In Search of Lost Time:

General Bibliography for Children's Imaginative Literature:

• Adler, Patricia A. Peer Power: Preadolescent Culture and Identity. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1998.
• Anderson, William and Patrick. A New Look at Children's Literature. Belmont, Cal: Wadsworth Pub, 1972.
• Arbuthnot, May Hill and Zena Sutherland, ed. Children and Books. NY: Harper Collins, 1991.
• Bang, Molly. Picture This: How Pictures Work. Seastar Books, August 2000.
• -----------. Picture This: Perception and Composition. Bullfinch, 1991.
• Bechtel, Louise Seaman. Books in Search of Children. London: Macmillan, 1969.
• Berger, Laura S., ed. Twentieth Century Young Adult Writers. Detroit: St James 1994.
• Bettelheim, Bruno. The Uses of Enchantment. New York: Knopf, 1976.
• Bingham, Jane and Grayce Scholt. Fifteen Centuries of Children's Literature. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1980.
• Blount, Margaret. Animal Land: The Creature of Children's Fiction. NYWilliam Morrow, 1975.
• Carpenter, Humphrey and Mary Prichard. Oxford Companion to Children's Literature. 1984 (very good and very useful)*
• Commire, Anne, ed. Something About the Author. Detroit: Gale Research, 1981.
• Cuddigan, Maureen and Mary Beth Hanson. Helping Children Deal with Everyday Problems through Reading. Chicago: American Literary Association, 1988.
• Darton, Harvey. Children's Books in England. London: 1933 (updated by Briane Anderson, 3rd edition, 1982; Darton was a family member of one of the major publishing firms of children's literature in the 19th century and had a great deal of amusing and practical or real-world first-hand knowledge about children's books before WWII)..
• Egoff, Sheila. Thursday's Child: Trends and Patterns in Contemporary Children's Literature. Chicago: american Library Association, 1981.
• Ellis, Alec. How to Find Out About Children's Literature. Pergamon Press, 1973 (good guide on where & how to find information)
• Fenner, Phylllis, ed. Something Shared: Children and Books. New York: Day, 1959.
• Fenwick, Sara Innis. A Critical Approach to Children's Literature. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1975.
• Fish, Margaret. Who's Who in Children's Books. New York: Holt Rinheheart & Winston 1975.
• Foerrestell. Most Frequently Banned Books in America. Greenwood Press, 1990.
• Fraser, James H. Society and Children's Literature. Boston: Godine, 1978.
• Georgiou, Constantine. Children and Their Literature. NJ: Prentice Hall, 1969.
• Guroian, Vigen. Tending the Heart of Virtue: How Classic Stories Awaken a Child's Moral Imagination. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
• Halsted, Judith Wynn. Guiding Gifted Readers: from preschool to high school. Ohio Psychology Publishing, 1988.
• Hendrickson, Linnea. Children's LIterature: A guide to the Criticism. New York: 1987
• Hillman, Judith. Discovering Children's Literature. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1995.
• Hoffman, Miriam and Samuels, Eva. Authors and Illustrators of Child's Books: Writing on Their Lives and Works. R. R. Booker Co. 1972
• Holtze, Sally Holmes, ed. Sixth Book of Junior Authors and Illustrators. New York: H.W.Wilson, 1989.
• Hunt, Peter. Criticism, Theory, and Children's Literature. 1991.
• -----------, ed. Understanding Children's Literature: Contemporary Criticism. London: Routledge, 1999.
• Hurlimann, Bettina. Three Centuries of Children's Books in Europe. 1967.
• Inglis, Fred. The Promise of Happiness. New York: Cambridge Univ Press, 1981.
• Jenkins, Henry, ed. The Childrens' Culture Reader. New York University, 1998.
• Jones, Steven Swann. The Fairy Tale. New York: Twayne, 1995.
• Klass, Perri. Reach Out and Read: Literary Promotion in Pediatrics. An Online Lecture.
• Kohl, Herbert. Should We Burn Babar? Questioning Power in Children's Literature. New York: The New Press, 1995.
