Picturing Canada wins international award

School of Library, Archival and Information Studies (SLAIS) faculty member Judith Saltman and co-author Gail Edwards, Chair of the history department at Douglas College and adjunct faculty member at SLAIS, have been honoured with a global award for children’s literature research.

The award was announced at the recent IRSCL Congress held in Brisbane Australia. 

Picturing Canada: A History of Canadian Children’s Illustrated Books and Publishing has won the International Research Society for Children’s Literature (IRSCL) Award for a distinguished book by an IRSCL member published in the two years prior to the Congress.

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