The Jane Addams Children's Book Award: Honoring Children's Literature for Peace and Social Justice since 1953

by Susan C. Griffith

This volume looks at the life of activist Jane Addams and examines the books that have received an award bestowed in her name. An advocate for reforms in child labor, sanitation, and other issues, Addams and her accomplishments serve as a focal point of this study, which looks at how social justice has been represented in children's literature over the last seven decades.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810892022
• ISBN13: 9780810892026
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.1"