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Visions and Values : The Children’s Book Council of Australia’s Prizing of Picture Books in the Twenty-First Century
2016
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criticism
— Appears in: Canon Constitution and Canon Change in Children's Literature 2016; (p. 205-221)'The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) administers the oldest national prize for children’s literature in Australia. Each year, the CBCA confers “Book of the Year” awards to literature for young people in five categories: Older Readers, Younger Readers, Early Childhood, Picture Books and Information Books. In recent years the Picture Book category has emerged as a highly visible space within which the CBCA can contest discourses of cultural marginalization which construct Australian (‘colonial’) literature as inferior or adjunct to the major Anglophone literary traditions, and children’s literature as lesser than its adult counterpart. The CBCA has moved from asserting its authority by withholding judgment in the award’s early years towards asserting expertise via overtly politicized selections in the twenty-first century. Reading across the CBCA’s selections of picture books allows for insights into wider trends in Australian children’s literature and culture, and suggests a conscious engagement with social as well as literary values on the part of the CBCA in the twenty-first century.'
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Seventy Years : A Cause for Celebration
2015
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— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , November vol. 30 no. 5 2015; (p. 20-21) -
Australian Children's Books Honoured in U.S.A.
1947
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— Appears in: The Australasian Book News and Literary Journal , October vol. 2 no. 4 1947; (p. 180) -
1947 Children's Book Week
1947
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— Appears in: The Australasian Book News and Literary Journal , July vol. 2 no. 1 1947; (p. 39) -
Biography of An Emu
1946
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review
— Appears in: The Australasian Book News and Library Journal , December vol. 1 no. 6 1946; (p. 271)
— Review of The Story of Karrawingi the Emu 1946 single work children's fiction
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Biography of An Emu
1946
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australasian Book News and Library Journal , December vol. 1 no. 6 1946; (p. 271)
— Review of The Story of Karrawingi the Emu 1946 single work children's fiction -
1947 Children's Book Week
1947
single work
column
— Appears in: The Australasian Book News and Literary Journal , July vol. 2 no. 1 1947; (p. 39) -
Australian Children's Books Honoured in U.S.A.
1947
single work
column
— Appears in: The Australasian Book News and Literary Journal , October vol. 2 no. 4 1947; (p. 180) -
Seventy Years : A Cause for Celebration
2015
single work
column
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , November vol. 30 no. 5 2015; (p. 20-21) -
Visions and Values : The Children’s Book Council of Australia’s Prizing of Picture Books in the Twenty-First Century
2016
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Canon Constitution and Canon Change in Children's Literature 2016; (p. 205-221)'The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) administers the oldest national prize for children’s literature in Australia. Each year, the CBCA confers “Book of the Year” awards to literature for young people in five categories: Older Readers, Younger Readers, Early Childhood, Picture Books and Information Books. In recent years the Picture Book category has emerged as a highly visible space within which the CBCA can contest discourses of cultural marginalization which construct Australian (‘colonial’) literature as inferior or adjunct to the major Anglophone literary traditions, and children’s literature as lesser than its adult counterpart. The CBCA has moved from asserting its authority by withholding judgment in the award’s early years towards asserting expertise via overtly politicized selections in the twenty-first century. Reading across the CBCA’s selections of picture books allows for insights into wider trends in Australian children’s literature and culture, and suggests a conscious engagement with social as well as literary values on the part of the CBCA in the twenty-first century.'
Awards
- 1946 inaugural winner CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Book of the Year Award