The International Research Society
for Children's Literature















The IRSCL Award
 

The IRSCL Award for outstanding research was established in 1994. It honours a distinguished work in the field of children's literature research published in the two (calender) years prior to the Congress at which it is awarded. The recipient must be an IRSCL member in good standing and must have been nominated by another member. Board members are not eligible for nomination.

The 2007 IRSCL Award for outstanding research will be presented at the 18th biennial congress at Kyoto, Japan, (August 24 - 29, 2007). Nominations for the 2007 Award should be sent to:

Dan Hade
260 Chambers Building
Penn State University
University Park, PA 16802
USA

Email: ddh2@psu.edu

Deadline: 1 March, 2007

The nomination should include your own name, the name of the author of the nominated book, and its bibliographical details (title, place, publisher, year, ISBN number), together with your reason for nominating it. Please do use this opportunity to consider whether you know of a recent book by an IRSCL member which might merit this prestigious award. We look forward to receiving your nominations.

Previous award winners
 
1995:
 When Toys Come Alive: Narratives of Animation, Metamorphosis and Development
by Lois Rostow Kuznets
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994.
 

1997:
 The Nimble Reader: Literary Theory and Children's Literature
by Rod McGillis
New York: Twayne Publishers, 1996.

1999:
 Norsk Barnelitteraturhistorie [The history of Norwegian Children's Literature]
by Tone Birkeland, Gunvor Risa & Karen Beate Vold
Oslo: Det norske samlaget, 1997

2001:
 Kinderliterarische Komparatistik [Comparative Children's Literature]
by Emer O'Sullivan
Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, 2000
 

2003:
 Reading Race: Aboriginality in Australian Children's Literature
by Clare Bradford
Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 2001
 

2005:
  The Poetics of Childhood
by Roni Natov
New York / London: Routledge, 2003.
 

 



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