Group at ABA has revealed the art to be featured on the cover of the 2015 ABC Best Books for Young Readers Catalog, scheduled to land in stores in early October.

A Booktalking Kit, created by We Need Diverse Books and School Library Journal, was shipped to ABA member stores in the Summer Kids’ White Box mailing.

The 15th annual Celebration of Bookselling and Author Awards Luncheon recognized the authors and illustrators who have helped to make bookselling meaningful, rewarding, fulfilling, and fun for independent booksellers over the past year.

The award for this year’s Children’s Book Week Display Contest goes to Elm Street Books in New Canaan, Connecticut, for its creative window display inspired by the official Children’s Book Week poster.

Just Write! connects Village Books to writing community; Penguin Bookshop launches writers series; The Writer’s Block to bring education, events to Las Vegas; Third Place Books owner Ron Sher featured; California’s Bay Books offers personal touch

Here is a look at the top 10 children’s titles for the summer publishing season and an additional 37 titles organized by age group featured on the Summer 2015 Kids’ Indie Next List flier, arriving at stores in the upcoming Children’s White Box.

At the Children’s Institute in Pasadena last month, booksellers and authors at the forefront of the We Need Diverse Books movement shared a host of strategies on how best to promote diverse messages and content through in-store displays, events, and hiring practices.

Here are some of the best tips and tricks for planning engaging story time events that were shared by booksellers at last month’s Children’s Institute.

The ABC Children’s Group at ABA is inviting all member booksellers to submit title recommendations by June 30 for its newly renamed catalog, “ABC Best Books for Young Readers.”