- MEMBERSHIP
The ABC Children's Group is dedicated to the enrichment and expansion of children's departments and bookstores, and their readers.
Annual dues are $50.
Bookseller benefits include:
The ABC Best Books for Young Readers catalog, full-color and imprintable, contains recommendations from ABC Group children's booksellers nationwide. The catalog may be used to help build your children’s section, elevate holiday sales, educate staff, and as a foundation for local book fairs and teacher nights. The catalog is distributed in the fall of every year and contains primarily front list titles with descriptions and full bibliographic details.
IndieCommerce members who wish to add the catalog to their sites may use the address yoursitesname.com/holiday/ABC/index.html
Members can contact ABC Group Manager Gen de Botton with any questions or to order copies.
To view PDF files of recent catalogs, please click the links below. These files are large and may take a few minutes to load completely:
2019 ABC Best Books for Young Readers catalog (full)
2018 ABC Best Books for Younger Readers catalog (full)
2017 ABC Best Books for Young Readers catalog (full)
Independent booksellers across the country twice yearly discover and champion twenty titles as the best new talent to share with customers. Indies Introduce highlights 10 children’s debut books selected by teams of booksellers, who seek out the best by first-time authors. Publishers provide varying incentives for titles chose to be in the Indies Introduce program. Each season, the titles, blurbs, and DIY materials are added to BookWeb.org's Design and Downloads section. Indies Introduce also highlights 10 adult titles chosen by a separate panel of booksellers.
Authors, illustrators, publishers, and other supporters of children’s bookselling can subscribe to the ABC Group listserv and request a mailing list of bookstore members. Publisher subscribers can submit titles for consideration to include in the ABC Best Books for Young Readers Catalog, the summer reading program, and the Indies Introduce program.
The entire ABA community benefits from the work and mission of the ABC Group. Any ABA bookstore, regardless of ABC membership, may attend children's bookselling-focused education at ABA events; promote the annual E.B. White Read Aloud Awards; and receive 20 free ABC Children's Best Books for Young Readers catalogs with the option to purchase additional quantities.
Bookstores: Join as an ABC Group Subscriber. You may also opt-in to the ABC Group with your renewal submission.
If you are not currently an ABA member, join ABA and select the opt-in to ABC Children's Group membership on your application.
Publishers*, Authors, Illustrators and Industry Friends: Join as an ABC Group Subscriber.
*Publishers must be ABA members to subscribe to the ABC Children's Group. Authors and illustrators do not need to be ABA members in order to subscribe to the ABC Children's Group.
The American Booksellers Association, a national not-for-profit trade organization, works with booksellers and industry partners to ensure the success and profitability of independently owned book retailers, and to assist in expanding the community of the book.
Independent bookstores act as community anchors; they serve a unique role in promoting the open exchange of ideas, enriching the cultural life of communities, and creating economically vibrant neighborhoods.
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