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Manuscript Guidelines: Manuscripts should not exceed twenty double-spaced, typed pages. Use APA, fifth edition format. Author’s name, mailing address, telephone number, fax number, e-mail address, and school/professional affiliation should be on a separate cover page. The author’s name or any reference that would enable a reviewer to know who the author is should not appear on the manuscript. All manuscripts will be reviewed by at least two members of the editorial board. Decisions will be made within 8-12 weeks of submission. Only electronic submissions will be accepted.

Note: Only electronic submissions will be accepted.

Please submit all manuscripts to the co-editors, Cyndi Giorgis and April Bedford at jcl@unlv.edu.

Cyndi Giorgis, Co-editor
Journal of Children’s Literature
University of Nevada Las Vegas

April Bedford, Co-editor
Journal of Children’s Literature
University of New Orleans

Jennifer Fabbi, Associate Editor
Journal of Children’s Literature
University of Nevada Las Vegas

• Concepts and Themes. These refereed articles focus on trends, recent research, issues of critical theory, genre studies and other concerns. Upcoming themes include:

Mentor Texts
Fall 2008
Due: February 1, 2008 (requires Acrobat Reader to open)

There is a great deal of conversation about mentor texts and the role that literature plays in the classroom. How does literature serve as a writing model? How can we share books in ways that do not impose but rather enhance the literature? How can we nurture students’ and teachers’ writing lives through reading children’s literature? What are some books that have been particularly meaningful mentors for writers?

Languages, Literacies, and Literature
Fall 2009
Due: March 1, 2009

Literature can be both a mirror in which readers see their own lives and cultures reflected and a window through which they view lives and cultures different from their own. Many children's literature journals have focused on the importance of multicultural literature in recent years. This issue will focus specifically on the relationship between language and culture in children's literature. Authors might wish to submit manuscripts related to international literature, children's literature highlighting language learning as a component of the immigrant experience, or bilingual or multi-lingual texts. In particular, we are interested in exploring how children's literature helps readers develop an appreciation for multiple languages including their own.

•Creative Process
This section of the journal will contain interesting and lively refereed articles and interviews by and about children’s authors and illustrators and their work that will give us insight into the creative process. If possible, these interview and articles should also reflect the theme of the journal for which it is submitted. We believe that understanding more about the creative process enhances our knowledge about the literature that we share with students and that is the focus of our own research.

• A Dozen Great Books
We invite submissions of brief annotated lists of 12 great books that fit the theme of that issue or another topic of interest to readers. The books listed in this feature must be those that are currently in print. Several of these “A Dozen Great Books” features by various contributors will be included in each issue of the journal. This feature of the journal is not peer reviewed.

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