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Congratulations to Kimberley Reynolds, who recently won the Children’s Literature Association Book Award for her 2007 book, Radical Children’s Literature:  Future Visions and Aesthetic Transformations in Juvenile Fiction. Clare Bradford’s Unsettling Narratives:  Postcolonial Readings of Children’s Literature (2007) was named an Honor Book. 

IRSCL members Björn Sundmark and Christopher Kelen announce the following Paper Call: “Nations of childhood” The emergence of modern nation-states can be seen as coinciding with the historical rise of children’s literature. Similarly, stateless or diasporic nations, have frequently formulated their national consciousness and experience through children’s literature. Nor is the connection between childhood and [...]