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I appreciate your advice and wonder what you think of paying Kirkus or PW for a review of the children's book I'm planning to self-publish. My former publisher paid to have my previous books reviewed. Is this worth the money?
No, it's really not. Libraries, with the possible exception of local libraries in the author's area, are not going to buy a POD book or a book without LOC CIP data, and self-published books are explicitly excluded.
POD books are not cost effective in general (there may be exceptions) for libraries.