Children's History, Literature and Culture Resources
 
 

LITERARY HISTORIES AND SURVEYS

Avery, Gillian.  Behold the Child: American Children and Their Books, 1621-1922.  London: Bodley, 1994.

Carpenter, Humphrey.  Secret Gardens: A Study of the Golden Age of Children's Literature. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985.

Darton, F. J. Harvey. Children's Books in England: Five Centuries of Social Life. 3rd ed. Revised by Brian Alderson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.

Halsey, Rosalie Vrylina.  Forgotten books of the American nursery: a history of the development of the American story-book.  Boston: C.E. Goodspeed & Co., 1911.

Hunt, Peter.  Children's Literature: An Illustrated History.  Oxford: Oxford UP, 1995.

Jackson, Mary.  Engines of Instruction, Mischief and Magic: Children's Literature in England from Its Beginnings to 1839.  Lincoln: U Nebraska P, 1989.

Meigs, Cornelia, ed.  A Critical History of Children's Literature: A Survey of Children's Books in English. Rev. ed. [New York]: Macmillan, [1969].

Muir, Percy H.  English Children's Books, 1600 to 1900. New York: Praeger, 1954.

Richardson, Selma K.  Research About Nineteenth-Century Children and Books: Portrait Studies. Urbana: University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science, 1980.

Summerfield, Geoffrey. Fantasy and Reason: Children's Literature in the Eighteenth Century.   London: Methuen & Co., 1984.

Zipes, Jack. Sticks and Stones: The Troublesome Success of Children's Literature from Slovenly Peter to Harry Potter.  New York: Routledge, 2001.
 

MATERIAL AND CONSUMER CULTURE

Giroux, Henry.  Stealing Innocence: Corporate Culture's War on Children.  New York: Palgrave, 2000.

Kinder, Marsha.  Playing With Power in Movies, Television, and Video Games:  From Muppet Babies to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.   Berkeley : U California P, 1991.

Rogers, Mary.  Barbie Culture.  London: Sage, 1999.

Rand, Erica.  Barbie's Queer Accessories.  Durham: Duke UP, 1995.

Seiter, Ellen.  Sold Separately: Parents & Children in Consumer Culture.  New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1993.

Smoodin, Eric, ed.  Disney Discourse: Producing the Magic Kingdom.  New York: Routledge, 1994.

Zelizer, Viviana.  Pricing the Priceless Child: The Changing Social Value of Children.  New York: Basic, 1995.
 

CHILDHOOD IN HISTORY

Aries, Philippe.  Centuries of Childhood: A Social History of Family Life.  New York: Vintage, 1962.

Calvertm Karin.  Children in the House: The Material Culture of Early Childhood.  Boston: Northeastern UP, 1994.

Greenleaf, Barbara.  Children Through the Ages: A History of Childhood.  New York: McGraw, Hill, 1978.

Jenks, Chris.  Childhood.  New York: Routledge, 1996.

Kellerman, Jonanthan.  Savage Spawn: Reflections on Violent Children.  New York: Ballantine, 1999.

Merrian, Eve.  Growing Up Female in America: Ten Lives.  Boston: Beacon P, 1971.

Zornado, J.  Inventinting the Child: Culture, Ideology and the Story of Childhood.  New York: Routledge, 2000.
 

CULTURAL STUDIES AND CRITICAL THEORY

Blum, Virginia.  Hide and Seek: The Child Between Psychoanalysis and Fiction.  Urbana: U Illinois P, 1995.

Giroux, Henry.  Fugitive Cultures: Race, Violence and Youth.  New York: Routledge, 1996.

Hunt, Peter.  Children's Literature: The Development of Criticism.  New York: Routledge, 1990.

Kincaid, James.  Child-Loving: The Erotic Child and Victorian Culture.  New York: Routledge, 1992.

Rose, Jacqueline.  The Case of Peter Pan: The Impossibility of Children's Fiction.  London: Macmillan, 1984.

Zipes, Jack. Sticks and Stones: The Troublesome Success of Children's Literature from Slovenly Peter to Harry Potter.  New York: Routledge, 2001.
 

FAIRY TALES & FANTASY

Bottigheimer, Ruth. Grimms' Bad Girls and Bold Boys: The Moral and Social Vision of the Tales.  New Haven: Yale UP, 1987.

Pflieger, Pat, and Helen M. Hill.  Reference Guide to Modern Fantasy for Children. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1984.

Sale, Roger. Fairy Tales and After: From Snow White to E.B. White.  Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1978.

Tatar, Maria. The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 1987.

Wullschlager, Jackie. Inventing Wonderland: Victorian Childhood as Seen Through the Lives and Fantasies of Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, J.M. Barrie, Kenneth Graham, and A.A. Milne.  New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995.

Zipes, Jack. Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk & Fairy Tales.  New York: Methuen, 1979.

---.  The Brothers Grimm: From Enchanted forests to the Modern World.  New York: Routledge, 1988.

---.  Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion: The Classical Genre for Children and the Process of Civilization.  New York: Routledge, 1985.

