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Conclusion-Opinion on the Resource for Use for Children's Librarians 

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Conclusion-Opinion on the Resource for Use for Children's Librarians 

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Coming into this I was already biased as a frequent reader of the NYT, but they have surprised me yet again with the quality AND quantity of reviews for children's literature. The NYT provides a reliable and reputable source for all types of media, but I would not hesitate to use their children's book review as a professional and in a personal capacity. I would recommend to other librarians, and especially parents who want to learn and find more about excellent literature for their children. The NYT provides an honest, thoughtful review that contains just enough information to accurately assess a piece of literature for merit.

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Conclusion - Opinion on the Resource for use in Young Adult

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Conclusion - Opinion on the Resource for use in Young Adult

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In my opinion, the NYT is a respected, comprehensive news source. The fact that they gather reviewers from different areas to provide a varied viewpoint on literary content is important - it attempts to be far reaching instead of "siloed". As a respected news source, one can expect that the reviews will be honest, comprehensive, and critical. While the reviews are written with the "children as readers of the books" mindset, it is clear that adults (as purchasers - either in the home, school, or library) that are the audience that needs to be sold on the titles. The reviews are smart, thoughtful, intentional, and have depth that readers have come to expect from the NYT. As a Young Adult Librarian, I would not hesitate, knowing the reputation of the NYT, to utilize their reviews when considering titles during the selection process.

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Each review, writes about the books content and the books themes. They each discuss the success or shortcomings of both the writing and the author. Keeping in mind, the purpose of these reviews is about whether or not these books should be purchased to suit the reader's particular purpose, the reviews are mostly straightforward and candid. For example, in John Green's review of Reality Boy by A.S. King he speaks about the successes of both the particular novel and the author. He talks about how the novel does drag in places and that it feels disjointed in places, but how it's also successful. He also takes the time to point you towards a book that he finds more successful (his favorite book written by the A.S.King, Ask the Passengers). Each review does include purchase, publication, and audience information. This tells the reader that how many pages the book is, who published it, the price of the book, and the recommended age group for the title.

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In a 2009 episode of the television show "Wife Swap," a pudgy 7-year-old named Curtis was paired for a while with a mom from another family who emphasized good eating habits, waking up early and other affronts to 7-year-olds everywhere. Curtis's on-air retorts, including "Bacon is good for me" and "Chicken nuggets is like my family," made him a meme online, where he is still known as King Curtis.

But what of the actual human child, who must now grow up in a world that knows only one thing about him? That's the fascinating premise of A. S. King's new novel "Reality Boy," narrated by 16-year-old Gerald Faust. (The last name is no coincidence, of course: This family is living out the consequences of several deals with several devils.) When Gerald was 5, he and his family took part in a show called "Network Nanny," wherein a professional nanny (who was in fact just an actress) tried to teach his family to behave properly.

Gerald responds to the presence of the fake nanny and the TV crew by defecating whenever he becomes angry - in shoes, in beds, on the dining room table. And even at 5, Gerald gets angry a lot. Millions see the Crapper, as he comes to be known, but what they don't see is just how profoundly dysfunctional his family is: Gerald's oldest sister, Tasha, is a sociopath, and his mother so deeply codependent she seems incapable of stopping Tasha from literally killing Gerald and his sister Lisi.

Now Gerald is in high school, serving up hot dogs and beer at a local arena at nights and on weekends. He's also in special ed classes, and still universally known as the Crapper. Lisi is very far away at college. And Tasha lives in the basement, having loud and aggressive sex with her boyfriend whenever the rest of the family tries to gather in the kitchen. Anyone who has known the walking-on-eggshells experience of living with a borderline personality will recognize Gerald's life with Tasha.

The challenge here is that it's almost as difficult for readers to empathize with sociopaths as it is for sociopaths to empathize with others. For all its horror, Tasha's Iago-like villainy becomes repetitive, which both slows the story and at times makes it feel less immediate. But once Gerald connects with a co-worker, Hannah, "Reality Boy" gains momentum. Watching Gerald and Hannah fall in love is fascinating, because these are both deeply troubled kids: Gerald remains scarily angry and at times violent; he also spaces out into what he calls "Gersday," living inside his head to protect himself from the various terrors of the outside world. Hannah, meanwhile, is mercurial and unpredictable as she deals with her own family secrets.

A. S. King is one of the best Y.A. writers working today. She captures the disorientation of adolescence brilliantly. Gerald, for instance, often seems to be hallucinating when in Gersday, but is he really mentally ill? Perhaps he is just transitioning away from the rich fantasy life he needed to survive his childhood. The language here is always simple and true to Gerald's experience, but "Reality Boy" is very smart in the way it goes about capturing the reality of teenage life, "when everything is possible and yet nothing ever happens."

King's obsession with reality makes the novel drag in places, but it's nice to see someone subtly parody the over-the-top young adult adventure stories that dominate so-called contemporary realistic Y.A. "Reality Boy" is obsessed with real reality, and shows us - for example - what happens when you actually run away with the circus.

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In a 2009 episode of the television show "Wife Swap," a pudgy 7-year-old named Curtis was paired for a while with a mom from another family who emphasized good eating habits, waking up early and other affronts to 7-year-olds everywhere.

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The page is searchable by keyword, book title, or author's last name. A the bottom of the page, there is a specific search box (the one that appears at the top of the page searches the entire NYT website) that allows the user to search the 2,581articles and reviews about children's books (from present day to June 1, 1980 - albeit the links for oldest articles do not work). This can speed up the process of accessing reviews by users who are searching for specific content instead of users who are ambiently browsing the most recent posted reviews.

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The page is set up in a linear way with individual reviews stacked either in ascending or defending order by date based on individual user's preference. Each review is displayed on the Children's Books main page by the following: Review Title (which is hyperlinked to the review), Review Author (which can be anyone from a critic, a blogger, or acclaimed author like John Green) , one sentence describing the content of the review, and the date of the Sunday which the review was posted to the site. A thumbnail photo may appear alongside the one sentence description as another way to attract users to the review.

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Reviews of and essays about picture books, middle grade books and young adult literature.

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The reviews are typical for a book review, a description of the book, a little bit of the plot and purpose of the story without giving away any important details. Maybe a little blurb about the author and if it relates, links or references to similar works or books by that same author. With a children’s book review there is usually talk of the quality of illustrations, or who the illustrator is. In a non-fiction children’s book, there is detail regarding how that author researched the topic and the motivations for creating the story. In every aspect but the talk about illustrations a children’s book review and adult book review are written in much the same way at the New York Times. It stands to reason that the audience is generally adults, thus the reviews would be similar in content and layout.

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The audience intended for the all around website, is not just limited to newspaper or website subscribers, but without a subscription it can be hard to access articles and read over a certain number of articles per month.  As mentioned in the mission statement, New York Times is a reputable source of information, thus anyone who is serious about books and specifically children’s books would check out the website for information. While it is often catered to a general audience, the target audience of the reviews for children’s books is usually the purchaser, rather than the intended audience for the book. The purchaser is most likely a parent, grandparent, teacher, librarian or anyone who has, or works with children.

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The New York Times is a nationally and internationally known source “Breaking News, World News and Multimedia”. The New York Times also has a reputation in the publishing and literary world as having a high standard regarding all literature, including children’s, but most well know for their bestseller lists. It is well known that a positive book review in the New York Times can mean certain success for an author and its literary reviewers are some of the best and most respected in literary circles. The overall website of the New York Times is intended to archive articles found in their physical newspaper, as well as additional pieces that don’t make it to print. The website is an extension of the paper so they delve deeper into stories and important issues in a tech format that reaches more audiences.