The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books:
1998 Homepage Archive

December's Features ...

• December's Big Picture --The Fourth Wise Man by Susan Summers
• December's Stars--what we starred this month
• December's Quote of the Month--from Nicholas Allan's Jesus' Day Off
• December's Dozen-- Great Books Make Great Gifts
• December's True Blue--S. D. Schindler

November's Features ...

• November's Big Picture --The Other Shepards by Adele Griffin
• November's Stars--what we starred this month
• November's Quote of the Month--from Jack Gantos' Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key
• November's Dozen-- The Top 100 (More or Less ) Books of 1998 You've Just Got to Have In Your Library Collection
• November's True Blue--Jan Mark

October's Features ...

• October's Big Picture --Walter Wick's Optical Tricks by Walter Wick
• October's Stars--what we starred this month
• October's Quote of the Month--from Philip Pullman's Count Karlstein
• October's Dozen-- Worth a Thousand Words--Photography Books
• October's Rising Star--Sandra Belton

September's Features ...

• September's Big Picture --Arlene Sardine by Chris Raschka
• September's Stars--what we starred this month
• September's Quote of the Month--from Candace Fleming's Westward Ho, Carlotta!
• September's Dozen-- Back to School
• September's Rising Star-- Dan Yaccarino

August's Features ...

• August's Big Picture --Critical Angst or I Vent, Therefore I Am from Janice Del Negro
• August's Special Feature--Nightmare on Review Street--an inside look at a reviewer's deepest fear ...
• August's Quote of the Month--from Jon Scieszka's The Frog Prince Continued
• August's Dozen-- Fractured and Funny, or, How to Make the Brothers Grimm Turn in Their Graves
• August's True Blue--Ann Cameron

July's Features ...

• July's Big Picture--Gerald Morris' The Squire's Tale
• July's Stars--what we starred this month
• July's Quote of the Month--from The Education of Robert Nifkin by Daniel Pinkwater
• July's Dozen-- No Sweat! Easy Reading for Summer
• July's Rising Star--Vivian Vande Velde

June's Features...

• June's Big Picture-- Choosing Up Sides by John H. Ritter
• June's Stars --what we starred this month
• June's Quote of the Month --Nick Cook, fromRoller Coasters: Or, I Had So Much Fun, I Almost Puked
• June's Dozen--Gross Me Out!--Please
• June's Rising Star--Steve Jenkins

May's Features...

• May's Big Picture --God's Story ad. by Jan Mark; Clouds of Glory: Legends and Stories about Bible Times ad. by Miriam Chaikin; Be Not Far from Me: the Oldest Love Story ad. by Eric Kimmel
• May's Stars --what we starred this month
• May's Quote of the Month --from Ann Cameron's The Secret Life of Amanda K. Woods
• May's Bulletin Dozen--Woof! A List
• May's Gone But Not Forgotten--Leclaire Gowans Alger

April's Features...

• April's Big Picture --Joan Abelove's Go and Come Back
• April's Stars --what we starred this month
• April's Quote of the Month --from Elisa Carbone's Starting School with an Enemy.
• April's Bulletin Dozen--Folklore Collections
• April's True Blue--Robert D. San Souci

March's Features...

• March's Big Picture--Emily Arnold McCully's Beautiful Warrior: The Legend of the Nun's Kung-Fu
• March's Stars --what we starred this month
• March's Quote of the Month --from Margaret Mahy's Beaten By a Ballon.
• March's Bulletin Dozen--Thirteen Brave Women
• March's Rising Star-- Joan Bauer

February's Features...

• February's Big Picture-- Hiawyn Oram's Baba Yaga & the Wise Doll
• February's Stars --what we starred this month
• February's Quote of the Month --from Joan Bauer's Rules of the Road.
• February's Bulletin Dozen--Retro Honors
• February's Rising Star-- Hilary McKay

January's Features...

• January's Big Picture-- Jack Prelutsky's The Beauty of the Beast:
• January's Stars --what we starred this month
• January's Quote of the Month --from Andrew Glass's A Right Fine Life: Kit Carson on the Sante Fe Trail
• Bulletin Blue Ribbons 1997
• 1997 Blue Ribbon Dissents

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