From: Meghan McCarthy <meghanmccarthy007>
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 12:32:52 -0700 (PDT)

As a bookseller I?ve seen a lot of nonfiction books come and go. In a big chain, they?re likely to get lost. People DO come in with their children and ask for nonfiction for book reports, science projects, etc. The internet is a great resource but it?s hard to sift through and sometimes and it?s hard to determine which sites are legitimate and which are not--especially for kids! It's still nice to have a book to flip through while sitting on the couch or at the kitchen table as opposed to having to sit at the computer for hours. I think that?s why parents still buy SOME nonfiction books!

I will say that I think there are a lot of boring nonfiction books out there. Times are changing. Perhaps nonfiction has to keep up with the trends a bit and get more exciting. I think kids need nonfiction that?s easy to relate to...books that don?t cover the standard boring topics such as Abe Lincoln and the like. I was not a stellar student in elementary school and I won?t blame the boring topics on my attention problems but I think they certainly didn?t help!

I do think publishers are williing to publish nonfiction but maybe not as much of the same old...

meghan mccarthy



       
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Received on Wed 13 Jun 2007 02:32:52 PM CDT