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Storytour Offered

"Southern Style: Children's and Adolescent Storyhour of the Southeastern United States" will be offered June 15-29, 1985. Participants will visit literary sites and collections. Featured speakers include Augusta Baker, Jeni Bassett, Sue Ellen Bridgers, Robert Burch, Betsy Byars, Natalie Savage Carlson, Gail Haley, Peggy Parish, Shelton Root, Janet Stevens, Eliot Wigginton and others. Contact Dr. Mary Lou White, Wright State University, College of Education and Human Services, Dayton, Ohio 45435.

CBC Honors Program: 1985 Everychild Conference

Three persons, one with a sustained contribution to books and literature, one with a substantial contribution to communications, and a third who works in a child advocacy position, will be honored by the Children's Book Council at Everychild August 23-25, 1985. The recipients in CBC's Honors Program will be selected by three panels. Members on the panels are Greenie Neuberg, Cheshire Cat Bookstore owner; Anita Silvey, Editor, The Horn Book Magazine; and Jim Trelease, author of The Read-Aloud Handbook; Maureen Gaffney, Executive Director, Media Center for Children in New York City, and Editor, Young Viewers magazine; George Gerbner, Dean, The Annenberg School of Communications, University of Pennsylvania, and Editor, Journal of Comunications; and Cecily Truett, Producer, PBS "Reading Rainbow" TV series, and past project director of the international symposium "Books and Broadcasting for Children;" and Harvard University child psychiatrist Robert Coles; Eda LeShan, and Judith Weitz, Director of State and Local Activities, Children's Defense Fund, Washington, DC.

The CBC Honors citations will be presented at a luncheon at the New York Hilton on August 24, 1985 during the 1985 Everychild conference. For luncheon information contact Children's Book Council, 67 Irving Place, New York, NY 10003.

Congratulations to Althea Helbig

Althea Helbig was one of four faculty members honored at Eastern Michigan University's 1984 Celebration of Faculty Excellence. She was presented with the prestigious Research and Publication Award for her remarkable record of scholarly activity which includes the publication of numerous books, articles, reviews, and papers.

Helbig, who has taught at EMU for 18 years, is an internationally known expert in the fields of children's literature, mythology, and American Indian legands. In the past five years, she has written more than 50 articles on Native American and children's literature.

In association with two other EMU faculty members, she has published two anthologies of poetry for children, one of which, Dusk to Dawn, was included in the New Yorker's list of best books of 1981.

She is currently working on the Dictionary of American Children's Fiction, a two volume collection of evaluative essays on approximately 1,000 books for children published in the United States. She also is working on a similar dictionary of British children's fiction and soon will publish Namabozhoo, Giver of Life, a literary study of the most important mythological figure of the eastern Ojibwa tribe of Michigan and Ontario Canada.

Forthcoming Meetings and Conferences

National Council of Teachers of English, 28-30 March 1985, Houston. Address NCTE, 1111 Kenyon Road, Urbana, IL 61801.

Popular Culture Association, 3-7 April 1985, Louisville. Address Ray Browne, Popular Culture Dept., Bowling Green State Univ., Bowling Green, OH 43403.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Centenary Perspectives, 18-20 April 1985, Univ. of Missouri, Columbia. Address Robert Sattelmeyer or J. Donald Crowley, Dept. of English, Univ. of Missouri, Columbia 65211.

Science Fiction Research Association, 27-30 June 1985, Kent State Univ. Address Donald M. Hassler, Dept. of English, Kent State Univ., Kent, OH 44242.

Mythopoeic Conference: A Kinship of Dancers—Interplay in the Lives and Works of J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, and Charles Williams, 26-29 July 1985, Wheaton Coll. Address Glen H. GoodKnight, 740 S. Hobart Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90005.

National Council of Teachers of English Diamond Jubilee, 22-27 Nov. 1985, Philadelphia. Address NCTE, 1111 Kenyon Road, Urbana, IL 61801.

Modern Language Association, 27-30 Dec. 1985, Chicago. Address Convention Manager, MLA, 62 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10011.

Children's Literature

The Storrs campus of the University of Connecticut will host the National Endowment for the Humanities Institute on Children's Literature from 17 June to 9 August. Through lectures, discussions, and workshops...