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Each year, Every Child a Reader invites beloved and up-and-coming children’s book artists to create the visual centerpieces for that year’s Children’s Book Week celebrations. We are excited to announce the artists for 2020 and invite schools, libraries, and bookstores to register their locations as official events for our Spring 2020 celebration, May 4-10!

2020 Artists:

• The 2020 poster will be created by award-winning designer and illustrator Carin Berger! Carin’s books include Finding Spring, All of Us, Good Night! Good Night!, A Perfect Day, and Forever Friends. Carin’s poster will highlight the 2020 theme, Read. Dream. Share., and will be shipped to all registered locations to give to attendees of their events. The poster includes activities on the back.
• Six official bookmarks, with activities, will be created in 2020 by Vanessa Brantley-Newton, Michaela Goade, John Parra, Duncan Tonatiuh, Sydney Smith, and The Fan Brothers!
• Each year we work to create a new and exciting resource for kids. In 2020 we will introduce over 20 coloring pages featuring new art as well as beloved characters from the following artists: Nabi H Ali, Jessica Boehman, Victoria Cossack, Claudia Dávila, Steve Ellis, Paola Escobar, Xavier Garza, Genevieve Godbout, Maria Gulemetova, Jessica Hische, Johnny Hollick, Sarah Jung, Alex Latimer, Marie Letourneau, Jessica Love, Logan Matthews, Marcos Navarro, Katie O’Neill, Debbie Palen, Greg Pizzoli, Susan Szecsi, Raúl the Third, and Sarah Jane Wright.

Join the Celebrations!

School, libraries, and bookstores are invited to register their location to participate in our Spring 2020 week of celebrations, May 4-10. Discover more about what it means to be an official location and find the online registration form here!

The nation’s largest literacy celebration is about to get bigger. In an effort to attract more educators and boost school participation in Children’s Book Week, the Children’s Book Council and its charitable arm, Every Child a Reader, have developed a brand-new initiative designed to reach teachers, school librarians, and students. From November 4–10, the Fall Children’s Book Week will help extend the centennial anniversary celebration that kicked off this past spring.

“Over the years, I’ve heard from teachers across the country who wanted to participate in Children’s Book Week with their students, but found that late spring was a difficult time to be involved fully, due to end-of-year testing and schedules,” said Shaina Birkhead, associate executive director of the CBC. (CBW had traditionally taken place in the fall before officially moving to spring in 2008.) “We felt that the 100th anniversary was a perfect opportunity to honor the history of the program,” she added, “while also making it possible for schools to embrace the celebration with their students in a way many had not been able to before.”

Read more about the Fall Children’s Book Week celebrations at PW Children’s Bookshelf.

As a celebration of the centennial of Children’s Book Week we’re presenting a 12-artist Collaborative Poster! These beloved children’s book illustrators (see below) have contributed their beautiful and inspiring artwork to help us celebrate our 2019 theme, Read Now ● Read Forever.

Many of these artists have agreed to share their original sketches for their panels of this special poster. You can see these as part of The Children’s Book Council’s From The Sketchbook feature. Gain some insight into the creative process of these beloved illustrators and check out their features below!

Eric Carle’s original sketch

Juana Martinez-Neal’s original sketch

Barbara McClintock’s original sketch

Melissa Sweet’s original sketch

LeUyen Pham’s original sketch

This month, National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature Jacqueline Woodson embarked on a tour of Alaska, sharing with children her passion for literacy and her platform as ambassador: “Reading = Hope x Change.”

Shaina Birkhead, associate executive director of the Children’s Book Council and Every Child a Reader, which co-sponsors the National Ambassador program along with the Library of Congress, said, “We are just so thankful to Jacqueline for making this long trip cross-country to make the hearts soar of every child who heard her speak and personally engage, as she has done during her entire ambassadorship. And a thank you, as always, to the librarians who give so much time every day for the love of reading.”

See the full PW Children’s Bookshelf article, with photos, here!

The 12th Annual Awards are the Only National Book Awards Voted on Only by Children and Teens

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New York, NY – Thursday, June 13, 2019 – Every Child a Reader, a nonprofit literacy organization dedicated to inspiring a love of reading in children and teens across America, is pleased to announce the winners and honor books in the four categories of the 12th Annual Children’s and Teen Choice Book Awards.

