A new kid-lit canon is coming together whether parents know about it or not. KJezerMorton writes
which, according to him, was full of typos but action packed.
Is this scarcity even real, or is it something about the consumer environment that makes it hard to find current books like these? I suspected — and ultimately had confirmed to me — that this situation is comparable to what led me to watchbecause Prime recommended it to me and I couldn’t deal with scrolling deeper into the feed. There is an abundance of great books.
I learned from several librarians that there are many, many wonderful contemporary children’s books out there. They can just be hard to locate amid the onslaught of wizard and dragon books that dominate the displays. In an email, Maggie Levine, the children’s librarian at the Boston Public Library, shared her perspective on why it might feel as if we were living in a world ofknockoffs. “It’s increasingly difficult to make a living as a children’s author.
Saara Itkonen, a children’s librarian in British Columbia, added that libraries provide a valuable counterpoint to big bookstores because their displays aren’t determined by the marketing budgets of the big publishers, which will inevitably feature the blockbusters everyone already knows about. She said she’s seeing hopeful trends in publishing in recent years with more middle-grade books featuring protagonists who aren’t white.
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