The CCBC has been nominated for the 2025 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, an international award administered by the Swedish government. The library is one of eleven nominees from the United States. There are a total …
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2023 CCBC Diversity Statistics: Press Release and Media Kit
The Cooperative Children’s Book Center has released its 2023 diversity statistics on the number of books it received by and about Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. Check out the press release and media kit, …
CCBC Choices 2024 Is Now Available!
CCBC Choices 2024, the annual best-of-the-year list of the Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC), is now available. The list, created by the CCBC professional staff, recommends 238 books published for children and teens from birth …
Kim Rogers Wins 2024 Charlotte Zolotow Award
Kim Rogers has won the 2024 Charlotte Zolotow Award for outstanding writing in a picture book for Just Like Grandma. The wonderfully paced, lyrical story features a Wichita girl and her grandmother, each of whom …
Coming Soon! CCBC Choices 2024
CCBC Choices 2024, recommending 238 books for children and teens published in 2023, will be available as a fully annotated digital publication in late February. CCBC Choices is an annual recommended list of books selected …
2022 CCBC Diversity Statistics: Press Release and Media Kit
The Cooperative Children’s Book Center has released its 2022 diversity statistics on the number of books it received by and about Black, Indigenous and People of Color. Check out the press release and media kit, …
CCBC Diversity Statistics: Numbers Are Just Part of the Story
The May/June 2023 issue of The Horn Book Magazine is a special issue exploring “Diverse Books: Past, Present, and Future.” It includes an article about the CCBC’s work documenting diversity in books for youth, written by …
CCBC Choices 2023 Is Now Available!
CCBC Choices 2023, the annual best-of-the-year list of the Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC), is now available. The list, created by the CCBC professional staff, recommends 211 books published for children and teens from birth …
Michelle Edwards Wins 2023 Charlotte Zolotow Award
Michelle Edwards has won the 2023 Charlotte Zolotow Award for outstanding writing in a picture book for Me and the Boss: A Story about Mending and Love. A sibling relationship between Lee and his big sister, Zora …
Grace Lin and Alvina Ling: 2022 Charlotte Zolotow Lecture
Join us at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday evening, October 20, in Great Hall of Memorial Union on the UW-Madison campus for the 2022 Charlotte Zolotow Lecture featuring author/illustrator Grace Lin and editor Alvina Ling in …