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Thousands of Children's Books Available at Annual Book Sale

January 23, 2009

The Center for Children's Books (CCB) at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign is hosting its annual book sale February 16 through February 18, 2009. Sale hours are 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. each of these days.

Thousands of brand-new children’s books will be available for youth ages birth through high school. The titles available represent the full spectrum of children’s publishing in fiction and nonfiction: board books, picture books, easy and transitional readers, chapter books, series fiction, novels, activity books and kits, nonfiction series, mass-market paperbacks, and more.

Paperback books are $1 or $2 each, hardcover books are $5 each, and individual items are priced as marked.

A pre-sale will be held on February 15, 2009 from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Tickets for the pre-sale are $20. You must call (217) 244-9331 or email to reserve a ticket. Ticket reservations will begin on February 2, 2009.

Proceeds from the sale support the successful operation of the CCB, a non-circulating collection of more than 16,000 recent and historically significant trade books for youth, birth through high school, plus review copies of nearly all trade books published in the U.S. in the current year. The CCB houses over 1,000 professional and reference books on the history and criticism of literature for youth, literature-based library and classroom programming, and storytelling. Although the collection is non-circulating, it is available for examination by scholars, teachers, librarians, students, and other educators.

For more details, contact the CCB by email at ccb@illinois.edu or by telephone at (217) 244-9331.

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