Award Announcement

The Editorial Board of Canadian Children's Literature / Littérature canadienne pour la jeunesse, an academic journal housed at and sponsored by the Centre for Research in Young People's Texts and Cultures at the University of Winnipeg, is pleased to report that CCL/LCJ has been named runner-up in the Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ)'s 2006 Awards Competition.

The Council of Editors of Learned Journals, an Allied Organization of the Modern Language Association, is an organization of editors of scholarly journals devoted to study in the humanistic disciplines, with a membership of over 450 editors across North America. The annual CELJ Awards Competition recognizes outstanding achievement in scholarly journal publication. See http://www.celj.org/index.html for more information.

The award for which CCL/LCJ has been named runner-up is The Phoenix Award for Significant Editorial Achievement. This award is for journals that have launched an overall effort of revitalization or transformation within the previous three years. For a journal to be considered, it must feature significant editorial change and may also feature change in design and other aspects of the journal's publication.

In citing CCL/LCJ for the Phoenix Award, the CELJ judges noted that "the change between former and current versions of this journal is immediately apparent, both in content and in aesthetics." The judges also commented that "serious reflections about the mission and nature of the journal" are evident in a new mission statement that "redefines and tightens the journal's focus," and in "improved writing and more pointed emphasis on the relationship between theory and children's literature which deepens and enriches the scholarship." The judges also highlighted CCL/LCJ's return to a bilingual structure.

The award was publicly announced at the MLA Conference in Philadelphia at the CELJ reception on December 27, 2006.

CCL/LCJ moved to the University of Winnipeg in 2005. It is produced under the sponsorship of the Vice President (Research) and the Dean of Arts at the University of Winnipeg and with assistance from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). CCL/LCJ: Canadian Children's Literature / Littérature canadienne pour la jeunesse is a bilingual refereed academic journal focusing on texts for and about children in Canada of all ethnic and cultural backgrounds. For further information about CCL/LCJ, see the journal's website: http://ccl.uwinnipeg.ca/.

Editorial Board
Perry Nodelman, Editor
Mavis Reimer and Anne Rusnak, Associate Editors
Benjamin Lefebvre and Kenneth Meadwell, Members of the Editorial Board
Sharlee Reimer, Administrator

This page last updated 9 March 2007.