With bookstores across the country shutting their doors to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus, traditional handselling—which often connects readers with books they didn’t know they were looking for—is no longer possible. This is an ongoing series featuring personal recommendations of new releases from children’s booksellers.

Virtual Handselling: Recommendations from Politics and Prose in Washington, D.C.

Recommendations from 57th Street Books in Chicago

Recommendations from Bookshop Santa Cruz Head Children's Buyer

Recommendations from Book Passage’s Children’s Buyer