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Children's Book Center annual sale takes place Feb. 21-23 at Illinois
Andrea
Lynn, Humanities Editor
217-333-2177; andreal@illinois.edu
2/4/2005
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. —
The Center for Children’s
Books’ fourth annual Book Sale will run from Feb. 21 to 23
at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
The three-day sale will take place in the center, in Room 24 of the Graduate School of Library and Information
Science, 501 E. Daniel St., Champaign.
According to the organizers, thousands of new books for children from
birth through high school will be on sale, including fiction and nonfiction
picture books, board books, easy and transitional readers, chapter books,
series fiction, young adult novels, activity books and kits, nonfiction
series and mass-market paperbacks.
Paperback books that retail for $5 or less will sell for $1; paperbacks
that retail for $5.01 or more will sell for $2; and hardcover books
will sell for $5.
All proceeds will go toward supporting the Center for Children’s
Books, which is part of the university’s Graduate School of Library
and Information Science.
The center houses a non-circulating collection of more than 14,000 recent
and historically significant trade books for youth – birth through
high school – plus review copies of nearly all trade books published
in the United States in the current year.
In addition, the center has more than 1,000 professional and reference
books on the history and criticism of literature for youth, literature-based
library and classroom programming and storytelling. The collection is
non-circulating, but is open to scholars, teachers, librarians, students,
parents, and anyone with an interest in children’s literature.
The center is affiliated with the Bulletin of the Center for Children’s
Books, one of the nation’s leading children’s book-review
journals for school and public librarians.
For more sale information, call 217-244-9331; e-mail ccb@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu.
