The Children's Literature Lecture, formerly May Hill Arbuthnot Lecture, is an annual event featuring an author, critic, librarian, historian or teacher of children’s literature, of any country, who shall prepare a paper considered to be a significant contribution to the field of children’s literature. This paper is delivered as a lecture each April, and is subsequently published in Children and Libraries, the journal of ALSC. (See http://www.ala.org/alsc/arbuthnot)