Young People's Poetry Week is April 10-16, 2000 and approaching quickly! This exciting annual event, sponsored by The Children's Book Council (CBC), highlights poetry for children and young adults and encourages everyone to celebrate poetry - read it, enjoy it, write it - in their homes, childcare centers, classrooms, libraries, and bookstores. The CBC is collaborating on its promotional efforts with The Academy of American Poets, coordinator of National Poetry Month each April, and The Center for the Book in The Library of Congress.

Visit the CBC website: www.cbcbooks.org for more information on Young People's Poetry Week, including poetry links, a free bibliography of 1999 poetry books published by CBC members, and poetry features in the CBC on line Forum and in its semi-annual newsletter, CBC Features (free samples at features@cbcbooks.org).

The CBC also has great new poetry materials, available through its print catalog as well as online. Products for 2000 are a poster, bookmarks, postcards, and a poetry audiotape, available individually or as a kit. Creators of CBC poetry materials include graphic artist Norman Gorbaty and poets Kristine O'Connell George, Nikki Giovanni, Nikki Grimes, Lee Bennett Hopkins, J. Patrick Lewis, and Judith Viorst. Additional poetry items include Book Poems, the collected poetry celebrating books from National Children's Book Week for the last four decades, bookmarks, and the Future Poets Activity Set. For more information contact JoAnn Sabatino-Falkenstein, The Children's Book Council, Inc., 568 Broadway, Suite 404, New York, NY 10012-5497; tele (212) 966-1990 ext. 305 or fax (212) 966-2073.