Childrens Books Awards and Prizes

For the first time since 1996 and since the launch of Awards & Prizes Online in 2003, a print edition of Children's Books: Awards & Prizes (Children's Book Council, 0-933633-07-6, $150, December 2005) is available to libraries, schools, bookstores, and the general public. This new edition of Children's Books: Awards & Prizes, the eleventh since 1960, follows the format of the previous edition, published in 1996. It contains 288 awards and prizes, in four sections: United States Awards Selected by Adults; United States Awards Selected by Young Readers; Australian, Canadian, New Zealand, and United Kingdom Awards; and Selected International and Multinational Awards. Thirty-three awards listed in the 1996 edition have since been renamed. Previous names are noted in the award descriptions. Twenty-eight awards listed in the 1996 edition are not included in this print edition. These awards include any awards terminated prior to the year 2000.One-hundred and three awards have been added since the 1996 edition. Many of these are new awards initiated since 1996, but many are well-established prizes. The CBC was able to make this large increase in the number of awards and prizes tracked due to advances in technology. Organizational websites regularly post such information, and awards announcements arrive in CBC e-mail inboxes on a regular basis. However, the biggest leap in the use of technology was made by the CBC itself. The details of all of these awards, including the ones no longer included in this print edition, are tracked in an online, dynamic database called Awards & Prizes Online.Awards & Prizes Online combines the comprehensive information of the print edition with the flexibility of a dynamic database. It is fully searchable by author or illustrator, book title, award title, publisher, keywords, and grade level or age level. A one-year subscription to Awards & Prizes Online is $150, and a one-day subscription is $9.95. The print edition and a one-year subscription can be purchased together for $200. Please visit awardsandprizes.cbcbooks.org for more information. The CBC is pleased to make this print-on-demand edition available to the children's book community. It is up-to-date through September 2005 and will be updated annually.Children's Book Council Staff is the author of 'Childrens Books Awards and Prizes ', published 2005 under ISBN 9780933633070 and ISBN 0933633076.