Bibliographies - Authorship

BIBLIOGRAPHIES OF CRITICAL STUDIES
Authorship and style

All authors are different artists, and all deal with their craft differently. These titles examine how individual authors have created the works that distinguish them, and how others may approach the art of children's literature.

The call number is to the text held in the Heyward Library.

Belle Alderman and Peter Clayton (ed.), Creative connections : writing, illustrating and publishing children's books in Australia, Melbourne : D.W. Thorpe, 1994
hlnf 808.068 CREA

Frank Barrett, Where was Wonderland? : a traveller's guide to the settings of classic children's books, London : Hamlyn, c1997
hlnf 809.9332 BARRA

Harold Bloom (ed.), Women writers of children's literature, Philadelphia : Chelsea House, 1997
hmc 820.99282 WOME

Eleanor Cameron, The seed and the vision : on the writing and appreciation of children's books, New York : Dutton Children's Books, c1993
hmc 028.5 CAME

John Cech, Angels and wild things : the archetypal poetics of Maurice Sendak, University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, c1995
hq 803.54 SEND/C

Barbara Elleman, Virginia Lee Burton : a life in art, Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2002
hmc 741.642092 BURT/E

Mollie Hunter, Talent is not enough : Mollie Hunter on writing for children, New York : Harper & Row, c1976
hmc 808.068 MACI

Kathleen Kelley-Lainé, Peter Pan : the story of a lost childhood, Shaftesbury, Dorset ; Rockport, Mass. : Element, 1997
hmc 823.912 BARR/K

Joke Linders and Marita de Sterck, Behind the story : children's book authors in Flanders and the Netherlands, [Nederlands? : s.n.], c1996
hmc 839.1 LIND

Margaret Mackey (ed.), Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit: a children's classic at 100, Lanham, MD. : Scarecrow Press, 2002
hmc 823.912 POTT/M

Walter McVitty, Innocence and experience : essays on contemporary Australian children's writers, West Melbourne : Nelson, 1981
hmc A820.99282 MACV

Philip Nel, Dr Seuss, American icon, New York ; Continuum, 2004
hmc 813.52 SEUS/N

Brenda Niall, Seven little billabongs : the world of Ethel Turner and Mary Grant, Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Press, 1979
hmc A823.2 TURN/N

Michael Pollack and Margaret Macnabb, Days never done : the life and work of Hesba Fay Brinsmead, Woollahra, NSW : Unity Press, 2002
hmc A823.3 BRIN/P

Ronald Reichertz, The making of the Alice books : Lewis Carroll's uses of earlier children's literature, Montreal ; Buffalo : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997
hmc 823.8 CARR/R

Michael O'Neal Riley, Oz and beyond : the fantasy world of L. Frank Baum, Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, c1997
hmc 813.4 BAUM/R

Jacqueline Rose, The case of Peter Pan, or, The impossibility of children's fiction, Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993
hmc 823.912 BARR/R

Peter Schakel, Imagination and the arts in C.S. Lewis : journeying to Narnia and other lands, COlumbia : University of Missouri Press, 2002
hmc 823.912 LEWI/S

Maurice Sendak, Caldecott & Co. : notes on books & pictures, London : Reinhardt, 1989, c1988
hmc 028.534 SEND

Brian Sibley, The land of Narnia : Brian Sibley explores the world of C.S. Lewis, New York, NY : Harper & Row, 1990
hlnf 823.912 LEWI/S

Jackie Wullschläger, Inventing wonderland : the lives and fantasies of Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, J.M. Barrie, Kenneth Grahame and A.A. Milne, London : Methuen London, 1995
hmc 823.009 WULL

Richard Wunderlich and Thomas J. Morrisey (ed.), Pinocchio goes post-modern : the perils of a puppet in the United States, New York : Routlege, 2002
hmc 853.8 COLL/W

William Zinsser, Worlds of childhood: the art and craft of writing for children, Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1990
hmc 808.068 WORL

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