Profiles in Children's Literature: Discussions with Authors, Artists, and Editors

by Jaqueline Shachter Weiss, Carolyn W. Field (Foreword by)

Overview

Profiles in Children's Literature offers readers a chance to learn about some of the 20th century's finest creators of the children's book.
In 1969, Dr. Weiss began making videos of authors, illustrators, and editors in the children's literature field, who met with some of her Temple University classes to discuss their work. She invited local librarians and teachers to join her in interviewing guests.

This book summarizes and quotes extensively from the personal interviews in the video series and also expands and updates guests' background data. All guests are highly celebrated: Aliki, Judy Blume, Beverly Cleary, Tom and Muriel Feelings, Russel Freedman, Ezra Jack Keats and many others. This fascinating look into the life of so many famous people encapsulates their insights at various stages of their careers. The photographs included in each chapter are from that time period and enhance the already personal accounts.

For children's literature fans, including parents and grandparents; pre- and in-service teachers and librarians; and students of children's literature.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780810837874
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	08/28/2001
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	6.42(w) x 9.50(h) x 1.05(d)

About the Author

Dr. Jaqueline Shachter Weiss has taught children's literature at Temple University and Lincoln University. She is the author of Young Brer Rabbit and Other Trickster Tales from the Americas—with Eartha Kitt's audiocassette narration—(Stemmer House, 1985), a Notable Children's Book in the Field of Social Studies.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Acknowledgments Chapter 3 Lloyd Alexander, Evaline Ness, and Ann Durell Chapter 4 Lloyd Alexander and Trina Schart Hyman Chapter 5 Aliki Chapter 6 Avi Chapter 7 Natalie Babbitt Chapter 8 Pura Belpré Chapter 9 Jeanne and Robert Bendick Chapter 10 Stan, Jan, and Michael Berenstain Chapter 11 Judy Blume Chapter 12 Arna Bontemps Chapter 13 Eleanor Cameron Chapter 14 John Ciardi Chapter 15 Beverly Cleary Chapter 16 Karen Cushman and Dinah Stevenson Chapter 17 Marguerite de Angeli Chapter 18 Tomie dePaola Chapter 19 Eleanor Estes and Margaret K. McElderry Chapter 20 Tom and Muriel L. Feelings Chapter 21 Jane Flory (Freedman) Chapter 22 Paula Fox Chapter 23 Russell Freedman Chapter 24 Jean Fritz Chapter 25 Jean Craighead George Chapter 26 Lorenz Graham Chapter 27 Elizabeth Janet Fray (Vining) Chapter 28 Bette Greene Chapter 29 Virginia Hamilton Chapter 30 Carolyn Haywood Chapter 31 Tana Hoban and Susan C. Hirschman Chapter 32 Kristin Hunter (Lattany) Chapter 33 Johanna Hurwitz Chapter 34 Jesse Jackson Chapter 35 Ezra Jack Keats Chapter 36 E. L. Konigsburg Chapter 37 Joseph Krumgold Chapter 38 Beth and Joe Krush Chapter 39 John Langstaff Chapter 40 Madeleine L'Engle Chapter 41 E. B. Lewis Chapter 42 Richard Lewis Chapter 43 Joan M. Lexau Chapter 44 Arnold Lobel Chapter 45 Lois Lowry Chapter 46 Patricia MacLachlan Chapter 47 Robert McCloskey Chapter 48 Milton Meltzer Chapter 49 Eve Merriam Chapter 50 Phyllis Reynolds Naylor and Jean E. Karl Chapter 51 Emily Cheney Neville Chapter 52 Scott O'Dell Chapter 53 Katherine Paterson Chapter 54 Ann Petry Chapter 55 Jerry and Gloria Jean Pinkney Chapter 56 Keith Robertson Chapter 57 Harriet May Savitz Chapter 58 Letta Schatz Chapter 59 Maurice Sendak Chapter 60 Elizabeth George Speare Chapter 61 Jerry and Eileen Spinelli Chapter 62 John Steptoe Chapter 63 John Rowe Townsend Chapter 64 Elizabeth Borton de Treviño Chapter 65 Cynthia Voigt Chapter 66 Lynd Ward and May McNeer Chapter 67 David Wiesner and Dorothy Briley Chapter 68 Jane Yolen and John Schoenherr Chapter 69 Appendix: Children's Book Awards Chapter 70 John Newbery Chapter 71 Randolph Caldecott Chapter 72 Coretta Scott King Chapter 73 Pura Belpré Chapter 74 Index Chapter 75 About the Author

Editorial Reviews

...there are many, many gems here, including interviews with such luminaries as Arna Bontemps, Lorenz Graham, Marguerite de Angeli, Eleanor Estes, and Margaret McElderry.

The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

...valuable for foregrounding the many connections between creators' works and their personal lives...notable for its diversity.

Children's Literature Association Quarterly

...there are many, many gems here, including interviews with such luminaries as Arna Bontemps, Lorenz Graham, Marguerite de Angeli, Eleanor Estes, and Margaret McElderry.

Bulletin Of The Center For Children's Books