Cover image by Steve Jenkins from Down Down Down:  A Journey to the Bottom of the Sea © 2009. Used by permission of Houghton Mifflin Books for Children. July's online Bulletin features include... July's Big Picture--Down Down Down:  A Journey to the Bottom of the Ocean by Steve Jenkins. July's Dozen--The Moon's a Balloon:  A Fanciful Lunar 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 1997-2008. The 2008 Bulletin Blue Ribbons Blue Ribbon Archive Children's Book Award Winners for 2009

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 2008 are here!:  Time to look back on the best of the best for 2008.  Click here for our annotated annual list of award winners.  Check out this month's Big Picture review of Down Down Down:  A Journey to the Bottom of the Sea by Steve Jenkins.  Also included are starred titles and a quote about reading Charlotte's Web from Lisa Graff  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. Now Available:  The 2008 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.   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 2008 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.