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<\/a>Ta’Necia, Natasha, and Staci busily prep recommendation cards for the TBF sales tent!<\/p><\/div> I love getting standees. What an easy way to help books make a visual splash! (And we’re lucky enough to have the space for display. This Questioneers standee got a little crushed in the mail, but I think some heavy boxes should smash it flat.<\/p><\/div> The holidays must really be coming. The ABC catalog is here. And I love this year’s cover. He’s so grumpy!<\/p><\/div> We love storytime kits, and this one’s especially nice with all these pencils and stickers to give away!<\/p><\/div> Sample copies of interactive books we’re featuring for the holidays (thanks Chronicle and Familius). So important to let people play with a display copy instead of your actual merchandise!<\/p><\/div> Sample books for our Teen Press Corps reviewers. They love that! (And labeling the outside is definitely the path to getting the books right to their shelves quickly.)<\/p><\/div>
\nThe one thing that always happens when I’m in the midst of festival madness is that the stacks of mail get a little higher than normal.\u00a0I triage what we know is time-sensitive material, but there’s an inevitable backlog. As I looked\u00a0at the stacks in\u00a0my office and realized I didn’t have much time to\u00a0put together\u00a0a blog before TBF, it seemed like a good time to follow up on my previous post<\/a> about the delightful surprises that come to booksellers every day in the mail!
\nObviously we get a lot of boxes of ARCs (both in bulk and as special mailings), storytime kits, easels, posters, and more. But sometimes there are also unexpected and lovely surprises. We so appreciate the effort to send us things that might be useful in merchandising and celebrating books, and while we can’t always make use of every single thing that comes, we try to find a place for as much as we can. So here’s a\u00a0sneak peek at some of the best stuff that’s been coming our way this month (the showstopper’s\u00a0at the end)!
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