The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (BCCB)

The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books provides concise summaries and critical evaluations of current children's books. This invaluable resource assists readers with questions regarding the ever-evolving children's literature field. Reviews give an in-depth look at a selected book's content, reading level, strengths and weaknesses, and quality of the format, as well as suggestions for curricular use. The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books is the only major reviewing periodical for children’s literature whose entire reviewing staff meets regularly to read and discuss reviews for each issue. More than 3,500 subscribers nationwide rely on the Bulletin for answers to their many questions involving children’s literature. The Bulletin, founded in 1945, is devoted entirely to the review of current books for children. It provides concise summaries and critical evaluations to help you find the books you need. Each review gives you information on book’s content, reading level, strengths and weaknesses, and quality of format, as well as suggestions for curricular use. Most books are reviewed from publisher’s galley proofs. With this up-to-date coverage, you’ll know which books to buy the moment they’re available. The 75th volume year of the Bulletin is being commemorated in a digital timeline exhibit at https://ccb.ischool.illinois.edu/ccb75/. As the Bulletin prepares to move into its future, take a look at its past, in glorious black and white and on bleed-through onionskin paper. The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books (ISSN 0008-9036) is published monthly except August by The Johns Hopkins University Press for the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (BCCB) is :-

• International, Peer-Reviewed, Open Access, Refereed, Children’s Literature, Library & Information Science, Literary Criticism, Education, Publishing, Reading & Literacy Studies, Book Reviews, Youth Literature , Online or Print , Monthly Journal

• UGC Approved, ISSN Approved: P-ISSN P-ISSN: 0008-9036, E-ISSN: 1558-6766, Established: 1947,
• Provides Crossref DOI

• Not indexed in Scopus, WoS, DOAJ, PubMed, UGC CARE