Children

The Digital Market and the YA Audience, a Day of Education panel discussion moderated by Kristin McLean, consultant to the ABC Children’s Group at ABA, will feature David Levithan, executive editorial director for Scholastic; Jacob Lewis, CEO of Figment; and Meghan Dietsche Goel, children’s book buyer at BookPeople in Austin, Texas.

Guantanamo Boy by Anna Perera (Albert Whitman, 9780807530771) is incorrectly listed on the printed Summer Kids’ Indie Next List flier as being for ages 9 - 12. It should appear in the section for “Teen Readers.” An errata sheet is included in each bundle of fliers in the May Children’s White Box mailing.

There’s still time to make reservations for Speed Dating With Children’s Authors, ABA’s Celebration of Bookselling Author Awards Luncheon, the Tea With Children’s Authors, and the ABC Children’s Group Silent Auction and Reception at BEA.

Here’s a preview of the Summer 2011 Kids’ Indie Next List, featured on a four-page, full-color flier arriving at stores in the upcoming Summer Children’s White Box.

All BEA attendees are invited to the ABC Children’s Group Silent Auction and Reception to benefit the new ABFFE Fund for Free Speech in Children’s Books. Tickets for the May 25th evening event are on sale now.

With BEA just a month away, the hotel exclusively for ABA member booksellers and several special events, including the Celebration of Bookselling Author Awards Luncheon, the Tea With Children’s Authors, and Speed Dating With Children’s Authors and Illustrators, are now almost booked to capacity.

Publishers have banded together to encourage booksellers to get involved in the May 12th celebration of Doodle Day to raise awareness of Neurofibromatosis, a genetic disorder affecting one in 3,000 children.

Since the merger of the Association of Booksellers for Children into ABA in fall 2010, the resulting ABC Children’s Group at ABA has been bustling with activity that will continue and enhance programming for children’s booksellers and other book industry professionals.

Next month’s BEA will feature three Editors Buzz Forums, offering booksellers and representatives of the media insights on publishers’ picks for the upcoming season.

To help ensure booksellers have registered and reserved tickets for all of the programs and special events they want to attend at BEA, we’ve put together a list of important links and deadlines.