Children’s Choice Book Awards Toolkit, CBW Display Contest Details Available

An array of resources to promote Children’s Book Week (May 12 – 18) and the Children’s Choice Book Awards is now available to booksellers on the Children’s Book Week (CBW) website.

Voting by children and teens for the 2014 awards will begin on March 25 at ccbookawards.com and in schools, bookstores, and libraries around the country. To help booksellers promote the awards voting, the Children’s Book Council (CBC) offers a Digital Toolkit filled with resources, including Children’s Choice and Teen Choice logos, “Read Everything and Decide” badges for websites, templates for “I Voted” stickers, as well as sample tweets and Facebook and blog posts.

A special Book Week Online page for booksellers also offers ideas for celebrating Children’s Book Week, as well as details of an in-store display contest sponsored by CBC and Every Child a Reader  in partnership with the ABC Children’s Group at ABA.

To enter, stores must create displays that are up for the duration of Children’s Book Week (May 12 – 18). Displays will be judged for creativity, uniqueness, and how well they present the Children’s Book Week theme, among other criteria. Bonus points will be awarded for incorporating the 2014 Children’s and Teen Choice Book Awards finalists and the 2014 CBW poster and the titles Robin Preiss Glasser pays homage to on it.

Contest prizes include a visit from a 2014 Children’s Choice Book Award-winning author or illustrator (based on availability, subject to change). Full details about the contest are available on the CBW webpage for booksellers.