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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 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

If you missed watching Christopher Myers’s 2021 Charlotte Zolotow Lecture on September, “What Is Your Water: Establishing a Lingua Franca in Community Literatures,”  the archived video is now available.

Artist, author, and editor Christopher Myers will deliver the 2021 Charlotte Zolotow Lecture on Thursday evening, September 30, at 7:30 pm, in Great Hall, Memorial Union, on the UW-Madison campus. Mr. Myers is the author …