These awards provide young readers with an opportunity to “Voice Your Choice” about new books that they read and loved, and are the only national book awards chosen only by kids and teens. Voting was conducted in classrooms, libraries and bookstores, as well as online, beginning March 1 and ending June 2 at BookCon in the Family HQ. Over 24,000 votes were tallied, up from 18,000 last year.

For the Children’s Choice Book Award K – 2^nd Grade Category:

Winner: I SAY OOH YOU SAY AAH, written and illustrated by John Kane (Kane Miller Books)

Honor: THERE’S A DRAGON IN YOUR BOOK, by Tom Fletcher; illus. by Greg Abbott (Random House Books for Young Readers)

 

For the Children’s Choice Book Award 3^rd – 4^th Grade Category:

Winner: BACK TO THE FUTURE: The Classic Illustrated Storybook, by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale; illus. by Kim Smith (Quirk Books)

Honor: SAFARI PUG, by Laura James; illus. by Églantine Ceulemans (Bloomsbury Children’s Books)

 

For the Children’s Choice Book Award 5^th– 6^th Grade Category:

Winner: GHOST BOYS, By Jewell Parker Rhodes (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)

Honor: SEWING THE RAINBOW: A Story about Gilbert Baker, by Gayle E. Pitman; illus. by Holly Clifton-Brown (Magination Press)

 

In the Teen Choice category:

Winner: THE PRINCE AND THE DRESSMAKER, by Jen Wang (First Second Books)

Honor: THE POET X, by Elizabeth Acevedo (Harper Teen)

 

Shaina Birkhead, Associate Executive Director for Children’s Book Council and Every Child a Reader, stated: “We are proud to work with so many teachers, librarians, and booksellers who encourage kids to read the books and gather votes at their locations. It’s a fun reading and discussion activity, as well as a primer on social responsibility.”

About the Children’s & Teen Choice Book Awards
Launched in 2008 by Every Child a Reader and the Children’s Book Council, the awards are the only national book awards chosen only by kids and teens. The five finalists in each of the three Children’s Choice Book Awards categories were chosen in pre-reading and voting by children from different regions of the U.S., with supervision by the International Literacy Association. The Teen Choice category finalists were nominated at TeenReads.com. Starting in 2020, the Teen Choice will be called the Young Adults’ Choice and also be supervised by the ILA.

About Every Child a Reader & the Children’s Book Council
Every Child a Reader is a 501(c)(3) literacy charity dedicated to inspiring a lifelong love of reading in children and teens. Every Child a Reader’s national programs include Children’s Book Week (celebrating its 100^th anniversary this year), Get Caught Reading, the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature program (in conjunction with the Library of Congress), and the Children’s & Teen Choice Book Awards. Every Child a Reader is managed by the Children’s Book Council, the nonprofit trade association for children’s book publishers in North America, partnering with national organizations on reading lists, educational programming, and diversity initiatives.

 

Media Contact:

Shifa Kapadwala, Publicity Manager, CBC/Every Child a Reader, Shifa.Kapadwala@cbcbooks.org, 212-966-1990

From therapy dogs to make your own book, from bilingual readings to book festivals.

All told, there will be over 5,000 events across the 1,300 participating schools, libraries and bookstores in all 50 states throughout the week of April 29 to May 5 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Children’s Book Week.

Many locations are having events every day of the week, from local author readings to make your own bookmark contests. Many will also be holding voting for the Children’s & Teen Choice Book Awards.

A look at a just a few of the types of events going on this week:

• Building favorite scenes or characters with LEGOs and STEM/STEAM activities based on different children’s books.
• Several locations will bring in Paws to Read therapy dogs and a library is having a “Write to a Writer” activity.
• One indie bookstore will have a local member of the fire department in to read picture books and another will host a local heroes’ story time in the park with police and fire fighters.
• Theater companies will perform in libraries, from the Dewey Decimal Players in Mt. Airy, NC to the Bridgeport, CT Downtown Cabaret.
• Some schools, libraries and stores are hosting Book Week poster art contests, creating book starters for kids to write and illustrate their own bound books to take home, or having a make your own comic contest.
• Several schools will host bilingual Spanish/English story times and a library in California will celebrate Children’s Book Week with songs and dance from South America.
• A Children’s Book Week Tic Tac Toe Game with donated children’s books as prizes.
• A Seattle museum has paired children’s books with works of art to spark discussion.

In addition, 100 authors and illustrators will holding events at stores and libraries during Book Week. Before these official Spotlight events, an announcement about Children’s Book Week’s anniversary will be read.

