Specialty Bookselling

ABA Membership and Marketing Officer Meg Smith provides a fun look at highlights of the ABC Children’s Institute, which kicks off on Tuesday in Orlando, Florida.

All Children’s Institute attendees are urged to join their colleagues who have already shared the favorite backlist kids’ book they’ll be bringing to the June 21 Welcome Reception and Backlist Book Swap Party.

Kristen McLean, resident children’s specialist at Nielsen Book, will share statistics and studies behind today’s healthy children’s book market during a featured talk at this month’s Children’s Institute.

Here’s a preview of the artwork to be raffled off at the ABC Children’s Institute, including pieces from illustrators Ryan T. Higgins, LeUyen Pham, and Michael Slack.

As part of a larger ABA initiative to provide members with new opportunities to support backlist titles, the Children’s Institute Backlist Book Swap invites all attendees to share their favorite backlist kids’ books with colleagues.

Artwork from a dozen children’s book illustrators will be raffled off later this month at the ABC Children’s Institute.

Based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending May 29, 2016.

At next month’s Children’s Institute, Dr. Dana Suskind will present the featured talk “Thirty Million Words: Building a Child’s Brain,” which will look at how early language exposure through books and conversation can change a child’s future.

The ABC Children’s Group at ABA has revealed the art to be featured on the cover of the 2016 ABC Best Books for Young Readers catalog, scheduled to land in stores in early October.

The award for this year’s Children’s Book Week display contest goes to Wild Rumpus bookstore in Minneapolis, Minnesota, for its creative garden-themed window design inspired by the exciting new children’s books springing up each season.

How to create positive and welcoming spaces for romance readers was the focus of the BEA panel “Creating a Safe Space for Genre Readers in Traditional Literary Strongholds.”

All Children’s Institute attendees planning to participate in the Backlist Book Swap party, which kicks off the institute on Tuesday, June 21, are reminded to pack their favorite kids’ book and a bookmark to share, and to let ABA know now what they’ll be bringing.

This Friday, May 20, is the final day to register for next month’s ABC Children’s Institute in Orlando, Florida.

The Kids’ Indie Next List flier arriving at stores in the upcoming Children’s White Box features the top 10 children’s titles for the summer publishing season and an additional 33 titles organized by age group, plus nine Revisit & Rediscover titles.

Based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending May 15, 2016.