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Prizing Children's Literature Better Beginnings Perhaps in no other countryChildren's book awards have mushroomed since the early twentieth century and especially since the 1960s, when literary prizing became a favored strategy for both commercial promotion and canon making. There are over 300 awards for English language titles alone, but despite the profound impact of childrens book awards, scholars have paid relatively little attention to them. This book is the first scholarly volume devoted to the analysis of Anglophone