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The article offers the authors' views on finding books with characters who were the product of donor sperm in libraries the U.S. The authors cite that they have not found the book in the Library of Congress (LC) due to the inconsistencies of cataloging in LC. They state that finding these books are important due to the added challenges for parents to explain to their child that he/she was created with the assistance of a third party. Overview on the list of books for children conceived through sperm donation, egg donation, and embryo donation are offered.

Profiles Robert Sabuda, a pop-up children's book designer. Collaboration on projects with children's book author Matthew Reinhart; Childhood in Pinckney, Michigan; Educational background. INSET: Ready, Set, Collaborate!.

The article explores contemporary war novels for evidence of a late twentieth-century code of heroic action in the U.S. It cites that award-winning Civil War and World War II literature for children extends a code of shared humanity implied in adult war novels by Pat Barker and others to younger protagonists. It notes that the said heroic code opposes traditional codes of conduct construed as confining in their conventional or stereotypical presentation of the hero. It states that writers like F. Scott Fitzgerald have rejected any romantic notion of courage as they understood that young men of his generation would not soon want to wage such a horrible war.

Introduces the Summer/Fall 2004 issue of the journal "Children and Libraries." Information on 2004 medal books and their creators; Acceptance speeches from the Newbery, Caldecott and Belpré medalists; Profiles of authors and illustrators such as Jane Breskin Zalben and Eudora Welty.

The article discusses the introduction of picture books in digitized format and how librarians evaluate the use of such books in programming for children in the U.S. The Digital and Traditional Storytimes Research Project will study whether these books are acceptable as an educational tool, or a new type of group storytime can be created and how it can be created in a library setting. With this, the International Children's Digital Library launched a web site that offers books online.

The article discusses the origin of the Theodor Seuss Geisel Award which is given annually by American Library Association (ALA). A famous author has commented that Dr. Seuss' "The Cat in the Hat" is a future classic that should be given to the 22nd century children. Dr. Seuss' contribution in the growth of the beginning reader book has led ALA to set up the Theodor Seuss Geisel Award which is given to the person who has the most recognized contribution in American's children's literature.

Discusses the influence of children's literature on author Eudora Welty. Welty's claim that her love of reading was the basis of her success as a person and as a writer; Works that Welty's parents read and the works she read as a child and as a teenager; Availability of books to Welty in the house and in the library; Patronage of the library as a child; Ways in which parents can instigate a love of reading in their children.