Prizing children's literature : the cultural politics of children's book awards / edited by Kenneth B. Kidd and Joseph T. Thomas, Jr.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kidd, Kenneth B., editor.

Thomas, Joseph T., 1972- editor.

Series:

Children's literature and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children's literature--Awards.

Children's literature.

Young adult literature--Awards.

Young adult literature.

Children's literature--Illustrations--Awards.

Young adult literature--Illustrations--Awards.

Children's literature--History and criticism.

Book industries and trade--Awards.

Book industries and trade.

Children--Books and reading.

Children.

Awards.

Genre:

Young adult works.

Physical Description:

vi, 248 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.

Summary:

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 scholarly volume devoted to the analysis of Anglophone children's book awards in historical and cultural context. With attention to both political and aesthetic concerns, the book offers original and diverse scholarship on prizing practices and their consequences in Australia, Canada, and especially the United States. Contributors offer both case studies of particular awards and analysis of broader trends in literary evaluation and elevation, drawing on theoretical work on canonization and cultural capital. Sections interrogate the complex and often unconscious ideological work of prizing, the ongoing tension between formalist awards and so-called identity-based awards-all the more urgent in light of the "We Need Diverse Books" campaign-the ever-morphing forms and parameters of prizing, and scholarly practices of prizing. Among the many awards discussed are the Pura Belpré Medal, the Inky Awards, the Canada Governor General Literary Award, the Printz Award, the Best Animated Feature Oscar, the Phoenix Award, and the John Newbery Medal, giving due attention to prizes for fiction as well as for non-fiction, poetry, and film. This volume will interest scholars in literary and cultural studies, social history, book history, sociology, education, library and information science, and anyone concerned with children's literature. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Prizing National and Transnational: Australian Texts in the Printz Award / Clare Bradford Bradford, Clare 19

2 Prizing the Unrecognized: Systems of Value, Visibility, and the First World in International and Translated Children's Texts / Abbie Ventura Ventura, Abbie 32

3 The Guys Are the Prize: Adolescent Fiction, Masculinity, and the Political Unconscious of Australian Book Awards / Erica Hateley Hateley, Erica 45

4 How Award-Winning Children's Non-fiction Complicates Stereotypes / Joe Sutlife Sanders Sanders, Joe Sutlife, Katlyn M. Avritt Avritt, Katlyn M., Kynsey M. Creel Creel, Kynsey M., Charlie C. Lynn Lynn, Charlie C. 58

5 The Last Bastion of Aesthetics? Formalism and the Rhetoric of Excellence in Children's Literary Awards / Robert Bittner Bittner, Robert, Michelle Superle Superle, Michelle 73

6 The Still Almost All-White World of Children's Literature: Theory, Practice, and Identity-Based Children's Book Awards / June Cummins Cummins, June 87

7 The Pura Belpré Medal: The Latino/a Child in America, the "Need" for Diversity, and Name-branding Latinidad / Marilisa Jiménez García García, Marilisa Jiménez 104

8 Peter's Legacy: The Ezra Jack Keats Book Award / Ramona Caponegro Caponegro, Ramona 118

9 Race and the Prizing of Children's Literature in Canada: Spotlighting Canada's Governor General's Literary Awards / Barbara McNeil McNeil, Barbara 130

10 Finding Nominations: Children's Films at the Academy Awards / Peter C. Kunze Kunze, Peter C. 144

11 Prizing Popularity: How the Blockbuster Book Has Reshaped Children's Literature / Rebekah Fitzsimmons Fitzsimmons, Rebekah 155

12 The Archive Award, or the Case of de Grummond's Gold / Emily Murphy Murphy, Emily 167

13 Apologia / Michael Joseph Joseph, Michael, Joseph T. Thomas, Jr. Thomas, Joseph T., Jr. 177

14 Prizing in the Children's Literature Association / Kenneth B. Kidd Kidd, Kenneth B. 193.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138650541

1138650544

OCLC:

943695811