grumpy about standards

Dear Well-Known Children's Author:
I read your newest book last night, which will go nameless because I'm reviewing it for a review source, and I was so tired and sad by the end. I am so tired of readable, interesting children's nonfiction being spoiled by a lack of source notes. I just don't care how interesting the book is, or how valuable it is because it covers a gap in the collection: if it doesn't have specific source notes for quotations, and if it fails to meet even the most basic standards of adult nonfiction, I won't give it a good review. Do better next time; because you're well-known, you can push your publishers to match standards that even series nonfiction is meeting. That is all.
(signed)
DearReader