The December issue of the ABC Toolbox, which includes programming, display, and event ideas, as well as access to free materials from publishers, was sent via e-mail last week to members of the ABC Children’s Group at ABA.
The ABC Group at ABA’s new Facebook page is a place for children’s booksellers to share news about their stores as well as their knowledge of children’s books, bookselling, and literacy.
The Winter Institute will feature two “can’t-miss” educational panels developed specifically for children’s booksellers as well as a children’s booksellers roundtable and a wide-ranging selection of additional programming to help booksellers of all kinds strengthen their businesses.
The Women’s National Book Association is seeking nominations of bookstores in the U.S. that excel at inspiring kids’ interest in reading, as well as creatively bringing books and young people together.
With the recent arrivals of the ABC Best Books for Children catalog and the New Voices fliers, indie booksellers have two robust tools to help guide holiday shoppers toward a selection of outstanding books for children and teens.
Here’s a preview of the Winter 2011 - 2012 Children’s Indie Next List flier, which will be arriving at indie bookstores in the upcoming Children’s White Box.