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Prizing Children's Literature: The Cultural Politics of Children’s Book Awards book cover

1st Edition

Prizing Children's Literature The Cultural Politics of Children’s Book Awards

Edited By Kenneth Kidd, Joseph Thomas Jr. Copyright 2017
264 Pages
by Routledge

262 Pages
by Routledge

262 Pages
by Routledge
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Children's book awards have mushroomed since the early twentieth-century and especially since the 1960s, when literary prizing became a favored strategy for both commercial promotion and canon-making. There are over 300 awards for English-language titles alone, but despite the profound impact of children’s book awards, scholars have paid relatively little attention to them. This book is the first... Read more

Introduction Kenneth B. Kidd and Joseph T. Thomas, Jr. 1. The Last Bastion of Aesthetics? The Influence of Conservative Value Systems on Cultural Gatekeeping Activities in Children’s Literary Awards Robert Bittner and Michelle Superle 2. Whose Prizes Are They, Anyway? The Case for Identity-Based Awards June Cummins 3. Peter’s Legacy: The Role of the Ezra Jack Keats Book Award and ‘Melting Pot’ Books in Multicultural Children’s Literature Ramona Caponegro 4. The Pura Belpré Medal: Name-Branding Latino/a Children’s Literature Marilisa Jiménez Garcia 5. To Humanize the Inhuman: Award-Winning Children’s Nonfiction and the Monsters of History Joe Sutliff Sanders, Katlyn M. Buckley, Kynsey M. Creel, and Charlie C. Lynn 6. Voicing Young Adults in Contemporary Fiction: The Alex Awards and the Popularity of the (Young) Adult Narrator J. D. Isip 7. The Guys are the Prize: Adolescent Fiction, Masculinity, and Australian Book Awards (2010-2013) Erica Hateley 8. Prizing the Already Prized: Systems of Value, Visibility, and Consecration in International and Translated Children’s Texts Abbie E. Ventura 9. Race and the Prizing of Children’s Literature in Canada Barbara McNeil 10. Strange Loops and Poetic Excellence: About 5,000 Words on The Lion and the Unicorn Poetry Award Michael Joseph and Joseph T. Thomas, Jr. 11. Archive Awards, or the Case of de Grummond’s Gold Emily Murphy 12. Prizing Popularity: How the Blockbuster Book Has Shaped Children’s Literature Rebekah Fitzsimmons 13. Finding Nominations: Children’s Films at the Academy Awards Peter C. Kunze 14. Prizing in the Children’s Literature Association Kenneth Kidd

Biography

Kenneth B. Kidd is Professor of English at the University of Florida, USA.

Joseph T. Thomas, Jr, is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University, USA where he also serves as Director of the National Center for the Study of Children’s Literature.

"This indispensable volume engages central questions in our field with admirable frankness and inclusivity of opinion."

- Katharine Capshaw, University of Connecticut, The Lion and the Unicorn

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