The Indies Introduce program is about what independent booksellers do best: discovering exciting debut authors and sharing the best with readers across the country. Enjoy lunch while learning about the title selection process from the bookseller panelists who curated the Summer/Fall 2024 Indies Introduce Kids’ list. Many of the Summer/Fall 2024 Indies Introduce Kids’ debut authors will be present to read a short passage and answer a question posed by one of the bookseller panelists. Authors will be available to sign copies of their debut books following the presentation.
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Featured Authors
- K. A. Cobell, Looking for Smoke (Heartdrum/HarperCollins Children's Books)
- Freddie Kölsch, Now, Conjurers (Union Square & Co.)
- Aimee Lim, The Spindle of Fate (Feiwel & Friends/Macmillan Children's Publishing Group)
- Daisy Garrison, Six More Months of June (Flatiron Books/Macmillan Publishers)
- John Cochran, Breaking Into Sunlight (Algonquin Young Readers/Hachette Book Group)
- Josh Galarza, The Great Cool Ranch Dorito in the Sky (Henry Holt and Co./Macmillan Children's Publishing Group)
- g. haron davis, The Lonely Below (Scholastic Press)
- Steven Banbury, The Pumpkin Princess and the Forever Night (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers/Hachette Book Group)
- Kalela Williams, Tangleroot (Feiwel & Friends/Macmillan Children's Publishing Group)
Summer/Fall 2024 Kids' Bookseller Panelists
- Holly Weinkauf - Red Balloon Bookshop, St. Paul, MN
- Sally Sue Lavigne - The Storybook Shoppe, Bluffton, SC
- Donna Liu - Kepler’s Books, Menlo Park, CA
- Lily Taliaferro - Eagle Harbor Book Co., Bainbridge Island, WA
- Emmy Widener - Changing Hands, Phoenix, AZ
- Kromeklia Bryant - Solid State Books, Washington, DC
- Katie Pionk - McLean & Eakin Booksellers, Petoskey, MI