Specialty Bookselling

From the 21st Annual Children’s Book Art Auction and Reception on Tuesday evening, May 26, to the ABC/CBC Tea With Children’s Book Authors & Illustrators on Friday afternoon, May 29, BookExpo America offers a variety of programming with special appeal for children’s booksellers.

As Florida’s only feminist bookstore, Wild Iris Books goes well beyond its four walls to create a place for social, cultural, and educational events that celebrate diversity and originality.

Bookselling This Week talks with Charlesbridge, which produces high-quality, engaging books that promote discovery, wonder, and a positive world view.

Based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending March 8, 2015.

Kristen McLean, the founder and CEO of Bookigee and co-chair of Nielsen’s Children’s Book Summit, will present a review of the U.S. children’s book market, with a deep-dive into the latest trends in pricing, volume, genres, gifting, and more, at the 2015 ABC Children’s Institute.

In celebration of the 96th annual Children’s Book Week, running this year from May 4 to 10, booksellers are once again invited to participate in the Children’s Book Week Display Contest.

At a Winter Institute panel presented by the ABC Children’s Group at ABA, booksellers offered strategies for communicating with customers about products, encouraging and training staff to upsell, and buying and displaying book and non-book pairings to maximize sales.

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

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.

Based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending March 1, 2015.

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.”