May Hill Arbuthnot Lecture of African American heritage". She is the author of more than 20 books and founder of the "first African American children's book imprint at a major publishing company": Jump at the Sun at Hyperion Books for Children, the Disney Book Group (now Disney Publishing Worldwide). She is vice president and editor-at-large, Scholastic Trade Books. University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee has hosted two lectures. Two lecture titles allude to "The Secret Garden", a 1911 novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. May Hill Arbuthnot Lecture The May Hill Arbuthnot Lecture is an annual event sponsored by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a
The Shuttle (novel) The Shuttle (novel) The Shuttle is a 1907 novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, republished in 2007 by Persephone Books. One of Burnett's longer and more complicated books for adults, it deals with themes of intermarriages between wealthy American heiresses and impoverished British nobles. Sir Nigel Anstruthers comes to New York in search of an heiress, as he no longer has enough money to keep up his estate, Stornham Court. He marries the pretty and cosseted Rosalie Vanderpoel, the daughter of an American millionaire. But on their return to England, Nigel and his mother control and isolate Rosalie from her family.