Folks, To follow up Libby's announcement, I wanted to let you all know that I am working on a book-length biography of Sydney Taylor. While I do not know exactly when it will be published, I can lead you to my first article about her, which was released about two weeks ago in the most recent edition of the children's literature journal _The Lion and the Unicorn_. Many of you might be interested in the entire issue of this volume, as its topic is "The Jewish Presence in Children's Literature." The guest editors are Naomi Sokoloff and Suzanne Rahn. Included in the issue are articles about Jewish characters in literature read by children, Sendak, K'onton and Hillel's Happy Holidays, picture books about the Golem, Holocaust films for children, and a piece by Eric Kimmel himself. My article on Taylor is called "Becoming an All-of-A-Kind American: Sydney Taylor and Strategies of Assimilation."
If you have access to Project Muse through your library, you can read _Lion and the Union_ articles that way, or you can go to this website http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/lion_and_the_unicorn/index.html to order the entire volume of the journal. Some libraries also carry hard copies of the journal. I'm sorry to toot my horn, but I do believe there would be interest in at least some of what I just announced! Thanks, June Cummins ______________________________________________________ June Cummins, Assistant Professor Department of English and Comparative Literature San Diego State University [EMAIL PROTECTED] ========================================================================== HaSafran - The Electronic Forum of the Association of Jewish Libraries Submissions for HaSafran, send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org/
