Dr. Brett Elizabeth Blake and her father, Dr. Robert W. Blake, have authored the book, Literacy and Learning. A Reference Handbook. The book is a compendium of resource materials and current practice that answers two basic questions: "What is literacy?" and "How do individuals become literate?" Topics include alphabetic literacy, its effect upon reading and writing, and the conditions that promote social literacy as well as instructional strategies for teaching literacy, emergent literacy, beginning and developmental reading instruction, and reading and responding to literature. Brett Elizabeth Blake is an associate professor and director of Graduate Adolescent Education Programs at St. Johns University, New York City. Her next book, The Culture of Refusal. The Lives and Literacies of Out-of-School Adolescents, will be published this spring. Blake is a 1974 graduate of the Brockport High School. Robert W. Blake, Professor Emeritus of the Department of Education and Human Development, SUNY College at Brockport, was formerly director of the Undergraduate English Education Program, the Graduate English Education Program, and the Graduate Program Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL).