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

Contents: 

• Prizing national and transnational: Australian texts in the Printz Award / Clare Bradford
• Prizing the unrecognized: systems of value, visibility, and the first world in international and translated children's texts / Abbie Ventura
• The guys are the prize: adolescent fiction, masculinity, and the political unconscious of Australian book awards / Erica Hateley
• How award-winning children's non-fiction complicates stereotypes / Joe Sutliff Sanders [and others]
• The last bastion of aesthetics? Formalism and the rhetoric of excellence in children's literary awards / Robert Bittner and Michelle Superle
• The still almost all-white world of children's literature: theory, practice, and identity-based children's book awards / June Cummins
• The Pura Belpré Medal: the Latino/a child in America, the "need" for diversity, and name-branding latinidad / Marilisa Jiménez García
• Peter's legacy: the Ezra Jack Keats Book Award / Ramona Caponegro
• Race and the prizing of children's literature in Canada: spotlighting Canada's Governor General's Literary Awards / Barbara McNeil
• Finding nominations: children's films at the Academy Awards / Peter C. Kunze
• Prizing popularity: how the blockbuster book has reshaped children's literature / Rebekah Fitzsimmons
• The archive award, or the case of de Grummond's gold / Emily Murphy
• Apologia / Michael Joseph and Joseph T. Thomas, Jr.
• Prizing in the Children's Literature Association / Kenneth B. Kidd