Professional Notes and Announcements

Contributors Wanted

For an anthology of new scholarship and criticism on St. Nicholas Magazine, to be edited by Susan Gannon and Ruth Anne Thompson of Pace University and Suzanne Rahn of Pacific Lutheran University. Articles may examine the making, editing, content, influence, and readership of St. Nicholas from a variety of perspectives. Some possible topics: nonsense in St. Nicholas, environmentalism in St. Nicholas, how St. Nicholas illustrated Kipling, the reception of Little Lord Fauntleroy, Palmer Cox's "Brownies," Mary Mapes Dodge's feminist agenda, issues of race and ethnicity, marketing and advertising, biography, science and technology, games and riddles, St. Nicholas and the Aesthetic Movement, St. Nicholas and the Colonial Revival. Other articles might focus on such frequent contributors to St. Nicholas as J. T. Trowbridge, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Laura Richards, Frank Stockton, Sophie Swett, Reginald Birch, Louisa May Alcott, or Frances Hodgson Burnett. Please send proposals by May 1, 1992 to Ruth Anne Thompson, Associate Dean, Dyson College, Pace University, Pleasantville, New York 10570.

Sugarman Award Seeks Best in Children's Books: Regional Authors Compete for Award and Prize

Washington, D.C., August 14, 1997—The Joan G. Sugarman Children's Book Award is accepting submissions for its 1990-91 award and a $1,000 cash prize. This regional children's book award requires that all books submitted, both nonfiction and fiction, be written by authors residing in Washington, D.C, Maryland or Virginia and be geared to children ages 15 and under.

Recognizing excellence in children's literature, the biannual award was established in 1987 by Joan G. Sugarman, a children's book author and librarian from Washington, D.C, to honor her late husband, Norman A. Sugarman. Previous winners include Beetles, Lightly Toasted by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Tree by Leaf by Cynthia Voigt and Shabanu by Suzanne Fisher Staples. The award is being administered under a grant to the Washington Independent Writers Legal and Educational Fund, a nonprofit organization founded in 1980 to defend First Amendment cases and address concerns of independent writers.

The winning book must be original and have universal appeal. It must have content that is meaningful and appropriate for its intended age group. Since the award's intent is to recognize top quality writing, picture books without text are not eligible.

To apply for the 1990-91 Sugarman Book Award, an author or publisher must submit one copy of the book and a brief biography of the author to: Sugarman Book Award, Washington Independent Writers Legal and Educational Fund, 220 Woodward Building, 733 Fifteenth St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20005. The deadline for submission is January 31, 1992. Books submitted for consideration will not be returned.