Publication Committee

The Publications Committee, in consultation with the ChLA Board, is responsible for overseeing all areas of the Association's publishing endeavors. The Committee solicits, referees, and oversees the editing of scholarly books important to the study of children's literature. Currently, it seeks books manuscripts for both its general publications and its new series, ChLA Centennial Studies.

ChLA Publications & Proposals

ChLA invites book proposals for original critical studies in the field of children's literature and for collections of critical essays or other works of importance to the advancement of the study of children's literature. Individuals wishing to submit original manuscripts or ideas for edited anthologies through ChLA should complete the prospectus for a book form. The final decision on manuscript acceptance lies with the ChLA Publications Committee and Scarecrow Press, as the co-publisher. In order to contain the substantial costs of duplicating and mailing lengthy proposals to the referees, the Publications Committee requests electronic submission of proposals. It will. however, accept hard copy submissions, provided that they are accompanied by a virus-free disk containing copies of all submitted documents. For further information about submitting a proposal, please email the ChLA Publications Chair, Teya Rosenberg at the following address: tr11@txstate.edu

ChLA Centennial Studies

The Children's Literature Association, in association with Scarecrow Press, has launched a new series, ChLA Centennial Studies, celebrating the hundredth anniversary of texts significant in the development of children's literature. Each volume in the series will consist of essays on a given text or related series of texts (Nesbit's Psammead books, for instance, are the subjects of one volume already published for the series). Essays in each volume will be commissioned by that volume's editors, but some volumes may contain reprints of notable essays.

Scholars wishing to edit a volume in this new series should submit proposals as soon as possible. Proposals should contain all the information outlined in prospectus for a book. In order to contain the substantial costs of duplicating and mailing lengthy proposals to the referees, the Publications Committee requests electronic submission of proposals. It will. however, accept hard copy submissions, provided that they are accompanied by a virus-free disk containing copies of all submitted documents.

For further information about the series or about submitting a proposal, please email the ChLA Publications Chair, Teya Rosenberg at the following address: tr11@txstate.edu

The Publications Committee invites proposals on any appropriate book or series, but is especially interested in hearing from those wishing to edit volumes on the texts below. Before preparing a proposal, please email the Publications Chair to ensure that no contracts for that topic have been issued.