Bulletin Board

Call for Papers

The online journal The Looking Glass is soliciting submissions for a column entitled "The Mentor." The purpose of the column is to give the general public a behind-the-scenes glance into children's literature classrooms at the university level, primarily in graduate courses. Instructors are invited to submit their students' work. Please send electronic submissions to:

Caroline Jones
byrdstarr@hotmail.com
Paper submissions may be submitted to:
1215 W. Slaughter Ln.
#818
Austin, TX 78748

Call for Papers

A forthcoming special issue of The Lion and the Unicorn will be called "Handmade Literacies." Every day elementary school children in England are subjected to a "literacy hour." That's when children all across the country are asked the same questions about the same texts and are given the same instructions, all in preparation for the day on which they all take the same standardized examinations at the same time—whether they like it or not. In an age increasingly driven by the need for demonstrations of uniform standards of literacy education, it is important to remember that the one-size-fits-all approach has never been the only way in which to produce a literate community.

In the mid-eighteenth century, Jane Johnson made alphabet cards, and handmade, homemade books with which to transmit literary and social values to her children. That collection is in the Lilly Library at Indiana University. You'll find Jane Johnson's story, and others in a similar vein in Opening the Nursery Door (Routledge 1997). There are other examples: a mother who has written a poem to her children on the blank pages of a published book, a father printing collections of nursery verse for his daughter on a printing press in his kitchen, local people in a particular community making books out of their memories about childhood for children in their own communities. We are seeking submissions for a special issue on the topic of handmade, homemade, hearthside or local literacies. Please submit papers, 15-20 pages long, by August 2003 to:

Michael Scott Joseph
Special Collections
Rutgers, the State University of New
Jersey
169 College Ave
New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901-1163
mjoseph@rci.rutgers.edu

Or

Lissa Paul
Faculty of Education
University of New Brunswick
Fredericton New BrunswickE3B 6E3
Canada
lpaul@unb.ca

Announcement

The New York Public Library and the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation are very pleased to announce that Shirin Yim Bridges has won the Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award, and Sophie Blackall is the winner of the Ezra Jack Keats New Illustrator Award, for 2003. Bridges and Blackall are respectively author and illustrator of Ruby's Wish, published by Chronicle Books.

The awards recognize and celebrate new children's book authors and illustrators in an effort to encourage talented artists to address their efforts to books for children, in the spirit and tradition of Ezra Jack Keats, who wrote and illustrated the Caldecott winning book, The Snowy Day.

Announcement

The Anne Devereaux Jordan Award is intended to honor the lifetime achievement of an individual whose scholarship and service have had a significant impact on the field of children's literature scholarship. The award is not restricted to ChLA members or to those whose work has benefited the organization specifically. The award may be given posthumously.

To nominate someone for the Anne Devereaux Jordan Award, send a letter detailing the person's accomplishments and contributions to children's literature scholarship to:

Anne Deveraux Jordan Award
Committee
Children's Literature Association
P.O. Box 138
Battle Creek, MI 49016-0138

Nominations must be received no later than 15 September 2003. Although nominees are considered annually, there may be years in which no award is given.

Announcement

The Eileen Wallace Research Fellowship in Children's Literature, valued up to $5,000 (CDN) per annum, invites proposals for research and scholarship using the resources of the University of New Brunswick's Eileen Wallace Children's Literature Collection. Proposals are welcomed from anyone who can provide evidence of competence and scholarly background and outline a practical and worthwhile project using the resources of the Collection. Application forms are available from:

Office of the Dean of Education
University...