Tickets Details

This auction is on Wednesday, May 29 from 5:30 – 7:30pm in the River Pavilion at Javits.

There are no tickets, just a guest list at the door. And, the River Pavilion in Javits can be a bit tricky to find… it’s on Level 4, above the trade show floor, way in the back overlooking the Hudson River. There will be signs and volunteers along the way to help, too.

Here’s a sneak peek at the event program:  https://abffesilentauction.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/event-program-2013.pdf.

Here’s a sneak peek at the art you’ll see on Wednesday!

Tickets are still available and can be purchased here.

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Less Than 24 Hours Left To Bid in Online Auction

With less than 24 hours left to bid in the online auction, you’ll want to get your bid in gear!

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This is your chance to support the free speech right of young readers. Hurry! Bid now!

Online Auction is in Full Swing, Event Program, and More!

Our online auction is in full swing! Have you checked it out? In other auction news, the Event Program is off to the printer today. Get a sneak peek and plan ahead! You don’t want to miss the original Maurice Sendak piece, do you?? And, the auction’s website has hit it’s 10,000th view since it was created in February. Not too shabby. Thank you everyone!

Online auction has begun!

Game on!

We staggered the starting times to allow for each piece to close at a different time, so everything will be up a little after 1pm EST today. Every 5 minutes a new piece will appear.

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Remember, it’s open to the public so spread the word in order to help support the free speech rights of young readers!

 

Help promote the online auction!

With the online auction just a little over the week away, we’re ramping up our promotion! This online auction is open to the public. Here are a few ideas on how you can help:

• Download the PDF version of the ad: 8.5″ x 11″ (portrait) OR 5.5″ x 8.5″ (portrait)
• Add this web badge to your site and have it link directly to the auction at http://myworld.ebay.com/abffe OR copy and paste this code to add this badge to your website, blog, or social networking profile:

To put it on a WordPress blog, click the “Text” tab in the WordPress.com editor and paste in the code as it appears below. Switch back to HTML view to see the image. (Sorry, I can only help you with WordPress blogs!)

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• DISPLAY IDEA FOR BOOKSELLERS & LIBRARIANS:

Along with the above printable ad, pull a few books off your shelves of  participating illustrators, open to the corresponding page with a sign saying something like, “The original art from this very page of this very book could be yours!” Be creative! This is a great fun opportunity to link the books on your shelves, original art and your customers/partons (and yourselves!) while making them aware of censorship of children’s books. Make a scavenger hunt out of it. Ask them to create a piece of their own art and hold you’re own auction. Call a few customers/patrons personally to let them know about this opportunity. Be sure to get all of it on your social media platforms, too. I’d love a photo of what you come up with!! Email it to kristen@abffe.org or post it on your Facebook page, tagging ABFFE.

• Add the online auction to all your social media outlets. On Twitter, please use the hashtags: #abffeauction, #bea13, #kidlit. On Facebook, please tag ABFFE (and “Like” us if you haven’t!)
• Write a blog post. Check out a couple of the illustrator’s posts here.
• Tell your friends and family.
• Don’t forget to check it out yourself!

 Think presents, too: birthday, new baby, graduation, holiday, new house, a special treat to yourself for all your hard work, etc.

7-DAY ONLINE SILENT AUCTION: Opens Saturday, May 18, 2013 at 9am and closes: Friday, May 24, 2013 at 9pm

Big News! Rare, Original Sendak Piece To Be Auctioned Off!

With special thanks to The Estate of Maurice Sendak, we have acquired a rare, original, signed character study for a book in Sendak’s Little Bear series, based on the TV show. It is pencil on vellum and is approximately 5″ x 5″.

Illustrators to Pay Tribute to Maurice Sendak at Children’s Book Art Auction

A special tribute to the late Maurice Sendak will feature pieces created by children’s book illustrators in honor of Sendak, who mentored and inspired many artists. A special auction area will be devoted to the items. Check out some of the artwork that has arrived so far:

       

ALA’s Top Ten List of Frequently Challenged Books for 2012 is out

ALA’s Top Ten List of Frequently Challenged Books for 2012 is out!

• Captain Underpants (series) by Dav Pilkey
• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
• Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
• Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James
• And Tango Makes Three by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• Looking for Alaska by John Green
• Scary Stories (series), by Alvin Schwartz
• The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
• Beloved by Toni Morrison

Don’t forget to get your tickets for the auction to help support censorship-fighting projects such as Banned Books Week.

Read ALA’s Press Release here.

Overwhelming amount of art donations

It must be April because we’re being showered with an unbelievable amount of art donations. The response has been overwhelming and we are giddy with excitement! Check out some of what we have so far in our Preview Art section, Pinterest and Facebook.

Tickets on sale now

Something about having the tickets on sale makes this event even more real. (At least the responsibility to put on a great event intensifies. Yikes!) Get your tickets now! Just $99 to attend one of the highlight events at BookExpo America, mingle with leading authors, illustrators and publishers in the children’s book industry, own a piece of history in the children’s lit world, and most importantly: support the free speech rights of young readers. And ABC member bookstores, your ticket is complimentary. How can you not come!? There’s food, drink and live auction entertainment provided by Jack Gantos and Lauren Myracle, too.

Here’s the event space in Javits. This is Chris, Joy and Tony (from BEA) when we viewed the space in January: