Call for Submissions
Deadline for submissions: June 16, 2008
Eligibility
- Titles should be for grades K–12.
- All titles must originate from a children’s publishing company or division and must be published (not simply distributed) by a publisher incorporated in the United States.
- Titles must be published in 2008.
- Titles originally published abroad are eligible only if they have a 2008 U.S. publication date; reprints or licensed editions of titles initially published in the U.S. before 2008 are not eligible.
- Original paperbacks are eligible; paperback reprints are not. If a book is published simultaneously in hardcover and paperback, either edition may be submitted. If both editions are submitted, they constitute separate entries.
- Revisions are eligible only if the book has been newly illustrated or if substantial text, constituting at least 25% of the book, has been changed or added.
- Math books are not eligible unless the mathematical principles are applied to scientific functions such as measuring for experiments, using statistical models for scientific research, and so on.
- Textbooks, workbooks, kits, experiment-only books, and activity books are not eligible.
- Spanish-language editions of titles published in English before 2008 are not acceptable. Spanish-language editions published simultaneously with English-language editions in 2008 are eligible.
- Fiction is eligible if the book has substantial science content.
Number of titles you may submit
Each participating publisher may submit an unlimited number of titles.
Submission guidelines
Books should have value for both classroom studies and library collections supporting students’ work.
Full submission guidelines will be available in late April at www.cbcbooks.org.