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Memories of meeting worlds or close encounters of the fourth kind
- Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 48, Number 1, January 2010
- pp. 51-60
- 10.1353/bkb.0.0212
- Article
- Additional Information
This article is based on the biennial Dorothy Briley Lecture that Dearden delivered at the eighth IBBY Regional conference held in St. Charles, Illinois (near Chicago) in the U.S. in October, 2009. The conference theme was "Children's Books: Where Worlds Meet." She shares memories of books and reading, her work in publishing, as well as her experiences working within IBBY.