Voting is now open at the Book Blogger Appreciation Week Awards.

100 Scope Notes features children’s literature news and reviews, including all the news that’s fit to print concerning sock-related cover art. Good updates on the news in the children’s book world.

Books on the Nightstand “Books on the Nightstand is the blog and podcast of Michael Kindness and Ann Kingman. We are friends and colleagues who work in the publishing industry. That means that we talk about books all day long to other people who love to talk about books. But sometimes, those conversations have to end before we’re ready to stop talking. Thus, this blog.” This reading challenge introduced me to Beowulf on the Beach, a book I now must find to see what it’s all about. Great title.

She is Too Fond of Books Dawn writes great reviews (some have been linked to the Saturday Review), and her feature Spotlight on Bookstores will be a great resource when I get to go on my tour of the U.S., visiting all the bookstores I can in the process. It was Dawn who connected me with The End of the Alphabet by C.S. RIchardson

Rebecca Reads Rebecca has a List of Lists, too. What is it with readers and lists? Rebecca on classics: “I can’t describe why reading a classic feels like a relief, it just does. It’s great, and stretching it out makes it real and physical, rather than a by-passed pleasure. I’m not reading to turn pages. I’m reading to read.” I like that, reading to read.

The Zen Leaf Amanda shops at Half-Price Books; there’s a point in her favor. Amanda herself is “a slightly neurotic writing reading stay-at-home mom,” and she has “very particular tastes” in books. So do I, Amanda, so do I–I’m just not sure how to describe them. Ummm, I know a good book when I see it?

It’s hard to choose between all these great reviewers, but my vote goes to Rebecca Reads because of her love for books both old and new and because I enjoyed her recent post on John Donne.