AKIPRESS.COM - Decision by a British book editor to stop reviewing any children’s fiction that is clearly marketed to only one sex has exploded like a bombshell amongst the readers.

“I promise now that the newspaper and the website will not be reviewing any book which is explicitly aimed at just girls, or just boys,” Katy Guest, literary editor at The Independent on Sunday, announced on the weekend, The Globe and Mail reported.

Guest’s decision is inspired by a British campaign called Let Books Be Books, a recent push to get publishers to stop labeling products such as activity books and series books as “for girls” and “for boys.”

According to The Guardian newspaper, Usborne, one of the companies named in the campaign and the publisher of the pink and blue coloring books featured in its catchy image, said it was about to discontinue those products for just that reason.