Booksellers share their experiences of starting and building YA book clubs for adults and the challenges of introducing the uninitiated to the world of YA lit.
The full-color, 20-page ABC Best Books for Children Catalog is available in a PDF format that booksellers can use to promote sales via store websites and newsletters.
This year’s full-color, 20-page ABC Best Books for Children Catalog featuring more than 200 fully vetted frontlist and backlist titles is slated to arrive at all ABA member stores by next week.
Joanna Parzakonis of Bookbug, Lanora Hurley of Next Chapter Bookshop, and Maggie Tokuda-Hall of Books Inc. share tips for attracting and keeping YA book club readers.
With the start of Banned Books Week on Saturday, the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression’s auction of original children’s book art will enter its final week on eBay.
This week, Shannon O’Connor, a former teacher and children’s book buyer at Doylestown Bookshop, joined the ABA staff in the newly created position of ABC Children’s Group Manager.
Midnight tonight, September 1, is the deadline for ABA member stores to place orders for this year’s ABC Best Books for Children Catalog. Orders of up to 5,000 copies can be placed via an online order form.
Presented here in order by publisher are the more than 200 titles featured in this year’s ABC Best Books for Children Catalog, scheduled to ship to stores in early October. The deadline for orders is September 1.
A dedicated committee of 14 children’s booksellers has chosen 20 outstanding titles — 10 each in the Middle Grade and Young Adult categories — for the 2011 New Voices List, unveiled this week by the ABC Children’s Group at ABA.
