Comments on: Why are there more than a dozen children’s books? http://williamtozier.com/slurry/2006/06/25/why-are-there-more-than-a-dozen-childrens-books Pontification without all the gritty gravitas Mon, 08 Mar 2010 04:16:04 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Edward Vielmetti http://williamtozier.com/slurry/2006/06/25/why-are-there-more-than-a-dozen-childrens-books/comment-page-1#comment-53669 Edward Vielmetti Thu, 20 Nov 2008 03:45:05 +0000 http://williamtozier.com/slurry/2006/06/25/why-are-there-more-than-a-dozen-childrens-books#comment-53669 There are so many children's books because so many desperate parents make up whatever hare-brained stories they can to get their young terrors to sleep, and upon extended repetition at some point they just want to write those stories down so that they don't have to repeat themselves again. (noting that I have a "paper route story" that would make a charming children's book, of the sort that has a likely market numbered in the dozens, and is thus best suited for print-on-demand) There are so many children’s books because so many desperate parents make up whatever hare-brained stories they can to get their young terrors to sleep, and upon extended repetition at some point they just want to write those stories down so that they don’t have to repeat themselves again.

(noting that I have a “paper route story” that would make a charming children’s book, of the sort that has a likely market numbered in the dozens, and is thus best suited for print-on-demand)

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