This narrative of events leading to the publication of "Molly's Pilgrim" in a third grade textbook by the Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Publishing Company illustrates the types of censorship exercised by textbook publishers in response to public pressure. Revisions of the story to avoid mentioning God and the Bible are described. (EJS)

This review of sections of copyright laws most relevant to media librarians covers requirements of authors, sole rights of copyright owners, fair use and other exceptions to sole rights, the Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) case, the Sony case, exempt public performances, and computer software. Twenty-nine references are provided.…

History of William McGuffey's successful series of textbooks for children (first issued in 1836) highlights author's education and occupational background, perspicacity and aggressiveness of his publishers, and the fortuitous timing of series' appearance. Controversy over the first readers and lessons in the readers are noted. Thirty-four…

Relates Frank Hardy's and Bruce Pascoe's advice to students in a writing class concerning what they believe to be the necessary qualities of a good short story from the editing and publishing standpoint. (HOD)

An experienced children's writer and teacher argues for the right balance of the richly strange and comfortably familiar in books for young children. (HOD)

Emphasizes that there is a necessity in art for criticism that is the work of reflective intelligence. (CHR)

One task facing persons who would employ oral sources for writing and teaching the history of the Pacific is the use of testimonies from Pacific Islanders. Discusses issues that should be taken into consideration: memory, testimony as performance, teller as hero, and testimony as conversational narrative. (RM)

The time has come for white authors to realize their own limitations in dealing with minority images in childrens books and quit sowing seeds of racism in the minds of defenseless children. (JH)

The variety of institutional policies and personal procedures regarding faculty publishing are discussed and some suggestions are offered for judging the quality of individual publications and restricting the type of work claimed as published. (LBH)

Institutions are bringing the professional artist into their instructional and cultural environments through five approaches: concert performances, extended performances, master classes, part-time residencies, and full-time residencies. The effect of each program on the artist and the college or university is examined. (Author/LBH)

One of the questions an author/illustrator of picture books is often asked is: "Who do you write and illustrate for?" This paper asserts that the most successful creations are those produced without too much concern for how they will be received, or by whom. They do not set out to appeal to a predefined audience, they build one for…

This study explores and documents the inclusion of American women literary authors in recommended lists that have been used by academic librarians as a main tool for collection development and evaluation. These lists have been the well-known standards used as guides for building a core collection in support of the college curricula. A sample of 40…

Treatment characteristics and methods were analyzed for 103 empirical studies of reading therapy, or bibliotherapy, from the United States and Canada conducted over the past two decades and retrieved from the PsychInfo database. A content analysis was performed on each study, and quantified data was reported and compared within and between two…

This paper presents the experiences of educators at North Georgia College and State University while developing learning communities connecting the two disciplines of biology and English in the teaching of writing and editing within the scientific context. The paper states that for seven semesters English grammar and composition courses have been…

Extending the idea of business cards to the literature classroom, this lesson plan discusses having students make business cards for characters and authors. During two 50-minute lessons, students will: identify appropriate symbols that relate to their authors or characters; interact with classmates to give and receive feedback; and explore how…