Children’s Bookselling

Booksellers now have until next Thursday, September 10, to place their orders for additional copies of the 2015 ABC Best Books for Young Readers Catalog.

Stephanie Tromly is the author of Trouble Is a Friend of Mine, a Summer/Fall 2015 Indies Introduce title for middle grade readers and a top Summer 2015 Kids’ Indie Next List pick. “This is what a YA book should be — smart, funny, and surprising. A terrific read!” said Margaret Neville of The King’s English.

Here, by category, are the more than 200 titles featured in the 2015 ABC Best Books for Young Readers Catalog. The deadline for catalog orders is this Tuesday, September 1.

Tamara Ellis Smith is the author of Another Kind of Hurricane, a Summer/Fall 2015 Indies Introduce title for middle-grade readers that follows two very different characters, Zavion and Henry, as each recovers from a terrible tragedy.

Copperfield’s to open branch location in Novato; op.cit. opens in Taos; Petunia’s Place a literary haven for children and adults

Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, is hosting an all-family story time and book drive on August 22 in response to a recent controversy over the book King & King, which led two educators at a nearby school to resign.

Albert Whitman & Company, which has been publishing entertaining educational and issue-based children’s books for 96 years, recently adjusted its focus to become more trade market-friendly.

ABA member stores have less than two weeks left to place their orders for this year’s ABC Best Books for Young Readers Catalog. The 20-page, full-color consumer catalog will feature more than 200 frontlist and backlist titles for children and teens.

Here is a look at the 51 titles on the Autumn 2015 Kids’ Indie Next List flier, arriving at stores in the upcoming Children’s White Box.

Texas-Amazon sales tax deal beneficial to state; Bodleian Library Publishing launches children’s imprint; Macmillan’s Sargent promoted at Holtzbrinck; Vatican official translates Diary of a Wimpy Kid into Latin; Columbia University Press to cease distribution of Dalkey Archive; Bookmasters signs distribution deals with Paragon House, Flame Tree Publishing

ABA’s fourth ABC Children’s Institute will be held June 21–23, 2016, at the Wyndham Orlando Resort International in Orlando, Florida, immediately preceding the American Library Association’s Annual Conference.

Orders for this year’s 20-page, full-color ABC Best Books for Young Readers Catalog are being accepted through September 1 via a form on BookWeb.org.

Inspired by the We Need Diverse Books initiative, Young Adult authors Cori McCarthy and Amy Rose Capetta have launched the Rainbow Boxes campaign to bring LGBTQIA titles to young readers in each state by way of homeless youth shelters, gay-straight alliances, and community libraries.

Find Waldo Local’s fourth year wrapped up last week after a month-long celebration of the shop local movement in downtown business districts across the country.

La Grange welcomes new Anderson’s Bookshop branch; M. Judson opens its doors; BookBar’s Happier Hour in the spotlight