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 …
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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.
Myers’ Zolotow Lecture Available to View
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.