The ABC Children’s Group and the Children’s Book Council (CBC) are partnering to produce the BookExpo favorite Children's Book Art Silent Auction. The event will benefit American Booksellers for Free Expression (ABFE) and Every Child a Reader. Award-winning children's book illustrator LeUyen Pham will serve as honorary chair of the event. This year’s Silent Art Auction program will honor Ursula Nordstrom, publisher and editor-in-chief of children's books at Harper & Row from 1940-1973 whose initial stable of authors included Margaret Wise Brown, Arnold Lobel, and Maurice Sendak. Tickets are on sale now [1]. ABC Children's Group members should email Gen de Botton [2] for a promotional code to get in for free.