CCBC Choices 2021: Two Tools to Choose New Books for Children & Teens

Here are two things to help you choose new books to add to your library’s youth & teen collection this spring.

The Workshops
The annual CCBC Choices workshops will be webinars:

• Great New Books for Birth - Grade 5
  9-10am on Thursday, March 11
  Register here
• Great New Books for Older Children and Teens
  9-10am on Thursday, March 25
  Register here

Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) librarians Merri Lindgren and Megan Schliesman will talk about great books for youth that were published last year, highlighting selected titles from the CCBC Choices 2021 booklet.

Both webinars will be recorded if you’re not available to attend them live. They can be found at ccbc.education.wisc.edu/education-outreach/online-presentation-archive/.

The Booklet
CCBC Choices 2021, the Cooperative Children’s Book Center’s annual list recommending 257 books for children and teens published in 2020, is available in two formats:

• PDF – you may download and print it, so you can jot notes while watching the webinars
• CCBC-Recommended Book Search database – search by keyword, subject, title & author, and filter by age, diversity subject, content type, and format.

The annual CCBC Choices list was for decades published as a fully-annotated booklet, though the paper version is not available this year due to challenges brought by the pandemic (details here.) Staff are hoping and planning for a return to a physical booklet next year.

The Cooperative Children's Book Center, located on the UW-Madison campus, serves as a children's literature library for adults, a book examination center, and a research library.

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