{"id":26165,"date":"2018-06-19T07:30:37","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T11:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=26165"},"modified":"2018-06-19T07:30:37","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T11:30:37","slug":"the-jazz-is-even-sweeter-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=26165","title":{"rendered":"The Jazz is Even Sweeter This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Children’s Institute<\/a> is one of my favorite book events of the year. It’s a conference\u00a0that gathers\u00a0booksellers, publishers, editors, publicists, authors, and illustrators passionate about books for children and teens. We know that, in addition to\u00a0including\u00a0the most\u00a0rewarding and inventive of books imaginable,\u00a0children’s books are\u00a0also the segment of the book industry most helping to keep the whole darned machine afloat.\u00a0Children’s Institute, with its author parties, educational sessions, keynotes with luminaries<\/a> like Chelsea Clinton, Cheryl Willis Hudson and Wade Hudson, Phoebe Yeh, Kwame Alexander, Temple Grandin, and Angie Thomas, is a great big party \/ work-inspiration fest filled with some of the best people on the planet\u2014which is why I am bereft that I am not able to be on a plane to New Orleans this week.
\nEvents conspired to keep me from attending this year, which is a colossal bummer! My fellow ShelfTalker blogger pals doubtless will fill you in on the week’s grand activities<\/a>. What I have to offer instead is\u00a0this: seven things I’ll do to distract myself from the fact that I am not actually in The Big Easy and to create my own version of Children’s Institute here at home:<\/p>\n