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, …
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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 …
Celebrating the Retirement of KT Horning
KT Horning retired from the CCBC on July 1. Her chance introduction to the CCBC as an undergraduate at UW-Madison led to a long and distinguished career as a CCBC librarian, and director of the …
New CCBC Director Named
Tessa Michaelson Schmidt will become the new director of the CCBC following the retirement of current director Kathleen T. Horning in July. A former CCBC librarian, Tessa is currently the assistant state superintendent for the …
CCBC Choices 2022 Now Available
CCBC Choices 2022, the most recent edition of the CCBC’s annual best-of-the-year list, is now available. CCBC Choices 2022 recommends 273 books for children and teens published in 2021. The fully annotated booklet, available as …
Meg Medina Wins 2021-2022 Charlotte Zolotow Award
Evelyn Del Rey Is Moving Away, written by Meg Medina and illustrated by Sonia Sánchez, is the winner of the 2021-2022 Charlotte Zolotow Award for outstanding writing in a picture book. The award is given …
Timely Intellectual Freedom Resources
We’ve curated a list of links to professional statements and resources developed in response to, or useful in responding to, recent challenges and/or public attacks of library and classroom materials.