Review Sources:
Booklist: Digital counterpart of ALA's Booklist magazine. A current selection of reviews, a wealth of feature articles, or as well as cumulative index of the magazine that is not available in the print version of Booklist. Searchable. Includes feature articles and bibliographies.
Publishers Weekly: Very few full-text reviews, but good articles on trends in the publishing world.
New York Times Book Review: Includes an archive of thousands of reviews, book-related news pieces, bestseller lists, and interviews back to 1996. Includes the Sunday Book Review section and many titles on the bestseller list are linked to reviews. Children's book reviews and articles can also be found.
New York Review of Books: Selections from the current issue, as well as an archive of several hundred articles from past issues including full text of its famous first issue (February 1, 1963). There is also a gallery of around 2,000 caricatures by David Levine.
The
BookPage:
The web version of BookPage, a review
newspaper that is distributed to book stores each month, has reviews of
materials in a variety of formats and genres.
BookSense.com: This indie bookseller's answer to the big chains lets users search the inventories of local independent bookstores, read author interviews, and browse recommendations from loquacious and opinionated bibliophiles. A good source for librarians seeking readers’ advisory and collection development information, it provides current subject bibliographies and annotated booklists relating to current events, including relevant fictional titles.
Amazon.com: This large online store is a great place to check for bibliographic information such as ISBN etc. Often, reviews from professional review sources are appended.
Booklist, and New York Times Book Review described in detail above have reviews for Youth materials.
School Library Journal: No actual reviews online but selections for Book of the Week, Audio of the Week and Video of the Week offer exemplary materials in a variety of formats for addition to the library collection. Web site reviews/evaluations are also featured. Has articles on libraries and library services to children. Has bibliographies by grade level listed under the Curriculum Connections tab and under the SLJ Reviews tab.
Voice of Youth Advocate: Popularly known as VOYA, this publication is aimed at fine-tuning library services to Young Adults. On the web find a some articles, some bibliographies and some reviews. [Hint: Click on WHAT'S IN VOYA in the menu bar for reviews and more!]
Horn Book: Horn Book and Horn Book Guide are review journals published by the Boston Globe. Web site features a few reviews. Visit the site for the reviews but be sure to browse through the articles and information about children's literature.
The BookHive: A searchable collection for brief reviews of hundreds of children's books, also browsable by category. Books may be searched for by author, title, illustrator, reading level, reading interest, or page length. From the Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County (NC) whose librarians write the reviews.
Video Librarian: The online companion to the journal, Video Librarian offers a free access to reviews of some new videos.
Rotten Tomatoes: A site for movie buffs with a host of movie lore, plus reviews and previews from a variety of sources across the country.
Roger Ebert's Movie Reviews in the Chicago Sun-Times: Featured on TV and in many newspapers, Roger Ebert's movie reviews on current films as well as an archive back to 1985 can be found here.
Christian Science Monitor: Movies reviewed by David Sterritt. Strong emphasis on foreign films and documentaries and indicates if film has violence, nudity, profanity etc.
AudioFile: The best library-oriented information source about audiobooks for adults and children. [Hint: Use the menu options in the banner for online reviews.] Also, includes some audio-bibliographies.
updated 03/12/2008