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 Secret Speech (novel) the editing is slipshod", stating that "phrases such as "[l]owering his feet, the floor seemed to move" nag like the throbbing of a toothache"; he does, however, recognise that "this is a novel that really, really wants to be a movie". The Secret Speech (novel) The Secret Speech is the second novel in a trilogy by British author Tom Rob Smith; it was released in April 2009. The book features a repeat appearance of Leo Stepanovich Demidov, the protagonist of Smith's first book, "Child 44" (2008). "The Secret Speech" is a further exploration of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin created.