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BIBLIOGRAPHIES OF CRITICAL STUDIES
General guides and introductions

These are titles that introduce the general area and study of Children's Literature.  They will usually also include scholarship on particular themes, genres, forms, aspects, histories and ideas, but you will need to use their indexes and tables of contents to locate specific material.

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

Eve Bearne and Victor Watson, Where texts and children meet, London; New York: Routledge, 2000
hmc 820.99282 WHER

Sandra L. Beckett. (ed.), Reflections of change : children's literature since 1945, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1997
hmc 809.89282 REFL

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

Bernice Cullinan & Lee Galda, Cullinan and Galda's Literature and the Child, 5th ed., Belmont CA : Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, 2002
hq 028.55 CULL
 

Paul Hazard, Books, children & men, Boston: Horn Book, [1960].
hmc 028.5 16

Betsy Hearne (ed.), The Zena Sutherland lectures, 1983-1992, New York: Clarion Books, c1993
hmc 028.5 ZENA

Peter Hunt (ed.), Children's literature, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2001
hmc 820.99282 HUNT

Peter Hunt (ed.), International companion encyclopedia of children's literature, London; New York: Routledge, 1996.
href 809.89282 INTE

Karin Lesnik-Oberstein (ed.), Children's Literature: new approaches, New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004
hmc 820.99282 CHIL

John McKenzie, Doreen Darnell and Anna Smith (ed.), Cinderella transformed: multiple voices and diverse dialogues in children's literature, Christchurch, NZ. ; Centre for Children's Literature, 2003
hmc 809.89282 CIND

Margaret Meek, Aidan Warlow, Griselda Barton (ed.), The Cool web : the pattern of children's reading, London: Bodley Head, 1977
hmc 028.5 COOL

Perry Nodelman and Mavis Reimer, The pleasures of children's literature, 3rd ed., Boston : Allyn & Bacon, 2003
hmc 809.89282 NODE
 

David L. Russell, Literature for children : a short introduction, New York: Longman, c1997
hmc 028.5 RUSS

Myra and David Sadker, Now upon a time : a contemporary view of children's literature, New York : Harper & Row, c1977
hlnf 028.5 SADK

Maurice Saxby, Give them wings : the experience of children's literature, South Melbourne: Macmillan 1991
hmc 028.5 GIVE

John W. Stewig, Children and literature, Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c1988
hmc028.5 STEW

Zena  Sutherland, Children & books, New York : Longman, c1997
hmc 028.5 SUTH

Deborah Cogan Thacker and Jean Webb, Introducing children's literature : from romanticism to post-modernism, London : Routledge, 2002
hmc 809.89282 THAC

John Rowe Townsend, Written for children : an outline of English-language children's literature, Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1996
hmc 820.99282 TOWN

Travellers in time : past, present, and to come, Cambridge: CLNE/Green Bay, c1990
hq 028.5 TRAV

Victor Watson (ed.), The Cambridge guide to children's books in English, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001
href 820.99282 CAMB

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