Dust Off the Gold Medal: Rediscovering Children's Literature at the Newbery Centennial - Paperback

by Sara L. Schwebel (Editor), Jocelyn Van Tuyl (Editor)

Dust Off the Gold Medal provides a scholarly analysis of representative but understudied Newbery Medal books from the 1920s through the 2010s, interrogating the disjunction between the books' influence and the critical silence surrounding them.

Author Biography

Sara L. Schwebel is Director of the Center for Children's Books and Professor of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Child-Sized History: Fictions of the Past in U.S. Classrooms (2011); and the editor of Island of the Blue Dolphins: The Complete Reader's Edition (2016) and The Lone Woman and Last Indians Digital Archive.

Jocelyn Van Tuyl is Professor of French at New College of Florida. She is the author of André Gide and the Second World War: A Novelist's Occupation (2006), which was supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities; and the author-translator of André Gide et la Seconde Guerre mondiale: l'Occupation d'un homme de lettres (2017).