The June 6 Children’s Art Auction at BEA will provide added excitement this year when live bidding opens on several rare items. An online preview of more than 70 mostly silent auction items is now live.
A fun, new design for a bookmark and poster has just been added to ABA’s Bookseller DIY. “Fire Up Your Imagination,” featuring a colorful, friendly dragon, comes to the U.S. courtesy of the Booksellers Association of the United Kingdom and Ireland.
ABA has extended registration for the Children’s Institute at BookExpo America until May 11. An additional but limited number of spaces at the June 6 day-long event are now open exclusively to booksellers at ABA member stores; they are expected to sell out quickly.
After months spent reading more than 80 titles by debut authors, booksellers on the New Voices Committee have selected their top spring picks for children ages 8 - 12 and for teens, from titles published between January 1 and June 30, 2012.
Tickets are on sale now for one of the marquee events at BookExpo America — the Children’s Art Auction and Reception, sponsored by the ABC Children’s Group at ABA.
The challenges of reaching middle grade readers will be explored by a panel of book industry professionals at ABA’s ABC Children’s Institute on Wednesday, June 6, at BEA.
The 2012 New Voices program has grown to include a new spring marketing package to be released in time for summer reading. Featured middle grade and young adult titles were chosen by a committee of 12 ABC Group at ABA member booksellers.
