Cover image from Cosmic© 2010 by Bill Mayer. Used by permission of Walden Pond/HarperCollins Publishers. February's online Bulletin features include... February's Big Picture--Cosmic by Frank Cottrell Boyce. February's Dozen--Blood and Chocolate:  A Valentine's Dozen Bulletin Stars--what we starred this month Bulletin Quote of the Month--something fun or something to think about Bulletin Archives and Awards lists... Bulletin Homepage Archive-- past on-line Bulletin features and award-winning books and authors from 1997-2009. The 2009 Bulletin Blue Ribbons Blue Ribbon Archive Children's Book Award Winners for 2010

Welcome to the homepage of The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, one of the nation's leading children's book review journals for school and public librarians. The Bulletin Blue Ribbons 2009 are here!:  Time to look back on the best of the best for 2009.  Click here for our annotated annual list of award winners. DAD'S IN SPACE!  Check out this month's Big Picture review of Cosmic by Frank Cottrell Boyce.  Also included are starred titles and a quote revealing the truth about grown-ups by Nova Ren Suma. Now Available:  The 2009 Guide Book to Gift Books.  For holidays, birthdays, and all other gift-giving occasions, this revised and updated guide can help you pick the perfect books for giving and receiving. Please feel free to send any feedback about the journal or this website to bccb@illinois.edu. The call continues for Bulletin alums.  Please send us an email and let us know what you're up to.  Once we've received enough replies, we'll post an Alumni News page on the website.   SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION An Introduction to the Bulletin: Including editors and staff, correspondence information, and more. Submission Guidelines: Information for Publishers Center for Children's Books (http://ccb.lis.uiuc.edu/): Including information about collection development and programming suggestions, reviews of storytelling recordings and resources, recommended websites, a virtual tour of the Center itself, news, announcements, and more, as well as information about the Center's collection, location, and hours of operation. Available to download: The 2009 Guidebook to Gift Books Other University of Illinois Resources of Interest: Including the Graduate School of Library and Information Science and the University of Illinois Library.