Major events of note:

• Children’s Book Week poster illustrators Emily Arnold McCully, Peter Sis, Rosemary Wells, David Wiesner, Uri Shulevitz, Paul O. Zelinsky, and Chris Raschka will join Leonard Marcus, author of 100 Years of Children’s Book Week Posters at Books of Wonder on Monday evening, April 29.
• The Library of Congress will livestream a special program on April 29 featuring local authors who are members of the Children’s Book Guild of DC reading from twenty special children’s books of historical significance from the Library’s collections.
• Eloise Greenfield and Jason Reynolds will be in conversation on April 30 at Takoma Park Library, organized with Politics & Prose, in celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Coretta Scott King Awards.
• Cori Doerrfeld, the winner of this year’s Anna Dewdney Read Together Award, will receive a plaque and her winner’s check at a special event at the Red Balloon Bookshop in St. Paul on May 2.
• The Ivy Bookshop in Baltimore and the Maryland SPCA are co-hosting a special event May 4 with Lisa Papp and her Madeline Finn and the Shelter Dog. The SPCA will bring a shelter dog or two for a “meet and greet” with the children.
• The Curious Iguana, in conjunction with Screen Free Week, is hosting Meghan Cox Gurdon for her book, The Enchanted Hour: The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction.
• Two “Literary Landmark” ceremonies will take place during Book Week: On May 1 at the Harvin Clarendon County Library in Manning, SC for the Peggy Parish landmark dedication; and on May 4 at the Esther Crawford Public Library in Monticello, NY in honor of Vera B. Williams, with readings by Vera’s children. (This program is administered by United for Libraries in partnership with the CBC.)

Also, thanks to publisher generosity, these costume characters were sent out to Book Week locations: Baby Mouse, Bad Kitty, Bruce the Bear, Clifford, Elephant & Piggie, Geronimo Stilton, Gruffalo, Hedgie, Huckle Cat & Lowly Worm, Junie B Jones, Lady Bug Girl, Pete the Cat, Paddington, Peter Rabbit, Poky Little Puppy, Pout Pout Fish, Scuffy the Tugboat, Splat the Cat, Spot the Dog, and Thea Stilton.

In addition, the beautiful 100th anniversary poster by Yuyi Morales will be handed out at three festivals on May 4: the Bay Area Book Festival in Berkeley, at the OMG Book Fest in St. Louis, and at the 75 book creator Hudson Children’s Book Festival in Hudson, NY– with CBC in attendance.

Many people and organizations are making the 100th anniversary of Children’s Book Week possible: hundreds of authors and illustrators, thousands of librarians, teaches, booksellers, and parents, marketing partners such as Book Con, Parents Magazine, KidLit TV, Screen Free Week, and Sesame Workshop.

Next week’s celebration is just one of the peaks of this year-long anniversary celebration! We’re rolling out the 12 panel poster all year long as well as 100 KidLit TV videos. And we’ll celebrate Children’s Book Week again in early November with a new event kit, activity pages in 15 languages, and 10 new Get Caught Reading posters.

Remember: #BookWeek100

Children’s Book Week resources
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In coordination with CBC member publishers, over 100 authors and illustrators holding events at stores and libraries from April 29 to May 4 will be featured as Spotlight events.

Before each library or bookstore event, an official announcement about Children’s Book Week will be read.

