Bibliographies - History

BIBLIOGRAPHIES OF CRITICAL STUDIES
History of children's literature

These titles look at the historical development of the concept of a separate literature for children (and young adults), as well as genres and issues specific to that field and the roles of particular key figures.

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

Brian Alderson, Sing a song for sixpence : the English picture book tradition and Randolph Caldecott, Cambridge : Cambridge University Press / British Library, 1986
hmc 028.5074 CALD/A

Gillian Avery, Childhood's pattern : a study of the heroes and heroines of children's fiction, 1770-1950, London : Hodder and Stoughton, 1975
hmc 028.5 AVER

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

Jane Bingham (ed.), Fifteen centuries of children's literature : an annotated chronology of British and American works in historical context, Westport, Conn : Greenwood Press, c1980
href 028.5 BING

Mary Cadogan and Patricia Craig, You're a brick, Angela! : a new look at girls' fiction from 1839 to 1975, London : Gollancz, 1976
hmc 823.809 CAD

Michael Cart, From romance to realism : 50 years of growth and change in young adult literature, New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c1996
hmc 028.535 CART

Marcus Crouch, The Nesbit tradition : the children's novel in England, 1945-1970, London : Benn, 1972
hmc 028.5 CRO

Marcus Crouch, Treasure seekers and borrowers : children's books in Britain, 1900-1960, London : Library Association, 1962
hmc 028.5 CRO. 1

F. J. H. Darton, Children's books in England : five centuries of social life, Cambridge : New York : Cambridge University Press, 1982
hmc 028.50942 DART

Patricia Demers & Gordon Moyles (ed.), From instruction to delight : an anthology of children's literature to 1850, Toronto : Oxford University Press, 1982
hmc 028.509 FROM

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

Peter Hunt (ed.), Children's literature : an illustrated history, Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1995
hmc 028.5 CHIL

International Research Society for Children's Literature. Maria Nikolajeva (ed.), Aspects and issues in the history of children's literature, Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1995
hmc 028.509 ASPE

Mary V. Jackson, Engines of instruction, mischief, and magic : children's literature in England from its beginnings to 1839, Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c1989
hmc 820.99282 JACK

Alice M. Jordan, From Rollo to Tom Sawyer : and other papers, Boston : Horn Book, 1948
hmc 028.5 JORD

U. C. Knoepflmacher, Ventures into childland : Victorians, fairy tales, and femininity, Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1998
hmc 820.99282 KNOE

Alison Lurie, Boys and girls together: children's classics from Cinderella to Harry Potter, London ; Chatto and Windus, 2003
hmc 809.89282 LURI

Margaret Crawford Maloney (ed.), English illustrated books for children : descriptive companion to a selection from the Osborne Collection, London ; Toronto : Bodley Head, 1981
hsp 808.899282 ENGL

Percy H. Muir, English children's books : 1600 to 1900, London : Batsford, 1954, 1979 printing
hmc 028.5 MUIR

Brenda Niall, Seven little billabongs : the world of Ethel Turner and Mary Grant, Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Press, 1979
hmc A823.3 TURN/N

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 823.912.CAR/R

Kimberley Reynolds, Girls only? : gender and popular children's fiction in Britain, 1880-1910, Hemel Hempstead : Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1990
hmc 028.5 REYN

Lance Salway (ed.), A peculiar gift : nineteenth century writings on books for children, Harmondsworth : Kestrel Books, 1976
hmc 028.5 PECU

Maurice Saxby, Offered to children : a history of Australian children's literature 1841-1941, Sydney : Scholastic Australia, 1998
hmc A820.99282 SAXB

Maurice Saxby, A history of Australian children's literature 1941-1970, Sydney : Wentworth Books, 1971
hmc A820.99282 SAXB

Maurice Saxby, The proof of the puddin' : Australian children's literature 1970-1990, Sydney : Ashton Scholastic, 1993
hmc A820.99282 SAXB

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

Karen Patricia Smith, The fabulous realm : a literary-historical approach to British fantasy, 1780-1990, Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1993
hmc 820.915 SMIT

Deborah Cogan Thacker and Jean Webb, Introducing children's literature : from Romanticism to Postmodernism, London : Routledge, 2002
hmc 809.89282 THAC

M. F. Thwaite, From primer to pleasure : an introduction to the history of children's books in England from the invention of printing to 1900, with a chapter on some developments abroad, London : Library Association, 1963
hmc 028.5 THWA

John Rowe Townsend (ed.), John Newbery and his books : trade and plumb-cake for ever, huzza! Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1994
hmc 070.50941 JOHN

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

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

Rosemary Wighton, Early Australian children's literature, Surrey Hills, Vic : Casuarina Press, 1979
hmc 820.99282 WIGH

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

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