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Dust Off the Gold Medal - Rediscovering Children's Literature at the Newbery Centennial (Hardcover)
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Dust Off the Gold Medal - Rediscovering Children's Literature at the Newbery Centennial (Hardcover)
Series: Children's Literature and Culture
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The oldest and most prestigious children's literature award, the
Newbery Medal has since 1922 been granted annually by the American
Library Association to the children's book it deems "most
distinguished." Medal books enjoy an outsized influence on American
children's literature, figuring perennially on publishers' lists,
on library and bookstore shelves, and in school curricula. As such,
they offer a compelling window into the history of US children's
literature and publishing, as well as into changing societal
attitudes about which books are "best" for America's
schoolchildren. Yet literary scholars have disproportionately
ignored the Medal winners in their research. This volume provides a
critically- and historically-grounded scholarly analysis of
representative but understudied Newbery Medal books from the 1920s
through the 2010s, interrogating the disjunction between the books'
omnipresence and influence, on the one hand, and the critical
silence surrounding them, on the other. Dust Off the Gold Medal
makes a case for closing these scholarly gaps by revealing
neglected texts' insights into the politics of children's
literature prizing and by demonstrating how neglected titles
illuminate critical debates currently central to the field of
children's literature. In particular, the essays shed light on the
hidden elements of diversity apparent in the neglected Newbery
canon while illustrating how the books respond-sometimes in quite
subtle ways-to contemporaneous concerns around race, class, gender,
disability, nationalism, and globalism.
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