The 2019 Children’s Book Week Spotlight authors and illustrators are: S. K. Ali, Airlie Anderson, Graham Annable, Zeno Alexander, Hayley Barrett, Ross Baruch, Aaron Becker, John Benzee, Cate Berry, Natascha Biebow, Cate Berry, Bea Birdsong, Tracy Bishop, Jessica Brody, Lisa Brown, Lynn Brunelle, Jimmy Cajoleas, Rosani Choksi, Raul Colon, Ying Chang Compestine, Ricardo Cortes, Edwidge Danticat, Rana DiOrio, Cori Doerrfeld, Chris Van Dusen, Carolyne Dee Flores, Amanda Foody, David Gallaher, Dan Gemeinhart, Eloise Greenfield, Stuart Gibbs, Nikki Grimes, Meghan Cox Gurdon, Dan Gutman, Vashti Harrison, Perrin Hendrick, Christine Herman, Lisa Hall, Cory Ann Haydu, Gareth Hinds, Greg Howard, Amy Ignatow, Melissa Iwai, Susie Jaramillo, Ruth Harper Johnson, Michelle Ruíz Keil, Golzar Kheiltash, Aram Kim, Vincent X Kirsch, Jo Knowles, Steve Light, Tonya Lippert, Jennifer Love, Ann Malaspina, Leonard Marcus, Tim McCanna, Tehlor Kay Mejia, Nicole Melleby, Sharee Miller, Laurie Morrison, Marissa Moss, Lisa Papp, Linda Sue Park, Kate T. Parker, Alex Penfold, Nicki Pau Preto, Jason Reynolds, Isabel Roxas, Adam Rubin, Cecilia Ruiz, Doug Salati, Stephen Savage, Lisa Scott, T. R. Simon, Andrew Smith, Brady Smith, Mika Song, Amy Rebecca Tan, Tiffani Thiessen, e. E. Trujillo, Andrea Tsurumi, Dawn Ventola, Booki Vivat, Kiersten White, Fran Wilde, Judd Winick, Katie Tamasaki, Dan Vaccarino, Will Walton, Rowboat Watkins, Ashley Yazdani, Jane Yolen, Suzanne Young, and Ginger Zee.

The Red Balloon Bookstore to Host Reading and Award Event May 2

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New York, NY – April 23, 2019 – Penguin Young Readers, the Children’s Book Council, and Every Child a Reader are proud to announce that The Rabbit Listened, written and illustrated by Cori Doerrfeld (Dial Books), is the winner of the third annual Anna Dewdney Read Together Award.

This award is given annually to a picture book that is both a superb read-aloud and also sparks compassion, empathy, and connection. The award commemorates the life and work of author/illustrator Anna Dewdney, and celebrates her commitment to reading with young children and putting books into as many little hands as possible.

Along with The Rabbit Listened, Cori Doerrfeld has illustrated popular books such as Little Bunny Foo Foo and The True Adventures of Esther the Wonder Pig. Her next book from Dial will be Goodbye, Friend! Hello, Friend! which releases July 2, 2019. She lives with her family in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

A reading by Cori and an award presentation will take place at the Red Balloon Bookstore in St. Paul, Minnesota on May 2 at 10:30 AM. This event is one of many children’s literature events taking place across the U.S. from April 29 to May 5 at 1,300 schools, libraries and bookstores as part of the 100th anniversary of Children’s Book Week.

The Honor Books for 2019 are: Drawn Together, by Minh Lê; illus. by Dan Santat (Disney Hyperion); Dreamers, by Yuyi Morales (Holiday House); I Am Enough, by Grace Byers; illus. by Keturah A. Bobo (Balzer & Bray/Harper); Julian is a Mermaid, by Jessica Love (Candlewick); and Thank You, Omu!, by Oga Mora (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers).

Doerrfeld will be awarded a prize of $1,000 from the Children’s Book Council and Penguin will purchase and donate 250 copies of The Rabbit Listened to a school, library, or literacy organization of her choice.

The winner and honor books were chosen by voting over the last two months by librarians, teachers, and booksellers across America.

About Anna Dewdney
Anna Dewdney was the New York Times bestselling author and illustrator of Llama Llama Red Pajama. Other award-winning books in the Llama Llama series include Llama Lama and the Bully Goat, Llama Lama Time to Share, Llama Llama Misses Mama, Llama Llama Holiday Drama, and Llama Llama Mad at Mama. Llama Llama Loves to Read will release in May 2018. She was also the author/illustrator of Little Excavator, Nobunny’s Perfect, Roly Poly Pangolin, and Grumpy Gloria. Anna worked as a rural mail carrier and taught at a boys’ boarding school for many years before becoming a full-time author and illustrator. Anna was a committed advocate of literacy, speaking regularly on this topic and publishing articles in the Wall Street Journal and other national outlets.

About Penguin Young Readers
Penguin Young Readers is one of the leading children’s book publishers in the United States. The company owns a wide range of imprints and trademarks including Dial Books, Dutton, Grosset & Dunlap, Kathy Dawson Books, Nancy Paulsen Books, Penguin Workshop, Philomel, Puffin, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, Viking, Razorbill, Speak, and Frederick Warne. These imprints are home to such award-winning, New York Times- bestselling authors as, Laurie Halse Anderson, Judy Blume, Jan Brett, Eric Carle, Ally Condie, Roald Dahl, Tomie dePaola, Sarah Dessen, Anna Dewdney, John Flanagan, John Green, Oliver Jeffers, Marie Lu, Mike Lupica, Richelle Mead, Richard Peck, Ruta Sepetys, Jacqueline Woodson and dozens of other popular authors. Penguin Young Readers Group is also the proud publisher of perennial brand franchises such as the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys series, Peter Rabbit, Spot, the Classic Winnie the Pooh, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Madeline, Mad Libs, the Rangers Apprentice, Skippyjon Jones, Who Was?, and Flower Fairies among many others. Penguin Young Readers Group is a division of Penguin Group LLC, a Penguin Random House company.

