Here is a list of some of my speeches and essays that have been published.

“ To Pass on the Good News: Reviewing Books for Children” in Writers on Writing, edited by David Booth, Overlea House, 1989

“ The Selfish Giant: The Adult Writing for Children” in Lands of Pleasure, edited by Adele M. Fasick, Margaret Johnston and Ruth Osler, The Scarecrow Press, 1990

“ An Eye for Thresholds” in Only Connect, third edition, edited by Sheila Egoff, Gordon Stubbs, Ralph Ashley, and Wendy Sutton, Oxford University Press, Toronto, 1996

“ Onceuponatime @ here.now, or Can Rumpelstiltskin surf(vive) the net? Helen E. Stubbs Memorial Lectures, Number Eight, Toronto Public Library, 1996

“ The Survival of the Book” in Signal 87, edited by Sandra L. Beckett and Lissa Paul, September 1998

“ Welcome to Nowhere: Living in an Outpost of the Hungry Planet” in Bookbird, Vol. 39, No. 3, 2001

“ The Apprehension of Audience: The difference Between Writing for Adults and Children” in Windows and Words, edited by Aida Hudson and Susan-Ann Cooper, University of Ottawa Press, 2003

The following essays all appear in The Horn Book Magazine

“ Some of the Kinder Planets” January/February 1996
“ Short Tempered” May/June 1999
“ Pleasantville: What it’s Really About” January/February 2000
“ A Catafalque for Edward Gorey” September/October 2000
“ Tuck Everlasting: A Future Classic” November/December 2000
“ The Unravelling of DNA: Douglas Noel Adams, 1952-2001, September/October 2001
“ The Widow Kealey’s Stew: A Look at the Novels of Brian Doyle”
March/April 2002
“ Where Ideas Really Come From” September/October 2002
“ O Canhahada” May/June 2003