Prizing Children's Literature

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.

• ContentsAcknowledgementsA Prize-Losing IntroductionKenneth B. Kidd & Joseph T. Thomas, Jr.Chapter I: Prizing National and Transnational: Australian Texts in the Printz AwardClare BradfordChapter II: Prizing the Unrecognized: Systems of Value, Visibility, and the First World in International and Translated Children’s TextsAbbie VenturaChapter III: The Guys Are the Prize: Adolescent Fiction, Masculinity, and the Political Unconscious of Australian Book Awards Erica HateleyChapter IV: How Award-Winning Children’s Nonfiction Complicates Stereotypes Joe Sutliff Sanders, Katlyn M. Avritt, Kynsey M. Creel, & Charlie C. LynnChapter V: The Last Bastion of Aesthetics? Formalism and the Rhetoric of Excellence in Children’s Literary AwardsRobert Bittner & Michelle SuperleChapter VI: The Still Almost All-White World of Children’s Literature: Theory, Practice, and Identity-Based Children’s Book Awards June CumminsChapter VII: The Pura Belpré Medal: The Latino/a Child in America, the "Need" for Diversity, and Name-branding LatinidadMarilisa Jiménez GarciaChapter VIII: Peter’s Legacy: The Ezra Jack Keats Book AwardRamona CaponegroChapter IX: Race and the Prizing of Children’s Literature in Canada: Spotlighting Canada’s Governor General’s Literary AwardsBarbara McNeilChapter X: Finding Nominations: Children’s Films at the Academy AwardsPeter C. KunzeChapter XI: Prizing Popularity: How the Blockbuster Book Has Reshaped Children’s LiteratureRebekah FitzsimmonsChapter XII: The Archive Award, or the Case of de Grummond’s GoldEmily MurphyChapter XIII: ApologiaMichael Joseph & Joseph T. Thomas, Jr.Chapter XIV: Prizing in the Children’s Literature AssociationKenneth B. KiddContributorsWorks Cited

"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