August Red Box Features Banned Books Week Materials and Picks Flier

The August Book Sense Red Box Marketing Kit includes:

• Your initial supply of September Book Sense Picks fliers. If you have requested more than 200 fliers, the balance will be shipped to you under separate cover. If you would like to adjust the quantity of fliers you are receiving, please contact Linda Ford at [email protected].
  

• A pad of the latest Book Sense Top Ten Picks fliers, this time saluting Banned Books Week, September 25 - October 2. If you would like additional pads of fliers, please contact me at [email protected].
  

• Also, to help you plan your Banned Books Week promotion, a brochure and order form for materials from the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression.
  

• Information on a great contest sponsored by the A&E television network, producers of the Cold Case Files.
  

• Shelftalkers for recent Book Sense Picks from Random House and HarperCollins.
  

• An easelback poster from Penguin USA/Gotham Books for ALMOST FRENCH: Love and a New Life in Paris by Sarah Turnbull, a Book Sense Pick for August.
  

• The announcement of a new title from Continuum International: JESUS AND MEL GIBSON’S THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST: The Film, the Gospels and the Claims of History, edited by Kathleen E. Corley and Robert L. Webb.
  

• New catalogs from Back Stage Books (Watson-Guptill); Black Rose Books (Consortium); Midpoint Trade Books; Putumayo World Music (with a sample CD!)
  

• A great selection of posters from Harcourt, celebrating their fall fiction list.
  

• Sell sheets and special offers from Abrams (the Sunscreen Series for Young Adult readers --- important topics presented in a fresh, new way); Continuum International (their 33-1/3 Music Series is great!); Disinformation Company (the DVDs of two important recent political documentary films -- OUTFOXED: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism, and UNCOVERED: The Whole Truth About the Iraq War); HarperCollins/Amistad (BOUND FOR CANAAN: The Underground Railroad and the War for the Soul of America by Fergus M. Bordewich); Positively For Kids (A series of autobiographies from well-known athletes); and Running Press (the miniature edition of THE PURPOSE DRIVEN LIFE).
  

• The latest Women in Fantasy Newsletter from Tor.
  

• A new "Monthly Missive" newsletter from Carl Lennertz at HarperCollins.
  

• An excerpt booklet and mini-poster for the reissue of the children’s classic KING MATT THE FIRST by Janusz Korczak, coming this fall from Algonquin Books.
  

• A pack of 25 copies of the latest Vintage/Anchor Reading Group Guide.
  

• The August edition of Book Page.
  

• A wonderful Classroom and Bookstore Event Kit produced by Chronicle Books in conjunction with Nickelodeon entitled "Make the Election Connection."
  

So much for the "Dog Days" of summer!

Until next month,

Mark Nichols
Director, Book Sense Marketing
[email protected]