Our Partners.
American Association of School Librarians
The American Association of School Librarians (AASL) is the only national professional membership organization focused on school librarians and the school library community. The Children’s Book Council collaborates with the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) on an article in each issue of their journal, Knowledge Quest. Articles are written by a wide range of beloved and debut authors and illustrators published by CBC’s over 140 member children’s publishers. This CBC Column highlights and expands on the theme of each Knowledge Quest issue from the book creators perspective and introduces readers to new authors/illustrators and their work.
American Booksellers Association
The American Booksellers Association (ABA) is a national trade association that supports and advocates for the success of independent bookstores. We provide members with education, networking opportunities, advocacy, resources, and technology. In turn our members support local schools through book fairs, donations and author visits; promote literacy; provide inclusive community centers; connect readers and books; add character to neighborhoods; champion and center diverse and new voices; and contribute to the local economy. We feel honored to support over 3,200 independent bookstores in their work.
American Library Association
Founded in 1876, the mission of the American Library Association (ALA) is to provide leadership for the development, promotion, and improvement of library and information services and the profession of librarianship in order to enhance learning and ensure access to information for all.
Association of American Publishers
The Association of American Publishers (AAP) is the trade association for U.S. book publishers, providing advocacy and communications on behalf of the industry. AAP represents the industry’s priorities on policy, legislative and regulatory issues regionally, nationally and worldwide, including the protection of intellectual property rights and worldwide copyright enforcement, digital and new technology issues, funding for education and libraries, tax and trade, censorship and literacy.
Banned Books Week
Banned Books Week was launched in 1982 in response to a sudden surge in the number of challenges to books in libraries, bookstores, and schools. Typically (but not always) held during the last week of September, the annual event highlights the value of free and open access to information and brings together the entire book community — librarians, educators, authors, publishers, booksellers, and readers of all types — in shared support of the freedom to seek and to express ideas.
Every Child a Reader
Every Child a Reader is a 501(c)(3) literacy nonprofit dedicated to inspiring a lifelong love of reading in children. Every Child a Reader achieves its mission with national programs that celebrate and educate kids and teens through the power of books and reading: Children’s Book Week, The Children’s & Teen Choice Book Awards, The National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, and Get Caught Reading.
Every Child a Reader is the Children’s Book Council’s charity of choice.
EveryLibrary
Through this organizing platform and pro bono coaching and consulting, EveryLibrary is supporting local public library and school library Alliances across the country who are doing the vital grassroots work in their local communities to ensure books remain on shelves, librarians’ jobs are preserved, and libraries are free from political interference. Fight for the First has been incredibly successful in turning around book bans in places. So far, EveryLibrary has supported over 100 grassroots campaigns and helped over 90,000 people take action to support the right to read in their local communities. Each campaign has a budget of between $250 and $1000 for local advertising and activism. There are more fights to come and EveryLibrary needs support to do it.
Ezra Jack Keats Foundation
Founded by the late Caldecott award-winning children’s book author and illustrator Ezra Jack Keats, the Foundation supports arts and literacy programming in public schools and libraries across the country, with the goal of bringing the joy of reading and learning to all children while highlighting the importance of diversity in children’s books. In addition to the Ezra Jack Keats Book Award, the Foundation sponsors the Ezra Jack Keats/New York City Department of Education Bookmaking Competition for grades 3-12, and the Ezra Jack Keats Minigrant program, among others.
First Book
First Book transforms the lives of children in need. Through a sustainable, market-driven model, First Book is creating equal access to quality education — making everything from brand new, high-quality books and educational resources, to sports equipment, winter coats, snacks, and more – affordable to its member network of more than 350,000 educators who exclusively serve kids in need. Since 1992, First Book has distributed more than 170 million books and educational resources to programs and schools serving children from low-income families in more than 30 countries. First Book currently reaches an average of 3 million children every year and supports more than one in four of the estimated 1.3 million classrooms and programs serving children in need. With an additional 1,000 educators joining each week, First Book is the largest and fastest-growing network of educators in the United States exclusively serving kids in need.
International Literacy Association
The International Literacy Association (ILA) is a professional membership organization for literacy professionals across 128 countries. It was founded in 1956, under the name International Reading Association, and for nearly 70 years has supported educators, researchers, and experts from every corner of the world. For nearly 40 years, the CBC and ILA co-sponsored the Children’s Choices project, an annual list of books chosen by over 12,000 children across the country. Since 1975, Children’s Choices was a trusted source of book recommendations used by teachers, librarians, parents—and children themselves. This program has since become the CBC Favorites Awards.
KidLit TV
KidLit TV is a Carle Honor recipient, an American Association of School Librarians’ Best Digital Tool for Teaching and Learning, and a Parents’ Choice Gold Award winner. KLTV is available in over 800,000 schools worldwide via our website and video distribution partners. We’re a team of parents, educators, librarians, authors, illustrators, and filmmakers creating fun ways to inspire a love of reading.
