SECRETS TOLD AND UNTOLD: A CLNE Colloquy

I am one of those CLNErs. That is, starting in 1999 (relatively recent compared to those who were involved many, many years before me) I began attending the annual summer institute of Children's Literature New England.  I hadn't intended to make it an annual thing, but like many others, once I started I couldn't stop.

These institutes were extraordinary.  There were required readings, some quite dense, lectures, small group discussions, poetry, singing, talks of a caliber quite remarkable. ...