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Why are Publishers Deliberately Making Children's Novels Shorter

Times Now · WorldNews · 2026-09-07

Why are Publishers Deliberately Making Children's Novels Shorter

Some middle-grade novels from Charlesbridge now arrive with a reversible jacket. Turn it inside out and a poster appears, printed with a QR code that opens a site of activities built around the book. The imprint is called Charlesbridge Moves, and its editor Karen Boss has drawn a careful line about who the list is for. Not children who struggle with the mechanics of reading, she has said, but reluctant ones.

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