A compilation of conference papers highlights the active role of the learner. The titles of the papers and their authors include: "Whole Language: Celebrating the Student within the Learning Community through Literature" (Dorothy J. Watson); "Integrating the Curriculum for Better Learning and Teaching" (Stephen B. Kucer); "Non- and Limited-English Speakers in Every Classroom: How Can We Help Them?" (Kathryn Z. Weed and Diana J. Sommer); "Creating Stories about Science through Art, Literature, and Drama" (Linda Prentice and Patricia Tefft Cousin); "The Bilingual Learner and Children's Literature in Spanish: Let the Celebration Begin!" (Joan S. Mims); "Celebrating Poetry" (James H. Rupp); "Beginning Reading: The Next Stumbling Block" (Darlene M. Michner); "Developmental Trends in the Interpretation of Motives, Beliefs and Feelings of Story Characters" (Donna W. Emery); "Study Strategies in Social Studies" (T. Patrick Mullen); "A Longitudinal Perspective of Children's Oral Narratives: Macrostructure, Microstructures and Relationships to Reading Achievement" (Marie Ice); "Illustration and Text" (Margaret Atwell); "Getting the Picture,""New Friends," and "Say It Again" (Katharine M. Busch); "Becoming a Researcher I: What Do I Want to Know?" and "Becoming a Researcher II: What I Learned--What I Still Want to Know" (Patricia Tefft Cousin); "Getting in Touch with the Past" (Michael Gibson); "Help Me!" (Stephen B. Kucer); "Bilingual Reader Response" (Jaqueline A. Nyerick); "Literature Response Journals" and "Tricksters in Folktales" (Kathy O'Brien); and "Heavens Above" and "Leaf Monoprints" (Linda Prentice). (RS)