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Summer 2012 Hours
Monday - 9am-1pm
Tuesday - 9am-1pm
Wednesday - closed
Thursday - 9am-1pm
Friday - 9am-1pm
2012 Storytelling Festival
We enjoyed outstanding performances from all of our tellers at the 2012 Storytelling Festival. Many thanks to those in attendance for being such a wonderful, appreciative audience.
Our Storytelling Audio page is now updated, featuring photos of all tellers and audio files of their live performances!
Chalkboard art from the Festival, courtesy Tiffany Giles and Kalina Reger
2012 Gryphon Award Winner Announced
Like Pickle Juice on a Cookie, written by Julie Sternberg, illustrated by Matthew Cordell, and published by Amulet Books, is the winner of the 2012 Gryphon Award for Children’s Literature. For more on this year's winner and honor titles, please see our Gryphon Award page.
CCB Facebook Page
To stay connected with what’s going on at the CCB, be sure to ‘like’ our brand-new Facebook page. We’ll remind you of upcoming events and programs in the CCB, like the Galley Giveaway or Youth Lit Book Club meetings. You’ll be the first to hear when new bibliographies and interviews are posted to the CCB website. We’ll also announce special volunteer opportunities with CCB Outreach events.
Upcoming Events
University of Illinois Library Catalog
The Center collection is searchable through the University of Illinois catalog. Searches can be limited to only the CCB. In the CCB, fiction is shelved alphabetically by the authors' last names, not by the University Library assigned call numbers. Nonfiction and biographies are shelved by listed call numbers.
The School Collection (S-Collection) at UIUC
Find circulating children's and young adult literature at the School Collection located in the Education and Social Science Library of the University of Illinois. Also find more bibliographies of children's literature on their blog.
Children's Literature Comprehensive Database
Looking for book reviews? This resource includes reviews from the Bulletin, Booklist, Horn Book, Kirkus, Kliatt, VOYA, and more! If you need help using this database, see our new User Guide!
Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
The Bulletin is a children's book review journal. The web site includes Bulletin Dozen (themed book lists) and Blue Ribbons (yearly best books lists).
The Center for Children’s Books (CCB) at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) is a crossroads for critical inquiry, professional training, and educational outreach related to youth-focused resources, literature and librarianship. The Center’s mission is to facilitate the creation and dissemination of exemplary and progressive research and scholarship related to all aspects of children’s and young adult literature; media and resources for young (age 0-18) audiences; and youth services librarianship.
In partnership with The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books—an authoritative analytic review journal—the Center aims to inspire and inform adults who connect young people with resources in person, in print, and online. The Center sponsors activities and hosts interdisciplinary research projects involving both theory and practice. In its dual role as research collection and educational community, the Center has national impact on the future of reading and readers.
