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.

Files & Links

• Video Recording
• Slide Deck
• Summer/Fall 2024 Indies Introduce Flier (PDF)

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

Recorded June 11, 2024 at Children's Institute 2024 in New Orleans, LA

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Theme song by Constant Companion