• Larrick, Nancy. A Parent's Guide to Children's Reading. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1982.
• Lurie, Alison. Boys and Girls Forever: Children's Classics from Cinderella to Harry Potter. New York: Penguin, 2003.
• Lukens, Rebecca J. A Critical Handbook of Children's Literature. New York: Longmans, 1999.
• Mason, Bobbie Ann. The Girl Sleuth. Athens: Univ of Georgia Pr, 1995.
• May, Jill P. Children's Literature and Critical Theory. 1995.
• McClure, Amy & Janice V Kristo. Children's Responses to Literature; Books that Invite, Talk, Wonder and Play. Urbana, Illinois: NCTE, 1996.
• Megaliff, Cecile. The Junior Novel: Its Relationship to Adolescent Reading. New York: Kennikat, 1964.
• Meigs, Cornelia, Anne Eaton, Elizabeth Nesbitt,and Ruth Viguers. A Critical History of Children's Literature. NY: Macmlllan, 1969
• Mercier, Cathryn M. Twentieth-Century Children's Writers. Washington DC: St James Press, 1995
• Mitchell, Sally. The New Girl: Girls' Culture in England, 1880-1915. Columbia University Press, 1995.
• Monseau, Virginia R. Foreward by Chris Crutcher. Responding to Young Adult Literature. New Hampshire: Boynton/Cook, 1996.
• Morris, T. You're only young twice: Children's Literature and Film. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000.
• Nodelman, Perry. The Pleasures of Children's Literature. New York: Longman, 1992.
• Pyles, Marian. Death and Dying in Children's and Young People's Literature. London: McFarland, 1988.
• Reed, Arthea J.S. Comics to Classics: A Parents Guide to Books forTeens and Preteens. International Reading Association, 1988.
• Rose, Jacqueline. The Case of Peter Pan, or The Impossibility of Children's Fiction. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993.
• Russell, D. L. Literature for Children: A Short Introduction. New York: Addison Wesley Longman, 2001.
• Sale, Roger. Fairy Tales and After. London: Harvard Univ Pr, 1978.
• Silvery, Anita. The Essential Guide to Children's Books and Their Creators. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2002.
• Smith, Lillian. The Unreluctant years. Chicago: American Library Ass, 1953.
• Spufford, Francis. The Child that Books Built. New York: Metropolitan, 2002.
• Sutherland, Zena and May Hill Arbuthnot, edd. Children and Books. New York: Harper Collins 1991.
• Steinberg, Shirley and Joe L. Kincheloe. Kinderculture: The Corporate Construction of Childhood. Westview Press, 1997.
• Stephens, Sharon, ed. Children and the Politics of Culture Princeton University Press, 1995.
• Stubbs, Gordon, Ralph Ashley, Egoff, Sheila, et alia, ed. Only Connect: Readings in Children's Literature Chicago: American LIbrary Association, 1981.
• Townsend, John Rowe. Written for Children. 4th edn. 1992.
• Tucker, Nicholas. The Child and the Book. Cambridge: At the University Press, 1981.
• Viguers, Ruth H., Dalphin Marcia, and Miller, Bertha A. Illustrators of Children's Books. Boston: The Horn Book, 1958.
• Walkerdine, Valerie. Daddy's Girl: Young Girls and Popular Culture. Harvard University Press, 1998.
• Walvin, James. A Child's World. New York: Penguin, 1982. There is one chapter on children's books.
• Weeks, Linton. "The Bear Essentials: Berenstain Philosophy Sells, Even If Some Don't Buy It, " The Washington Post, May 13, 1996.
• Weston, Drew. Psychology, Mind, Brain and Culture, ed. Christopher Rogers. 2nd Edition. New York: John Wiley, 1996. This book examines learning methods and behavioral patterns.
• Wojcik-Andrews, Ian. Children's Films : History, Ideology, Pedagogy, Theory, Children's Literature and Culture, Volume 12 . Garland, 2000.
• Zipes, Jack. Happy Ever After: Fairy Tales: Children and the Culture Industry. New York: Routledge, 1997. This book also examines the impact and uses of fairy tales in popular film versions.
• ----------------. The Brothers Grimm. New York: Routledge, 1988.

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