Comments on: “Don’t Over Moo the Cow” http://blogs.publishersweekly.com/blogs/shelftalker/?p=8900 In which children's booksellers ponder all things literary, artistic, and mercantile Fri, 24 May 2013 02:36:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Carol Chittenden http://blogs.publishersweekly.com/blogs/shelftalker/?p=8900&cpage=1#comment-58158 Carol Chittenden Wed, 12 Sep 2012 23:28:59 +0000 http://blogs.publishersweekly.com/blogs/shelftalker/?p=8900#comment-58158 We’ve been attacked by princess clones all summer, because the battery-operated scepters are right outside the office door. Like your idea of having them at the counter.

We’ve also taken to leaving at kid level some other battery powered noisemakers whose batteries are largely shot, with a sign telling customers fresh merchandise is available at the counter.

But it seems to be less of a problem now that parents let their kids, from diaper age on up, fiddle with their ipods and smartphones.

Now if we could just get parents, especially dads, to stop taking puppets from the high shelves and handing them to smeary babies…

]]> By: Christina Wilsdon http://blogs.publishersweekly.com/blogs/shelftalker/?p=8900&cpage=1#comment-58149 Christina Wilsdon Wed, 12 Sep 2012 20:46:35 +0000 http://blogs.publishersweekly.com/blogs/shelftalker/?p=8900#comment-58149 Sweet. Your stories remind me of the time I was behind a little girl and her mom at the library and they were checking out a plastic bag that included a picture book and a small stuffed animal. The librarian took out the book and plushie just to check that everything was there, then pushed them back in the bag.

She didn’t do this roughly or anything, but the little girl took the bag from her (causing a halt in the checkout proceedings) and very carefully extracted the plush toy, which had gone in head-first. She turned it over and put it back in very very gently, so that it was right-side-up.

Both the mom and the librarian smiled and waited very patiently for this fix-up to finish.

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