ARTICLES (in refereed journals):

“Ethical Plots, Ethical Endings in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Material.”  Foundation: The  Review of Science Fiction 88 (Summer, 2003), 68-75.

“Children’s Books on Rain Forests:  Beyond the Macaw Mystique,” Children’s Literature  Association Quarterly. 19, No.4 (Winter, 1994-95), 165-169. 

“Authorial Voice, Implied Audiences, and the Drafting of the AIDS National Mailing (1988),” Risk:  Issues in Health and Safety. IV, No. 4 (Fall, 1993), 287-309. 

“Journalistic Reviewing and Children’s Books:  A Personal and Professional  Perspective,” The Lion and the Unicorn 16 (1992), 83-89. 

“Gender and Empowerment in Susan Cooper’s ‘The Dark Is Rising’ Sequence,” Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 16, No. 1 (Spring, 1991), 11-16. 

 

CHAPTERS (in scholarly books):

“Negation and Apocalypse:  Style and Vision in Aelred of Rievaulx.” Cisterian Ideals  and Reality, ed. John Sommerfeldt, Cistercian Publications, 1978. 

 

BOOK REVIEWS:

Review of America  by E.R. Frank (Atheneum, 2002),  in The New York Times Review of Books, May 19, 2002.

Review of Pearl, by Debra Atwell (Houghton Mifflin, 2001), in The New York Times Review of Books, September 16, 2001. 

Review of Blizzard !:  The Storm That Changed America, by Jim Morphy (Scholastic, 2000) in The New York Times Review of Books, November 19, 2000. 

Review of Ramona’s World by Beverly Cleary (Morrow, 1999) and Frightful’s Mountain   by Jean Craighead George (Dutton, 1999), in The New York Times Review of Books, November 21, 1999. 

Review of The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich (Hyperion, 1999), in The New York    Times Review of Books, July 18, 1999.

Weekly column, “Children’s Corner,” Chicago Tribune, August 1997 – present.    (Appears 51 weeks of the year, reviewing a total of approx. 261 books each year. 

Monthly column, “Just for Children,” Chicago Tribune, 1988-1997. 

Masthead reviewing staff, Booklist, American Library Association.  Published numerous bi-monthly reviews, 1994-1995.