Children's Literature Association Awards for Literary Criticism

2000:    Winner: Adams, Gillian. "Medieval Children's Literature" Its Possibility and Actuality." Children's Literature 26 (1998): 1-24.

              Honor Article: Wood, Naomi J. "Gold Standards and Silver Subversion: Treasure Island and the Romance of Money." Children's Literature 26 (1998): 61-85

1999:    Winner: Knoepflmacher, U. C. "Kipling's 'Just-So' Partner: The Dead Child as Collaborator and Muse." Children's Literature 25 (1997): 24-49.

              Honor Article: Kutzer, Daphne M. "A Wilderness Inside: Domestic Space in the Work of Beatrix Potter." The Lion and the Unicorn 21.2 (1997): 204-14.

              Honor Article (declined): Nodelman, Perry. "Ordinary Monstrosity: The World of Goosebumps." ChLA Quarterly 22 (1997): 118-25.

1998:    Winner: Armstrong, Frances. "The Doll House as Ludic Space, 1690-1920." Children's Literature 24 (1996): 23-54.

             Honor Article: Westbrook, David. "Readers of Oz: Young and Old, Old and New Historicists."   ChLA Quarterly 21 (1996): 111-119.

1997:    Winner: Bosmajian, Hamida. "Memory and Desire in the Landscapes of Maurice Sendak's Dear Mili." The Lion and the Unicorn 19 (1995): 186-210.

             Honor Article: Clark, Beverly Lyon. "Domesticating the School Story, Regendering the Genre: Alcott's Little Men." New Literary History: A Journal of Theory and Interpretation 26 (1995): 323-42.

1996:    Winner: Bixler, Phyllis. "The Secret Garden 'Misread': The Broadway Musical as Creative Interpretation." Children's Literature 22 (1994): 101-23.

             Runner-Up: Neumeyer, Peter. "We Are All in the Dumps With Jack and Guy: Two Nursery Rhymes with Pictures by Maurice Sendak." Children's Literature in Education 25.1 (1994): 29-40.

            Honorable Mentions: Plotz, Judith. "Secret Garden II; or, Lady Chatterly's Lover as Palimpsest." ChLA Quarterly 19.1 (1994): 15-19.

            Walters, Karla. "Seeking Home: Secularizing the Quest for the Celestial City in Little Women and The Wizard of Oz." Religion and Society 34 (1994).

            Nelson, Claudia. "Fantasies de Siecle: Sex and Sexuality in the Late Victorian Fairy Tale." Transforming Genres: New Approaches to British Fiction of the 1890s. Ed. Nikki Lee Manos and Meri-Jane Rochelson. New York: St. Martin's, 1994.

1995:    Winner: Phillips, Jerry. "The Mem Sahib, The Worthy, the Rajah and His Minions: Some Reflections on the Class Politics of The Secret Garden." The Lion and the Unicorn 17.2 (1993): 168-194.

             Runner-Up: Hendler, Glenn. "Tom Sawyer's Masculinity." Arizona Quarterly 49.4 (Winter 1993): 33-59.

1994:    Winner: Higonnet, Margaret. "Civility Books, Child Citizens and Uncivil Antics." Poetics Today 13.1 (Spring 92): 123-40.

             Runner-Up: Knoepflmacher, U. C. "Female Power and Male Self-Assertion: Kipling and the Maternal." Children's Literature 20 (1992): 15-35.

1993:    Winner: Moebius, William. "Room with a View: Bedroom Scenes in Picture Books." Children's Literature 19 (1991): 53-74.

             Runner-Up: Meyers, Mitzi. "Romancing the Moral Tale: Maria Edgeworth and the Problematics of Pedagogy." Romanticism and Children's Literature in Nineteenth-Century England, ed. James Holt MacGavran, Jr. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1991: 96-128.

1992:    Winner: Perrot, Jean. "Maurice Sendak's Ritual Cooking of the Child in Three Tableaux: The Moon, Mother, Music." Children's Literature 18 (1990): 68-86.

             Runner-Up: Fisher, Leona W. "Mystical Fantasy for Children: Silence and Community. The Lion and the Unicorn 14.2 (Dec. 1990): 37-56.

1991: No Award

1990: No Award

1989:    Winner: Hollindale, Peter. "Ideology and the Children's Book." Signal 55 (Jan 1988): 1-22.

             Runner-Up: Shires, Linda M. "Fantasy, Nonsense, Parody, and the Status of the Real: The Example of Carroll." Victorian Poetry 26.3 (Fall 1988): 267-83.

1988:    Winner: Higonnet, Margaret R. "Narrative Fractures and Fragments." Children's Literature 15 (1987): 37-54.

             Runner-Up: Paul, Lissa. "Enigma Variations: What Feminist Theory Knows about Children's Literature." Signal 54 (Sept. 1987): 186-202.

1987:    Winner: Meyers, Mitzi. "Impeccable Governesses, Rational Dames, and Moral Mothers: Mary Wollstonecraft and the Female Tradition in Georgian Picture Books" Children's Literature 14 (1986): 31-59.

             Runners-Up [tied]: DeLuca, Geraldine. "Lives and Half-Lives: Biographies of Women for Young Adults." Children's Literature in Education 17 (Winter 1986): 241-52.