The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books is a review journal founded in 1947 that publishes 11 issues per year. These many decades of Bulletin book reviews provide a vital record of the history of children’s book publishing and professional children’s book reviewing during the 20th and 21st centuries.
From 1947 to the present, approximately 56,000 children’s books have been reviewed in the Bulletin. This project has turned the first 70 years of the publication into data suitable for visualization and further analysis.
Explore the dashboard
Use the interactive dashboard below to explore patterns in Bulletin reviews, including authors, publishers, review codes, book counts, prices, pages, and review length over time.
Project Team
- Sara L. Schwebel
Professor and Director of the Center for Children’s Books
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign School of Information Sciences - Glen Layne-Worthey
Associate Director for Research Support Services
HathiTrust Research Center - Rebekah Fitzsimmons
Associate Teaching Professor of Professional Communication
Carnegie Mellon University - Tan Debnath
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign School of Information Sciences
MSIM ’25 - Marshall Warner
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign School of Information Sciences
BSIS+DS ’26 - Suzan Alteri
Assistant Director of the Center for Children’s Books
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign School of Information Sciences