Children’s Book Council Under Fire for Nominating Limbaugh’s Kids Book for Award

Rush Limbaugh is officially a children’s book author. Late last year he released Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims, an American history book with elements of time travel, and Limbaugh was actually nominated for Author of the Year by the Children’s Book Council.

You can imagine how well people took that.

A few liberal sites picked up on the news last week, and the group got a few negative reactions on Facebook.

So, of course, earlier this week, the CBC had to put out a statement explaining that they didn’t actively choose to put Limbaugh on the list.

The Author of the Year and Illustrator of the Year finalists are determined solely based on titles’ performances on the bestseller lists – all titles in those categories are listed as a result of this protocol. Some of you have voiced concerns over the selection of finalists from bestseller lists, which you feel are potentially-manipulable indications of the success of a title. We can take this into consideration going forward, but cannot change our procedure for selecting finalists after the fact.

Rush Revere currently takes the number five spot on the New York Times bestseller list for Children’s Middle Grade books.

[h/t CNN]

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