Alex Green

Manhattan’s Books of Wonder children’s bookstore will close its Upper West Side location when its building is handed off to new owners at the end of June.

This year’s Children’s Institute, slated to run online August 30 through September 1, aims to deepen dialogue, creativity, and resilience.

At each Children’s Institute, a panel of booksellers presents its 10 favorite fall debuts, and each of the authors gives a reading; here, the editors of this year’s picks discuss why they think their books were chosen.

The ninth annual American Booksellers Association Children’s Institute came to a close on September 1, marking the second year that the indie bookseller gathering was held virtually due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The New Atlantic and Southern Independent Booksellers Associations (NAIBA and SIBA) kicked off a combined virtual fall conference on September 27, marking the second year in a row that the two organizations have joined forces to offer educational programming, author readings, and editor buzz picks.

The closing keynote panel for the combined New Voices New Rooms fall regional conference of the New Atlantic and Southern Independent Booksellers associations delivered tears of love and admiration among moderator Kirsten Hess and children’s authors Ben Hatke, Yuyi Morales, and Peter H. Reynolds.

The Community of Literary Magazines and Publishers came together on October 14 for its 2021 benefit, showcasing the organization’s expanded pandemic-era role for its 800 members and honoring author Alexander Chee and publisher Alice James Books.

Reimagining Bookstores, a two-day online gathering of booksellers and publishing industry professionals, came to a close on October 19 with a clear mandate to continue building a movement to develop strategies that will lead to a more diverse, sustainable, and equitable bookselling trade in America.

Rebecca Fitting, co-owner of Brooklyn’s Greenlight Bookstore, is leaving the store she cofounded with Jessica Stockton-Bagnulo 12 years ago, and has sold her stake in the business to Stockton-Bagnulo.

Despite a number of concerns, many of the more than three dozen indies contacted by PW posted strong Thanksgiving weekend sales increases compared with 2019 and 2020, and even booksellers whose stores saw declines said they were cautiously optimistic about the weeks ahead.