Children's Books

[snarkydame]

 So I spent yesterday shelving books in the kids section -- let me just say, that is a dangerous part of the bookstore!  For one, I'm still not sure what a good number of the sections are supposed to be, which made putting some of those books on the right shelves a challenge. (Kids has more subsections than  just about any other part of the store,

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[naye]

I have nothing interesting to say, except whee, kid's books. ♥ I love them. I'm so lucky I get to work around them, because I keep taking them home and reading them and enjoying them far more than you'd think someone my age would. And the high school angst books make me roll my eyes.

By the way - The Last Unicorn isn't a well-read book here, so I don't know that much about it. Why wouldn't it be a kid's book? I'm genuinely curious!

[snarkydame]

Well, it's not like it absolutely CAN'T be a kids book -- there's a unicorn, a wizard, spells and magic, mysterious cat, talking skull, evil king and scary witch -- and I'd totally encourage kids to read it. But it's such a LONELY book sometimes, and has some really tragic moments and such achingly lovely scenes, that I don't think a lot of younger kids would necessarily get. The language is beautiful, but a little dense sometimes.

And then, some of the scenes in the cartoon from the 70s were downright scary (when I watched it first I was 12 or so, so maybe that's why).

I guess it's more ageless than anything -- but I'd never seen it on the children's shelves until I worked at this bookstore.