Children’s Book Art Sought for ABFFE Holiday Auction

Illustration from "Have You Seen My Dragon," donated by Steve Light.

The American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression (ABFFE) is asking children’s book artists to help raise money to defend the free speech rights of kids by contributing artwork to an online auction that launches on December 1. The week-long eBay auction will include work by Eric Carle, Rosemary Wells, Jon J Muth, Laura Vaccaro Seeger, and Steve Light. A donation form is available here.

The deadline for submissions is October 31, 2014.

The holiday auction is the online version of the children’s art auction that is held during BookExpo America (BEA)

Proceeds from the auction help support the Kids’ Right to Read Project (KRRP), which is co-sponsored by ABFFE and the National Coalition Against Censorship. Since the start of the school year, KRRP has been fighting a rash of book challenges in school districts from Texas to New York. KRRP helped reinstate seven banned books in Highland Park, Texas, including The Art of Racing in the Rain, The Working Poor: Invisible in America, Siddhartha, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, An Abundance of Katherines, The Glass Castle: A Memoir, and Song of Solomon.

For more information, contact auction manager Inessa Spencer at [email protected] or (212) 587-4025, ext. 6.