
CALL FOR SPECIAL TOPIC ISSUESPOETRY: We invite submissions that examine poetry for young people through various cultural perspectives as well as though an international cultural lens. What is unique to particular cultures and what is universal to the imagery, music and multiple formats of contemporary poetry for young people? Issue Vol 49 No 2 Deadline: August 1, 2010 Publication: April, 2011 Length: Up to 3000 words Format: Word for Windows (Mac users please save your document in rich text format – RTF) as an email attachment; send illustrations as JPG attachments. Style and layout: The full name/s of author/s, address, telephone, email and affiliation should appear ONLY in the title page of the manuscript. References should be cited by name and date, for example (Yokota, 1993). We recommend the following APA format for publication listed at the end of your article: Yokota, J. (1993). Issues in selecting multicultural children's literature. Language Arts, 70, 156 167. Vardell, S.M. (2006). Poetry aloud here!: Sharing poetry with children in the library. American Library Association. Contact details: Please send two copies:
one copy to Kurkjianc@gmail.com and Kurkjianc@att.net
AND one copy to
SVardell@mail.twu.edu
NB: Please put Bookbird submission followed by your initials in the subject line.

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