http://blogs.publishersweekly.com/blogs/shelftalker/?p=8988 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 http://blogs.publishersweekly.com/blogs/shelftalker/?p=8988&cpage=1#comment-59394 Carol Chittenden Mon, 24 Sep 2012 22:58:58 +0000 http://blogs.publishersweekly.com/blogs/shelftalker/?p=8988#comment-59394 Thanks! I think I’ll add that to our file of training sheets for new booksellers!

]]> http://blogs.publishersweekly.com/blogs/shelftalker/?p=8988&cpage=1#comment-59337 Misti Mon, 24 Sep 2012 15:41:25 +0000 http://blogs.publishersweekly.com/blogs/shelftalker/?p=8988#comment-59337 Good advice, for librarians as well as booksellers. The tendency to overwhelm with book recommendations is one that besets more librarians than just me, I’m sure! I will often ask how many books on a topic the patron is looking for, before I start making suggestions — if they only want two train books for their toddler, fifteen will certainly be overkill.

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