What's New?

• Fall Public Service Hours
  
  
• Mark you calendar! Author Judy Blume will deliver the 2008 Charlotte Zolotow Lecture on Wednesday evening, October 15, 7:30 p.m., at the Wisconsin Union Theater on the UW-Madison campus. This will be a free public lecture. More information.
  
  
• Find out everything you always wanted to know about the CCBC! Well, not quite, but visit our Frequently Asked Questions page for the answers to some commonly asked questions.
  
  
• The list for our September book discussion is now available. We hope you can join us on September 24!
  
  
  
  

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• On CCBC -Net in September:
  
  First 2 weeks: Parallel Perspectives: Subjects through Fact and Fiction. In Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler’s Shadow (Scholastic Nonfiction, 2005), Susan Campbell Bartoletti looked at the lives of children and teens who marched for Adolf Hitler. In her novel The Boy Who Dared (Scholastic, 2008), based on the life of Helmuth Hubener, Bartoletti creates a tense and resonant work of fiction about a teen’s political and personal awakening after leaving the Hitler youth and deciding he must challenge his government’s oppression. Each book is powerful on its own, but paired, they offer essential facts as well as a tense and resonant emotional journey into a teen’s growing awareness of his need to act. These two books are just one example of the ways a single subject can be explored through both fact and fiction in children’s and young adult literature. During the first half of September, we invite you to share examples of what you do—in the library or in the classroom—to enhance and extend how children and teens can connect to and understand a single topic by using multiple genres, from picture books and fiction to non-fiction and poetry.

  Second 2 weeks: Get on Board! Original Board Books on a Roll. During much of the 1990s, it seemed that many of the board books published for young children were board editions of previously published picture books, some of which did not make the transition to the different format gracefully. But recently we’ve been delighted by new, original board books that are firmly grounded in an understanding of what makes a good book for the youngest children. In the second half of September, we’ll talk about board books—who they are for and what makes the best stand out. We invite you to share old favorites and welcome new additions to board book shelves and family libraries.