| History and Organization
Children's Literature New England, Inc., is a nonprofit 501 (c)(3). CLNE was established in 1987 by former faculty members of the Center for the Study of Children's Literature at Simmons College to pursue the aims of literature education without institutional impediment.
Children's Literature New England founding board members include Barbara Harrison and Gregory Maguire (codirectors); Ethel and Paul Heins, Betty Levin, Jill Paton Walsh, and John Rowe Townsend. Paul and Ethel Heins died in 1996 and 1997, respectively. Betty Levin resigned in 1997; Virginia Golodetz, who served for eleven years, resigned in 2006.
Members of the Board of Directors, currently:
Barbara Harrison, Codirector
Gregory Maguire, Codirector
Matha Walke, Registrar
Daryl Mark
Jill Paton Walsh, (Adjunct: UK)
John Rowe Townsend (Adjunct: UK)
Barbara Scotto, Clerk
Honorary Board
Ashley Bryan
Susan Cooper
John Langstaff *In Memoriam
Jane Langton
Katherine Paterson
Maurice Sendak
Advisory Board
K.T. Horning
Kathy Isaacs
Jean Little
Joanna Rudge Long
Suzanne Fisher Staples
Tim Wynne-Jones
Generally CLNE does not solicit funds or grants but is grateful for contributions to its scholarship fund, which helps teachers and librarians who work in disadvantaged or poor neighborhoods and districts to attend its programs.
For further information contact:
Barbara Harrison at barbh.massed@rcn.com, or
Gregory Maguire at gmwriter@aol.com |
