{"id":2148,"date":"2011-04-12T00:01:05","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T04:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=2148"},"modified":"2011-04-11T22:05:32","modified_gmt":"2011-04-12T02:05:32","slug":"professional-reading-from-cover-to-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/professional-reading-from-cover-to-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"Professional Reading: From Cover to Cover<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Interested in trying your hand at book reviews? Kathleen T. Horning<\/a>‘s From Cover to Cover: Evaluating and Reviewing Children’s Books<\/a><\/em> (Collins\/HarperCollins, 2010, revised edition) is a good place to start. Horning shares and defines literary terminology along with many examples from children’s literature. She poses lots of questions for would-be reviewers to consider, helping the reader move from a personal response to a critical approach.<\/p>\n

Reviewers of children literature read, reread, take notes, check facts. As Horning asserts, “A good review will briefly describe the contents, scope, and style of a book; critically assess its quality; and suggest its potential audience” (p. 173) That’s a great deal to do within 100 to 400 words.<\/p>\n

Do you review children’s books? If so, what resources have helped you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Interested in trying your hand at book reviews? Kathleen T. Horning‘s From Cover to Cover: Evaluating and Reviewing Children’s Books (Collins\/HarperCollins, 2010, revised edition) is a good place to start. Horning shares and defines literary terminology along with many examples from children’s literature. She poses lots of questions for would-be reviewers to consider, helping the reader move from a personal response to a critical approach. Reviewers of children literature read, reread, take notes, check facts. As Horning asserts, “A good review will briefly describe the contents, scope, and style of a book; critically assess its quality; and suggest its potential audience” (p. 173) That’s a great deal to do within 100 to 400 words. Do you review children’s books? If so, what resources have helped you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[139,22,25,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogger-teresa-walls","category-childrens-literature","category-evaluation-of-media","category-professional-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}