Awarded annually by the Children's Literature Association to recognize outstanding book-length contributions to children's literature history, scholarship, and criticism. Eligible titles must be published, book-length works on the history of and/or scholarship or criticism on children's literature, written in English exclusively by the author(s) whose name(s) appear on the title page, and bearing an original copyright date of the year under consideration. (CLA website:
http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/chla/)