As books came into the library, and as we read throughout the year, we made note of several big-picture observations that struck us.
CCBC Choices
A Few Thoughts on Books Published in 2022
As books came into the library, and as we read throughout the year, we made note of several big-picture observations that struck us.
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 …
Observations on Publishing in 2021
As books came into the library, and as we read throughout the year, we made note of several big-picture observations that struck us.
CCBC Choices 2021 Available
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 …
Observations on Publishing in 2020
As books came into the library, and as we read throughout the year, we made note of several big-picture observations that struck us.
Observations on Publishing in 2019
As books came into the library, and as we read throughout the year, we made note of several big-picture observations that struck us.
Observations on Publishing in 2018
Everything we do at the Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC), a library of the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, begins and ends with books. They are the focus of most of our reference work and they form the basis of our outreach services. They are the work we take home almost every night, and often what we talk about when we return the next morning.
Observations on Publishing in 2017
Diversity and representation are on the minds of many in publishing for youth, and one of the things that stood out for us about 2017 books, especially picture books, was the presence of the brown-skinned child.
Observations on Publishing in 2016
Everything we do at the CCBC begins and ends with the books themselves. We examine every one of the hundreds of titles that come into the library each year, and subsequently read a number of them.