If you love children’s books, please participate in a new weekly blog meme:
Write a Review Wednesday!
Parents, teachers and librarians are relying on online reviews more than ever to help them decide upon book purchases. Your opinion counts! Praise a picture book. Marvel over a middle grade novel. Tell everyone that young adult isn’t just for young adults!
On Wednesdays, write an online book review for a book that you love. The review could be posted on your blog, Amazon, B&N, GoodReads, or you could tweet your book bravos on Twitter. It doesn’t matter WHERE you do it. The goal is to get more people who are passionate about kidlit talking about their recent, fabulous reads.
(The extraordinary podcast Just One More Book encourages you to phone your book review into their hotline. They will include your review in one of their shows!)
Don’t forget to link to information on where the book can be purchased–the publisher’s site, the author/illustrator’s site, Indiebound.org or a retailer.
If you’re participating via Twitter, link to your online review and use the hashtag #warw, which I’ve defined on Tagalus.
And if you don’t have the time to write a review, simply link to a review that you appreciated. There are many prolific book bloggers (like Maw Books and Write for a Reader), so let’s give them our thanks.
Ideas for “Write a Review Wednesday”? Please leave a comment!
Now let the reviewing begin!
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June 3, 2009 at 7:07 am
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June 3, 2009 at 10:25 am
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June 3, 2009 at 10:29 am
CA
Tara, I think this is a great idea. I’ve made an attempt:
http://cabadov.wordpress.com/2009/06/03/warw-man-on-the-moon
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Can’t wait to see what other’s recommend.
Cheers,
Carrie Anne
June 3, 2009 at 12:43 pm
Kelly H-Y
What a great idea! The book you inserted as a picture looks adorable!
June 3, 2009 at 10:08 pm
Lynn
Fun idea! Our blog is all about children’s book reviews, but it has been hard to find time this week, since we’re moving into a new house. Thanks for the motivation to get a post up (http://tinyurl.com/qm6we8).
June 4, 2009 at 10:44 am
Christy
What a great idea! I need to try to remember to do this next week.
June 5, 2009 at 12:08 am
Sherrie
Cool, I’ll do this next week!
June 10, 2009 at 9:59 am
Peggy
My review of the Enormous Potato here:
http://www.peggycollinsillustration.com
June 11, 2009 at 5:22 pm
Maribel Thomas
What a great idea it nice to see comments made of book this certainly helps me decide what books I choose for my children. would be interesting to know what the rating is for my first published book called Party in the Sky it is a childrens picture book with a great rhyming story to help allay the fear of scary thundersorms check it out on the eloquent book web site
June 14, 2009 at 9:03 am
carin berger
as an author, i just want to thank tara for this wonderful idea. all authors could use this kind of community support and feedback. who better to review a book than you???
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June 24, 2009 at 2:17 pm
Diane Dawson Hearn
What a nice idea. I’ll probably do it over at Amazon.com because I don’t quite understand how to handle all the links on twitter.
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