My son is about a year old. Every night, as part of the bed time ritual prescribed by all of the child rearing "experts", we read him two or three books. At this rate, one can go through a lot of books.
Now the first thing that I have to say about children's books is that they are absurdly expensive: "A dollar a word" as one friend and parent said to us. Now, it's not really that bad. They're probably closer to $0.20/word, and some of them may even go less than $0.04/word. Still, can you imagine paying that rate for your typical novel? I've mostly gotten over this. If I find a really good children's book, I will simply ignore the price tag as I take it to the register and pay for it with my credit card so I don't ever have to acknowledge the actual cost.
This post has moved. Read the entire post at http://wombats-and-cents.blogspot.com/2005/12/children-books.html
Recent Comments