Book Reviews
- Current journals with children's book reviews
- Databases
- Software and CD-ROM reviews
- Book review indexes
Journals with children's book reviews
(See also S-Collection Periodicals Guide)
- Booklist
(In Library and Information Science Library, 028.05AM)
- Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
(028.05CH)
- CM: Canadian Review of Materials
(electronic access only)
- Children's Literature
(In Library and Information Science Library, 026.105CHE)
- Horn Book Magazine
(S.028.505HO)
- School Library Journal
(In Library and Information Science Library, 026.05JU)
Databases
(See also S-Collection Databases Guide)
- Children's Literature Comprehensive Database
Contains more than 200,000 reviews of children's books--all full text searchable from 33 review sources. For search tips, see our S-Collection Databases page or visit the Children's Literature Comprehensive Database online tutorial.
- Book Review Index Online
Indexes more than 5 million book review articles from thousands of publications, including many children's book review journals. You can locate book reviews by key words, book title, author, journal name, etc. To narrow your search to children's literature, you can restrict the "reading level of book" to either "children's review" or "young adult review."
Software and CD-ROM reviews
- The Review Zone
The Review Zone is a commercial site dedicated to reviewing "the best" kids' and family edutainment software, hardware, computer books and cutting edge technology.
Book review indexes
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S.010 C4362 |
Children's Book Review Index. Detroit: Gale Research Company. 1975- . This annual publication indexes review of children's materials from more than 400 publications. The contents are derived from the much larger Book Review Index. |
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S.026.1 C537 |
Children's Literature Review. Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1976- . This annual publication presents significant passages from current published criticism of both contemporary and older works for children. |
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Q.S.028.505 HO index |
Day, Serenna F. Horn Book Index, 1924-1989. Phoenix, Arizona: Oryx Press, 1990. This accumulation of Horn Book Magazine's annual indexes from 1924 through 1989 allows access by title, author, illustrator, and subject for "key figures and works of children's literature." The 80,000 references have been standardized and cross-referenced. |
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016.8109 SU4b 1985-90 |
Sutherland, Zena. The Best in Children's Books: The University of Chicago Guide to Children's Literature, 1985-1990. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991. Sutherland's books are collections of reviews originally published in the Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books. The volumes include publisher addresses and six different indexes. |
