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Oh man, Bookbaggers. Summer is over. Did you go on holiday? If so, we hope you had a lovely time and got to read a book or two. If you didn't, we bet you managed to get some reading time in anyway, didn't you? Which summer book did you enjoy the most?
The latest figures tell us that children are [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/sep/02/young-readers-drive-book-sales driving book sales]. Sales of children's titles rose 16% last year alone. This is such great news. But it does lead us back to that drum we like to bang from time to time - the Cover Kids Books [http://www.thebookseller.com/news/gaiman-pullman-support-cover-kids-books-campaign-371596 campaign]. Why does a third of the market get only 3% coverage in newspapers and magazines? It's as though children, and the authors who write for them, don't matter at all. Do better, British press, do better.
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