Disappearing Picture Books AND Article?

[lisamullarkey]

Last week, I met writerlinda at Barnes & Noble. As we walked into the picture book section, we sensed something was wrong right away. Odd. Off. The picture book wall was...well, missing a lot of picture books. Honestly, the ones they did have were stacked at the bottom (not facing out!)and most books on display were activity books of some sort. Clearly,

Comments

[anonymous]

Go and ask a polite comment about it and you'll get deleted, just like I did. Twice now. The third time, my comment wouldn't post. I think my anonymous handle has been banned.

Then again, you might not want to. Maybe they'll figure out my secret identity and never review my books again.

[anonymous]

My comments mysteriously reappeared this morning (it's a little embarrassing now because when I realized they were taking them down, I made a stupid one at the end).

[lisamullarkey]

My comment has not appeared and it's been two days. I feel "the wall" is such a loss for all of us.

[artistq]

oh brother.
I do not know now or ever have known a parent of a 4 or 5 year old who wants to ditch a picture book for a chapter book... that is a made-up fact to support this idea... B S.

~~Laura
maybe I will boycott B&N!

[lisamullarkey]

Makes me sad to even think of it.

[jamarattigan]

B&N is probably experiencing a lot of backlash -- as they should! Interesting that one cannot even comment about the issue without getting deleted! But the whole situation is sad. I don't want to see that missing PB wall . . .

[lisamullarkey]

I think it's been on the decline for a while now...too many nonbooks have been creeping in...

[lisamullarkey]

I'm going to check them out today. Thanks!