For Paul, David, and Laura Beth
And for Bill, Paul, Buddy, Char, and Kay |
| Our thanks to the graduate assistants, secretaries, librarians, and others at the University of Southern Mississippi who helped to make this book possible. |
| We are especially grateful to the Ezra JackKeats Foundation for its financial support to tran- scribe the audiotapes and to the authors and artists who allowed their speeches to be published. |
| Copyright 1993 Libraries Unlimited, Inc. |
| "The Value of Illustrations" copyright 1993 by Marcia Brown. |
"Dignity of the Human Spirit" by Scott O'Dell
copyright 1993 by Elizabeth Hall. |
| "From Hero to Servant" copyright 1993 by Jane Yolen. |
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| Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data |
Children's authors speak / [compiled by] Jeannine L. Laughlin and
Sherry Laughlin.
viii, 256 p. 17x25 cm.
ISBN 0-87287-921-6
1. Children's literature, AmericanHistory and criticismTheory,
etc. 2. ChildrenUnited StatesBooks and reading. 3. Children's
literatureAuthorship. I. Laughlin, Jeannine Lackey.
II. Laughlin, Sherry, 1953 .
PS490.C5 1993
810.9'9287dc20 92-43373
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