ShelfTalker: A Children's Bookseller's Blog

May 8, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (8)

Inappropriate, maybe. But HOW can you not laugh at this one??

May 6, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (48)

I call it the single most divisive children's book ever written: Love You Forever, written by Robert Munsch and illustrated by Sheila McGraw. I haven't met a single person who DOESN'T feel strongly about this book. Either it moves you to tears and you love it, or it makes your skin crawl and you detest it (as seems to be the case with several of the commenters on last week's post about books loved by everyone but you). I myself have been known to JOKE (and, truly I'm ju...Read More

May 5, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (8)

Not sure what to do with those books you didn't like? Here's an entertaining suggestion.

Our AMAZING gift buyer Alexa Crowe is part of a book group in which its members don't all read the same book -- they individually read whatever books they want to then come together, talk about what they've read, and swap books if one person wants to read the book recommended by someone else. In their group, when someone hasn't liked a book, they make the book sit in the corner, LITERALLY. They walk the book over to the corner, set it on the floor "facing" the corner, and the...Read More

May 1, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (124)

Since so many people appear to have enjoyed confessing to the books they've never read and/or their tendencies to peek ahead, I thought I'd continue this Post Secret-esque theme and invite you to confess something else -- the books you know you were "supposed" to love but didn't. You know -- the books EVERYONE loved, EVERYONE thought were the best of the year, EVERYONE told you you "had" to read, so you DID and then wondered what the heck all the fuss was about.

I've been thinking about doing a post on this subject for months now -- at least since last September, which I heard a great piece on Pub...Read More

April 30, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (3)

Next time you need a fix, come to me.

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