To enhance the professional stature of the graduate and undergraduate teaching of children's literature.
Membership is for one calendar year.
The Quarterly publishes juried articles about research and scholarship in Children's Literature, as well as special sections devoted to particular topics in children's literature. The Quarterly also serves as a newsletter for the Association. The Annual volume of Children's Literature. Children's Literature is an interdisciplinary journal published annually by Yale University Press. The journal, which has been praised for its high level of scholarly and critical writing, features articles on various authors, illustrators, and periods of children's literature, as well as interpretive essays and book reviews.