News Archives - Cooperative Children's Book Center

Recent CCBC Web Site Additions

Posted on March 17, 2021

Recent additions to the CCBC web site highlight the library’s work in diversity in literature for children and teens and intellectual freedom, including: Diversifying Your Classroom Bookshelf with the CCBC : A presentation by librarians …

CCBC Diversity Statistics in the News

Posted on March 16, 2021

CCBC Director Kathleen T. Horning was interviewed for a March 16, 2021 AP news story focusing on diversity in literature for children and teens. The library’s work documenting diversity in children’s and young adult literature …

CCBC Choices 2021 Available

Posted on February 23, 2021

CCBC Choices 2021, the most recent edition of the CCBC’s annual best-of-the-year list, is now available. For decades the annual list has been published as a fully annotated printed booklet. This year’s list, recommending 257 …

CCBC in the News

Posted on February 1, 2021

The January/February 2021 issue of The Horn Book Magazine featured two pieces by by CCBC librarians: “CCBC Diversity Statistics: New Categories, New Data” by Madeline Tyner looks at our diversity statistics for 2019 “Sometimes You …

Charlotte Zolotow Award Change Due to COVID

Posted on September 16, 2020

The term of the current Charlotte Zolotow Award has been extended for an additional year due to challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2021-2022 Charlotte Zolotow Award will consider eligible books published during both the …

New CCBC Web Site Offers Robust Book Search, Much More

Posted on August 27, 2020

With today’s launch of the new Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC) web site, the children’s and young adult literature library of the UW-Madison School of Education is providing Wisconsin librarians, teachers and others new ways …