Specialty Bookselling

Based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending March 2, 2014.

Booksellers attending next month’s Children’s Institute in San Antonio, Texas, will be in the running to win an original piece of artwork by award-winning illustrator M. Sarah Klise. 

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The official 2014 Children’s Book Week poster commemorating the 95th year of the reading and literacy celebration, running this year from May 12 to 18, was designed by Robin Preiss Glasser, the award-winning illustrator of the Fancy Nancy series.

The Texas Library Association will hold its annual conference in San Antonio from Tuesday, April 8, through Friday, April 11, immediately following the ABC Children’s Institute, and TLA has generously offered to extend its member rates on passes and programs to all ABA member booksellers.

Registration for the ABC Children’s Institute, which will be held in San Antonio, Texas, on Sunday evening, April 6, and all day Monday, April 7, is now booked to capacity. Booksellers can add their names to a waiting list.

ABA has announced the booksellers who will be attending this April’s ABC Children’s Institute on scholarships, thanks to the support of Baker & Taylor, the event’s lead sponsor; 21 publisher sponsors; and the Book Industry Charitable Foundation.

Walton’s eloquent debut YA novel, The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender, about a girl with speckled wings and a heritage of love, loss, and magic has been called “timeless, beautiful, and perfect for lovers of magical realism” by bookseller Melissa Fox of Watermark Books and Café.

Based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending February 16, 2014.

Booksellers are encouraged to sign up now to secure a spot at this April’s ABC Children’s Institute in San Antonio, Texas. Registration for the institute and for reservations at the host hotel, the DoubleTree by Hilton San Antonio Downtown Hotel, will close on March 7.

Winter Institute’s session “ABC Group Presents: A Year of In-Store Promotions” welcomed three panelists who offered an array of children’s book-inspired ideas and events for drawing customers to their stores throughout the calendar year.

This April’s Children’s Institute in San Antonio, Texas, will provide booksellers with a wide range of educational opportunities, including two focused, 45-minute talks and an hour-long education session that will feature leading experts in their fields.

This week, ABA revealed the names of nine authors who will be taking part in the Children’s Institute closing reception on Monday evening, April 7, in San Antonio, Texas. Additional names will be announced in the coming weeks.

The Winter Institute session “ABC Group Presents: Using Common Core to Develop Your Community Profile” delved into the expanding relationship between independent booksellers and local educators and highlighted ways they can work together and with publishers on Common Core issues.

Based on sales at hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending February 2, 2014.