Mike Shuttleworth on the Centre for Youth Literature
14 March 2019 Books+Publishing @booksandpublishing
‘Driven more by passion than by planning, the promotion and support of children’s and teenage literature is currently piecemeal and under stress. It is urgently in need of a politically savvy alignment of players, drawing upon research and planning, to create a new centre for young people’s literature.’—Children’s and youth literature specialist Mike Shuttleworth advocates for a new home for children’s literature, after the recent ‘retirement’ of the State Library of Victoria’s Centre for Youth Literature.
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