Ever since Algonquin used the American Booksellers Association’s Winter Institute to get booksellers to read and fall in love with Sara Gruen’s Water for Elephants, which sold more than a million copies before being turned into a film, publishers have been using the winter bookselling confab to generate excitement—and not just for adult titles. This year more than 20 children’s book authors and illustrators will be on hand to greet booksellers at the seventh annual gathering, Wi7, next week in New Orleans. They will include YA authors like John Green, whose The Fault in Our Stars was just released, and middle-grade author Jennifer Nielsen, whose first book in the Ascendance trilogy, The False Prince, will be out in the spring. Simon & Schuster is using the show to build enthusiasm for the July release of Lisa Stasse’s The Forsaken, while Philomel is one of several houses promoting books that have just shipped, like Andrea Cremer’s Bloodrose. Below is a complete list of children’s and teen authors and illustrators, who are scheduled to be at Wi7, alpha by book title.
The Bad Apple (first in the Merits of Mischief series)
By T.R. Burns
Simon & Schuster/Aladdin
April, $16.99 hardcover
Bloodrose (final volume in the Nightshade trilogy)
By Andrea Cremer
Philomel
Jan., $18.99 hardcover
The Book of Blood and Shadow
By Robin Wasserman
Knopf Books for Young Readers
Apr., $17.99 hardcover
The Butterfly Clues
By Kate Ellison
EgmontUSA
Feb., $17.99 hardcover
BZRK (first in a trilogy)
By Michael Grant
EgmontUSA
Feb., $17.99 hardcover
Chloe and the Lion
By Mac Barnett and Adam Rex
Disney-Hyperion
Apr., $16.99 hardcover
The False Prince (first in the Ascendance trilogy)
By Jennifer Nielsen
Scholastic
Apr., $17.99 hardcover
The Fault in Our Stars
By John Green
Dutton
Jan., $17.99 hardcover
The Forsaken (first in a trilogy)
By Lisa Stasse
Simon & Schuster
July, $16.99 hardcover
Grave Mercy (first in the His Fair Assassin trilogy)
By Robin LaFevers
Houghton Mifflin
Apr., $16.99 hardcover
Heart of a Samurai
By Margi Preus
Abrams/Amulet
Jan., $7.95 paperback, 2011 Newbery Honor Book
I Hunt Killers (first in a series)
By Barry Lyga
Little, Brown
Apr., $17.99 hardcover
Isabella: Girl on the Go
By Jennifer Fosberry
Sourcebooks
Feb., $16.99 hardcover
The One and Only Ivan
By Katherine Applegate
HarperCollins
Jan., $16.99 hardcover
Randy Riley’s Really Big Hit
By Chris Van Dusen
Candlewick
Feb., $15.99 hardcover
Same Sun Here
By Silas House and Neela Vaswani
Candlewick
Feb., $16.99 hardcover
Shadow & Bone (first in the Grisha trilogy)
By Leigh Bardugo
Holt
June, $17.99 hardcover
Summer of the Moths
By Sara Pennypacker
HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray
April, $15.99 hardcover
Under the Never Sky (first in a trilogy)
By Veronica Rossi
HarperCollins
Jan., $17.99 hardcover
(title not yet announced)
By David Levithan
Knopf
