The Book Vine's customers grow
McHENRY – In the stock room at The Book Vine, behind the rows of neatly organized children's books ready to ship out, stands a shelf scattered with rejects.
The pictures on the pages don't pop. The words are weak and the sentences stale. When it comes down to it, the experts at the McHenry preschool book distributor are disappointed the books on the company's "wall of shame" ever were made.
"We can't believe a publisher cut down a tree for this," said owner Isabel Baker.
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