"provide some kind of experience" There's the food court. Also see the constraint on "mom is stuck with the kids" to this day even in 2017 etc. So a movie th

"provide some kind of experience" There's the food court. Also see the constraint on "mom is stuck with the kids" to this day even in 2017 etc. So a movie theater is a hard sell if mom has the baby in the stroller. Of course going to the mall implies having money and a car, which means the library is accessible, so having story time at the mall merely replicates a service that's barely getting by somewhere else; better off just driving to the library or whatever rather than imitating it and splitting the participants such that possibly neither can be a success.