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CHILDREN’S LITERATURE

Another hallmark of the CSCL is the Summer Institute held every other year. The intensive long weekend program offers students an opportunity to meet with authors, illustrators, editors, and others committed to the study of children’s literature. Guest lecturers have included Newbery Medal winners Paula Fox and Lois Lowry; Caldecott Medal winners Maurice Sendak, Paul O. Zelinsky, Ed Young, Allen Say, David Wiesner and David Macaulay; British author Anne Fine; authors Jacqueline Woodson, Patricia C. McKissack, Avi, and Julius Lester; regional authors Natalie Babbitt, Nancy Garden, and Robert Cormier; poets Nancy Willard, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Paul Janeczko; illustrators Jerry Pinkney, Trina Schart Hyman and Robert Sabuda; editor Roger Sutton; and child development theorist David Elkind.

2007 Institute: Food, Glorious Food

Thursday, July 26 — Sunday, July 29, 2007

This year's institute will explore the role of food as metaphor as well as its literal appearance in children's books.

Speakers include: Jack Gantos, Natalie Babbitt, Polly Horvath, Roger Sutton, David Macaulay. The seminar will be lead by Deborah Stevenson, associate editor of the Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books.

Registration and Information

For more information and to register, download this year's brochure:

• 2007 Summer Institute in Children's Literature (PDF download)

Past Institutes

The following is a list of past institutes held by Simmons College:

• 2005: Let's Dance: Performative Aspects of Literature for Children and Young Adults.
• 2003: Midnight Gardens: Themes of Good and Evil in the Garden of Children’s Literature
• 2001: Brave New Worlds: Looking Towards the Future
• 1999: Halos & Hooligans: Images of the Child at the Turn of the 21st Century
• 1997: As Time Goes By: the Many Ways Time is Constructed, Interpreted, and Revisioned in Literature and Life
• 1995: A Room of One's Own: Actual and Metaphorical Constructs of Creativity, Space, and Identity

Symposium Graduate Credit

The symposium earns four semester hours of graduate credit; enrollment in the institute is on a non-credit basis.

More Info

For information about the next institute and symposium, contact the Center for the Study of Children's Literature at 617-521-2540.

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