Carl Lennertz is the Executive Director of Children’s Book Council & Every Child a Reader and was VP Marketing at Knopf for 16 years and at HarperCollins for seven.
In 2020, amid the global pandemic, the International Literacy Association (ILA) suspended production of the popular reader-selected Choices book lists. Three years later, the Children’s Book Council (CBC), our longtime Choices cosponsor, gave the project new life—and a new name…