What’s Sellin’: IndieBound Bestsellers
If you need proof that seasons and holidays play a huge role in the type of books purchsed, look no further than the “children’s illustrated” category of this week’s IndieBound Bestsellers. A full half of the books are about rabbits or eggs. So unwrap your Reese’s egg and take a look at this Easter-influenced list:
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(Click here to view all of the IndieBound Bestsellers)
Plenty of classics on this list. Good Easter basket fodder, no doubt.
And now, the chapter books:
The rabbit/egg trend going on with the illustrated list is certainly not carrying over to the “children’s interest list”. This category is pretty much keeping with the recent top 10s.
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About Travis Jonker
Travis Jonker is an elementary school librarian in Michigan. He writes reviews (and the occasional article or two) for School Library Journal and is a member of the 2014 Caldecott committee. You can email Travis at scopenotes@gmail.com, or follow him on Twitter: @100scopenotes.
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Thanks… good time to be thinking about IndieBound, what with Amazon having decided that LGBT-themed books are all too obscene to be sold normally through their site.
An update (and possible explanation) on the Amazon story you mentioned:
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