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
Frances Hodgson Burnett the distraction of charity work and formed the Drury Lane Boys' Club, hosting an opening in February 1892. Also during this period she wrote a play with a starring role for Stephen Townsend in an attempt to begin his acting career. After a two-year absence from her Washington, D.C. home, her husband, and her younger son, Burnett returned there in March 1892, where she continued charity work and began writing again. In 1893, Burnett published an autobiography, devoted to her eldest son, titled "The One I Knew Best of All". Also in that year, she had a set of her