by Rachel Seigel --- Last week we wrapped up our trade show season, which saw us doing book displays/selling shows all across Ontario every week for the last 7 weeks. At these shows, we display about 1000 of the newest, hottest fiction, picture book, and non-fiction titles of the season, many of which are personal favourites that I intent to hand sell to our teacher librarian customers. Sometimes, despite my enthusiasm and best efforts, a book simply flops. There can be many reasons for this- an unappealing cover, too specialized a topic, poor presentation, etc. But of all the reasons that a book doesn't sell, it drives me nuts when the thickness of the book is the reason that my customers give for not purchasing it. "Kids don't read thick books", they tell me, but is that really true? If you examine the page counts of some of today's best-selling children's novels, I'd have to say that this is not the case. Rick Riordan's
Do Kids Really Fear Thick Books?
Do Kids Really Fear Thick Books?
Do Kids Really Fear Thick Books?
by Rachel Seigel --- Last week we wrapped up our trade show season, which saw us doing book displays/selling shows all across Ontario every week for the last 7 weeks. At these shows, we display about 1000 of the newest, hottest fiction, picture book, and non-fiction titles of the season, many of which are personal favourites that I intent to hand sell to our teacher librarian customers. Sometimes, despite my enthusiasm and best efforts, a book simply flops. There can be many reasons for this- an unappealing cover, too specialized a topic, poor presentation, etc. But of all the reasons that a book doesn't sell, it drives me nuts when the thickness of the book is the reason that my customers give for not purchasing it. "Kids don't read thick books", they tell me, but is that really true? If you examine the page counts of some of today's best-selling children's novels, I'd have to say that this is not the case. Rick Riordan's