Publishers Weekly Reports Strong Sales of The Other Felix

 In yesterday's "Children's Booksellers Report on Black Friday Weekend," Judith Rosen included item:

“I’ve sold a little bit of everything. I’ve been looking for that one book, and it hasn’t declared itself in my store yet,” says Suzy Takacs, owner of The Book Cellar in Chicago. In addition to bestselling series titles for older readers, she was surprised to see Nick Bruel’s A Bad Kitty Christmas (Roaring Brook) really take off over the weekend. She’s also done well with local author Kier Graff’s The Other Felix (Roaring Brook). At Gibson’s, Herrmann notes that two books from local authors, Tomie dePaola’s Strega Nona’s Gift (Penguin/Nancy Paulsen) and Adam Gamble’s Good Night New Hampshire (Our World of Books), have done especially well. Even in New York City, Bank Street Books buyer/manager Beth Puffer finds that anything local, like Melissa Sweet’s Balloons Over Broadway (Houghton Mifflin), sells briskly.

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Posted: Friday, December 2, 2011 - 14:48 pm