Children's Literature for Children

Children's Literature for Children (CLC) is a non-profit, tax-exempt, educational organization dedicated to bringing children and books together. Chairman of the Board, Kemie Nix, founded Children's Literature for Children in 1972 when she began her children's literature program as part of the elementary curriculum of The Westminster Schools in Atlanta, Georgia.

In 1978, Mrs. Nix took a year's sabbatical from The Westminster Schools to implement her structured literature program in two Atlanta city schools. Her literature programs are still flourishing in the city schools. The program at Pitts Elementary has become a private/public school partnership, directed one day per week by The Westminster Schools elementary literature teacher, Lynda Roath.

Mrs. Nix also implemented her structured literature program at Mt. Kenya Academy in Nyeri, Kenya.

Reader-to-Reader book collections developed out of the need to provide quality children's books in the structured literature programs and the need for children to have libraries in places where children's access to books was limited.

See also Reader-to-Patient

Biography of Kemie Nix

Kemie Nix (B. Ed., Emory University and M. Ed., Emory University) has taught children's literature as an academic course in both public and private elementary schools in the United States and Kenya. She directs CLC's Reader-to-Reader outreach in Kenya. She is also a critic and editor. Her reviews and articles have appeared in the Atlanta Journal/Constitution, The Christian Science Monitor, The Lion and the Unicorn (Johns Hopkins University Press), The Children's Literature Quarterly, The Advocate, and Parents' Choice. She is the children's book editor of Parents' Choice.

Mrs. Nix was awarded the Shelton L Root Jr. Award at the University of Georgia for "Contributions to bringing children and books together." Mrs. Nix served on the 1996 and 1997 Notable Books Committees and the 1994 and 2000 Newbery Commitees. Mrs. Nix chaired the 1996 Hans Christian Andersen Award Committee and has served on the Board of Directors of USBBY. For her work and service to the community, her portrait appeared with thirty-five other Georgians on the Coca-Cola Olympic Centennial Wall. In 1999, CLC and Mrs. Nix were featured in Southern Living Magazine. Ms. Nix named Who's Who in America and Who's Who in the World.