The Washington Post's Bob Thompson spotlights the New York Review's new Children's Collection, which aims to bring back notable kids' titles into print to the tune of eight or 10 out-of-print books a year. Success, says the Collection's editor Edwin Frank, is about 5,000 copies sold - but more important is the prospect of bringing back important titles to the marketplace. "Bless their little hearts," says Brookline, Mass., children's bookseller Terri Schmitz, when told that the Review intends to keep its reissues in print indefinitely. "That's unusual in this day and age."
At the Boston Globe, Johnny Diaz reviews the latest in pop-up books and how they are catering more and more to an adult market. "More adults are definitely discovering them," wrote Robert Sabuda in an e-mail from his studio in New York, where he produces about three pop-up books a year. "Pop-ups appeal to adults because it allows them to revert back to their childhood experiences with things that amaze them. When an adult's eyes light up when turning the page of a pop-up, I know they've become kids again.