I knew that the little independent bookstore in my corner of the world couldn’t be the only one whose children’s room is always filled to over-flowing with kids on the carpet, kids standing on tippy tiptoes to reach for things on the shelves, whose narrow traffic-way often holds customers politely standing three-deep to find a book (the customers in bookstores are always so damn nice, aren’t they?)

Today on Shelf Awareness novelist and blogger Jael McHenry shows she sees the same thing. She’s contradicting Stephen King, but I am so convinced Jael is right that I’m going to allow the master to be disputed here.

Check it out!