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The article reports that Yale University acquired the papers of Mo Willems, illustrator and author of contemporary children's literature. Topics discussed include Willems' works to be added to Yale's archive that documents the reading and imaginative lives of American children, highlights of Willems' career and some of his notable publications for children are "Don't Let the Pigeon Dive the Bus!" and "Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale."

Focuses on the book 'A Track to Unknown Water,' edited by Stella Lees. Publication of the proceedings of the Second Pacific Rim Conference on Children's Literature, held at Melbourne State College in 1979; Papers' focus on minority groups and their contribution to children's literature.

Provides information on library and publishing collections. Opening of collection of Robert Moses papers under the restricted custody of the New York Public Library; Acquisition of the historical records of `The Horn Books,' the first magazine to cover the field of children's literature; Selection of the Johns Hopkins University as repository for the archives of the Association of American Universities.

Assembled over centuries by the Jewish community in Copenhagen and concealed from the Nazis by the Danes during World War II, close to 2,000 works printed in over 115 locations from 1517 to 1939 have a new home at Stanford University. The Children's Book Council recently donated some 1,000 book publishers' catalogs to the de Grummond Children's Literature Collection, part of the McCain Library and Archives of the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg. Approximately 1,000 boxes of papers, correspondence, audio-and videotapes, clippings, and memorabilia from former U.S. Senator Phil Gramm (R-Tex.) are now housed in Texas A& amp.M University's Cushing Memorial Library and Archives.