Editor Critique - Travis Jonker

Travis Jonker is an elementary school librarian for over six years who is currently at a K-6 school in Michigan. In 2007 Jonker started the blog 100 Scope Notes (http://100scopenotes.com/about/) for reviewing children’s literature.  He is also an avid Twitter (http://twitter.com/#!/100scopenotes) user.  In his blog, Jonker has several pages related to children’s literature. He as a page on “Best New Books” that links to a page about a new book that he deems new and noteworthy including a picture, reference information, a link to purchase the books and a description. He often also includes pictures from the books on his page.  If authors of the books have blogs he link puts a link on the page to the author’s blog and or webpage. Jonker also blogs about, in my opinion, fun facts, such as noticing that two different books have a very similar cover in his “Cover Curiosity.”   He also notes when book cover does not correlate with the book, especially related to the era. He also takes and “redos” covers that are outdated to make them more appealing to the current reader asking for his followers input.  There is a page on his blog where he post news about book, authors or anything related to his interests in books. Jonker even does reviews on “retro” and “toon” books.  Link Du Jour (link of the day) is where he often links others blogs, articles, etcetera relating to children’s literature  that his readers may find interesting or be able to relate to.

Jonkers uses Twitter in several ways.   He tweets about information on his blog giving his followers links to his blog. He also puts up interesting facts that are often linked to his blog as well.  He also uses Twitter for what I see as a personal reason as well.  He recently tweeted asking his followers about e-readers asking their opinions and how they use them.  Jonker often just tweets what is on his mind related to literature from the book that his daughter enjoyed that evening to tweeting about other authors.  Jonkers followers also tweet him asking questions about various aspects of literature.