International Research Society for Children's Literature

An international society devoted to promoting research
and scholarship in children’s literature.

 

IRSCL AWARD

The IRSCL Award was established in 1994. It is presented to a book which makes a most distinguished contribution to children’s literature research, published in the two (calender) years prior to the year of the congress in 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 nominations.

Nominations for the 2003 Award should be sent to the Board before March 1, 2003.

Previous winners

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

1997: Rod McGillis, The nimble reader; Literary Theory and Children’s Literature. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1996.

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

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

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