Local Children Books Sad Affair

My business main stream is education. My company publishes children's educational materials. On top of other writer's materials, I also publish my own piece from the conventional workbook to references to complement the textbooks learning. We understand that the contents for any academic workbook or references MUST comply to the curricular standards but the Layout? I mean look at all the imported learning publications and you can't help but to be drawn into how the layouts, illustrations and concept are so appealing not only to the children but parents too. Never mind the more expensive tag on it but the local books are sooooo BORING! Inside and out! Have I not mention the grammar and occasional spelling mistakes?
The logic is, learning supposed to be fun and interactive and contents are developed FOR the children, not for some people in the department who thinks that this font and that font is not allowed and that there are standard typesetting that we publishers have to oblige to. Come on la... don't trust me, go and browse through our local children books and you probably just want to tear the pages and make paper aeroplanes, maybe the akak nasi lemak would want to use it to wrap the local delicacy with. Tsk..tsk..