By Kari Dickinson The Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC) has updated its annual Diversity Statistics to include data on the 3,491 books for children and teens received by the CCBC that were published in 2023.* The CCBC has been documenting books for children and teens it receives annually by and about Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) …
The Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC) has released its “CCBC Choices 2024” — a best-of-the-year list created annually by the center’s librarians. The list recommends 238 books published in 2023 for children and teens from birth through high school age, organized by category in the publication with images, descriptions, and annotations. “CCBC Choices” is easily …
Kim Rogers wins CCBC’s Charlotte Zolotow Award for ‘Just Like Grandma’ January 31, 2024 “Just Like Grandma,” written by Kim Rogers and illustrated by Julie Flett, is the winner of the Cooperative Children’s Book Center’s 2024 Charlotte Zolotow Award for outstanding writing in a picture book. “Just Like Grandma” was edited by Rosemary Brosnan and published in …
UW–Madison’s Tessa Michaelson Schmidt discussed racial and gender representation in children’s literature with Scientific American earlier this month. Schmidt is the director of the Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC), which is administratively housed in the School of Education. “There are just so many more choices of books (reflecting) the multifaceted complexity of individual lives,” Schmidt …
As we approach the end of another year, we wanted to look back and reflect on all of the great work that has happened across the School of Education in 2023. Below are some highlights from among the hundreds of news stories we shared this year spotlighting efforts across the arts, health, and education. With …
UW–Madison’s Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC) has been spotlighted in three recent Wisconsin and national news stories. On Sept. 26, CCBC Director Tessa Michaelson Schmidt was quoted in a report from ABC News5 in Cleveland, Ohio, about the growth of Hispanic representation in children’s books. According to the article, which cites the CCBC’s Diversity Statistics, 7 percent …
Tessa Schmidt, the director of UW–Madison’s Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC), was recently highlighted in two stories from the United Service Organization (USO). Schmidt and her family were interviewed by the USO about their experience as a military family. Schmidt’s husband, Brett Schmidt, is a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve and frequently on …
Angeline Boulley will deliver the Cooperative Children’s Book Center’s 2023 Charlotte Zolotow Lecture on Thursday, Oct. 19, at 7:30 p.m., at Union South on the UW–Madison campus. Boulley, an enrolled member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, writes about her Ojibwe community in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Her highly regarded debut novel, “The …
Diversity Statistics from UW–Madison’s Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC) were recently referenced in three Wisconsin and national news stories. Administratively housed in the School of Education and also supported by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, the CCBC serves as a resource to Wisconsin schools, teachers, librarians, and others interested in children’s and young adult …
This fall, the Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC) will be hosting two in-person book discussions open to the public. The first discussion will be held Wednesday, Oct. 11, from 4-5:30 p.m. and will focus on new picture books for children and young adults. The second discussion will focus on middle-grade and young adult fiction, and …