Well my granddaughter taught me something about the book market and that is that some indicators are tough to predict.

 Last Christmas being the good grandparents we are, we bought an animatronic-like dinosaur for our 2 ½ year granddaughter.  Okay so it was for ages eight and up, we (especially my husband who says Olivia will be a great roboticist some day) decided it was age appropriate if we got it out only when an adult could watch and show her how to take care of it. 

 Fast forward a few months.  My son and daughter-in-law pulled the dinosaur from its box. They let Olivia play with the dinosaur but when Jennifer (her mother) put it up, she noticed the instruction booklet was missing.

That evening when it was time for bed and reading stories, Jennifer pulled out several picture books.  Olivia wasn’t interested in any of them.  The soon-to-be three year old reached in a cubby hole and pulled out the robotic dinosaur instruction manual.  “I want to read this,” she said and settled in for a good read.