About Every Child a Reader
Every Child a Reader is a 501(c)(3) literacy charity dedicated to inspiring a lifelong love of reading in children and teens across America. Every Child a Reader’s major national programs include: Children’s Book Week, celebrating 100 years this year; the Children’s & Teen Choice Book Awards; Get Caught Reading; and the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature program, in partnership with the Library of Congress.

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Penguin Contact:
Marisa Russell, Director of Publicity 212-414-3467 mrussell@penguinrandomhouse.com
Tessa Meischeid, Senior Publicist, Penguin Young Readers Group, 212-414-3561  tmeischeid@penguinrandomhouse.com

CBC/Every Child a Reader Contact:
Shifa Kapadwala, Publicity Manager shifa.kapadwala@cbcbooks.org

In Celebration of the 100th Anniversary of Children’s Book Week

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New York, NY – April 16, 2019 – KidLit TV, an award winning producer of resources for parents, teachers and librarians, with the support of the Children’s Book Council and Every Child a Reader, released the first of 100 book creator videos today. The first two CREATOR CORNER videos – by Karyn Parsons and Steve Light – went online today at KidLit TV with more videos to be released each week throughout 2019. Audiences can keep track of new video releases on social media by following #BookWeek100.

A part of the yearlong celebration of the 100th anniversary of Children’s Book Week, the 100 CREATOR CORNER videos featuring three-to-five minute videos of well-known and popular children’s book authors and illustrators speaking about their favorite character creations, will be available at KidLit TV for years to come for classroom, library and home viewing.

The 100 CREATOR CORNER videos feature, in alphabetical order: Maya Abu-Alhayyat, David Adler, Mary Amato, Hayley Barrett, Tracey Baptiste, Kamilla Benko, Jessica Boehman, Max Brallier, Kathy Brodsky, Nick Bruel, Jen Calonita, Selene Castrovilla, Tami Charles, Eva Chen, Sayantani DasGupta, Catherine Doyle, Ame Dyckman, Shira Erlichman, Elizabeth Eulberg, Molly Felder, K. Heidi Fishman, Sarah Wassner Flynn, Krystyna Poray Goddu, Jacob Grant, Lisa Greenwald, Adele Griffin, Dan Gutman, Daniel Haack, Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan, Raj Halder, Tracey Hecht, Will Hillenbrand, Lynda Mullaly Hunt, Jessie Janowitz, Emily Jenkins, Michelle Knudsen, Jackie Azúa Kramer, Susan Kuklin, Rajani LaRocca, Emmy Laybourne, Dana Alison Levy, Steve Light, Mariana Llanos, Mariah MacCarthy, Carolyn Mackler, Paul Meisel, Nicole Melleby, Yuyi Morales, Kass Morgan, Richard Morris, Roxie Munro, Donna jo Napoli, Yevgenia Nayberg, Robin Newman, Tom O’Donnell, Lin Oliver, Emma Otheguy, Karyn Parsons, Audrey Penn, Jerry Pinkney, Ally Condie and Brendan Reichs, Jessica Rinker, Julia Fogliano and Christian Robinson, Cecilia Ruiz, Julia Sarcone-Roach, Stephen Savage, Laura Vaccaro Seeger, David Shannon, Mark Siegel, Anita Silvey, Meera Sriram, Phil Stamper, Vesper Stamper, David Ezra Stein, Todd Strasser, Samantha Thornhill, Iza Trapani, Trudi Trueitt, Eric Velasquez, Shirley Vernick, Booki Vivat, Sean Vogel, Cynthia Weill, Carol Weston, Anna Kang and Christopher Weyant, Barry Wittenstein, Mike Wohnoutka, Kenneth and Sarah Jane Wright, Jane Breskin Zalben, Paul 0. Zelinsky, and Katie Zhao, with several additional names to be announced this summer.

