About Us

The Children’s Book and Play Review (CBPR) helps busy adults select quality reading materials for classroom, library, and home use. CBPR reviews fiction, non-fiction, and plays written for young people. Our reviewers are librarians, educators, parents, and children’s literature and theater specialists. Booklists and finding aids assist in locating books, plays, and websites that appeal to young audiences. Articles explore issues and people in juvenile literature.

Established in 1980 as a joint effort of the Department of Teacher Education, the Department of Theatre and Media Arts and the Harold B. Lee Library of Brigham Young University, CBPR has been available in electronic format since 1997 and is maintained by the Harold B. Lee Library.