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During my first teaching assignment at Scioto Village,
the state reformatory for girls in Ohio, I decided that sharing
my personal love of literature would become my professional mission.
I subsequently was a reading supervisor in a middle school in Columbus,
Ohio, and taught reading at Rosemount Middle School in Rosemount,
Minnesota for a year before beginning doctoral work in children’s
and adolescent literature at the University of Minnesota. My interests
in connecting young people with books, in their writing and in their
responses to literature have continued throughout my career.
I have also been an ardent advocate of children’s
rights to read and am a past-president of the Minnesota Coalition
Against Censorship. I have served as president of the
Kerlan
Friends, an organization that supports the work of the
Kerlan Collection,
a collection of original art and manuscripts from thousands of children’s
books housed in the Andersen Library at the University of Minnesota,
and have been the chair of the Kerlan Award committee. I have enjoyed
reviewing children’s and adolescent literature for over 25 years
for the Curriculum and Instruction publication
New Books for
Young Readers and currently serve as editor. I also serve on
the adolescent literature editorial advisory board for
The Five Owls, a children’s
literature publication. I am working with the
Minnesota Humanities
Commission as an editor for
Minnesota Storytime, an online collection of reading guides
for children. I am a member of the
International Reading Association
and of the Children’s Literature Assembly of the
National Council of Teachers of English.
Selected publications
contributor to Cullinan, B. and Person, D. (Eds.).
(2001). The Continuum Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature.
New York: Continuum International Publishing Group.
Developing writers: Writing across the genres.
In D. Strickland, L. Galda, & B. Cullinan (in press). Language
Arts: Teaching and Learning. Atlanta: Wadsworth.
contributor to Galda, L. and Cullinan, B. (in
press). Literature and the Child. 6th.edition. Belmont, CA:
Wadsworth.
Updated January 2005
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