Simmons College Center for the Study of Children's Literature

The Center for the Study of Children's Literature is an academic program at Simmons University specializing in the critical, academic study of children's literature. The program was founded in 1977, and was the first program in the United States to offer a master's degree in the field.

Currently, the program offers an MA in Children's Literature, an

• Wicked
• Kit Pearson (MA 1981), best-selling Canadian author of The Sky is Falling, Awake and Dreaming among others
• Elena Abos (1999), Spanish translator of
  Horn Book Magazine
• Susan Rich (2003), editor at HarperCollins who persuaded Daniel Handler to take on his Lemony Snicket pseudonym and write for children
• Kristin Cashore (MA 2003), author of Graceling
• Mackenzi Lee (MFA 2014), author of The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
• Breanna J. McDaniel (MA 2014), author of the Coretta Scott King Illustration Award winning Go Forth and Tell: The Life of Augusta Baker, Librarian and Master Storyteller
• Gabe Cole Novoa (MFA 2019), New York Times bestselling author of speculative fiction featuring marginalized characters grappling with identity
• Sasha Lamb (MA/MS 2020), author of The Forbidden Book (Arthur A. Levine-Levine Querido, 2024), winner of the Sydney Taylor Book Award silver medal in the young adult category
• A number of judges for the
  Boston Globe-Horn Book Award

• Nancy Bond
• Anita Silvey

• Simmons College Center for the Study of Children's Literature