Sources

Sources	Description	Compare	Contrast
The HornBook	Longtime favorite of Children’s Librarians. This book comes out twice a year reviewing the newly released books. Now there is the option of accessing the reviews online. The review provides the authors name, title, number of pages, target age group, Illustrator, a concise review of the book and a bib- showing related content in the book.	Very popular, contains reviews on current and past years books.  Nice format that is easy to follow and locate the books by typing in a provided search page.	The online review does not provide pictures of the books cover, which helps the librarian or parent confirm they have found the book they are looking for, providing they have seen it prior to the search.  Also to access the site one must sign up and pay a fee for a whole year.
Journal of Youth Services in Libraries	This is a review source website is from Virginia Tech.  But a link in the text takes you to the Association For Library Service to Children.		The Virginia Tech  reviews are not easily accessed to be able to read and the web site does not appear to have been update in several years.  However the ALSC sight seemed to be more current however; I was unable to locate some of the books I choose for this project.
The Bulletin of the Center of Children’s Books	This site looks like it would provide the Librarian or Parent with a nice review, However: it can not be accessed without signing up for a paid subscription.  FYI: This site is from Johns Hopkins University Press in my hometown.	The opening page provides a nice overview, including a link to awarding books for children.	In a Library institution this may not provide a problem if there is enough in the budget.  Private individuals would not have the benefit of this site.
Kirkus	A detailed website giving complex and comprenesive reviews of books for children, YA, and adults.	Nice reviews containing title, author, illustrator, age range, ISBN, Pub Date, Publisher and a somewhat lengthy review.	While the site is nice for the reviews, not all books can be accessed that are in my selection. The reviews are rather long and provides a summery of the story.
Booklist Online	A comprehensive site from the ALA which provides a nice format for the reviews.	This site provides all the essentials required for a review.  Including a LOC type of bib. Listing. It even provides when the review was published.	The review is a bit wordy, providing detailed descriptions of the page lay outs as well as describing some of the illustrations and quotes from the book.
School Library Journal- The Digital Shift	Website dedicated to School Libraries. Lots of good articles on the opening page dealing with various items such as e-book usage.	Nice search feature that brings up books with the words in the title of the books typed into the space.	Once the search page pops up the researcher must read the captions to find the book being searched for. However, the link took me to a title page of a HornBook reviewing the particular book I typed in the search.
The New York Times Children's Book Reviews	The New York times has a link to their reviews which lists the most current books published.	Nice layout overall and easy to use.	While the overall layout is good, the basic essentials of a review are not there.  The reviewer I purused went into personal critique about how she reviews books.  Plus I was not able to pull up any of my choices of books for the assignment.