Julie Gribble, KitLit TV Founder, said: “Our production team is proud to help create these historic snapshots of the stories behind the characters we love! We learned and laughed a lot with our kid lit friends during the filming. We’re certain kids will have fun learning and laughing along with them, too.”

Shaina Birkhead, Associate Executive Director for Children’s Book Council and Every Child a Reader, added: “This has been a major undertaking, but with the professionalism of Julie and her team and the generous spirit of these awesome book creators, we have a celebration of children’s books for this year and a legacy of enjoyment for years to come.”

About KidLit TV
KidLit TV is a winner of the Parents’ Choice Gold Award, the Norton Juster Award for Devotion to Literacy, and one of the American Library Association’s Great Websites For Kids. We’re a trusted resource for parents, teachers, and librarians! KLTV is available in over 600,000 schools worldwide via our website and video distribution partners. We’re a diverse group of parents, educators, librarians, kid lit creators, and award-winning filmmakers working together to create fun new ways to reinforce an appreciation of reading that children will carry with them for the rest of their lives.

About Every Child a Reader & the Children’s Book Council

Every Child a Reader is a 501(c)(3) literacy charity dedicated to inspiring a lifelong love of reading in children and teens. Every Child a Reader’s national programs include Children’s Book Week (celebrating its 100th anniversary this year), Get Caught Reading, the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature program (in conjunction with the Library of Congress), and the Children’s & Teen Choice Book Awards. Every Child a Reader is managed by the Children’s Book Council, the nonprofit trade association for children’s book publishers in North America, partnering with national organizations on reading lists, educational programming, and diversity initiatives.

Media Contact:
Shifa Kapadwala, Publicity Manager, CBC/Every Child a Reader, Shifa.Kapadwala@cbcbooks.org, 212-966-1990
https://www.facebook.com/EveryChildAReader/ https://twitter.com/EveryChildRead

In Celebration of the 100th Anniversary of Children’s Book Week and Beyond

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
New York, NY – March 25, 2019 – KidLit TV, an award winning producer of resources for parents, teachers and librarians, announces a partnership with the Children’s Book Council and Every Child a Reader to produce 100 book creator videos for teachers, parents, librarians, and educators across the country to share with their students. This campaign commemorates the 100th anniversary of Children’s Book Week, and the three-to-five minute long videos feature well-known and popular children’s book authors and illustrators speaking about their favorite character creations.

The videos will be housed at KidLitTV.com and feature an opening celebratory image of the 100th anniversary of Children’s Book Week, and will run throughout 2019. Starting in 2020, the videos will remain up for classroom, library and home use.

Julie Gribble, KitLit TV Founder, said: “Our production team is proud to help create these historic snapshots of the stories behind the characters we love! We learned and laughed a lot with our kid lit friends during the filming. We’re certain kids will have fun learning and laughing along with them, too.”

Shaina Birkhead, Associate Executive Director for Children’s Book Council and Every Child a Reader, added: “This has been a major undertaking, but with the professionalism of Julie and her team and the generous spirit of these awesome book creators, we have a celebration of children’s books for this year and a legacy of enjoyment for years to come.”

About KidLit TV
KidLit TV is a winner of the Parents’ Choice Gold Award, the Norton Juster Award for Devotion to Literacy, and one of the American Library Association’s Great Websites For Kids. We’re a trusted resource for parents, teachers, and librarians! KLTV is available in over 600,000 schools worldwide via our website and video distribution partners. We’re a diverse group of parents, educators, librarians, kid lit creators, and award-winning filmmakers working together to create fun new ways to reinforce an appreciation of reading that children will carry with them for the rest of their lives.

About Every Child a Reader & the Children’s Book Council

Every Child a Reader is a 501(c)(3) literacy charity dedicated to inspiring a lifelong love of reading in children and teens. Every Child a Reader’s national programs include Children’s Book Week (celebrating its 100th anniversary this year), Get Caught Reading, the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature program (in conjunction with the Library of Congress), and the Children’s & Teen Choice Book Awards. Every Child a Reader is managed by the Children’s Book Council, the nonprofit trade association for children’s book publishers in North America, partnering with national organizations on reading lists, educational programming, and diversity initiatives.

Media Contact:
Shifa Kapadwala, Publicity Manager, CBC/Every Child a Reader, Shifa.Kapadwala@cbcbooks.org, 212-966-1990
https://www.facebook.com/EveryChildAReader/
https://twitter.com/EveryChildRead