The Australasian Children's Literature Association for Research (ACLAR) presented its biennial conference.

July 16-17 2004 Sydney, Australia.

Conference Theme

Imaging Childhood

Sub Themes

• Verbal and visual pictures
• Narrating childhood: history and nation
• Place and displacement
• Images of the future
• Invented and alternative childhoods
• The aesthetics of representation

Conference Convener

Associate Professor Rosemary Johnston

Keynote Speaker

Professor Perry Nodelman, University of Winnipeg.
Author of Words About Pictures: The Narrative Art of Children's Literature, The Pleasures of Children's Literature, and a number of novels for young adults.