Intended for teachers interested in promoting writing and young authors at their schools, this booklet contains guidelines and suggestions for creating a young authors club. Included are a plan for creating the club, a sample fact sheet for promoting it, a parent letter, guidelines and suggestions, timelines for planning club meetings, activities…

Explores the life of the teacher of French living abroad. (Text is in French.) (PP)

Examines varying views of the children's writer's relationship to his readers. (See CS 701 511). (RB)

Discusses whether the children's book is an art form, distinct from other fiction, or just a novel made easy. (See CS 701 510). (RB)

The author describes the decision making processes involved in writing science books for children. The author must decide on scope and content, be careful about wording to avoid misleading the reader, present scientific classification and measurement clearly, introduce new vocabulary carefully, avoid anthropomorphism; and select useful and…

An interview with Harold Courlander, novelist and folklorist of African, Caribbean, Far Eastern and United States cultures, and a short bibliography of his work. (JG)

Author commented on her experiences in bringing poetry to schools. (Editor/RK)

Discusses the works and life of the Russian linguist Ushakov; His great contributions in the fields of dialectology and pronunciation are emphasized. (HK)

This textbook is a reader intended to develop children's taste for classic, diverse works. In addition to providing a definite and flexible method for teaching beginners to read, effort has been made to include only material that may justly be called classic and that have held up under repeated school use. Care has also been taken to present a…

This textbook is a reader intended to develop children's taste for classic, diverse works. In addition to providing a definite and flexible method for teaching beginners to read, effort has been made to include only material that may justly be called classic and that have held up under repeated school use. Care has also been taken to present a…

Attempting to correct and amplify the portrayal of Stephen Crane in journalism history, this paper provides an analysis of relevant works in journalism and other disciplines in order to point out the weaknesses in the journalism historiography and to show how they apparently came about. Evidence is presented from the literature of journalism,…

This review of social problem novels for young adults opens with a brief background of the genre, then lists the dominant themes of social problem fiction and nonfiction novels that have been published in the last two years, such as alcoholism, alienation, death, growing up and self-awarness, drugs, and divorce. Other themes mentioned are…

A study of Charlotte Zolotow's life and the themes of her children's books provides an illustration of the usefulness and problems in the application of theories of adult development, especially as they apply to women. This report of the study contains (1) discussions of Erik Erikson's and Daniel Levinson's theories of adult development; (2) a…