http://www.slj.com/2012/10/events/kidlitcon-2012-critical-reviewing-in-the-age-of-twitter/ The world's largest reviewer of books, multimedia, and technology for children and teens Sun, 17 Feb 2013 02:19:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://www.slj.com/2012/10/events/kidlitcon-2012-critical-reviewing-in-the-age-of-twitter/#comment-3270 Linkspam, 10/5/12 Edition — Radish Reviews Fri, 05 Oct 2012 10:34:36 +0000 http://www.slj.com/?p=16428#comment-3270 [...] Critical Reviewing in the Age of Twitter This was a panel at KidLitCon and it sounds like it was fascinating. [...] [...] Critical Reviewing in the Age of Twitter This was a panel at KidLitCon and it sounds like it was fascinating. [...]

]]> http://www.slj.com/2012/10/events/kidlitcon-2012-critical-reviewing-in-the-age-of-twitter/#comment-3155 KidLitCon 2012: What I learned as a publisher « the open book Wed, 03 Oct 2012 17:24:24 +0000 http://www.slj.com/?p=16428#comment-3155 [...] are lots of other great recaps of KidLitCon up around the blogosphere, so I thought I’d just list a few of the things I took away from the conference on the [...] [...] are lots of other great recaps of KidLitCon up around the blogosphere, so I thought I’d just list a few of the things I took away from the conference on the [...]

]]> http://www.slj.com/2012/10/events/kidlitcon-2012-critical-reviewing-in-the-age-of-twitter/#comment-3063 :paula Tue, 02 Oct 2012 13:13:39 +0000 http://www.slj.com/?p=16428#comment-3063 Boy I wish I'd been there for this one! And for the whole conference, of course. I feel like - not mentioning a book's flaws isn't doing anyone any favors. Not the reader, and frankly, not the creator either. In my case, writing reviews for SLJ has trained me to write fair but honest critiques (in 250 words or less!), since reviewers don't get to pick and choose the books we are sent by SLJ. Sometimes you just get a dog of a book, and those are hard reviews to write, but that's the job. Boy I wish I’d been there for this one! And for the whole conference, of course. I feel like – not mentioning a book’s flaws isn’t doing anyone any favors. Not the reader, and frankly, not the creator either. In my case, writing reviews for SLJ has trained me to write fair but honest critiques (in 250 words or less!), since reviewers don’t get to pick and choose the books we are sent by SLJ. Sometimes you just get a dog of a book, and those are hard reviews to write, but that’s the job.

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