Serious about Series: Evaluations and Annotations of Teen Fiction in Paperback Series

There seems to be every reason to take series for granted and even to leave them off the shelves. The stereotype of a series for children and young people is that it consists of one story written many times, cliché plots and characters, poor style, banal imaginative value, a commercial hype and con, ordered if at all by librarians who trust to one they know to order any of the rest. Makowski, a specialist children’s librarian from America, sets out to persuade us differently. Series provide readers with a welcome return to a familiar setting, to well‐known and well‐loved characters,...