[Publib] PICTURE BOOKS

[Arlene Sahraie]

Dear Colleagues:
   
  I know this is a question better asked someplace else but as Toby on the West Wing said, "You're my guys".  I lurk most of the time but need your help today.
   
  Can anyone with any opinions out there please share them on the following topic:
   
  What do you see in your libraries that makes for a popular picture book?
  What makes some wildly successful and others so short-lived?
  Why do you think publishers are looking for in picture books today?
   
  I'm speaking to a writers' group from Bank Street College on this topic and I'd like to share your collective wisdom.
   
  Many thanks.
   
  Arlene Sahraie
Library Services Director
BCCLS - Bergen County Cooperative Library System
810 Main St.
Hackensack, NJ  07601
  Tel.:  201-489-1904
FAX:  201-489-4215
  www.bccls.org
  arlene at bccls.org
   


"So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries. "

Kurt Vonnegut 
In These Times
August 2004
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