Children’s Literature Conference
The annual Conference on Literature and Literacy for Children and Adolescents will be held March 8, 2008 in the College of Education. Our conference theme is Journeys of Discovery across Time and Place. The 2008 Call for Proposals is due by November 9.
The Conference on Literature and Literacy for Children and Adolescents will be attended by educators interested in children’s and adolescent literature, literature-based instruction, and multiculural and intercultural issues as they connect to literature. The opening keynote speaker is Ted Lewin, who has won numerous awards for his illustrations, set in many places and times across the world in picture books such as, Sami and the Time of Troubles, Faithful Elephants, The Day of Ahmed’s Secret, Peppe the Lamplighter, Lost City, and At Gleason’s Gym. The final keynote speaker is Cynthia Kadohata, whose first children’s novel, Kira-Kira, won the Newbery Award. Another historical fiction book, Weedflower, is set during WWII in a Japanese-American internment camp on the Colorado River Indian reservation near Parker, Arizona.
Proposals should relate to one of the strands based on our theme of Journeys of Discovery across Time and Place as connected to literature and story:
·       Opening the world
·       Traveling the American landscape
·       Mapping inner and outer journeys
·       Writing to learn
·       Journeys of imagination
·       Unpacking cultural perspectives
·       Explorations of historical times and places
We are interested in sessions that focus on children’s and adolescent literature related to any of these themes or on the use of these books with students. Some sessions will primarily focus on the books themselves and others will focus on presenters sharing their experiences working with students and books around one of these strands.
Here’s a link to the call: