Children's Book Council (United States)
The Children's Book Council ( acronym : CBC , German "Rat für Kinderbücher" ) is an association of children's book publishers in the USA founded in 1944, whose goals include promoting children's reading skills and the selection and recommendation of children's and youth literature for educational institutions. The organization is based in New York City .
History and activities
In 1919, Boy Scouts of America librarian Franklin K. Mathiews introduced Children's Book Week in the United States . Its aim was to promote good children's books and raise awareness of children's literacy. In 1944, a group of children 's book editors from various publishers founded the Association of Children's Book Editors , and Frederick Melcher , publisher's weekly editor, was responsible for Children's Book Week .
After the Association of Children's Book Editors expanded the activities of Children's Book Week and beyond, it was renamed the Children's Book Council (CBC). After the CBC assumed the functions of an interest group for children's book publishers, the association entrusted the organization of Children's Book Week to its own foundation Every Child a Reader , a 501 (c) association . The CBC is based in New York City .
The CBC publishes various recommendation lists and best lists for children's books every year. The best known of these award lists is Children's Choices , which the CBC has carried out together with the International Reading Association since 1975 . The Children's Choices jurors are 12,000 children in the United States.
Members
As of August 2012, the CBC had around 70 publishers as members. The following publishers publish at least fifty children's books per year:
- Candlewick Press , Somerville
- Disney Publishing Worldwide , New York
- DK Publishing , New York
- HarperCollins Children's Books , New York
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Children's Book Group , Boston
- Little, Brown and Company Books for Young Readers , New York
- Macmillan Children's Publishing Group , New York
- National Geographic Children's Books , Washington DC
- Penguin Young Readers Group , New York
- Random House Children's Books , New York
- Scholastic , New York
- Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing , New York
- Stone Arch Books , Bloomington
Web links
- Official website of the Children's Book Council (Engl.)
- Children's Book Week - Annual series of events
- Children's Choices - Recommended books by children for children
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b History ( Memento of December 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) of the CBC. (Accessed November 1, 2010.)
- ↑ CBC: Our Members ( Memento of the original from July 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Membership List (Retrieved August 10, 2012.)
