the 2016 Grace Abbott Book Prize goes to Catherine Jones's Intimate Reconstructions: Children in Postemancipation Virginia (University of Virginia Press).
Johns Hopkins University Press has featured the latest issue of JHCY on their blog.
The editorial board of the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth has approved the appointments of Corinne T. Field and Nicholas Syrett as co-editors of the journal’s book review section.
The recipient of the Grace Abbott Book Award is Ellen Boucher’s, Empire’s Children: Child Emigration, Welfare, and the Decline of the British World, 1869–1967 (Cambridge, 2014).