Book Sense at Five -- The Celebration Continues!

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In this month's White Box you'll find a set of shelf-talkers for the 25 titles chosen as "The Best of the First Five Years of Book Sense" as well as copies of consumer take-aways for both the adult and children's titles that served as the ballots for your choices of the Best Books.

We hope you will make good use of these sales aids in your "Best Books" summer displays, and would invite you to send photographs of those displays to us, to be shared with publishers as well as possibly appearing in upcoming ads in Publisher's Weekly or inserts in The New Yorker. If you would like additional copies of either of the take-away brochures or the shelf-talker set, please contact me at [email protected]. Thanks for your participation!

The July White Box also brings a summer's day picnic of offerings from our Publisher Partners including:

Galleys, ARCs, and Finished Books

Children's and Young Adult Interest:

  • Hyperion Books for children offers F&G's of ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISSI: A Life of Joy, written by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and illustrated by Dennis Nolan
  • Also from HBFC, SON OF THE MOB: Hollywood Hustle, by veteran author Gordon Korman
  • A co-publishing venture by Hyperion Books for Children and Miramax, THE LEGEND OF SPUD MURPHY is the first in a new chapter-book series from Book Sense Book of the Year finalist Eoin Colfer, illustrated by Glenn McCoy
  • And to be co-published by HBFC and Disney Editions, a collaborative event from the pens of two respected adult authors, Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson entitled PETER AND THE STARCATCHERS
  • Scholastic brings you news of three new titles: CHILDREN OF THE LAMP: The Akhenaten Adventure by P. B. Kerr; the newest from Pam Munoz Ryan, BECOMING NAOMI LEON; and Ann M. Martin's latest, HERE TODAY

And for Adult readers:

  • SAMMY'S HILL, a first novel set on Capitol Hill by Kristen Gore (yes, of that Gore family) to be published by Miramax
  • From Penguin Press, WE ARE ALL THE SAME: A Story of a Boy's Courage and a Mother's Love by Jim Wooten
  • From Dutton, a thriller entitled GOOD NEWS, BAD NEWS by David Wolstencroft
  • MIRA brings you SWEET DREAMS AT THE GOODNIGHT MOTEL by Curtiss Ann Matlock
  • THE IRON CIRCLE: The True Story of Dominiquie Vandenberg, as told to Rick Rever is offered by the Volt imprint of Bonus Books
  • Penguin Books invites you to read about EVERY INCH OF HER, a novel by Peter Sheridan

Sell sheets, excerpt booklets, CD samplers, postcards, brochures, bookmarks, and more from:

Disinformation Company (distributed by National Book Network), HarperCollins, Greenleaf Book Group, Listening Library, Alyson Books (distributed by Consortium), Abrams, Kaplan (distributed by Simon & Schuster), Carl R. Sams, Roaring Brook (now a part of Holt Books for Young Readers), Rodale, St. Martin's, Portable Press (PGW), Harlequin, and others

Best wishes for a continued strong summer selling season! Please be sure to be in touch if you need additional copies of the 2004 Book Sense Summer Paperback Picks List, or any of the other recent Picks Lists or stickers. We look forward to hearing from you and especially to seeing photos of your displays!

Until next month,
Cheers,

Mark Nichols
Director, Book Sense Marketing
[email protected]
(914) 591-2665, ext. 1240

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