It is almost time for the Ninth Annual Center for Children's Books Booksale! For more information on these fabulous deals coming your way check out our 2010 Booksale page.

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During December 2009 and January 2010, the UIUC Main Library's Marshall Gallery is featuring:

CINDERELLA: DOWN THE STREET AND AROUND THE WORLD

This display of children's books reflects the prevalence and popularity of the well-known story of Cinderella. The exhibit is sponsored by and drawn from the folklore collection of the Center for Children's Books, which is located in the LIS Building at 501 E. Daniel.

The picture books and young adult fiction on display include stories that range from Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters, a lushly-illustrated story from Zimbabwe, to an Edward Gorey-ish Art Deco version set in the 1920s.

In addition to titles from ten countries' traditions, the exhibit also showcases modern versions of the tale, picture books that tweak the main characters’ persona (such as Cinderella Skeleton and CindyEllen: A Western Cinderella) and young adult novel re-tellings.

For more versions and many more books, visit the Center for Children's Books, located in the LIS Building at 501 E. Daniel. Go to http://ccb.lis.illinois.edu/ for information and hours.

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The Bulletin for the Center of Children's Books' 2009 Guide Book to Gift Books is now available for free download at 2009 Guide Book to Gift Books. Consult this resource for annotated recommendations to great books from the past three years and enjoy!

Read our most recent newsletter from January. Browse the CCB newsletter archives as well.

See our newest annotated bibliographies: War by Katherine Hlousek.

Spotlight on research...

GSLIS Assistant Professor and CCB affiliate Dr. Kate McDowell has two recently published articles in two top journals: Library Quarterly, the flagship journal of the field of Library and Information Science (LIS), and Book History, the journal of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP). Her article "Surveying the Field: The Research Model of Women in Librarianship, 1882-1898" examines the heretofore overlooked contributions of female librarians in the late nineteenth century to the developing field of librarianship and can be found in the July 2009 issue of The Library Quarterly. For full text version of the article click here.

Dr. McDowell's second article titled "Toward a History of Children as Readers, 1890–1930" was published in the 2009 volume of Book History and explores the little-researched topic of childhood reading habits from a historical perspective. For a full text version of the article click here.

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 Children's Literature 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.