CCBC Choices 2011 Copies of the 2011 edition of CCBC Choices, our picks for the best children's and young adult books published in 2010, are still avaiable. (CCBC Choices 2012 will be available after March 3, 2012, but you can find out about our selections here.) CCBC Choices 2011 recommends 240 books for children and young adults from birth through high-school age. It includes full annotations, age recommendations, and author/title and subject indices. It also includes a commentary on the 2010 publishing year. (Read the commentary on the 2010 publishing year from the introduction.) CCBC Choices is created annually by the librarians of the Cooperative Children's Book Center and published by the Friends of the CCBC, Inc.

How to Get a One or More Copies of CCBC Choices 2011:

Public libraries, schools and other institutions in Wisconsin that are part of the statewide library delivery network may request one or more copies be sent at no cost via the network. Contact Megan Schliesman, 608-262-9503, to request Choices, or with questions.

If your WIsconsin school or district isn't part of the statewide library delivery network, we can send copies at no cost to any public library in Wisconsin. Contact your local public library to make arrangements to have them delivered there, and then contact Megan with the quantity requested, library name and contact person, and delivery network information.

To request a copy be sent by U.S.mail:

Wisconsin residents: send $3.00 (to cover postage and handling) OR a self-addressed manilla envelope with $2.75 postage to:

CCBC Choices
600 N. Park Street, Room 4290
Madison, WI 53706

Outside Wisconsin: Send $10 to:

CCBC Choices
Friends of the CCBC, Inc.
P.O. Box 5189
Madison, WI 53705


You must send payment with order--no purchase orders accepted.

Past Editions of CCBC Choices

Past editions of CCBC Choices are also available as PDFs online through the University of Wisconsin Digital Library. (This is not a searchable database.)Annotations from CCBC Choices since 1990 are part of the Children's Literature Comprehensive Database, a subscription-based searchable database with reviews from the CCBC and many other sources.

Choices Essays on Publishing Trends

Each edition of CCBC Choices includes an essay on publishing trends in books for children and teens that we observed in the previous year. Read the essays from recent editions of Choices:

CCBC Choices 2011 (publishing in 2010)

CCBC Choices 2010 (publishing in 2009)

CCBC Choices 2009 (publishing in 2008)

CCBC Chocies 2008 (publishing in 2007)

CCBC Choices 2007 (publishing in 2006)

CCBC Choices 2006 (publishing in 2005)

CCBC Choices 2005 (publishing in 2004)

CCBC Choices 2004 (publishing in 2003)