2008 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner

Children’s Literature: A Reader’s History: Reader’s History from Aesop to Harry Potter
Seth Lerer
Ever since children have learned to read, there has been children’s literature. Children’s Literature charts the makings of the Western literary imagination from Aesop’s fables to Mother Goose, from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland to Peter Pan, from Where…
2008 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Shortlist

Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life Of Jean-Luc Godard
Richard Brody

Maimonides: The Life and World of One of Civilization’s Greatest Minds
Joel L. Kraemer

Orpheus in the Bronx: Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry
Reginald Shepherd
