Specialty Bookselling

Based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending September 8, 2013.

ABA will be presenting its second Children’s Institute, hosted by the ABC Children’s Group at ABA, on Monday, April 7, 2014, in San Antonio, Texas. Participants will be welcomed at an opening reception on Sunday evening, April 6.

Based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending August 18, 2013.

Next Tuesday, August 20, is the deadline for ABA member bookstores to place their orders for this year’s ABC Best Books for Children Catalog. The full-color, 20-page consumer circular featuring close to 200 fully vetted frontlist and backlist titles is slated to be in stores in early October.

The fall flier, arriving at stores in the upcoming Children’s White Box, features the top 10 titles of the season based on nominations from independent booksellers nationwide and an additional 41 titles organized by age group.

Presented here in alphabetical order by publisher are the more than 150 titles featured in this year’s ABC Best Books for Children Catalog.

Based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending August 4, 2013.

Based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending July 21, 2013.

ABA member bookstores have until August 20 to place their orders for this year’s ABC Best Books for Children Catalog. The full-color, 20-page consumer circular featuring approximately 200 fully vetted frontlist and backlist titles is slated to be in stores in early October.

Based on sales at hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending July 7, 2013.

All ABA member booksellers are being encouraged to express their enthusiasm for the children’s books that they’re looking forward to handselling this fall by nominating those titles by July 16 to the Fall Kids’ Indie List.

ABA member stores can place their orders for this year’s ABC Best Books for Children Catalog from now until August 20 via an online order form on BookWeb.org.

Based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending June 16, 2013.

Six panelists joined moderator Richard Buthod of Turtleback Books for the session “Common Core: Insight From Industry Touchpoints” at BEA: Melissa Jacobs-Israel from the New York City public school system; Cheryl Dickemper of The Booksource; Kenny Brechner of Devaney Doak & Garrett; Phoebe Yeh, then of HarperCollins Children’s Books; Becky Anderson of Anderson’s Bookshops; and Victoria Stapleton of Little, Brown Books for Young Readers.

Macmillan’s Fierce Reads program for teen fiction is offering an authorless event kit to ABA member stores. Supplies are limited, so booksellers should act as soon as possible.