Bulletin announces 2017 Blue Ribbon winners

The staff at The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (BCCB) has announced the 2017 Blue Ribbons, their choices for the best of children's and young adult literature for the year. Blue Ribbons are chosen annually by BCCB reviewers and represent what they believe to be outstanding examples of fiction, nonfiction, and picture books for youth.

Thirty-two titles received Blue Ribbons for 2017, and the full list is available on the BCCB website. "The Blue Ribbons are a testimony not only to the literature's quality but to its breadth," said Editor Deborah Stevenson. "We've got a heartbreaking novel inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement; a compelling poetry collection built on a dialogue with poets of the Harlem Renaissance; sophisticated nonfiction presenting Vincent Van Gogh in a way never seen before; and a gentle picture book presenting a long family car trip in the rain."

Founded in 1945, the BCCB is one of the nation's leading children's book review journals for school and public librarians.