Competency 9: LS 5013 Internet

The internet site I chose for competency 9, Internet, is The Children's Book Council, Inc.

I found this webpage using the search engine, Google. I typed in children's literature, found children's literacy and reading organizations, and after looking through some of the organizations offered, found The Children's Book Council, Inc.

The link to this webpage is below:

http://www.cbcbooks.org/about/

The Children's Book Council, Inc. is described as a site for booksellers, parents, teachers, and librarians.
The Children's Book Council, Inc. is the nonprofit trade association of publishers and packagers of trade books and related materials for children and young adults.

The goals of The Children's Book Council are as follows:

• to make the reading and enjoyment of children's books an essential part of America's educational and social goals;
• to enhance public perception of the importance of reading by disseminating information about books and related materials for young people and information about children's book publishing; and
• to create materials to support literacy and reading encouragement programs and to encourage the annual observance of National Children's Book Week and Young People's Poetry Week.


I chose The Children's Book Council, Inc. as my internet webpage because as a future school librarian, I believe the information in this site will be valuable to me. It will give me ideas to use to promote reading in my elementary school and will inform me of any important dates such as the observance of National Children's Book Week.