40 Children’s Institute Scholarship Winners Named

Forty booksellers have been named the recipients of scholarships to the April 19 – 21 ABC Children’s Institute (Ci3), to be held in Pasadena, California. Among the scholarships are nine supported by Baker & Taylor, the event’s lead sponsor, and three from the Book Industry Charitable Foundation (Binc), a non-profit dedicated to providing financial assistance to booksellers since 1996.

“The American Booksellers Association extends its sincere thanks to all of the Children’s Institute’s sponsors who, by their ongoing support, recognize the importance of independent booksellers in fostering a love of reading among children and in ensuring a diversity of titles is available in communities nationwide,” said Senior Program Officer Joy Dallanegra-Sanger.

Each Children’s Institute scholarship covers airfare or ground transportation up to $400, a two-night stay at the host hotel, the Pasadena Hilton, and the institute conference fee.

The 2015 ABC Children’s Institute scholarship winners are:

• Abrams/Amulet Books: Lynn Mooney, Women & Children First, Chicago, IL
• Albert Whitman & Co.: Sharon Hoshida, Granada Books, Santa Barbara, CA
• Algonquin/Workman: Joel Crockett, Four-Eyed Frog Books, Gualala, CA
• Baker & Taylor: Arantzazu “Zazu” Galdos, The Bookloft, Great Barrington, MA
• Baker & Taylor: Susan Kunhardt, Book Passage, Corte Madera, CA
• Baker & Taylor: Angie Kelsey, The Book Seller, Grass Valley, CA
• Baker & Taylor: Neil Van Uum, The Booksellers at Laurelwood, Memphis, TN
• Baker & Taylor: Betsy Balyeat, The Book Stall at Chestnut Court, Winnetka, IL
• Baker & Taylor: Richard De Wyngaert, Head House Books, Philadelphia, PA
• Baker & Taylor: Julie Shimada, Maria’s Bookshop, Durango, CO
• Baker & Taylor: Sarah Hutton, Village Books, Bellingham, WA
• Baker & Taylor: Lydia Sparksworthy, Warwick’s, La Jolla, CA
• Book Industry Charitable Foundation (Binc): Eileen Fesco, Book Mouse, Ottawa, IL
• Book Industry Charitable Foundation (Binc): Cinda Meister, BookSmart, Morgan Hill, CA
• Book Industry Charitable Foundation (Binc): Sarah Cuadra, Storybook Garden, Weslaco, TX
• Bloomsbury: Erin Barker, Hooray for Books!, Alexandria, VA
• Candlewick Press: Amy Oelkers, Red Balloon Bookshop, St. Paul, MN
• Charlesbridge Publishing: Natalie Sober, A Very Little Bookstore, Summerville, SC
• Chronicle Books:  Diane Capriola, Little Shop of Stories, Decatur, GA
• Consortium Book Sales & Distribution: Claudia Maceo, The Twig Book Shop, San Antonio, TX
• Disney Book Group: Amy Dean, Blue Manatee Children’s Bookstore & Decafé, Cincinnati, OH
• Flying Eye Books/Nobrow: Jody Breneman, G. Willikers Toy Shop, Portsmouth, NH
• Groundwood: Barbara Khan, Jack and Allie’s, Vernon, CT
• Hachette/Little, Brown Books for Young Readers: Ann Seaton, Hicklebee’s, San Jose, CA
• Harlequin: Jesica DeHart, BookPeople of Moscow, Moscow, ID
• HarperCollins Children’s Books: Sharon Hearn, Children’s Book World, Los Angeles, CA
• HarperCollins Children’s Books: Cody Steffen, Lift Bridge Book Shop, Brockport, NY
• Ingram/Ingram Publisher Services:  Robin Gross, Books on the Square, Providence, RI
• Lerner: Hannah Moushabeck, Odyssey Bookshop, South Hadley, MA
• Macmillan: Leisel Freudenstein, Boulder Book Store, Boulder, CO
• Owlkids: Jennifer Green, Green Bean Books, Portland, OR
• Penguin Young Readers Group: Angie Tally, The Country Bookshop, Southern Pines, NC
• Publishers Group West: Amanda Hurley, Inkwood Books, Tampa, FL
• Random House Children’s Books: Jennifer Armstrong, Northshire Bookstore, Manchester Center, VT
• Running Press Kids: Shirley Mullin, Kids Ink Chidlren’s Bookstore, Indianapolis, IN
• Scholastic: Jacqueline Kellachan, The Golden Notebook, Woodstock, NY
• Seven Stories: Dell Swearer, Bluebird Books, Hutchinson, KS
• Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing: Hannah R. Smith, The Doylestown Bookshop, Doylestown, PA
• Sourcebooks: Joanna Parzakonis, Bookbug, Kalamazoo, MI
• Wm. B. Eerdmans/Eerdman’s Books for Young Readers: Michelle Cavalier, Cavalier House Books, Denham Springs, LA

Registration for the Children’s Institute is now closed; booksellers who would like to attend can add their names to a waitlist here. Those on the waitlist will be contacted on a first-come, first-served basis if space becomes available.

Registration was open to all bookseller members of ABA, with a maximum of five registrants per member business.