Category: Cooperative Children’s Book Center

The Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC) has released “CCBC Choices 2026,” an annual best-of-the-year list created by the center’s librarians recommending books for children and teens. CCBC Choices 2026 recommends 231 books published in 2025 for readers from birth through high school age. The digital publication includes full bibliographic citations, annotations, age recommendations, cover images, and links to …

By John Allen — originally published Dec. 1 in Badger Insider At the end of the year, the days get shorter, the temperature drops, and parents need ways to keep their cooped-up kids entertained. If you want to give kids something to read, Tessa Michaelson Schmidt ’00, MA’05 is the perfect person to talk to. As the …

UW–Madison’s Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC) recently traveled to New York City to accept the 2025 Carle Honor from the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art. The CCBC was recognized with the Angel Award, honoring organizations that make possible the creation of illustrated children’s book art exhibitions, education programs, and related projects. The honor was presented at the …

By Kari Dickinson The Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC) has released its annual Diversity Statistics, including data on the 3,619 books for children and teens received by the CCBC that were published in 2024.*  Since 1994, the CCBC has been tracking books by and about Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC). Between 1985 and …

UW–Madison’s Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC) received a major honor from the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, which on Wednesday unveiled its 2025 Carle Honors. These awards recognize the individuals and organizations whose creative vision and long-term dedication have had a profound effect on picture books and the vital role they play in …

Meg Medina will deliver the Cooperative Children’s Book Center’s 2024 Charlotte Zolotow Lecture on Thursday, Oct. 17, at 7:30 p.m., at Tripp Commons in the Memorial Union on the UW–Madison campus. Medina is a Newbery and Pura Belpré award-winning author and the 2023-24 National Ambassador of Young People’s Literature. Her picture books, as well as middle grade …