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"It does not matter how many books you may have, but whether they are good or not." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca (3 B.C.-65 A.D.), Epistolae Morale

Books and Audio-Visual - Web Sites

• The New York Times Children's Book Reviews
• Kirkus Children's and Teen Book Reviews
• Booklist
• School Library Journal
• The Horn Book - Reviews of Children's and Young Adult books.
• The Best Children's Books of the Year - From the Bank Street College of Education.
• The Children's Book Review - News of new and bestselling books, and reviews of books arranged by topic.
• The Hub - "Your Connection to Teen Collections" from YALSA. Help for finding resources for teen interests.
• Top Ten Multicultural Reference Sources - From Booklist, 2015.
• Cooperative Children's Book Center - This site has bibliographies of children's books created by librarians and book reviews. By the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
• Children's Book Awards - by the Association for Library Service to Children. This site has winners of the Newbery and Caldecott Awards.
• Juvenile Series and Sequels - Find that missing book in the series. This is from the Mid-Continent Public Library.
• Children and Young Adult Book Reviews - An extensive list of resources from Arizona State University.
• SOL: Spanish in Our Libraries - An online newsletter for librarians who work with Spanish speaking patrons. There are useful tips for collection development. Also check out the related site PLUS which has Spanish language signs, bookmarks, and other library related materials.
• Books for Children and Young Adults - Links to more booklist and book review sites.

Software Reviews

• Favorite Educational Apps and Learning Games for kids - March, 2020.This is from the review site Wirecutter which is owned by The New York Times.They review a lots of things which makes it a good guide to your personal shopping, too
• Reviews of Apps for Education - A link to the Resources for School Librarians web site.

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