<DIV style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif; font-size:10pt;"><DIV>My daughter, thinking back to when she worked in a bookstore, sent me the following:</DIV>
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<DIV> - Jim Landau</DIV>
<DIV><BR>Her name is Katherine Alice Applegate, but she went by K.A.<BR>Applegate when publishing Animorphs, because there's a theory in<BR>children's publishing that boys won't buy books written by women<BR>authors. This is also why the Harry Potter books are credited to J.K.<BR>Rowling as opposed to Joanne. <BR><BR>And yes, children's literature can basically be divided into "boy books"<BR>and "girl books". For that matter, so can most of adult publishing. In<BR>Atlantic Books, we separated some of the series books onto "boy" or<BR>"girl" racks. For some reason, it's much more acceptable for girls to<BR>read boy books than it is for boys to read girl books. My personal<BR>theory is that boy books tend to be better written and focus on plot, as<BR>opposed to girl books which focus on makeup. <BR><BR></DIV><BR> <BR><HR>Netscape. Just the Net You Need.</DIV>
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