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Natalie Babbitt, Author-Illustrator The Search for Delicious g167 pp. Farrar $3.95Another allegorical story points up the foolishness of a petty argument that leads to a full-scale conflict. The folly begins at court with such a heated disagreement over a definition for "delicious" that DeCree, lexicographer and Prime Minister, sends his...
by Phyllis J. FogelmanDIANE AND LEO DILLON were born just eleven days apart in the month of March and both recall loving to draw for as long as they can remember. Although there are other similarities in their backgrounds, there are also great differences.Leo was born and brought up in...
Winchester, Mass 0189010th May 1976Dear Ethel,I was in Margaret’s office when your letter and photocopy of the Newbery speech arrived, so carried them off.If you were afraid you might be sounding persnickety just wait till you read me!I am starting on the assumption that since this is a reprint of...
by Milton MeltzerEvery year since 1922 the Newbery Medal has been awarded to an author for "the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children." Of the fifty-three Newbery winners to date, how many have been nonfiction? Only five: Hendrik Van Loon's Story of Mankind (Liveright), the very first, in...
Ethel Heins's response to Lillian N. Gerhardt's "A Letter to Ethel Heins." From School Library Journal, Nov. 1975. © 1975 R. R. Bowker Company / A Xerox Corporation. Used with permission. By Ethel L. Heins I have read your lengthy editorial letter to me (SLJ, September) and find it...
A response to Ethel Heins's editorial, "Damming the Mainstream." From School Library Journal, Sept. 1975. © 1975 R. R. Bowker Company / A Xerox Corporation. Used with permission.By Lillian N. GerhardtDear Ethel:The August, 1975 issue of The Horn Book Magazine just arrived. I read your editorial right away because I...
Reponse to "An Argument Worth Opening" by Lillian N. Gerhardt, editor of School Library JournalEditorial by Ethel HeinsWhen I was invited to be a speaker at a spring conference on “Children’s Literature in the Literary Mainstream” sponsored by the Western Michigan University School of Librarianship, I thought — as I...
by Augusta BakerIn the 1920's and 1930's, children's books seemed to foster prejudice by planting false images in the minds of children. Most authors were white, with little knowledge about black life, and yet they wrote as if they were authorities. No wonder it was an accepted fact in children's...
by Jane LangtonWhy does Virginia Hamilton perch M. C. Higgins on a swaying pole forty feet high? Why, why? Why is there a secret model of the solar system in The Planet of Junior Brown (Macmillan)? Are they images for the vastness of all-surrounding reality? Do they work? Do they help? Or...
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