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The article informs that children's book buyers are facing supply chain disruptions as shortage of papers cause printing delays, along with increased shipping costs and other delivery issues. Meghan Goel, children's book buyer at BookPeople in Austin, Texas, ordered more books last fall than ever before as children's inventory is a spike in online preorders that began at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. INSET: Supply Chain Issues Hit Sidelines, Too.

The article offers information about issues concerning trade imbalance in the children's book publication industry. Critical topics being presented include the move of American publishers to cross borders to import more children's books from Chinese publishers, who produce contemporary stories, as well as the details about the U.S.-Chinese publishing relationship.

The article reports on some of the oldest children's specialty bookstores in the U.S. about keeping current in the ever-evolving indie landscape. It is said that the oldest children’s specialty bookstores continue to be integral parts of children's communities. Heather Hebert, manager of Children’s Book World in Haverford, Pennsylvania, says that their goal is to help children find books they didn’t want to put down.

The article discusses an increase in Spanish-language children's and young adult books imported into the U.S. by independent publishers in Spain and Latin America. Topics include the publishers' work with U.S. distributors to select books to sell in the U.S. market, efforts of Spanish publishers to adjust the language and illustrations used in books to make them acceptable in the U.S. and Latin America, and translations of Peter Brown's book "The Curious Garden" by publisher Takatuka Ediciones.

The article reports on the success of the children's book industry of Canada. Orca publisher Andrew Wooldridge says that Canada has a good reputation on the world stage when it comes to publishing children's books. He adds that Orca was up 15% in 2015, on the strength of a number of good projects. He mentions that the Secrets series of novels by Kelley Armstrong sold 80,000 copies.

The article reports that Writing for Tiny, a children's book venture based in Ireland, has added the ability to offer diversity to its personalized books. Topics discussed include the establishment of the company by founder Gail Condon in 2014, the various family story lines offered by the company such as starting school, new baby, and big brother or sister, and the initial funding received from Irish tech incubator Launch Box for the Writing for Tiny software.

Two charts are presented that list the top 25 children's frontlist fiction and children's picture books in the U.S. as of July 27 to August 2, 2015.