{"id":631,"date":"2008-01-16T10:36:05","date_gmt":"2008-01-16T16:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/631"},"modified":"2008-01-16T10:36:05","modified_gmt":"2008-01-16T16:36:05","slug":"blogosphere-niche-reviewing-childrens-books-for-out-loud-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/631","title":{"rendered":"Blogosphere niche: reviewing children&#8217;s books for out-loud reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read a lot of kid lit blogs,   which often dictate what I buy for my library&#8217;s collection. It occurred to me just now that I would very much like to review children&#8217;s books,   and specifically I think I have a knack for determining what kind of read they are. With pre-readers and early readers, there are a lot of options.<\/p>\n<p>* Making up the story yourself, without reading the words (this requires a certain amount of storytelling illustrations)<br \/>\n* Stories where the words are the weight of the book (where the text tells most of the story)<br \/>\n* Stories where the illustrations are the weight of the book (where the illustrations shine)<br \/>\n* Stories to be read quietly at bedtime (quiet, cozy books with lots of small detail)<br \/>\n* Stories that are loud, raucous stories to read out loud (good for librarians doing storytime!)<br \/>\n* Stories that end up being playacted out<br \/>\n* Stories that are written so a early reader and a savvy reader read together<\/p>\n<p>Along with reviewing the book as a whole, it would be nice to describe what kind of read it is.<\/p>\n<p>So how do I start reviewing for a blog? I&#8217;d better email some of my favorite kid-book-bloggers to ask.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read a lot of kid lit blogs, which often dictate what I buy for my library&#8217;s collection. It occurred to me just now that I would very much like to review children&#8217;s books, and specifically I think I have a knack for determining what kind of read they are. With pre-readers and early readers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,14,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-idea-ever","category-book-report","category-librarical"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}