{"id":102,"date":"2019-07-31T16:52:32","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T16:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/s-collection\/?page_id=102"},"modified":"2025-10-20T00:02:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T00:02:23","slug":"bkreviews","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/s-collection\/research\/bkreviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.library.illinois.edu\/sshel\/\">SSHEL Home<\/a>\u00a0&gt;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.library.illinois.edu\/s-collection\">S-Collection Home<\/a>\u00a0 &gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.library.illinois.edu\/s-collection\/research\/\">Research Children&#8217;s Literature <\/a> &gt; Book Reviews<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2 class=\"cheep\">Commercial Sites Book Reviews<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"flower\">\n<li>Both\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/\">Amazon<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/\">Barnes and Noble<\/a>\u00a0frequently include reviews from a variety of respected review journals, including Publisher&#8217;s Weekly, School Library Journal, Booklist and Kirkus. Keep in mind however that these are commercial sites, so negative reviews or negative portions of reviews are not likely to be included.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"cheep\">Journals with Children&#8217;s Book Reviews<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"flower\">\n<li>For a list of journals with children&#8217;s book reviews, see the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/s-collection\/research\/journals\/\">S-Collection Electronic &amp; Print Journals Guide<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"cheep\">Article Databases<\/h2>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<p>(See also the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/s-collection\/research\/databases\/\">S-Collection Databases &amp; Scholarly Articles<\/a>\u00a0webpage.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<ul class=\"flower\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/go.gale.com\/ps\/start.do?p=BRIP&amp;u=uiuc_uc\">Book Review Index Online<\/a><br \/>\nIndexes more than 5 million book review articles from thousands of publications, including many children&#8217;s book review journals. You can locate book reviews by key words, book title, author, journal name, etc. To narrow your search to children&#8217;s literature, you can restrict the &#8220;reading level of book&#8221; to either &#8220;children&#8217;s review&#8221; or &#8220;young adult review.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"cheep\">Book Review Indexes<\/h2>\n<p>S.010 C4362\u00a0<strong><br \/>\n<em>Children&#8217;s Book Review Index.<\/em>\u00a0Detroit: Gale Research Company. 1975- .<br \/>\n<\/strong>This annual publication indexes review of children&#8217;s materials from more than 400 publications. The contents are derived from the much larger Book Review Index.<\/p>\n<p>S.026.1 C537\u00a0<strong><br \/>\n<em>Children&#8217;s Literature Review.<\/em>\u00a0Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1976- .<br \/>\n<\/strong>This annual publication presents significant passages from current published criticism of both contemporary and older works for children. 2010 and later issues available through electronic access only.<\/p>\n<p>Q.S.028.505 HO index\u00a0<strong><br \/>\nDay, Serenna F.\u00a0<em>Horn Book Index, 1924-1989<\/em>. Phoenix, Arizona: Oryx Press, 1990.<\/strong><br \/>\nThis accumulation of\u00a0<em>Horn Book Magazine<\/em>&#8216;s annual indexes from 1924 through 1989 allows access by title, author, illustrator, and subject for &#8220;key figures and works of children&#8217;s literature.&#8221; The 80,000 references have been standardized and cross-referenced.<\/p>\n<p>S.010 Su84b 1985-1990<strong><br \/>\nSutherland, Zena.\u00a0<em>The Best in Children&#8217;s Books: The University of Chicago Guide to Children&#8217;s Literature, 1985-1990<\/em>. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.<\/strong><br \/>\nSutherland&#8217;s books are collections of reviews originally published in the\u00a0<em>Bulletin of the Center for Children&#8217;s Books<\/em>. The volumes include publisher addresses and six different indexes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SSHEL Home\u00a0&gt;\u00a0S-Collection Home\u00a0 &gt; Research Children&#8217;s Literature &gt; Book Reviews Commercial Sites Book Reviews Both\u00a0Amazon\u00a0and\u00a0Barnes and Noble\u00a0frequently include reviews from a variety of respected review journals, including Publisher&#8217;s Weekly, School Library Journal, Booklist and Kirkus. Keep in mind however that these are commercial sites, so negative reviews or negative portions of reviews are not likely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":425,"featured_media":0,"parent":98,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-102","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/s-collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/s-collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/s-collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/s-collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/s-collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/s-collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":736,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/s-collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102\/revisions\/736"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/s-collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/98"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/s-collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}