May Red Box -- A Garden of Delights

The May Red Box is blooming with items of interest for you and your store!

From ABA and Book Sense:

• Your initial supply of June Book Sense Picks fliers. Please remember that if you would like additional copies of this or any other Book Sense flier (currently including Summer Children's Picks or Reading Group Recommendations), please e-mail me at [email protected].
• ABA staffer Kristen Gilligan's very helpful Three-Month Bookseller Action List, this time covering May, June, and July.
• A copy of the 2005 BookExpo America Registration Booklet. If you are planning to attend this year's convention at the Jacob K. Javits Center in New York City but haven't registered as yet, time is fleeting!

From Book Sense Publisher Partners:

• A Reading Group Guide 10-pack for the #1 May Book Sense Pick THE HISTORY OF LOVE by Nicole Krauss (W.W. Norton)
• A poster with quote sheet and bookmark for LEVEN THUMPS AND THE GATEWAY TO FOO by Obert Skye (Deseret/Shadow Mountain)
• Posters and a bookmark 10-pack for the KNIGHTS OF THE SILVER DRAGON SERIES (Wizards of the Coast/Mirror Stone)
• A blad for the upcoming THE AMERICA'S TEST KITCHEN FAMILY COOKBOOK along with a sell sheet for COOK'S ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO GRILLING AND BARBECUE (America's Test Kitchen)
• A large-format tent card for bookseller favorite THE JANE AUSTEN BOOK CLUB by Karen Joy Fowler, now in paperback (Plume)
• A carabiner with compass and sell sheet for THE ADVENTURES OF RILEY SERIES by Amanda Lumry and Laura Hurwitz, illustrated by Sarah McIntyre. The latest title in the series takes Riley to Madagascar, and ties into the new Dreamworks animated feature film (Eaglemont Press, distributed by NBN)
• Shelf-talkers for May Book Sense Picks from Random House and HarperCollins
• Additional shelf-talkers, sell sheets, BEA invitations, newsletters, marketing aids, and more from:
  *   Other Press
  *   Tor/Starscape
  *   HarperCollins (the latest newsletter from Carl Lennertz, plus materials from the Avon and Amistad imprints)
  *   Hampton Roads
  *   Unbridled Books
  *   Blood Moon Productions
  *   Good Books
  *   McGraw-Hill
  *   The Writer's Collective (distributed by Midpoint)
  *   Porpoise Press (distributed by Cypress House)
  *   Ignatius Press (the American publisher of titles by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, recently elected Pope Benedict XVI)
  *   Dearborn
  *   Gibbs Smith

Only one more month 'til BEA! I hope to see you there!

Cheers,
Mark Nichols
Director, Book Sense Marketing
[email protected]