JON C. STOTT, Ph.D., University of Toronto, is professor of children's literature in the English department, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. A member of the founding board of directors and the first president of the International Children's Literature Association, he has delivered papers, seminars, and workshops to conferences and professional development institutes in over 100 Canadian and American cities and has published articles on the study and teaching of children's literature in British, Canadian, and American journals. He is author of Children's Literature from A to Z: A Guide for Parents and Teachers , Mary Norton , and (with Raymond E. Jones) Canadian Books for Children: A Guide to Authors and Illustrators . With Anila Moss, he is editor of The Family of Stories: An Anthology of Children's Literature .