Contents
Acknowledgements
A Prize-Losing Introduction
Kenneth B. Kidd & Joseph T. Thomas, Jr.
Chapter I: Prizing National and Transnational: Australian Texts in the Printz Award
Clare Bradford
Chapter II: Prizing the Unrecognized: Systems of Value, Visibility, and the First World in International and Translated Children’s Texts
Abbie Ventura
Chapter III: The Guys Are the Prize: Adolescent Fiction, Masculinity, and the Political Unconscious of Australian Book Awards
Erica Hateley
Chapter IV: How Award-Winning Children’s Nonfiction Complicates Stereotypes
Joe Sutliff Sanders, Katlyn M. Avritt, Kynsey M. Creel, & Charlie C. Lynn
Chapter V: The Last Bastion of Aesthetics? Formalism and the Rhetoric of Excellence
in Children’s Literary Awards
Robert Bittner & Michelle Superle
Chapter VI: The Still Almost All-White World of Children’s Literature: Theory, Practice, and Identity-Based Children’s Book Awards
June Cummins
Chapter VII: The Pura Belpré Medal: The Latino/a Child in America, the "Need" for Diversity, and Name-branding Latinidad
Marilisa Jiménez Garcia
Chapter VIII: Peter’s Legacy: The Ezra Jack Keats Book Award
Ramona Caponegro
Chapter IX: Race and the Prizing of Children’s Literature in Canada: Spotlighting Canada’s Governor General’s Literary Awards
Barbara McNeil
Chapter X: Finding Nominations: Children’s Films at the Academy Awards
Peter C. Kunze
Chapter XI: Prizing Popularity: How the Blockbuster Book Has Reshaped Children’s Literature
Rebekah Fitzsimmons
Chapter XII: The Archive Award, or the Case of de Grummond’s Gold
Emily Murphy
Chapter XIII: Apologia
Michael Joseph & Joseph T. Thomas, Jr.
Chapter XIV: Prizing in the Children’s Literature Association
Kenneth B. Kidd
Contributors
Works Cited
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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