CHILDREN'S LITERATURE ASSEMBLY

The Children's Literature Assembly (CLA) of the National Council of Teachers of English is a professional community of children’s literature enthusiasts who advocate the centrality of literature in children’s academic and personal lives.

Join CLA


Join/Renew online or via mail

We offer individual memberships, student memberships and faculty/staff bundled memberships. For individual members, we also offer an auto-renewing option.

Donate to CLA

You can make a personal donation or a donation in honor of someone else.
The CLA Endowment Fund supports original research on children's literature and the dissemination of CLA's Notable Books for the Language Arts.

-->Donate to CLA's Endowment Fund
The Vivian Yenika-Agbaw Student Conference Grant helps defray registration costs for the NCTE conference for undergraduate and graduate students with interest in children's literature.

-->Donate to the Vivian Yenika-Agbaw Student Conference Grant
Photos from Wonderlane, Wonderlane