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Commercial Sites Book Reviews
- Both Amazon and Barnes and Noble frequently include reviews from a variety of respected review journals, including Publisher’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.
Journals with Children’s Book Reviews
- For a list of journals with children’s book reviews, see the S-Collection Electronic & Print Journals Guide.
Article Databases
(See also the S-Collection Databases & Scholarly Articles webpage.)
- 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.”
Book Review Indexes
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.
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. 2010 and later issues available through electronic access only.
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.
S.010 Su84b 1985-1990
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.
