Independent on Sunday will no longer review any [Book] marketed to exclude either sex
An online campaign called Let Books Be Books, which petitions publishers to ditch gender-specific childrens books, has met with mixed success recently. Last week, both Parragon (which sells Disney titles, among others) and Usborne (the Independent Publisher of the Year 2014), agreed that they will no longer publish books specifically titled for boys or for girls. Unfortunately, Michael OMara, which owns Buster Books, pledged to continue segregating young readers according to their gender. Mr OMara himself told The Independent that their Boys Book covers things like how to make a bow and arrow and how to play certain sports and youd get things about style and how to look cool in the girls book. At the same time, he added: We would never publish a book that demeaned one sex or the other.
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A welcome approach, though there are plenty of issues that you can see hitting when it comes to things like this in the actual retail environment. still, from a review perspective, the push back against publishers is interesting and welcome.