Children's Literature New England

Children's Literature New England, Inc., is a nonprofit 501 (c)(3). CLNE was established in 1987 by the former founding director, associate director, and professors 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 included 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.