Texas Speakers Set

An award-winning trio of speakers has been selected to address ChLA members at the Seventh Annual Conference to be held at Baylor University, Waco, Texas, March 14-16, 1980. Chairman D. Thomas Hanks, Jr., announced recently that E.L. Konigsberg, 1968 Newbery Award winner for From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, Peter Spier, 1978 Caldecott Medal winner for Noah's Ark, and Eleanor Cameron, 1974 National Book Award winner for The Court of the Stone Children, will participate in the 1980 Conference. The general theme of the meeting will be "Realism and Fantasy in Children's Literature."

In addition to the speakers' talks and the papers presented by individual members, Dr. Hanks and his committee are planning panel discussions on such topics as: "Is It Censorship? The Follett Pink Slip and 'Objectionable'"; "Symposium: Methods of Teaching Children's Literature"; and "Non-Book Forms of Children's Literature: Periodicals and Audio-Visual Material."

Among the discussion groups scheduled are: "The Canon of Children's Literature"; "Children's Poetry: Why? How? When?"; "Graduate Study in Children's Literature"; "Children's Literature: Pre-School Approaches by Parents and Librarians"; and "What Does the Critic of Children's Literature Do? or, What Do We Want to See in the Journals?"

Among the special events planned by the Conference Committee are tours of the Armstrong Browning Library's Pied Piper Special Collection of Children's Books and a Saturday Boat-Ride and Barbecue on the Brazos River aboard the Paddlewheeler, The Brazos Queen.

Chairman Hanks remarks: "We think the Seventh Annual Conference is looking good. It will look better—it will be better—with your help. If there's an issue

From The Farthest Shore. Text copyright © 1972 by Ursula Le Guin. Illustrated by Gail Garraty. Used by permission of Atheneum Publishers.

you'd like to have discussed by a panel, or if you've a topic you want to hear aired in group discussion, or if you've any idea for the Conference, jot it down and send it to : Tom Hanks, ChLA Conference Chairman, English Dept., Baylor University, Waco, TX 76703. Several of you wrote down ideas for me in Toronto, and some of them are already part of the program. Thank you! And—all members—send more ideas! The more we build your ideas into the program, the better the Seventh Annual ChLA Conference will be. Remember to mark your calendar if you haven't already done so: Seventh Annual ChLA Conference, March 14-16, 1980, Baylor University, Waco, TX. We'll see you there—in the Texas springtime!"

Details of Conference registration will be forthcoming in the fall issue of the Quarterly.