{"id":10567,"date":"2013-04-01T06:00:59","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T10:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=10567"},"modified":"2013-04-01T06:00:59","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T10:00:59","slug":"kids-books-at-the-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=10567","title":{"rendered":"Kids&#8217; Books at the Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On my way home from Key West, I had a lengthy layover at the Charlotte Airport. As I&#8217;m wont to do, I scoped out the books that were available. Most small airport shops don&#8217;t have any children&#8217;s books. This airport had a small but interesting selection of six.<br \/>\nThe first thing that struck me about the kids&#8217; books was they were directly under one of the scariest <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/scary-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-10570\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 5px;\" alt=\"scary\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/scary-2.jpg\" width=\"144\" height=\"192\" \/><\/a>magazine posters I&#8217;ve ever seen. An ad for some sort of automatic weapons. Because really, shouldn&#8217;t every small child look for a comforting board book under the gun poster? And, not just a little handgun, but a semi-automatic rifle?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/rightside-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10571\" alt=\"rightside\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/rightside-2.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a>Once I got past the horror of the guns, I looked down at the kids&#8217; selection and while it was only six books, they were six good books. The top row had activity books: A\u00a0<em>Llama Llama:Birthday Party Sticker Stories, <\/em>which doesn&#8217;t require precision of coloring that can be hard to do on the plane, and <i>Disney Cars Mazes Book. <\/i>Both are delightfully appropriate for little flyers.<br \/>\nThe second shelf was for bears. The oversized board book\u00a0<em>Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?<\/em> Is a great addition to any child&#8217;s traveling collection, though somewhat hard to pack. Then the real surprise was\u00a0<em>Bear Has a Story to Tell. <\/em>I love this book, I was just shocked and happy to see it at the airport.<br \/>\nThe last shelf had the message book.\u00a0<em>Max Makes Friends &#8212; <\/em>what better book for a young child to read before or during a journey? Let&#8217;s all make friends during airline travel and maybe it would feel so arduous. The final book really speaks to all the bad flyers out there:\u00a0<em>My Brave Year of Firsts.\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\nI think that pretty much says it all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most small airport shops don&#8217;t have any children&#8217;s books. The one in the Charlotte Airport had a small but interesting selection of six.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}