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— Candlelight Art (@candlelight_art) August 12, 2026
Since the big publishers won't provide quality literature for children, small publishers are filling the vacuum. Candlelight Art is just one of many independent publishers of quality literature.
The slop that passes for children's literature is not worth the paper it is printed on. If libraries continue to shelve the crap that the "Big Five" publishing houses incessantly push, the nascent demand for private subscription libraries will also grow.
Just walk into any public library. The children and teen sections are full of comic books, manga, graphic novels -- many of them prurient and of poor literary quality. Libraries are choosing to buy these materials. No one is forcing them to do it. The trained experts are putting these books in their public library shopping carts, and the taxpayers are paying for them.
But the Marxist ALA-inspired library revolution is fizzling out. And not a moment too soon.