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Library News: November 2024
Hello everyone,
We're excited to share our author schedules for NCTE and NCSS later this month in Boston!
The recordings from School Library Journal Day of Dialog last month are still available to watch, in case you missed it. The keynote with Rex Ogle and Alicia Abdul is a must-see.
We recently released our Summer 2025 catalogs and have some exciting books on the list (including some absolutely gorgeous picture books)! Click here for all our Childrens/Teen 2025 books so far. Not done with 2024 yet? Here are all our 2024 Childrens/Teen books.
I also updated the Themed Collections at the bottom of the newsletter and added some new topics.
Thanks for reading,
Golda Rademacher, Library Sales & Marketing Director
NCTE 2024
Author Signings in W. W. Norton & Company Booth 823
Friday, 11/22
- 10:15-11:15: Sean O'Brien will sign copies of White House Clubhouse and White House on Fire (Norton Young Readers)
- 11:30-12:30: Rex Ogle will sign ARCs of When We Ride (Norton Young Readers)
- 1:15-2:15: Michelle Schaub will sign copies of A Place for Rain (Norton Young Readers)
- 3:30-4:15: Miriam Plotinsky will sign copies of Writing Their Future Selves (Norton Professional Books)
- 4:45-5:45: Elizabeth-Irene Baitie will sign copies of the CABA Honor books Crossing the Stream and Flying Up the Mountain (Norton Young Readers)
Saturday, 11/23
- 11:00-12:00: Barb Rosenstock and Katherine Roy will sign copies of Sea Without a Shore (Norton Young Readers)
- 2:00-3:00: Matt Forrest Esenwine will sign copies of The Thing to Remember About Stargazing (Tilbury House)
- 3:00-4:00: Helen Taylor will sign copies of Chasing Guano: The Discovery of a Penguin Supercolony (Tilbury House)
- 4:00-5:00: Aya Khalil will sign copies of The Great Banned-Books Bake Sale (Tilbury House)
NCTE Sessions & Panels
Ada Limón: Sunday, 12:00pm, Ada Limón will speak at the Sunday General Session in Exhibit Hall B1. Check out her debut picture book, In Praise of Mystery, illustrated by Peter Sís (Norton Young Readers)!
Rex Ogle: Friday, 9:30-10:45, Room 204B, Encouraging Empathetic Boys in Elementary and Middle Grades
Miriam Plotinsky: Friday, 2:45-3:15, Room 104C, Decoding the Prompt
Barb Rosenstock: Saturday, 5:45-7:00, Room 102A, Children's Literature Assembly Expert Class
Katherine Roy: Thursday, 1:00-2:15, Room 206A, Shake Up Your Shelf / Saturday, 12:30-2:30, Room 210B, Children's Book Award Luncheon
Michelle Schaub: Thursday, 11:30-12:45, Room 160C, Falling for Nonfiction. / Saturday, 8:15-9:30, Room 254A, Poems and Picturebooks as Writing Prompts and Conversation Starters
Matt Forrest Esenwine: Saturday, 8:15-9:30, Room 254A, Poems and Picturebooks as Writing Prompts
Aya Khalil: Sunday, 9:00-10:15, Room 103, Reclaiming the Arab Narrative
Helen Taylor: Saturday, 1:15-2:30, Room 208, The Uplifting Power of STEAM
Simon Boughton: Friday, 11:00-12:15, Room 160B, Vital Stories that Situate Our Hope and Humanity
NCSS 2024
Author Signings in Publisher Spotlight Booth 500
Elizabeth-Irene Baitie: Friday, 11:00am, Publisher Spotlight booth #500, signing copies of Crossing the Stream (Norton Young Readers)
Sean O'Brien: Friday, 2:00pm, Publisher Spotlight booth #500, signing copies of White House Clubhouse (Norton Young Readers)
School Library Journal Day of Dialog
School Library Journal Day of Dialog is always full of interesting panels and author talks. The opening keynote with Rex Ogle and Alicia Abdul was amazing and I think it's a must-watch video! Rex and Alicia also recorded a "bonus" video since they had more to talk about - you can find the link to that video by clicking on the little cassette tape icon in my booth.
Barb Rosenstock participated in a Nonfiction panel, and we also have introductory videos from Dara Horn (One Little Goat) and Eleanor Spicer Rice (The Deadliest series).
You can access all our recordings through this booth link (you may need to register for free if you had not previously registered).
More gorgeous artwork from Katie Yamasaki!
Get ready for some more stunning picture books! We are so excited to have a new picture book by Joy Harjo, illustrated by Pura Belpre Award-Winner Adriana Garcia, and we have Newbery Medalist Tae Keller's debut picture book, illustrated by Rachel Wada! I'll highlight our summer Middle Grade and YA titles in the next newsletter, but you can look at them already in our 2025 catalog.
Themed Collections
Click on each category for more titles falling under each theme.
