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I was just looking over the list of this summers Best Sellers for Children and I’m almost a little surprised not to see the best selling video games listed on the same page.  I suppose that the New York Times is not ready to abandon it’s traditional turf yet – and thank you for that.

It’s a wonderful line up and it makes me think that the more things change, the more they stay the same.

At number one a book called Golidilicious – featuring a magical Unicorn that allows the little girl  (who is the main  character) to combat her magician Brother. Now, there’s a classic theme.

The number two book is really interesting. It’s called Gallop and it features a simple and low technology animation approach called Scanimation.  It works like this : a hidden tab in each page of the book slides an acetate layer printed with vertical black lines over an encoded, detailed image of a different animal. The interaction between the two layers.

The number three book on the New York Times Children’s Bestsellers list is called Tea Parties and while it’s difficult to describe I think this book will appeal every bit as much to Mom as it will for the little girls who are the apparent audience.

I’ll try and cover 4 and 5 tomorrow- gotta run!