CBC Launches Children’s Choice Book Awards

The Children’s Book Council (CBC), in association with the CBC Foundation, has launched the Children’s Choice Book Awards program. The program was created to provide young readers with an opportunity to voice their opinions about books being written for them and to help develop a reading list that will motivate children to read, according to the CBC, a nonprofit association of U.S. publishers of children’s and young-adult trade books. This is the second national initiative the CBC has launched this year to promote reading among children. In early January, the organization, along with the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress, announced the appointment of Jon Scieszka as the first National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature.