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Some of the leading lights in children's books will be appearing at a
session entitled "A Grown-Up's Guide to Children's Books" at the ARLIS/NA
annual conference, scheduled for Sunday, "April Fool's Day", at 10:00 a.m.
DON'T FORGET to set your clocks forward when you go to bed Saturday
night--this is one program you don't want to miss.
MICHAEL CART, children's book historian, essayist, anthologist, and frank
speech advocate. His young adult novel, "My father's scar" (1996), was an
ALA best book selection for 1997. Apart from frequent contributions to
library literature, he has also compiled several compilations and literature
histories, including "From romance to realism: 50 years of growth in young
adult literature" (1996); "What's so funny? wit and humor in American
children's literature" (1995); "Tomorrowland: 10 stories about the future"
(1999), and the forthcoming young adult collection "Love and sex: ten
stories of truth" (2001). Michael will show how art (history) has
continuously inspired picture book illustrators and influenced the evolution
of THEIR "art", while demonstrating that the picture book is a wonderfully
individual art form that deserves attention on its own aesthetic merits.
SUSAN PATRON, Children's Librarian at Los Angeles Public Library and herself
a children's author, will explain how children "read" pictures before they
can read words. To discover ways that artists convey meaning and
emotion--while serving the story--her slide presentation will highlight
illustrations in several contemporary books whose audience is young children
and their parents.
ERICA SILVERMAN and DEBORAH NOURSE LATTIMORE. A talented author and gifted
illustrator, each has each compiled an impressive list of visually exciting
and stimulating children's book titles, many of which turn on times and
cultures with which children may be unfamiliar but nonetheless fascinated.
Among Erica's writing credits are "Mrs Peachtree and the Eighth Avenue
cat" and "Mrs. Peachtree's bicycle"; "On the morn of Mayfest"; "Fixing the
crack of dawn"; and two books inspired by Jewish life and culture, "Gittel's
Hand" and "Raisel's Riddle".
Deborah has illustrated such diverse books as "Zekmet, the stone carver:
a tale of ancient Egypt"; "Frida Maria: a story of the old Southwest"; "Why
there is no arguing in heaven: a Mayan myth"; "The fool and the phoenix: a
tale of old Japan"; and the revealing "I wonder what's under there? A brief
history of underwear."
The fruits of their recent collaboration, "Gittel's Hands" (1996), will be
the launching point for their presentation.
Attendees too embarassed to admit they own their own copies of these books
may bring them to be inscribed by the authors in whoever's name they choose,
real or fictitious.
Ross Day & Shannon Van Kirk, co-moderators
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