Louise Seamen Bechtel Fellowship Past Winners

* Please note: articles were not written or not available electronically for all years/winners.

• 2023 award: No fellows were selected.
• 2022 award: J. Joseph Prince
• 2021 award: No fellows were selected.
• 2020 award: No fellows were selected.
• 2019 award: Beth McIntyre and Caroline Ward
  A Primer on Primers: How Children Were Taught to Read, 1800 to 1950 by Caroline Ward
• 2018 award: Anne Mlod, JoAnna Schofield, and Lisa Von Drasek
• 2017 award: Angela Reynolds, The Better to See You With: Peering into the Story of Little Red Riding Hood, 1695–1939
• 2016 award: Bridgid Mangan and Wendy Stephens
  Illustrator Extraordinaire: Bechtel Fellow Enthralled by Arthur Rackham by Bridgid Mangan
  Young Voices from the Field and Home Front: World War II as Depicted in Contemporary Children’s Literature by Wendy Stephens
• 2015 award: No fellows were selected
• 2014 award: Natalie Ziarnik, "Where Fantasy and Facts Meet: Fairy Science Books from 1870 to 1900."
  Published in Children and Libraries, Vol. 13, no. 2, Summer 2015, pp.5-12 as "Where Fantasy and Facts Meet: Fairy Science Books from 1870 to 1900."
• 2013 award: Alison Anson and Susan Wackerbarth: "In a Nutshell: Bechtel Scholar Studies Chapbooks, Sendak"
• 2012 award: Allison Angell, "School Stories"
• 2011 award: Allison G. Kaplan, "Board Books: From Toy to Literacy Tool"
  Published in Children and Libraries, Vol. 10, no. 3, Winter 2012, pp. 41-44 as “From Board to Cloth and Back Again”
  • Victoria Penny: "Rediscovering a Child’s Sense of Wonder: Depictions of Nature and Outdoor Play in Historical Children’s Literature"
• 2010 award: Christina H. Dorr, "Searching for Heroes."
  Published in Children and Libraries , Vol. 9, no. 2, Summer/Fall 2011, pp. 42-49 as "Searching for She-Roes: A Study of Biographies of Historic Women Written for Children."
• 2009 award: Linda Martin, "Storytelling in the Content Areas."
• 2008 award: Mary Elizabeth Land, "Home for the Holidays: The Depiction of Holiday Themes in Books for Children."
  Published in Children and Libraries , Vol. 9, no. 3, Winter 2011, pp. 25-38 as "Home for the Holidays: The Depiction of Holiday Themes in Historical Children's Literature."
• 2007 award: Charmette Kendrick, "The Goblins Will Get Ya: A Survey of Horror in Children's Literature from the 19th and Early 20th Centuries."
  Published in Children and Libraries , Vol. 7, no. 1, Spring 2009, pp. 19-23 as "The Goblins Will Get You: Horror in Children's Literature from the Nineteenth Century."
• 2006 award: Jacquelyn S. Rogers: "The child illustrated: Social roles revealed through dress depicted in 19th and 20th Century children's literature."
  Published in Children and Libraries , Vol. 6, no. 3, Winter 2008, pp. 41-46 as "Picturing the Child in Nineteenth-Century Literature: The Artist, the Child, and a Changing Society."
  • Mary G. Marshall: Anatomy of a book collection: Ruth M. Baldwin and her quest to build an historical children's book collection (1953-1990)
    Published in Children and Libraries, Vol. 12, no. 1, Spring 2014, pp. 21-26 as "The Inimitable Ruth Baldwin: Anatomy of a Collector and a Library."
• 2005 award; research done in 2006: Sharon Deeds: Mother Goose: An historical and social perspective
• 2004 award; research done in 2005:
  Jean Hatfield: Literature of L. Frank Baum, and
  Joyce Laiosa: Alphabet books of the 19th Century
  Published in Children and Libraries, Vol. 9, no. 1, Spring 2011, pp. 28-33 as “A Is for Alligator, Or How a Bechtel Fellow Learns the Alphabet”
• 2003 award; research done in 2004: Mary Humphrey: Heroic quest tales in fairy tales and folk literature
• 2002 award; research done in 2003: Leslie Barban: E. Nesbit and early 20th Century British children's literature.
  Published in Children and Libraries, Vol. 3, no. 1, Spring 2005, pp. 43-47 as "The Evolution of Children's Literature: Getting Sidetracked--Delightfully--at the Baldwin Library."
• 2001 award; research done in 2002: Jane Marino: History and evolution of children's songs
  Published in Children and Libraries , Vol. 1, no. 1, Spring 2003, pp. 17-25 as "Joyful Noise: A Study of Children's Music at the Baldwin Library for Historical Children's Literature."
• 2000 award; research done in 2001: Mary Ann Paulin: Choral reading and poetry for children
• Kathleen Simonetta: Conflict resolution in early children's books
• 1999 award; research done in 2000: Julia Massie: Children's poetry
• 1998 award; research done in 1999: Floyd Dickman: 19th and 20th Century editions of Cinderella
• 1997 award; research done in 1998: Kathy East: Books children would have read in the 1880's, in preparation for establishing a one room 1880's school house for local children to visit.
• 1996 award; research done in 1997: Jan Watkins: Family stories from the 1930's and 1940's
• 1995 award; research done in 1996: Marsha Cutler: Fairy and folk tales to be used in storytelling
• 1994 award; research done in 1995: Kathy Toon: 19th and early 20th Century series books
• 1993 award; research done in 1994: Sue McCleaf Nespeca: 19th and 20th Century pop-up books