Word: scioscia
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...their place was the end of the book review section, the bottom of the shelf and the back of the catalogue. Today that illustrated literature has become a $200 million business whose profits are often handsome enough to compensate for deficits in the sales of adult books. Says Frank Scioscia, sales manager for junior books at Harper & Row: "The children's book business has enjoyed a consistent increase in sales, even though school funds have dried up, inflation is hurting, and local funds are not available. Prose, poetry and pictures for the young may be paying the rent...