Abstract
Purchasing used picturebooks online is convenient and affordable. Typically, prices of used books are much less than new books and allows the purchase of multiple copies of a single picturebook to use with students in literature circles and multiple picturebooks by a single author or illustrator to create text sets. Recently, some purchases of award-winning picturebooks by the author have revealed an anomaly. The purchased picturebooks, while priced as used, were brand new, not used, not read or checked out from a library, stamped WITHDRAWN, and removed from the library shelves. This article describes and explains this anomaly and proposes a solution. It ends with some concluding thoughts for moving forward
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Blintz, William
(2024)
"Shelving Picturebooks for All-Age Readers in the Children’s Book Section: A Cautionary Tale for Pre-service Teachers, Teachers, and Librarians,"
Ohio Journal of Teacher Education: Vol. 39:
No.
1, Article 7.
Available at:
https://www.exhibit.xavier.edu/ojte/vol39/iss1/7
