{"id":4065,"date":"2012-04-11T00:01:07","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T04:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=4065"},"modified":"2012-04-10T22:44:12","modified_gmt":"2012-04-11T02:44:12","slug":"another-look-at-the-arbuthnot-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/another-look-at-the-arbuthnot-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Another look at the Arbuthnot Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kris Lill has already given such a beautiful account<\/a> of the Arbuthnot Lecture<\/a> itself that I don\u2019t have anything to add but \u201cyes.\u201d\u009d\u00a0 Instead, I\u2019ll describe some of the events surrounding the lecture, details that made it so meaningful for me.<\/p>\n

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Frances Foster with Helen Frost<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When I realized that Peter S\u00ed\u00ads would be giving the lecture at Miami University, only a three-hour drive from my home (a drive I have often made), I wrote to Frances Foster–Peter\u2019s editor, and mine–to see if she would be attending, and when she said she was, my husband and I decided to make the trip.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been working with Frances for over ten years, and this was the first time she and Chad (my husband) have met. It was clearly a pleasure for both of them, and for me. In addition, Miami University is the home of the Myaamia Project, and Chad and I have both been working closely with linguists and historians there, he on a project related to the Myaamia (Miami) language, and I on a novel involving Miami history. Frances is editing this novel, and it was a great pleasure to take her up to the Myammia Project office to meet some of the experts I have been consulting. The conversation we had there was a perfect opportunity to talk through some questions we\u2019d all been trying to answer.<\/p>\n

That evening, I sat beside Frances at the lecture, which was beautifully composed and delivered. At the end, Peter received a standing ovation, clearly an emotional moment for Frances. \u201cI suppose,\u201d\u009d she said quietly, \u201cit\u2019s like when one of your children does something that makes you proud.\u201d\u009d Which made me feel like Peter was my brother, and think of other \u201csibling authors\u201d\u009d I have gotten to know.<\/p>\n

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Shawn Brommer, Aimee Strittmatter, and Mary Fellows<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For the organizers of the event at Miami University, especially Brenda Dales, and for the ALSC members and Arbuthnot committee members, all leaders in the field of children\u2019s literature, this was a very big event, beautifully handled from beginning to end.<\/p>\n

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Our guest blogger today is poet, playwright, and author, Helen Frost. Helen is the author of many books including the Printz Honor Book, Keesha’s House<\/a>, the nonfiction picture book Monarch and Milkweed<\/a>, and her most recent work, Step Gently Out<\/a>. Read more about Helen and her work at http:\/\/www.helenfrost.net\/<\/a>.
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If you\u2019d like to write a guest post for the ALSC Blog, please contact Mary Voors, ALSC Blog manager, at alscblog@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kris Lill has already given such a beautiful account of the Arbuthnot Lecture itself that I don\u2019t have anything to add but \u201cyes.\u201d\u009d\u00a0 Instead, I\u2019ll describe some of the events surrounding the lecture, details that made it so meaningful for me. When I realized that Peter S\u00ed\u00ads would be giving the lecture at Miami University, only a three-hour drive from my home (a drive I have often made), I wrote to Frances Foster–Peter\u2019s editor, and mine–to see if she would be attending, and when she said she was, my husband and I decided to make the trip. I\u2019ve been working with Frances for over ten years, and this was the first time she and Chad (my husband) have met. It was clearly a pleasure for both of them, and for me. In addition, Miami University is the home of the Myaamia Project, and Chad and I have both been working…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[22,134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childrens-literature","category-guest-blogger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}