Excerpts from a recent interview with Netherlands author Annie M. G. Schmidt describe her background and her career as a writer of poems and stories for young children. The interviewer notes that few of Schmidt's works have been translated into English and that their lack of exchange is a persistent difficulty in the field of children's…

Identified authors, publications, and sources of research cited frequently in the first three volumes of "Health Psychology" and volumes five through seven of the "Journal of Behavioral Medicine." Results revealed commonalities and differences between published research in these areas. Materials useful for research, practice,…

Probes Lloyd Alexander's thoughts about his own writing habits and processes; his reflections on his various books and characters; the state of children's publishing today; and fan mail he receives. (RAE)

Offers brief annotations of 75 children's books and picture books that focus on stories--family stories; stories about children's authors and illustrators; telling stories through art, music, mathematics, and dance; and stories about slavery and the holocaust. (SR)

Describes how students in a developmental college reading class were encouraged to become more active readers by interacting with the author of a novel that was a required text. (SR)

Examines the role new technology is playing in the magazine writer/editor relationship. Finds that editors report the new technology is affecting their relationship with writers, and that free-lancers are less apt to use expensive new technology than staff writers. (SR)

Considers the authenticity of the works of children's and juvenile authors who write about cultures or sexes other than their own. Examples are provided, including the works of Scott O'Dell, and limitations placed on authors, including minority authors, who are expected to write only from their own experiences are discussed. (36 references) (LRW)

Profiles Paul Zindel, the best-selling author of childrens' and adolescents' novels who combines hyperbole and pathos in such works as "The Pigman;""My Darling, My Hamburger;" and "The Pigman and Me." Zindel is also the author of the play "The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds." (MDM)

Discusses and assesses the writings and the work of author Arthur Ransome, a writer of children's literature in the 1930s. Argues that Ransome always wrote well, took pains to provide children with adventures that could very nearly have happened, and occasionally "wrote well enough for adults, too." (SR)

Reports on an interview with children's book author Pam Munoz-Ryan after her appearance at OCIRA's 1994 Fall Conference. Recounts that Munoz-Ryan did not consider writing a book until the age of 32, but that once her first book was published, she knew that she wanted to write books "forever." Explains the author's view on the writing…

Argues that Jane Austen's unpublished juvenile work "The History of England" has considerable relevance to twentieth-century high-school English classrooms. Notes that the work humorously shows the gender bias of traditional history texts because it is a "woman-centered" rewriting. (RS)

An interview with Alex Haley six months before his death in February 1992 discusses his impressions of life in Appalachia; the media image of Appalachia; reminiscences of his hometown, Henning, Tennessee; race relations in Appalachia; and his plans for future books. Included are photographs and a eulogy from his funeral. (SV)

Asserts that in the 1980s fiction for children and adolescents revealed a yearning for the past and an attempt to reassert its "grown up" status through experimentation in both form and content. Offers a list of authors and titles that are frequently cited and have received awards and that seem likely to become "touchstones" for future readers.…

Reflects on the contributions of Dr. Seuss to the field of children's literature. (PRA)

The first of two articles on book awards for children's literature lists major awards for 1994, including the Newbery Award, the Caldecott Award, the Coretta Scott King Awards for author and illustrator, and the Mildred L. Batchelder Award. The second article lists, by state, children's and young adult books chosen by children to receive awards.…