Review (a refereed journal issued by the Children’s Folklore Section of the American
Folklore Society), Dime Novel Round-up, Five Owls, and the New Advocate. Five Owls was
begun by its present editor, Susan Stan, in 1986 and contains one or two feature
articles; most of the journal is devoted to annotated theme bibliographies and reviews. It
is directed at librarians, teachers, and parents. The New Advocate began in 1981 as The
Advocate, which died in 1986, and was reborn as The New Advocate in 1988. The
journal appears quarterly, is multiculturally oriented, and is starting to move into the
niche once held exclusively by The Horn Book Magazine. The New Advocate is
handsomely produced and illustrated, and it is aggressively promoted by Christopher
Gordon, a Boston commercial publisher of education textbooks and aids. Gordon also
puts out Perspectives, containing primarily reviews, and an annual, FanFare (1993–),
the first issue of which was devoted to recent poetry for children. Not to be neglected are
the reviews devoted to non-print media (although of the journals listed in Meacham
1978, nearly fifty have ceased publication). Among those still current are Media Review
Digest, Media and Methods, and Theatre, enfance et jeunesse (Paris 1963–). An
important new journal is Youth Theatre Journal (Blacksburg, Virginia 1986–).
CanadaAccording to Sheila Egoff, Canada does not have a journal ‘that supplies the
comprehensive and comparative reviewing necessary to evaluate our books in the
context of an international children’s literature’ (1990:308). Emergency Librarian
(Winnipeg, 1974–) has reviews of children’s paperbacks and books about children’s
literature, as well as author profiles in every issue, often based on interviews. The first
and to date only journal devoted to serious criticism, CCL: Canadian Children’s
Literature/Littérature canadienne pour la jeunesse: A Journal of Criticism and Review was
founded in 1975. As well as printing reviews of children’s books and occasionally
reviews of critical books about children’s literature, CCL has carried historical and
analytical articles which recently have been of the highest quality. The ‘News from the
North’ column by Sarah Ellis in The Horn Book Magazine also provides useful
information about Canadian children’s literature. (For CM: Canadian Materials for
Schools and Librarians, Des livres et des jeunes, Lurelu, Notable Canadian Children’s
Books/ Un choix de livres canadiennes pour la jeunesse, School Libraries in Canada, and
other sources of reviews, see Egoff 1990: 308, Hearne 1991:116; Reetz 1994.)
AustraliaThe older Australian journals (which are described in Reetz 1994), are Access
(Australian School Library Association), Magpies: Talking about Books for Children,
Orana: Journal of School and Children’s Librarianship (formerly Children’s Libraries
Newsletter), and Reading Time: The Journal of the Children’s Book Council of Australia.
Journals initiated after 1989 are LINES, The Literature Base, Papers: Explorations into
Children’s Literature, and Viewpoint: On Books for Young Adults (particularly directed at
secondary school teachers and librarians). Of these, the most promising is Papers,
described in the editor’s comments prefacing the first issue as ‘a journal which will give
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