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May 16, 2024 · The majority of Canadians who bought new books compared book prices before making a purchase in 2023 (82%). And 19% of new book buyers compared the price in multiple places when deciding whether or not to buy or borrow books — this percentage has increased from 18% in 2022 and 17% in 2021 and 2020.
Jul 23, 2024 · The average price of a children's picture book is $18.99. Interpretation In a world where the cost of living seems to rise faster than a teenager's eye-rolling reflex, the average prices of children's books stand as beacons of relief for parents everywhere.
Kids are second grade right now, just starting to read books by themselves - and books are expensive. I know a lot of books for kids are free online, amazon gives a lot of them out in prime reading and all the classics are free from the gutenberg project.
Mar 2, 2022 · The data, based on figures supplied by Follett and Baker & Taylor, shows average list prices for books (children’s titles, young adult books, graphic novels, paperback, and hardcover editions), which have been released during the time frames listed.
- The Wind in The Willows by Kenneth Grahame
- The Tailor of Gloucester by Beatrix Potter
- The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
- Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne
- The Peter Pan Portfolio by J.M. Barrie
- Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
- The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
This tale about the adventures of a group of woodland animals was so successful that even the president of the United States at the time, Theodore Roosevelt Jr., said how much he loved it. A near-perfect condition copy would cost you £5,000today!
This story about a family of mice who rush to help a poor tailor finish sewing a suit for the mayor has to be one of our favourites! You can see this very copy on sale at rare booksellers, Peter Harrington in London for£6,750 – yikes! peterharrington.co.uk
If you’ve got an old copy of this hiding in the back of your wardrobe, hurry up and dig it out! First edition copies of Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy’s adventures in Narnia are worth as much as £7,500!
Pooh bear would be able to buy a lot of honey if he could get his paws on a first edition copy of this much-loved children’s tale… A near-perfect copy will fetch £7,500 – now that’s bear-illiant!
The Scottish writer penned the much-loved character, Peter Pan (a little boy who can fly and never grows up!) as part of a play in 1904. It was so popular that he later wrote a novel called Peter and Wendy. You’d need more than a sprinkling of fairy dust to get your hands on a first edition copy, though, as they’re valued at about £9,000! peterharr...
The book series that follows the boy wizard’s adventures at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry has broken records for the best-selling kids’ books ever, so it’s no surprise that a first edition of the first book will cost you a spellbinding £15,000!
Did you know that this was the original title of what’s now simply known as The Wizard of Oz? An original copy of the story, which follows the adventures of Dorothy, who lands in Munchkin Land after being caught up in a cyclone, can fetch as much as £15,000 – now that’s blown usaway!
Hobbits may be small but the price tag of this book certainly isn’t! A first edition, pristine copy of this 1937 adventure story will set you back a whopping £25,000, and the famous tale has since become a major film trilogy. peterharrington.co.uk
You’d have to be as mad as a March Hare to part with a first edition copy of this childhood tale. Published in 1866, it’s 150 years old, and valued at £57,500! peterharrington.co.uk
This story about the world’s best-loved rabbit commands a hefty price tag! It’s over 100 years old and was one of the first books in Potter’s children’s book range. If you’d have bought this book when it was new it would have cost you 1s 2d – that’s about 14p in today’s money. Today it”s worth a hopping-mad £75,000! peterharrington.co.uk
May 22, 2024 · “While 88 percent of Canadians who bought new books looked for sales, promotions, and coupons when they shop for books,” the BookNet report says, “most of them paid full price for the books they purchased in 2023, at 61 percent.”
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May 12, 2023 · Regular Kindles don’t come with a free case, and you need to pay around $30 more to get them ad-free (which adds up to around the same price as a kids’ Kindle). When you buy the kids’ Kindle, you’re basically your own parent and can add or remove restrictions as needed. Can I turn a regular Kindle into a kids’ Kindle? You can.
