Books in the Children's Literature and Culture series

The Embodied Child: Readings in Children's Literature and Culture is an innovative and timely collection of essays that offers rich analyses of children's bodies as they are constructed in literature and popular culture.

This is the first scholarly volume to analyze Anglophone children's book awards in historical and cultural context. With attention to both political and aesthetic concerns, it offers original and diverse scholarship on prizing practices and their consequences in Australia, Canada, and especially the US.