This bookshelf is a good one if you are looking for something simple to place in a young child's room. My main complant with it is that the actual space that you place books in is only 9 1/2 inches, meaning that taller books can not fit upright and have to be tilted or lay flat. I was under the impression from reading the description that they would be 12" spaces. Ultimately since we knew this wasn't going to last forever, we decided to keep it anyway, and it has been fine.