Children’s Bookselling

Here is a preview of the titles on the September/October 2023 Kids’ Indie Next List flier, arriving at stores in the upcoming Kids’ Box mailing.

“This beautiful and heartbreaking story explores the power of love, grief, and taking those first steps towards moving on,” said Beth Seufer Buss of Bookmarks in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

The full-color, sixteen-page consumer circular is slated to be in stores in late September.

“An oddly delightful and delightfully odd story that is wonderfully drawn and concisely told. Follow our runaway heroine as she happens upon a kindred spirit embodied (or, disembodied) in a skull. Witty, with a dash of dark humor,” said Ernio Hernandez of River Bend Bookshop in Glastonbury, Connecticut.

Here is a preview of the titles on the July/August 2023 Kids’ Indie Next List flier, arriving at stores in the upcoming Kids’ Box mailing.

ABA staff are putting the finishing touches on their costumes for the 2023 Children’s Institute Costume Party, which all attendees are encouraged to participate in.

“Through exquisite art and spacious language, Big Tree is told by sibling sycamore seeds making their way in the world. It is captivating, empowering, and impactful; written for a young audience and to be enjoyed by all,” said Meghan Bousquet of Titcomb’s Bookshop in East Sandwich, Massachusetts.

Here is a preview of the titles on the May/June 2023 Kids’ Indie Next List flier, arriving at stores in the upcoming Kids’ Box mailing.

“A beautiful children’s graphic novel full of wonder, magic, warmth, and a touching story about community, responsibility, and burnout,” said Caleb Masters of Bookmarks in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Here is a preview of the titles on the March/April 2023 Kids’ Indie Next List flier, arriving at stores in the upcoming Kids’ Box mailing.

“Prepare to be captivated, entranced, and inspired by these four memorable young women,” said Kaliisha Cole of Whitelam Books in Reading, Massachusetts.

Here is a preview of the titles on the January/February 2023 Kids’ Indie Next List flier, arriving at stores in the upcoming Kids’ Box mailing.

We Deserve Monuments is an absolute stunner. An intergenerational mystery, a tribute to first love, and one of the best YA books I’ve read in the last decade,” said Nicole Brinkley of Oblong Books in Rhinebeck, New York.

Here is a preview of the titles on the November/December 2022 Kids’ Indie Next List flier, arriving at stores in the upcoming Kids’ Box mailing.

“Kwame Alexander will break your heart in half the words other authors might need,” said Gwen Papp of Literati Bookstore in Ann Arbor, Michigan.