Well, if you’re reading this blog you’ve obviously made it to our website. Many of you might be wondering what we’re all about. Why is this review site different from all the others out there? What’s the benefit to me, my family, and/or my authorship?
If you’re a parent, grandparent, aunt, or uncle — hey, maybe even brother or sister and are confused about what books to buy your kids we can help. We do honest reviews and they’re written by educators, authors, illustrators, librarians, people who know children’s books. Just because something has a ‘#1Best Seller’ flag doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a good book. What it can mean is that someone had hundreds of thousands of dollars to throw at it to make it a best-seller. Those aren’t books you’re going to want to read more than once. With many sites the more you pay, the better the review and that’s not honest either. Bottom line, we want you to be happy with the books you choose to include in your family reading time.
If you’re an author, you stand to benefit even more than from other review sites.
- We’re affordable. We don’t believe that book reviews should cost as much as a month’s rent or mortgage payment.
- We will give you an honest review. If we don’t feel we can write a review that is beneficial to you we will give you the option of having one of our reviewers critique your book in order to make it better.
- You get a prime spot on the front page of our website for no less than 9 days.
- We create social media banners for both FB and Instagram for you to use at your discretion.
- Automatic entry into our year end book awards without any extra fee.
- We buy your book from Amazon and post a review by Books Children Read. This helps your stats on Amazon.
- You can use parts of the reviews in advertising or as an Editorial Review on your Amazon page.
- We will post information about your review on our social media pages as well.
- We also have advertising spots on our front page that can be purchased should you want to make an even bigger splash to our customers.
Our Facebook page is linked to our Instagram page thus when we post to one or the other your book will be featured. FB plays a large part in many author’s advertising budget and it helps to be seen in many places.
Our Instagram account is often boosted to a wide audience, and it’s hand picked to have a children’s book interest or need. We post often and utilize reels frequently. This helps your book be seen by many.
It’s difficult enough getting your book out there and developing an audience. Let us help you with those darned elusive reviews! Let’s help drive your book to be one of the Books Children Read!
Donovan says
Thanks for this blog. As an author it’s nice to have this defined.
SS says
A wonderful and much-needed platform for independent authors. Looking forward to following along.