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Children's Programming at BEA
Brooklyn Walking Tour -- For Children's Booksellers!
Wednesday, May 31, 2007; 2:00 p.m. -- 5:00 p.m.; Brooklyn, NY
Sponsored by the American Booksellers Association
ABA is hosting a cadre of Brooklyn authors who will lead booksellers on walking
tours of literary Brooklyn. These include tours of Brooklyn neighborhoods
immortalized by some of today's best writers, as well as tours to the studios
of local children's book illustrators and the offices of small independent
Brooklyn publishers. There will be a special tour for children's booksellers.
Booksellers will need to sign up in advance through ABA; watch BTW
for details.
ABC Annual Meeting & Luncheon
Thursday, May 31, 2007; 11:45 a.m. - 1:15 p.m.; Hotel ABA (New York Marriott
at the Brooklyn Bridge)
Sponsored by the Association of Booksellers for Children
Booksellers must register for this event. Membership in ABC is not required
for attendance. For reservations and information contact: The Association
of Booksellers for Children (ABC), 62 Wenham Street, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130,
phone: (617) 390-7759; fax: (617) 344-0540, email: [email protected].
ABA's Day of Education - Children's Bookstore sessions
Thursday, May 31, 2007;
Sponsored by the American Booksellers Association and the Association
of Booksellers for Children
All ABC-member booksellers are invited to participate in any part of ABA's
Thursday Day of Education. Specifically for childrne's booksellers, "Getting
More Out of Your Children's Section: Managing Selection, Service, and Store
Environment for Category Growth" will be presented twice from 1:30
p.m. - 3:15 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. so booksellers can take advantage
of other ABA education in the afternoon. ABA's Day of Education is free, but
booksellers must register (via BEA
or ABA For the
full ABA Day of Education schedule, please visit http://www.bookweb.org/aba/convention/9369.html.
Children's Book & Author Breakfast
Friday, June 1, 2007; 8:00 a.m. -- 9:30 a.m.; Special Events Hall of Convention
Center
Presented in cooperation with the Children's Booksellers and Publishers Committee
[A cooperative committee of the American Booksellers Association (ABA), Association
of Booksellers for Children (ABC), and the Children's Book Council (CBC)]
This opening-day breakfast will feature Mo Willems, author of Knuffle
Bunny Too! A Case of Mistaken Identity (Hyperion Books for Children);
Jacqueline Wilson, author of Candyfloss (Roaring Brook Press); and
Daniel Pinkwater, author of The Neddiad (Houghton Mifflin Children's
Book Group). Libba Bray, author of The Sweet Far Thing (Delacorte Press)
will be the Master of Ceremonies.General Admission: $15 (SPE1T). Breakfast
Admission: $35 (SPE1). General admission tickets provide theater style seating
beginning midway in the auditorium and extending to the back.No breakfast
will be served with general admission tickets.Breakfast admission tickets
provide seats in the front of the auditorium at the traditional breakfast
tables and breakfast will be served.
ABC Annual Secret Garden Silent Auction & Evening with
Children's Booksellers
Friday, June 1, 2007; Copacabana, 560 West 34th Street, New York, NY 10001
Sponsored by the Association of Booksellers for Children
- 5:00 p.m. -- 7:15 p.m. Reception and Secret Garden Silent Auction
- 7:30 p.m. -- 8:45 p.m. Dinner
- 8:45 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. Presentation of the 2007 E.B.
White Read Aloud Awards
- 9:30 p.m. --10:00 p.m. Keynote Speakers (To be Announced)
General Ticket Price: $100; ABC Bookstore Member Discount: $85. All ABC members
(all membership categories) will have ticket priority until March 15; after
March 15, it will be on first come basis. For reservations and information
contact: The Association of Booksellers for Children (ABC), 62 Wenham Street,
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130, phone: (617) 390-7759; fax: (617) 344-0540, email:
[email protected].
Speed Dating with Children's Authors
Saturday, June 2, 2007; 10:00 a.m. -- 11:30 a.m.; The Galleria/River Pavilion
of Convention Center
Sponsored by the Children's Booksellers and Publishers Committee [A cooperative
committee of the American Booksellers Association (ABA), Association of Booksellers
for Children (ABC), and the Children's Book Council (CBC)]
Get to know twenty children's book creators up-close-and-personal in the
first-ever "Speed Dating with Children's Authors" program. Authors
and illustrators will move from table to table of booksellers, stopping for
short three-minute rounds at each table for quick get-to-know-you chats. Participating
"dates" include: Harry Bliss and Doreen Cronin (Joanna Cotler Books),
Libba Bray (Delacorte Press), Christopher Paul Curtis (Scholastic Inc.), Carmen
Deedy (Peachtree), Delia Ephron (HarperTeen), Jack Gantos (Farrar, Straus
& Giroux), Shannon Hale (Bloomsbury USA), Ellen Kushner (Charlesbridge),
Carolyn Mackler (Candlewick), Peter McCarty (Henry Holt), Charise Mericle
Harper (Houghton Mifflin), Jim Murphy (Clarion Books), Christopher Myers (Holiday
House), Sara Pennypacker (Disney Book Group), Frank Portman (Delacorte Press),
Jordon Sonnenblick (Scholastic Inc.), Sara Varon (First Second Books), and
Howard Whitehouse (Kids Can Press).Admission: Open to all BEA attendees.
ABA/ABC/CBC Booth
Friday, June 1 - Sunday, June 3; Convention Center Show Floor
Sponsored by the Children's Booksellers and Publishers Committee [A cooperative
committee of the American Booksellers Association (ABA), Association of Booksellers
for Children (ABC), and the Children's Book Council (CBC)]
The Association of Booksellers for Children, the American Booksellers Association
and the Children's Book Council will again share a booth at on the trade show
floor, where information will be available about each organization, program
materials such as the "20 Minutes of Your Day... Read With a Child" posters,
the Book Sense Children's Picks List and the Book Sense Children's Bestseller
Lists, a sample of the new Book Sense Children's White Box, materials showcasing
"Children's Book Week" campaign, a Pannell Award display, and much more.
NEW THIS YEAR: In-booth author readings! The readings will take place on
Friday afternoon, June 1 between 12:30 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. and each will last
30 minutes. Watch Bookselling This Week,
the ABC website, the CBC
website or the BEA website
for details.
The Children's Book Council's Library, containing CBC member's 2006 and 2007
titles, will be on display at the CBC's office located at at 12 West 37th
Street, Floor 2, between 5th and 6th Aves.
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