MEMBER SERVICES

Membership Cost

  • Annual Membership: $40
  • Annual Student Membership: $20
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Why become a member of CLA?

BECAUSE members are entitled to:

  • Two issues of the Journal of Children's Literature, a refereed publication featuring research and scholarship, as well as reviews of children's books and professional resources, booklists, teaching ideas, and items of general interest.
  • Exclusive access to members-only content available on our website through your member account, including:
    • current and back issues of the Journal of Children's Literature
    • podcasts and videos produced by CLA
  • Full voting privileges
  • Eligibility to apply for the CLA Grants and Awards: the CLA Research Award, the CLA Early Career Award, the Bonnie Campbell Hill Literacy Leader Award, and the Vivian Yenika Agbaw Student Conference Grant

+ PLUS

Your membership funds support regular sessions sponsored by the Children's Literature Assembly at the annual convention of the National Council of Teachers of English each November:
  • The annual Children's Literature Breakfast. Hear well known authors and illustrators of children's books share their insights and their lives.
  • Booktalks by the committee that selects the Notable Trade Books for the Language Arts each year.
  • The Expert Class, designed for those who teach children's literature courses at the college or university level.
  • Author sessions, featuring noted authors and illustrators contributing to the field.
  • Speeches by authors/illustrators.
And so much more . . .

Donate to CLA

When donating,
  • You have the option to select a donation amount of your choice. Every donation matters!
  • You can dedicate your donation in honor of another person.

Donate to the CLA Endowment Fund

The CLA Endowment Fund was established to support:
  • original research contributing to the field of children’s literature, and 
  • dissemination of CLA’s yearly selections of Notable Children’s Book in the Language Arts.
Your contribution will provide invaluable support for these efforts.

Donate to The Vivian Yenika-Agbaw Student Conference Grant

The grant helps defray registration costs for the NCTE conference for undergraduate and graduate students with interest in children's literature.
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MEMBERSHIP OPTIONS

Individual Membership [$40]
This membership option is available to all individuals within and outside of the US. It is available as an "one time purchase" as well as an "auto renewing subscription."

Establishing a member account indicates an agreement to the membership rules that the account will be only used by the assigned individual, and that members-only content will not be downloaded and shared with others beyond fair educational use purposes.
Student Membership [$20]
This membership type is available to all individuals who are undergraduate or graduate students at the time of purchase.

Establishing a member account indicates an agreement to the membership rules that the account will be only used by the assigned individual, and that members-only content will not be downloaded and shared with others beyond fair educational use purposes.
Faculty/Staff Bundled Membership [$ 160 --5 memberships for the price of 4]
The membership bundle option is for educational organizations such as K-12 schools, school districts and libraries that wish to purchase CLA memberships for individual members of their staff.

The Bundled Membership includes 5 individual memberships for the price of 4. Memberships must be assigned at the time of purchase to 5 SPECIFIC individuals using their institutional email addresses. Each individual will receive a separate invitation for setting up access credentials. Establishing a member account indicates an agreement to the membership rules that the account will be only used by the assigned individual and that members-only content will not be downloaded and shared with others beyond fair educational use purposes.

Multiple bundles may be purchased as necessary.

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Memberships for those who prefer actively renewing their membership every year.
This is the only purchase option available for Student and Faculty/Staff Bundled Memberships.

Your credit card will be charged once upon purchase.
Individual memberships for those who prefer auto-renewing subscriptions. 

Your credit card will be charged automatically every year, ensuring continuous membership. You may cancel auto-renewal at any time.

Student and Faculty/Staff Bundled Memberships are NOT available with this option.
Join/Renew by Mail
For Individual and Student Memberships
Download and mail in the Membership Form
For Faculty/Staff Bundled Memberships
Download and mail in the Bundled Membership Form
Individual, Student and Faculty/Staff Bundled Memberships for those who prefer to pay by check.

Auto-renewing subscription is not available with this option
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