Children’s Bookselling

Forty booksellers have been named the recipients of scholarships to the April 19 – 21 ABC Children’s Institute, to be held in Pasadena, California.

Registration for the 2015 ABC Children's Institute is now closed; however, booksellers can add their names to a waitlist.

Becky Anderson running for Naperville City Council; Teaching for Change to hand reins to Politics & Prose; Bluebird Books makes plans to expand; The Bookman has new owners; New Bo Books becomes Next Page Bookstore; A Children’s Place relocates; Women & Children First to celebrate history; Phoenix Books makes good on food drive challenge

Registration for the 2015 ABC Children’s Institute is expected to reach maximum capacity within the next couple of days. Booksellers who would like to attend should register now.

The staff at Between the Covers in Harbor Springs, Michigan, celebrated the success of one of their own last week at an in-store launch party for bookseller Alison DeCamp’s new middle grade novel My Near-Death Adventures (99% True!).

Beginning with today’s National Indie Bestseller List, the Children’s Interest list has been expanded into two separate lists: Early & Middle Grade Readers and Young Adult.

The official 2015 Children’s Book Week poster, commemorating the 96th year of the reading and literacy celebration, was designed by Grace Lee, a storybook artist for Disney Publishing Worldwide.

Leslie Hawkins of Spellbound Children’s Bookshop, Kerri Poore of Politics & Prose, and Jessica Stockton Bagnulo of Greenlight Bookstore discussed how to implement and manage book-of-the-month clubs and online registries at a Winter Institute session moderated by Holly Weinkauf of Red Balloon Bookshop.

Bestselling author Jon Scieszka, a nationally recognized reading advocate and the founder of Guys Read, has joined the Children’s Institute panel “Reaching Reluctant Readers.”

Registration for the 2015 ABC Children’s Institute is expected to reach maximum capacity within the next several days; booksellers who want to attend should register now.

The winners of the 2015 WNBA Pannell Award will be chosen by the Pannell Awards jury from 18 nominees in the general bookstore category and eight in the children’s category.

Booksellers who want to attend the 2015 ABC Children’s Institute are encouraged to register as soon as possible as space is limited. The event, to be held April 19 – 21 at California’s Hilton Pasadena, is open to all ABA bookseller members.

At the Winter Institute education session “Campaigning for Diversity — Expanding Your Inventory and Customer Base,” panelists discussed how booksellers can best find, feature, and share diverse books for children in their stores.

The Bookworm of Edwards has launched the Wiggle Worms story time channel on YouTube, featuring Children’s Director Franny Gustafson reading aloud new and classic picture books.

Here are the top 10 children’s titles for the spring publishing season and an additional 35 titles organized by age group, based on recommendations from booksellers at independent bookstores across the country.