Article: Low sales of non-fiction books for children.(Brief Article)

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Children's non-fiction is apparently in decline, accounting for less than 15% of all children's books sold in the UK last year.

Fewer than 5m of the 34.5m children's books sold were non-fiction or reference books and only two junior encyclopaedias (from Oxford University Press and Dorling Kindersley) sold more than 3,000 copies, ...

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