Special Interest Group - Children's and Young Adult Literature

Chair: Patricia Carmichael
Redlands Campus, Concordia Lutheran College, 154 Stephen St, Toowoomba QLD 4350 Australia

Regional representatives:
Barbara Combes, Lecturer, School of Computer and Information Science, Edith Cowan University, Perth WA 6050, Australia

Objectives:

  1. to exchange information about current developments in the field, including collection development, author awareness, publisher access and issues;
  2. to share methods of promoting literature with children and young adults for their love of reading;
  3. to discuss methods of developing an appreciation of the place of literature in personal development and in the curriculum process;
  4. to report trends in children and young adult reading interests;
  5. to identify research and research needs related to children and young adult literature;
  6. to consider and report on literature in alternative media formats and their impact on school librarianship;
  7. to operate the IASL Books for Children program in collaboration with the IASL Awards Chairperson;
  8. to organize the International Book Exhibit and Award at the annual IASL conference.

Potential activities

  1. to disseminate information on the range of international and national awards related to children's literature;
  2. to identify curriculum sources for facilitating teaching and learning centring on children's and young adult literature;
  3. to identify children's and young adult literature web sites;
  4. to establish links with author and illustrator groups;
  5. to publish success stories on approaches to promoting reading and literature appreciation;
  6. to identify research in children's literature, both published and work in progress;
  7. to discuss research needs;
  8. to discuss significant issues such as censorship, students as authors, intellectual property;
  9. to identify sources of reviews of children's literature, both electronic and in print.

See also IASL_ChildLit bookmarks saved on Delicious
See also Children's Literature Resources on the Internet
See also the Children's and Young Adult Literature SIG's collection of links to Internet resources
See also Story Telling Power at G.D. Goenka World School
See also Books for the Children of Southern Africa by Majorie van Heerden

Last updated 27 October 2009 (KSB)