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From: Kathleen Horning <horning>
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 15:56:48 -0500
Carrie- with all due respect, I have to disagree with you. I think Hearne's piece is most definitely a review, it's just not the type of review we typically see in our professional review journals (for all the very practical reasons you cited). But reviews the length of this one regularly appear in the New York Times Book Review, and you'd never call them articles.
Judy O'Malley pointed out that "Booklist" also gave "Arlene Sardine" a more extensive review, as part of their Focus feature. In recent years, it seems most of the professional children's book review journals have initiated a regular feature of this sort that allows for a more in?pth review of a book that inspires strong opinions or reflects a new trend in children's book publishing.
Do those of you who use book reviews solely to make purchase decisions feel that the longer, more in?pth reviews of this sort are helpful? Or are you so pressed for time that you don't appreciate them much?
Kathleen T. Horning (khorning at facstaff.wisc.edu) Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education University of Wisconsin-Madison 4290 Helen C. White Hall 600 North Park St. Madison, WI 53706
(608)&3930
I though Hearne's article was good, but that's exactly what it is--an article, not a review. None of us would have time to do anything but read reviews if every picture book got a review like that. As a collection development tool "reviews" like that would be useless to me. And as a reviewer, if I am required to ponder larger issues in every review I write, then I'm really in trouble!
******************************** Carrie Schadle Jefferson Market Regional Branch, New York Public Library bz227 at freenet.buffalo.edu 212/243C34
Received on Fri 11 Sep 1998 03:56:48 PM CDT
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 15:56:48 -0500
Carrie- with all due respect, I have to disagree with you. I think Hearne's piece is most definitely a review, it's just not the type of review we typically see in our professional review journals (for all the very practical reasons you cited). But reviews the length of this one regularly appear in the New York Times Book Review, and you'd never call them articles.
Judy O'Malley pointed out that "Booklist" also gave "Arlene Sardine" a more extensive review, as part of their Focus feature. In recent years, it seems most of the professional children's book review journals have initiated a regular feature of this sort that allows for a more in?pth review of a book that inspires strong opinions or reflects a new trend in children's book publishing.
Do those of you who use book reviews solely to make purchase decisions feel that the longer, more in?pth reviews of this sort are helpful? Or are you so pressed for time that you don't appreciate them much?
Kathleen T. Horning (khorning at facstaff.wisc.edu) Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education University of Wisconsin-Madison 4290 Helen C. White Hall 600 North Park St. Madison, WI 53706
(608)&3930
I though Hearne's article was good, but that's exactly what it is--an article, not a review. None of us would have time to do anything but read reviews if every picture book got a review like that. As a collection development tool "reviews" like that would be useless to me. And as a reviewer, if I am required to ponder larger issues in every review I write, then I'm really in trouble!
******************************** Carrie Schadle Jefferson Market Regional Branch, New York Public Library bz227 at freenet.buffalo.edu 212/243C34
Received on Fri 11 Sep 1998 03:56:48 PM CDT
