Prizing Children's Literature: The Cultural Politics of Children's Book Awards by Joseph T. Thomas Jr., Kenneth B. Kidd

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

Joseph T. Thomas Jr., Kenneth B. Kidd

248 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

informative slow-paced

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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...

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