Thanks to sponsorship by the UW-L School of Education and the Murphy Library Endowment Fund, the Alice Hagar Curriculum Resources Center is able to host annual programs on children’s literature and its integration into the PK-middle school curriculum.
 
The purpose of these events is to introduce the curriculum resources of Murphy Library and highlight its children’s book collection to education students as well as teachers and librarians from school districts in the Coulee Region. Two separate presentations are given for pre-service and in-service teachers. Speakers are local and regional experts in the field.

The images on this page are from the 2007 program, which was titled Books - A Child's Window to the World: International Children's Literature in the Schools. Speakers were Ginny Moore Kruse, Emeritus Director of the Cooperative Children's Book Center in Madison and Catherine Beyers, Learning Materials Center Director, Southern Bluffs School in La Crosse. Over 50 participants attended the panel presentations, which included a session where each participant selected a book from the displays and shared their observations.