childrens literature

Anne with an "E": The Centennial Study of _Anne of Green Gables_

Proposals are being solicited for the centennial studies volume of Anne of Green
Gables. Topics might include, but are by no means limited to:

Essays are sought for a special issue of Cultural Studies<=>Critical
Metholodologies on Race and Kids Culture. The special issue will speak to
a set of shared concerns. As corporations increasingly structure and media
almost entirely saturate the lives of children, scholars and social
critics have rightly begun to explore the articulations of power, culture,
and identity. Inspired particularly by the emergent field of cultural
studies and informed by the post-marxist, feminist, and post-structural
frameworks, they have interpreted the ways in which toys, games, movies,
television, music, and literature educate, imprint, and otherwise
interpolate them to embrace normative values and institutions.

_The Looking Glass_, an online children's literature journal, invites
submissions to all columns and sections for the special issue on
Indigenous Peoples.
     
Deadline for Submissions: 1 October 2006
Publication Date: April 2007
     
Critical and informative articles are welcome on indigenous peoples of the
world, such as the Aborigine, Ainu, Native Americans, and First Nations.
Topics should include indigenous peoples' cultures and literatures,
storytelling practices, stories and tales, childrearing practices and
coming-of-age rituals, how indigenous peoples are portrayed in dominant
cultures' children's literature historically and in contemporary times,

_The Looking Glass_, an online children's literature journal, invites
submissions to all columns and sections for the special issue on Japanese
Children's Literature and Culture.

Deadline for Submissions: 1 October 2005
Publication Date: April 2006

Storm and Dissonance: L.M. Montgomery and Conflict
Call for Proposals 2006

The L.M. Montgomery Institute is calling for one-page proposals for
papers to be given at the Seventh International L.M. Montgomery
conference (June 21-25, 2006) entitled "Storm and Dissonance: L.M.
Montgomery and Conflict".

We invite submissions concerning any conflict, controversy, debate,
interruption, passionate dialogue, or dialectic revealed in or inspired by
Montgomery's writing, life, or surrounding culture.

We encourage you to think about the many ways that public skirmishes
and private arguments surface in the life writing and enliven the fiction.

CALL FOR PAPERS:

Western Folklore, the academic journal of the California Folklore Society,
is soliciting submissions for a special issue of the journal that will focus
on the relationship between Film and Folklore. Submissions on the following
or related topics are particularly welcome:

CHILDREN'S LIT & THE LEFT
Special Issue, CHILDREN'S LITERATURE ASSOCIATION QUARTERLY

Call for Papers: Children's Literature Volume 34 (special issue: pub.
Date 2006)
Deadline for submissions: 1/1/2005

Louisa May Alcott: "The Children's Friend" (?)

Call for Contributors:

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN CHILDREN'S AND YOUNG LITERATURE

The 3-volume, illustrated _Encyclopedia of American Children's & Young Adult
Literature_ is scheduled to be published by Greenwood Press. The editor and
advisory board seek writers for remaining unassigned entries.

The online children's literature journal _The Looking Glass_ is now
accepting submissions for Alice's Academy, its scholarly refereed section.
Submissions are invited on all aspects of children's literature.
Submissions must be between 1500 and 3500 words and conform to current MLA
standards. _The Looking Glass_ cannot accept simultaneous submissions or
previously published articles. A brief biographical sketch will be
required from authors of submissions accepted for publication. Published
articles will be posted on the journal's website for at least three
months, after which time they will be archived online.

Canadian Children's Literature / Littérature canadienne pour la jeunesse,
a refereed journal founded in 1975, invites papers on the subject of
Design/Designing for Children. We welcome papers that examine the
design of children's books and posters, toys and games, television and
videos, theatre and performances, newspapers and magazines,
museums and libraries, parks and playworlds. We hope to highlight the
designer's crucial role in conceiving of and shaping our ideas about what
we think expresses a child's imagination, meets a child's needs, and
defines what is special about their province and perspective. Some of the
questions we hope to address are as follows: