Bibliographies - Picture Books

BIBLIOGRAPHIES OF CRITICAL STUDIES
Picture books and illustration

These titles look at the role of illustration as an authorial mechanism in children's literature, including historical perspectives and individual artists

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

Michele Anstey, Reading the visual : written and illustrated children's literature, Sydney : Harcourt Australia, 2000.
hmc 808.899282 ANST

Evelyn Arizpe and Morag Styles, Children reading pictures: interpreting visual texts, London : RoutledgeFalmer, 2003
hmc 028.5 STYL

Quentin Blake (ed.), Magic pencil : children's book illustration today, London : British Council/British Library, 2002
hlnf 741.642 MAGI

Quentin Blake, Words and pictures, London : Jonathan Cape, 2000
hlnf 741.642 BLAK

Juliet Dusinberre, Alice to the lighthouse : children's books and experiments in art , Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] : Macmillan ; New York : St Martin's Press, 1999
hmc 808.899282 DUSI

William Feaver, When we were young : two centuries of children's book illustration, New York : Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, c1977.
hq 741.642 FEAV

Judith Graham, Pictures on the page, Frecheville [England] : National Association for the Teaching of English, 1990.
hmc 028.5 GRAH

Michael Patrick Hearn, Trinkett Clark and H. Nichols Clark, Myth, magic and mystery: one hundred years of American book illustration, Boulder, CO : Roberts Rinehart, 1996
hq 741.6420973 MYTH

Robert Holden, A golden age, vol.1 - Visions of fantasy, vol. 2 - Through the magic door, Pymble, N.S.W. : Angus & Robertson, 1992
hmc 398.210994 HOLD

Philip Brutton James & Geoffrey Holme, Children's books of yesterday, London & New York : The Studio, 1933
hq 741.642 JAME

Lee Kingman, Joanna Foster, Ruth Giles Lontoft, Illustrators of children's books, 1957-1966, Boston : Horn Book, c1968.
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Lee Kingman, Grace Allen Hogarth, Harriet Quimby, Illustrators of children's books, 1967-1976, Boston : Horn Book, 1978.
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Selma Lanes, The Art of Maurice Sendak, New York : Abrams, 1980
hq 741.6420924 SEND/L

David Lewis, Reading contemporary picturebooks : picturing text, London ; New York : Routledge Falmer, 2001
hmc 809.89282 LEWI

Kerry Mallan, In the picture : perspectives on picture book art and artists, Wagga Wagga, N.S.W. : Centre for Information Studies, Charles Sturt University, 1999
hmc 741.642 MALL

Bertha Mahony, Louise Latimer & Beulah Folsbee, Illustrators of children's books, 1744-1945, Boston : Horn Book, c1947.
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Susan E. Meyer, A treasury of the great children's book illustrators, New York : Abrams, 1983
hq 741.642 MEYE

Marcie Muir, A history of Australian children's book illustration, Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1982
hq 741.642 MUIR

Perry Nodelman, Words about pictures : the narrative art of children's picture books, Athens : University of Georgia Press, c1988
hmc 028.5 NODE

Maureen Leonore O'Brien, Changing value judgments about picture books [thesis], La Trobe University, Bendigo : 1998
hthes 809.89282 OBRI

Henry C. Pitz, Illustrating Children’s Books: history, technique, production, New York : Watson-Guptill Publications, 1963.
hq 741.642 PITZ

Morag Styles and Eve Bearne (ed.), Art, narrative and childhood, Stoke on Trent : Trentham, 2003
hmc 809.89282 ARTN

Ruth Hill Viguers, Marcia Dalphin, Bertha Mahony Miller, Illustrators of children's books, 1946-1956, Boston : Horn Book, 1958
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Joyce Irene Whalley, Cobwebs to catch flies : illustrated books for the nursery and schoolroom, 1700-1900, London : Elek, 1974.
hmc 028.5 WHAL

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