ED Hirsch is looking more and more prescient every day. I mean, really, sure: there are a few dozen really clever children's books that come out every year tha

ED Hirsch is looking more and more prescient every day. I mean, really, sure: there are a few dozen really clever children's books that come out every year that deserve to be added to the "pantheon" but isn't this area basically saturated? Imagine you read your child one book a day for their first 5 years, you and they co-read two books a day from age 5 to age 10 and then they move on forever to whatever arbitrary boundary we set for "children's books" versus the rest of literature. Assuming a modest amount of re-reading your favorites, that's an ambitious local maximum of about 5,000 books. Realistically, this number is more like 1,000 to 1,500 books. This space is already well curated - Scheherazade has you covered in a single compendium! There's no way any random ChatGPT production is going to cut into the space.