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From: Debbie Reese <dreese.nambe_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2013 05:52:12 -0600
I'm glad to see this discussion on CCBC.
Right now, I'm reading Julia Alvarez's RETURN TO SENDER. It won the Pura Belpre and Americas awards in 2010. I'd like to know what its sales figures are like. I don't know how to get that data, but I can look in WorldCat to see how many libraries have a copy.
The number I got (for all editions of it) is 1,410. As I scan the list, some of the 1,410 are school libraries.
According to ALA, there are 81,920 public school libraries.
Given that RETURN TO SENDER is about two families (one white, one Mexican/Mexican-American), and that its set on a farm, it seems to me that every public school librarian would be chomping at the bit to get it. If the data in WorldCat is a reliable indicator, we have a lot of librarians who are not doing what Megan said we need to do in order to see more books like it: we have to buy it.
Has CCBC-Net ever done a buy-book-drive of sorts? I've said "buy two copies" of this or that book for several years whenever I give a talk or lecture or workshop, but what if readers of CCBC-Net were to order or buy two copies of RETURN TO SENDER today, or by Friday? If the number of CCBC-Net subscribers is 1000, we'd almost double the WorldCat number, and surely its publisher would take note of the sale of 2000 copies of it.
Debbie (subscribed to CCBC-Net in digest)
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Debbie Reese, PhD Tribally enrolled: Nambe Pueblo
Email: dreese.nambe_at_gmail.com
Website: American Indians in Children's Literature _at_ http://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.net
Now: Studying for MLIS at San Jose State University Then: Assistant Professor in American Indian Studies, University of Illinois
Received on Thu 07 Feb 2013 05:52:12 AM CST
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2013 05:52:12 -0600
I'm glad to see this discussion on CCBC.
Right now, I'm reading Julia Alvarez's RETURN TO SENDER. It won the Pura Belpre and Americas awards in 2010. I'd like to know what its sales figures are like. I don't know how to get that data, but I can look in WorldCat to see how many libraries have a copy.
The number I got (for all editions of it) is 1,410. As I scan the list, some of the 1,410 are school libraries.
According to ALA, there are 81,920 public school libraries.
Given that RETURN TO SENDER is about two families (one white, one Mexican/Mexican-American), and that its set on a farm, it seems to me that every public school librarian would be chomping at the bit to get it. If the data in WorldCat is a reliable indicator, we have a lot of librarians who are not doing what Megan said we need to do in order to see more books like it: we have to buy it.
Has CCBC-Net ever done a buy-book-drive of sorts? I've said "buy two copies" of this or that book for several years whenever I give a talk or lecture or workshop, but what if readers of CCBC-Net were to order or buy two copies of RETURN TO SENDER today, or by Friday? If the number of CCBC-Net subscribers is 1000, we'd almost double the WorldCat number, and surely its publisher would take note of the sale of 2000 copies of it.
Debbie (subscribed to CCBC-Net in digest)
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Debbie Reese, PhD Tribally enrolled: Nambe Pueblo
Email: dreese.nambe_at_gmail.com
Website: American Indians in Children's Literature _at_ http://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.net
Now: Studying for MLIS at San Jose State University Then: Assistant Professor in American Indian Studies, University of Illinois
Received on Thu 07 Feb 2013 05:52:12 AM CST
