Actually more or less the opposite way around: for the most part the pulpy stuff (and HP, for that matter) was championed as an active rejection of The Morally Improving Newberry Medal Bleakness. By the time that the pulp stuff was happening, those involved in things LIKE the Newberry Medal/etc were already well onto the "if you give me another book where the dog dies I will literally set fire to it" train, to be SUPER BLUNT.
(Listening to GenX children's librarians rant on this topic is fantastic, especially older GenX ones.)
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Date: 2021-04-19 09:59 pm (UTC)(Listening to GenX children's librarians rant on this topic is fantastic, especially older GenX ones.)