Library of Congress
The Library of Congress is the world’s largest library, offering access to the creative record of the United States – and extensive materials from around the world – both on-site and online. It is the main research arm of the U.S. Congress and the home of the U.S. Copyright Office. Explore collections, reference services and other programs, and plan a visit at loc.gov, access the official site for U.S. federal legislative information at congress.gov, and register creative works of authorship at copyright.gov. The CBC, Every Child a Reader, and the Library of Congress are the sponsors of the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature program. The position of National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature was created to raise national awareness of the importance of young people’s literature as it relates to lifelong literacy, education, and the development and betterment of the lives of young people.
Little Free Library
Little Free Library is a nonprofit organization that inspires a love of reading, builds community, and sparks creativity by fostering neighborhood book exchanges around the world. In 2009, Todd H. Bol built the first Little Free Library book exchange and placed it in his Hudson, Wisconsin front yard to honor his mother. The idea for the handmade book exchanges with the motto “Take a book. Return a book” ™ resonated with people, and today the number of registered book exchanges has grown to more than 50,000 around the world, in all 50 states and in 70 countries. Through these book exchanges millions of books are shared annually. Little Free Library is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and has received numerous honors, including the National Book Foundation’s Innovations in Reading Prize, the American Library Association’s Movers and Shakers Award, and the Library of Congress Literacy Award. The organization encourages the volunteer stewards who manage the book exchanges to register their Little Libraries for listing on its world map and inclusion in a network that shares ideas and notices about events and programming.
Multicultural Community Service
Multicultural Community Service (MCS) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, located in Washington, DC since 1997. MCS is dedicated to encouraging, promoting, and facilitating broad and inclusive civic participation. MCS aims to improve communication and cooperation between and among residents throughout the Washington Metropolitan area. We believe that diverse and vibrant communities are the key to helping residents thrive.
National Coalition Against Censorship
Every generation of Americans faces new and significant challenges to free expression. For over 50 years, NCAC has acted as a first responder to protect this freedom, which is both a fundamental human right and a keystone of democracy in the ever-changing American nation. We promote freedom of thought and inquiry and oppose censorship. When controversy occurs, we encourage and facilitate dialogue between divergent voices and perspectives, including those that have historically been silenced.
National Council for the Social Studies
Founded in 1921, National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) has grown to be the largest association in the country devoted solely to social studies education. NCSS engages and supports educators in strengthening and advocating social studies.
The NCSS and the CBC partner annually to create the Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, a reading list of exceptional books for use in social studies classrooms, selected by twelve social studies educators.
National PTA
The National PTA’s mission is to make every child’s potential a reality by engaging and empowering families and communities to advocate for all children.
National Science Teaching Association
The National Science Teaching Association (NSTA), founded in 1944, is the largest organization in the world committed to promoting excellence and innovation in science teaching and learning for all.
Since 1973, the CBC and NSTA have developed the annual Outstanding Science Trade Books, a list representing the year’s best books for science classrooms, chosen by science educators. In 2017, they expanded their partnership with the creation of the Best STEM Books joint project that aims to provide recommendations to educators, librarians, parents, and guardians for the best children’s books with STEM content.
PEN America
PEN America stands at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect free expression in the United States and worldwide. We champion the freedom to write, recognizing the power of the word to transform the world. Our mission is to unite writers and their allies to celebrate creative expression and defend the liberties that make it possible.
Reading is Fundamental
Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) is the largest children’s literacy nonprofit in the United States. They prepare and motivate children to read by delivering free books and literacy resources to those children and families who need them most. They inspire children to be lifelong readers through the power of choice. RIF provides new, free books for children to choose from and make their own.
ReedPop
ReedPop is the largest producer of pop culture events in the world. They build and deliver once-in-a-lifetime experiences for fans around the globe, both in person and online. Their events include New York Comic Con, PAX, EGX, MCM Comic Con, Star Wars Celebration, and many more. They own and operate, Popverse, a website and membership platform with unrivaled comics and pop culture coverage. ReedPop is a division of global event leader, RX.
Unite Against Book Bans
With more than 200 partner organizations and tens of thousands of individual supporters, Unite Against Book Bans connects, equips, and mobilizes the public to advocate in their communities for the right to read and to defeat attempts at every level of government to censor reading material.
We Need Diverse Books
At WNDB, we’re on a mission to create lifelong readers and a more empathetic world through the power of inclusive literature. We Need Diverse Books is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that takes a holistic approach in improving literacy and building compassion by affecting change across the entire reading pipeline — turning diverse manuscripts into published books and then donating diverse titles to readers nationwide.
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