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The Editorial Team Pat Pinsent, having been for many years a Principal Lecturer in the English Department, is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Roehampton. She has been responsible for the production of Distance Learning materials for the MA in Children’s Literature and has a tutorial responsibility for a number of PhD and MA students . Her books include The Power of the Page: Children’s Books and Their Readers (1993) and Children’s Literature and the Politics of Equality (1997), together with a number of edited compilations of conference proceedings. She has also written numerous articles on both children’s literature and and her other main research interest, seventeenth century poetry. Her main current interest is in the relationship between children’s literature and spirituality/ religion. She edits the journal of the British Section of the International Board on Books for Young People, IBBYLink, and also edits a journal devoted to feminist spirituality and theology. Dr
Pat Pinsent Email: PatPinsent@aol.com Bridget Carrington has a doctorate from Roehampton University for research into the early history of novels written for young adult girls. She has taught in the primary sector over the last thirty years, and writes about, reviews, and provides teaching material on a wide range of children’s literature. She has served on the committees of both IBBY UK and the CBHS (Children’s Books History Society) for the last ten years. Published
work includes entries in the Oxford
Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature (2005) and the online Oxford
Dictionary of National Biography and a study of the novels written for
children by Flora Shaw in L. Thiel, E. Lomax, B. Carrington and M.
Sebag-Montefiore (2008) A Victorian
Quartet: Four Forgotten Women Writers (Lichfield: Pied Piper
Publishing). Bridget also
edits, with Jennifer Harding, the annual IBBY/NCRCL Conference papers, published by Pied Piper Publishing. Dr
Bridget
Carrington Email: abc20875@primex.co.uk The
Journal The editors are also interested in receiving short news items of interest to the children's literature community. These are likely to be reports of major conferences or seminars but other items of news will be considered. If you would like to discuss any ideas before sending papers or news items then please contact the editors at debbie@piedpiperpublishing.com or glen@piedpiperpublishing.com. The Editors would be pleased to consider for publication any original papers which examine any of the key areas outlined above. Papers should not have been published previously or be submitted elsewhere simultaneously, although papers presented at conferences will be considered if they are unlikely to be published in a volume of conference proceedings. All research papers will be peer-reviewed by internationally distinguished scholars in the field. Books
for review in The Journal of Children's Literature Studies should
be sent to: Bridget Carrington, Reviews Editor, The Journal of
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The paper The title of the paper should be informative. The name, designation, affiliation, address and contact details such as email and fax (where available) of the author(s) should be given. The author(s) should only be identified on a separate front page. For refereeing purposes it should not be possible to identify the author within the body of the manuscript. One author should be identified for editorial contact about the submitted paper. The Editors welcome correspondence from potential authors to determine the suitability of proposed papers before submission of the final paper. Style All contributions for the journal should comply with the guidelines set out here. Papers should normally be between 3000 and 7000 words in length. News items should normally be between 500 and 1000 words in length. The journal will be published in English and the style of writing should be appropriate for an international audience. The style of writing, therefore, should be straightforward, avoiding complex sentence structures or the use of jargon. Where acronyms are used these should be spelt out when they first appear, followed by the acronym in brackets without full-stops. The acronym can then be used throughout the rest of the paper. E.g. Modern Languages Association (MLA). All numbers under ten should be spelt out in the text i.e. ten not 10. Numbers over ten should appear as numerals i.e. 30. Layout A maximum of three levels of headings should be used. The first level should be bold, the second level italics bold and the third level italics not bold. E.g. Children's Literature School Stories Enid Blyton Quotations of less than thirty words should be placed within the text in single quote marks. Longer quotes should be indented and separated from the text by a line break before and after the quote, no quotation marks should be used. If any of the quotations include speech this should be denoted by the use of double speech marks. Footnotes should never be used and endnotes kept to a minimum. Photographs, illustrations, tables may be included (assuming copyright clearance has been obtained). All illustrations and tables should be included as a separate file. Only commonly used graphic file formats should be used and the preferred format is .tiff. As well as a copy of the paper including all graphics, all graphic files need to be provided as a separate file as well as a high quality paper copy of each graphic. This may be needed for scanning purposes. References All papers should be referenced using the Harvard system. Entries in the text should placed in parentheses and include author and date of publication separated by a comma. If the reference is to a specific page the page number(s) should follow the date of publication and be separated from it by a colon. E.g. (Chapleau, 2004) or (Chapleau, 2004: 2-4). If page references to previously mentioned titles are used these should be placed in parentheses and proceeded by 'p' or 'pp' to denote single or multiple page references. E.g. (p83) or (pp56-58). At the end of the paper there should be full bibliographic details for all references in alphabetical order of authors' surnames. The following indicate how to reference key types of materials: Books: Allen, Ruth (2004) Children's Book Prizes. Shenstone : Pied Piper Publishing Edited books: Chapleau, Sebastien (ed.) (2004) New Voices in Children's Literature Criticism. Shenstone: Pied Piper Publishing. Journal articles: Nancarrow, Paul (2004) The Big Bad Wolf and Literary Enculturation: The Importance of Intertextuality in Children's Reading Development and its Culmination in the Adolescent Reader. Journal of Children's Literature Studies. Vol.1, no.1. (pp3-20) Chapters in books: Hollindale, Peter (2003) Performing Lord of the Flies. In Reynolds, Kimberley (ed.) Children's Literature and Childhood in Performance. Shenstone: Pied Piper Publishing, (pp13-25) Websites: www.piedpiperpublishing.com/books.htm Newspaper articles Pullman, Philip (2002), ‘Give them a taste of honey’, Times Educational Supplement, 8 Feb, p.23. Reports Department for Education and Employment (DfEE) (2001), Key Stage 3 National Strategy: framework for teaching English: Years 7, 8 and 9. DfEE publications. Submitting papers Papers may be submitted electronically as an email attachment, with two hardcopies sent by post. If you prefer to submit papers by post then a disc with two hardcopies is acceptable. If sending by email please ensure that you carry out a virus check before sending the attachment. Discs and hard copies cannot be returned. Papers need to be sent as Word, Open Office or Rich Text Format files. All papers should include an abstract of between 100 and 150 words in length outlining the key arguments of the paper . All the authors of a paper included in an issue of the journal will receive a copy of the finished journal and a .pdf copy of their paper. If a paper has multiple authors then the author designated for editorial contact will receive all copies for distribution. Further copies of each journal will be available to authors at a discounted rate of 25%. Legal matters It is the contributor's responsibility to ensure that all references and citations are correct, and that the contribution does not contain any material that infringes copyright or is defamatory, obscene or otherwise unlawful or litigious. As a condition of publication, contributors grant licences to publish to the Journal of Children's Literature Studies and Pied Piper Publishing for the purpose of administering rights and permissions in all contributions. These licences include the licence to publish in hardcopy, as well as electronically and digitally, by the Journal of Children's Literature Studies, Pied Piper Publishing, or by any assignee, for non-profitable and/or profitable purposes. The copyright of all papers published in the Journal of Children's Literature Studies is held jointly by the journal and the author. Authors are responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce in their papers any material enjoying copyright protection. A copy of the letter or email granting such permission should be attached to the manuscript. Permission to reproduce the paper in other publications must be sought from Pied Piper Publishing. The Refereeing process All papers submitted to the editors will be subject to a peer refereeing process. Papers will either be accepted for publication, accepted subject to revisions or rejected for publication. The Editors would normally expect to make a decision within two months of having received papers for consideration. All decisions by the editors on suitability for publication in the Journal of Children's Literature Studies are final.
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