Specialty Bookselling

Kickstarter campaign underway for new bookstore in D.C.; Giovanni’s Room to reopen in September; The Bookworm plans to relocate; Laurel Book Store to move to downtown Oakland

Presented here by category are the more than 200 titles featured in this year’s ABC Best Books for Children Catalog.

Boston makes way for Ducklings Storytime Store at Faneuil Hall; Candlewick, Porter Square bring children’s books to farmer’s market; Knoxville’s Union Avenue Books thrives

Based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending August 17, 2014.

As a benefit of ABA membership, booksellers have unlimited access to all session videos and handouts from 2014’s ABC Children’s Institute, as well as handouts and select videos from Winter Institute 9 and other educational resources. 

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

breathe books’ Weis-Bohlen ready to turn the page; Oxford Exchange to feature Rizzoli “Studio” site; Florida stores plan Bookstore Day; Weller Book Works celebrates 85 years of bookselling; Strand launches Signed First Editions subscriptions; Carmichael’s Kids opens

Orders for additional copies of this year’s ABC Best Books for Children Catalog must be placed by September 1 via BookWeb’s online order form.

ABA member stores can place their orders for this year’s ABC Best Books for Children Catalog from now until September 1 via an online order form on BookWeb.org.

Readers who preorder signed, personalized copies of Alan Gratz’s The League of Seven from Malaprop’s Bookstore/Café will receive a specially printed, numbered chapbook featuring a short story prequel to the trilogy. 

Based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending July 20, 2014.

Based on sales at hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending July 6, 2014.

Livia Blackburne is the author of Midnight Thief (Disney-Hyperion), a Summer/Fall New Voices pick for young adults, which Emily Ring of Inklings Bookshop called “tightly written, with a perfect mix of romance, peril, and mystery.”

In an e-mail this week to members of the ABC Children’s Group, ABA announced the date and location for its third institute developed specifically for children’s booksellers.

The ABC Children's Group at ABA has revealed the art to be featured on the cover of the 2014 ABC Best Books for Children Catalog, scheduled to land in stores in early October.