ABFFE Asks for Help Promoting Holiday Art Auction

The American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression (ABFFE) is urging booksellers, artists, and other supporters of the free speech rights of kids to help promote its latest auction of children’s book art.

The Holiday Children’s Book Art Auction, which supports the free speech rights of kids, launches on eBay at noon EST on Tuesday, November 26, and will feature more than 70 pieces, many of them originals, by leading artists and illustrators working in the book industry today.

“We need help telling people about this wonderful source of holiday gifts,” ABFFE President Chris Finan said. “If you have a website, you can connect directly to the auction using our new web badge. Or you can just tell a friend.”

The web badge can be copied from the ABFFE website and connected to eBay using the link here. It is also available to ABA member stores in the BookWeb DIY’s Designs & Downloads.

The holiday auction is the online version of the annual children’s book art auction held during BookExpo America (BEA). Proceeds help support the Kids’ Right to Read Project, co-founded by ABFFE and the National Coalition Against Censorship, and Banned Books Week, the national celebration of the freedom to read.

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