Inspired to create a thread of books/authors that are rarely shelved/quickly trashed - mostly children's books - in case any publishers out there feel like donating copies to underfunded public/school libraries. #LibraryTwitter & teachers please chip in with your observations. https://twitter.com/teandoranges/status/1330185738181341186

To reiterate - Calvin's & Hobbes via @AndrewsMcMeel publishing is still after all these years among highest demand books for both kids & adults, rarely on the shelf & often need replacing bc readers them to death. Wld be great to have more new copies for underfunded libraries.

(not endorsing these titles - and also not assuming publishers don't already donate books - but hoping for more new copy donations and more awareness of popular titles)

Garfield books via Ballantine Books @randomhouse are often loved/trashed within less than 10 uses and constantly need to be replaced. Rarely on the shelf.

Books featuring the @Disney character Doc McStuffins see constant and circulation and need constant replacing.

The Lincoln Peirce's Big Nate books never sit on the shelf and often need to be withdrawn&replaced bc readers and trash the heck out them from @Nickelodeon and under @AndrewsMcMeel Syndication (via Newspaper Enterprise Association)

Jason Reynolds books - pretty much all of them - experiencing extremely high demand and never shelved these days bc request lists are so high is published by @simonschuster

@JasonReynolds83

The "Daisy Meadows" fairy/magic books get rifled thru like bins of candy and need constant replacement and come from the Orchard Books imprint owned by @Scholastic books.

Pilkey's Captain Underpants books never collect dust - unless you count mud puddles as dust - and are read to death so quickly it is hard to keep up with replacement copies.
Also published via @Scholastic

Fwiw James Patterson's net worth is reportedly about $560 million and not sure why any library anywhere should ever have to pay a dime for his fairly popular kids books that need constant replacement via @littlebrown and @jimmy_books

Yes - I said that. No library shld have to pay $$ for a Patterson children's book ever again. ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯

The Lumberjane graphic novel series experiences high use, are constantly requested and return smudged, spilled on, torn (like all of above) as do a lot of @boomstudios titles.

All Louise Erdrich titles - adult and children - never stay on the shelf for more than half a minute and both children and adults put a lot of wear and tear on her books. Most titles appear to come thru @HarperCollins . Correct me if I'm wrong.

I first experienced the high demand for Any/all books by and about Tupac in the 1990s when I was student teaching around the time of his death. The demand for his books, esp The Rose That Grew from Concrete has NEVER wained.
Via @simonschuster & @Pocket_Books

Whoever is binding Angie Thomas's books does a fantastic job (as someone who sees many books fall apart after 2 uses). That said - the demand for her titles is astronomical and a lot of libraries cold use more copies via Balzar & Bray via @HarperCollins

Footnote - whenever you see @HarperCollins - an fwiw fyi - their parent company is News Corp - yes - that FOX sibling via Murdoch.

Everyone gets their grubby hands Cece Bell's graphic novel El Deafo and we have to replace this stand alone book often. Also - never sits on the shelf so more new copies always appreciated. Adults love it, too. Published thru @ABRAMSbooks and Amulet Books/ @abramskids

Thanks to GenX and Millennial parents who cut their reading teeth on @chooseadventure Choose Your Own Adventure books - these titles are still seldom on the shelves, well-worn and need constant replacement. Newer series as popular as originals tbh.

How often to public and school libraries have to replace the books in the Dork Diaries series by Rachel Renee Russell? Every other minute if not more often. Kids that series. Published via Aladdin Paperbacks via @simonschuster

As soon as a kid -or adult- lays eyes on any Raina Telgemeier book (Smile/Drama/Sister/Ghosts/Guts) we know we're going to have to buy a replacement copy sooner than later. "Well-loved" does not do justice for the degree of totally trashed within 5min
@GraphixBooks & @Scholastic

Alex Gino's George published via @Scholastic needs frequent replacement. Tbh many lgbtq and sex ed books often just disappear without being checked out. A school librarian mentor once told me - she wld rather have kids steal these books from the library than not read them.

And I agree. It sucks when youth are afraid to be seen checking books out based on the sex ed or lgbtq content... And public and school libraries who can often not afford to replace these books would benefit from new donations/funds to keep them on the shelves.

ALL of Anastasia Higginbotham's books for kids on death, sex, divorce, whiteness/race are phenomenal. Cannot recommend them enough & they never sit on the shelf. Always requested. Her publisher is @dottirpress.

Fwiw not a single one has left me dry-eyed. Gorgeous illuatrations