Most youth librarians find it hard to keep up with discovering new publications and reading reviews. If you haven’t explored the online resources to aid in collection development, you may want to look at the following:
Any New Books? is a new book alert service that allows you to choose book categories in which you are interested. You then receive a weekly email with a list of new publications in that category. The site includes categories of interest for children’s and teen librarians.
Granite Media is a site I stumbled across in trying to find a website that offers reviews of children’s and/or teen nonfiction. A site developed by a school district, it has many resources for all youth services librarians. In addition to reviews of nonfiction for kids of all ages, don’t miss the many other reviews and booklists.
KidsReads.com offers monthly reviews of new children’s picture books and chapter books as well as many other resources such as information about books that are made into movies and recommended books for boys. The site also includes a “Coming Soon” section that lists books to keep an eye on that will be released in the next couple of months.
TeenReads includes many of the same resources that KidsReads.com features: new book reviews, alerts on books that will be released in the coming months and special features such as the “Ultimate Reading List” for teen readers.
Do you have a favorite site for book reviews or new book alerts? Let us know and leave a comment!
I really like TheStorySiren.com she always has new books featured on her blog. There are two great sites I often send parents to that review a book thoroughly.
http://www.storysnoops.com/
and http://sites.google.com/site/parentalbookreviews/ which gives details into the content of many books.