Aesop Prize

Beschreibungen

The Aesop Prize and Aesop Accolades are conferred annually by the Children’s Folklore Section of the American Folklore Society upon English language books for children and young adults, both fiction and nonfiction.

About the Prize

The Prize and the Accolades are for books published in the previous two years. Winners are announced at the annual meeting of the American Folklore Society each October. The Prize was first awarded in 1992. The Accolades were first awarded in 1993.

Prize Review Criteria

Folklore should be central to the book’s content and, if appropriate, to its illustrations.

The folklore presented in the book should accurately reflect the culture and worldview of the people whose folklore is the focus of the book.

The reader’s understanding of folklore should be enhanced by the book, as should the book be enhanced by the presence of folklore.

The book should reflect the high artistic standards of the best of children’s literature and have strong appeal to the child reader.

Folklore sources must be fully acknowledged and annotations referenced within the bound contents of the publication.

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