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Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Gold Medal and the Ivory Tower
Sara L. Schwebel and Jocelyn Van Tuyl
1 The Dark Frigate (1924) and the Use of Masculinity in Early Newbery Culture
Paul Ringel
2 Punching Up, Punching Down: Anticolonial Resistance and Brahmanical Ideologies in Gay-Neck: The Story of a Pigeon (1928)
Poushali Bhadury
3. Sounding the Broken Note: The Trumpeter of Krakow (1929) and Polish History
Kenneth B. Kidd
4 Invincible Nina: Louisa May Alcott and the Depression-Era Feminism of Invincible Louisa (1934)
Anne K. Phillips and Gregory Eiselein
5 The Most Scorned of the Newbery Medalists?: Daniel Boone (1940)
Beverly Lyon Clark
6 In the Tradition of Cannibal Talk: Call it Courage (1941)
Mary K. Bercaw Edwards
7 Of Sultans, Studs, and Stable Boys: Equine and Literary Lineage in King of the Wind (1949)
Megan L. Musgrave
8 Double Dutch Nostalgia: The Wheel on the School (1955)
Anna Lockhart
9 Lost Cat: It’s Like This, Cat (1964) and the Invention of Young Adult Literature
Kathleen T. Horning and Jocelyn Van Tuyl
10 Vision, Visibility, and Disability: Re-Seeing The Summer of the Swans (1971) and The Westing Game (1979)
Sara K. Day and Paige Gray
11 The Women’s Poetry Movement and the Affordance of the Lyric: A Visit to William Blake’s Inn (1982)
Donelle Ruwe
12 "One Jew, one half-Jew, a WASP, and an Indian": Diversity in The View from Saturday (1997)
Adrienne Kertzer
13 Ghosts of Japanese/American History in Kira-Kira (2005)
Giselle Liza Anatol
14 Playing to Win the Newbery: Black Boyhood in The Crossover (2015)
Rachel L. Rickard Rebellino and Rebekah May Degener
Contributors
Index
About the author
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).
Summary
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.
