The speakers include
Rita Ricketts Only the best is good enough for our children" (Sir Basil Blackwell). An overview of Blackwell's publishing for children
Pam Dix Imagining the past: how illustrators present history in children's information books
Lesley Heming The illustrator Clarke Hutton (1898-1966). Instrumental in the establishment of the highly successful Puffin imprint for Penguin Books)
Martin Impey Creating BLITZ One Family's War: The stories within the story!
Adam Goldwater Seven Stories: The National Collection of Children's Books: an overview including the archives and developments
Cost: £25 per person (includes lunch)
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Past One-day Conferences or Study Days
Most of the papers are printed in the Society's newsletters.
The speakers included
Peter Hunt Arthur Ransome: Pigeon Post (1936)
Jacqueline Wilson Eve Garnett: The Family From One End Street (1937)
Alan Powers Lucy Boston: A Stranger at Green Knowe (1961)
Jane Badger K.M. Peyton: The Edge of the Cloud (1969)
Nicholas Tucker Philip Pullman: Northern Lights (1995)
The Speakers included
Brian Sibley Tove Jannsson's Family Moomintroll: The family we'd all like to have
Hilary Clare Charlotte Yonge, the first teenage writer for girls **celebrating the bicentenary of the birth of Charlotte Yonge**
Howard Bailes: The Carey Family: an exploration of the novels of Ronald Welch
Sarah Jardine-Willoughby The Gatty Family: Close and Talented
The Speakers included
Jonathan Cooper Laughing and Grief: The Portrayal of Classics in School Stories
Hilary Clare Real Education in Fictional Girls'Schools
Susan Bailes A Glimpse of Jane Johnson's rare 18th century Nursery Library
Lesley Delaney Eighteenth-century Nursery Reading: Ellenor Fenn's Pioneering Home Learning Scheme
Robert Kirkpatrick Charles Dickens and Dotheboys Hall: Fact or Fiction?
The Speakers included
Sue Walker Creativity and collaboration: Marie Neurath's information books for children
Joe Pearson Puffin Picture Books
Helen Day Through the eyes of a Ladybird
Alan Powers "A House is a House for me": Architecture in children's books
The Speakers included
Jane Cooper Happy Families? What does go on in Mrs Molesworth's children's books
Elizabeth Galvin The Extraordinary Life of E. Nesbit
Dr. Jacqueline Wilson Missing Mothers
Celebration of CBHS and tributes to Pat Garrett, co-founder with Brian Alderson
Nicholas Tucker Attempting to protect family values through nursery rhymes
Ann Thwaite The remarkable novels of M.E. Atkinson
The Speakers included
Annemarie Bilclough A 'seeing eye'- Beatrix Potter's animals
Emma Laws The animals of the 100 Acre Wood
Dr. Victoria de Rijke Animal Metaphor in Children's Literature Illustration
John Ericson The Wind in the Willows REVISITED through its illustrations
Jane Badger 'Get off my foot, Kipper' The Horse and the Pony in Children's fiction
Chris Coles & David Osborne The Animals of 'BB' otherwise known as Denys Watkins Pitchford author of "Little Grey Men".
The speakers included:
Morag Styles 'Ding Dong Bell': from Shakespeare (Mother Goose's Melody) to contemporary bards, the role of nursery rhymes' in the canon of children's poetry
Elizabeth Hammill 'Over the Hills and Far Away': A Treasury of Nursery Rhymes From Arround the World
Debbie Pullinger Falling down and chopping off the threatening world of nursery rhymes
Anne Harvey & Caroline Walker 'Nursery Rhymes of London Town' by Eleanor Farjeon
Ian Beck Illustrating Nursery Rhymes
Brian Alderson The Opies
The speakers included :-
Andrew Nash The printing and publishing scene round about 1900
Lesley Delaney L.Leslie Brooke 1862 - 1940
Susan Bailes Florence Upton 1873 - 1922
Dennis Butts Kipling in Animal Land
Iain Stevenson The publishing activities of Grant Richards
Anne Stevenson Hobbs ‘Arthur Rackham Arrives’!
The speakers included :
Pat Pinsent Saving young sinners from hell: the children's poetry of John Bunyan and Isaac Watts
Dennis Butts Parables from the Prison and the Asylum: The Children's Verse of Christopher Smart
Anne Harvey Two Sisters & A Friend: Poetry by Ann & Jane Taylor and Adelaide O'Keeffe
Louise Joy Children's poetry and the comic mode
Morag Styles ‘Love me, my baby’ (Rossetti): Some distinctive trends in women writing poetry for children in19thC
Brian Sibley "It is wrong from beginning to end”: Lewis Carroll and the Poetry of Parody
The speakers included :-
Geoffrey Beare Alice Bolingbroke Woodward
Susan Bailes Kathleen Ainslie
The speakers included :-
Brian Alderson A survey of the territory
Sue Walker
A parallel account of the technological changes that affected the business of book publishing
Kate Wright
The emergence of periodical publishing
Jeff Barton
Aspects of "toybooks', including publication, subject matter, and changes during the period
The Speakers included:
Andrea Immel Rewriting the history of children's books illustration: The contribution of the House of Newbery
David Stoker The pitfalls of seeking respectability: the rise and fall and rise again of John Marshall
Jill Shefrin Pasted on Boards, for Hanging up in Nurseries: the Engraver, the Printer and the Juvenile Novelty Market, 1660-1825
Nigel Tattersfield Saint or Sinner?, Thomas Saint of Newcastle. Bookseller, printer and pirate
Matthew Grenby William Godwin's Juvenile Library: 'a talent for the production of books for children" virus "Things as they are"
Brian Alderson, and speakers Summation and "looking ahead"
The Speakers included:
Ann Thwaite and Gretchen Gerzina on Frances Hodgson Burnett
Carole Dunbar Freedom, Restriction and Class in the Work in the Work of Frances Hodgson Burnett
Anne Harvey Noel Streatfeild"s The Painted Garden: Film and & TV Versions of the Secret Garden
Dennis Butts The Politics of the Secret Garden
Peter Hunt The Problems of Editing The Secret Garden
The Speakers included:
Peter Hunt on Kenneth Graham
David Rudd on Enid Blyton
Brian Sibley on Rev. Awdry
Ann Thwaite on A.A. Milne
Dennis Butts bringing a conclusion to the day