---.  Fairy Tale as Myth, Myth as Fairy Tale.  Lexington: U Kentucky P, 1993.

---.  Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales, Children and the Culture Industry.  New York: Routledge, 1997.

---.  Victorian Fairy Tales: The Revolt of the Fairies and Elves.  New York: Routledge, 1989.
 

FEMINISM/GENDER STUDIES

Brown, Lyn and Carol Gilligan.  Meeting at the Crossroads: Women's Psychology and Girls' Development.  New York: Random House, 1992.

Brumberg, Joan.  The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls.  New York: Vintage, 1997.

Cogan, Frances.  All-American Girl: The Ideal of Real Womanhood in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America.  Athens: U Georgia P, 1989.

Nelson, Claudia and Lynne Vallone.  The Girl's Own: Cultural Histories of the Anglo-American Girl, 1830-1915.  Athens, U Georgia P, 1994.
 

ILLUSTRATION

Bader, Barbara. American Picturebooks from Noah's Ark to the Beast Within. New York: Macmillan, 1976.

Benedict, Susan, and Leonre Carlisle.  Beyond Words: Picture Books for Older Readers and Writers. Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 1992.

Lima, Carolyn W. A to Zoo: Subject Access to Children's Picture Books. New York: Bowker, 1982.

Marantz, Sylvia S., and Kenneth A. Marantz.  The Art of Children's Picture Books: A Selective Reference Guide. New York: Garland Pub., 1988.

---. Multicultural Picture Books: Art for Understanding Others.  Worthington, Ohio: Linworth, 1994.

Nikolajeva, Maria and Carole Scott.  How Picturebooks Work.  New York: Routledge, 2000.
 

RACE AND CLASS

Bosmajian, Hamida. Sparing the Child:  Children's Literature about Nazism and the Holocaust.  New York: Routledge, 2001.

Kutzer, M. Daphne. Empire's Children: Empire and Imperialism in Classic Children's Books. New York: Routledge, 2000.

Lind, Beth Beutler. Multi-cultural children's literature: an annotated bibliography, grades K-8. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland and Co., 1996.

MacCann, Donnarae. White Supremecy in Children's Literature.  New York: Routledge, 2000.

McGillis, Roderick.  Voices of the Other: Children's Literature and the Postcolonial Context.  New York: Routledge, 1999.
 

GENERAL REFERENCE GUIDES

Haviland, Virginia. Children's Literature: a guide to reference sources. Washington: Library of Congress, 1966. Haviland and Margaret N. Coughlan, First Supplement, 1972. Second Supplement, 1977.

Kohn, Rita T. Once-upon-a time for young people and their books: an annotated resource guide. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1986.

Denman-West, Margaret W. Children's literature: a guide to information sources. Englewood, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 1998.

Rollins, Deborah and Dona Helmer.  Reference Sources for Children's and Young Adult Literature.  Chicago: American Library Association, 1996.
 

RETROSPECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHIES

Sloane, William Milligan.  Children's Books in England and America in the Seventeenth Century: A History and Checklist.  New York: King's Crown Press, 1955.

Welch, d'Alte. A bibliography of American children's books printed prior to 1821. Worcester, Mass.: American Antiquarian Society, 1972.
 

HANDBOOKS, DICTIONARIES, BIOGRAPHICAL SOURCES

American Writers for Children, 1900-1960. Ed. John Cech. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1983.

American Writers for Children since 1960. Fiction. Ed. Glenn E. Estes. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1986.

American Writers for Children Since 1960. Poets, Illustrators, and Nonfiction authors. Ed. Glenn E. Estes.  Dictionary of Literary Biography. Detroit: Gale Research, 1987.

British Children's Writers, 1800-1880.  Ed. Meena Khorana.  Dictionary of Literary Biography. Detroit: Gale Research, 1996.

Carpenter, Humphrey, and Mari Prichard.  The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1984.

Chester, Tessa. Sources of information about children's books. Stroud, Gloucester: Thimble P, 1989.

The Junior Book of Authors.  Ed. Stanley J. Kunitz and Howard Haycraft. 2nd ed., rev. New York: Wilson, 1951.

Kellman, Amy. Guide to children's Libraries and Literature Outside the United States. Chicago: American Library Association, 1982.

Nakamura, Joyce. Children's Authors and Illustrators: An Index to Biographical Dictionaries. 4th ed. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1987.

Something About the Author (multi-volume series, published annually). Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1986.

West, Mark I. Wellsprings of Imagination: The Homes of Children's Authors. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, 1992.
 

ANNALS

Bingham, Jane, and Grayce Scholt. Fifteen Centuries of Children's Literature: An Annotated Chronology of British and American works in Historical Context. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1980.
 

GUIDES TO COLLECTIONS

Field, Carolyn W., ed.  Special Collections in Children's Literature. Chicago: ALA, 1982.

Fraser, James H. Children's Authors and Illustrators: A Guide to Manuscript Collections in U.S. Research Libraries. New York: K. G. Saur, 1980.

Jones, Dolores Blythe., ed. Special collections in children's literature: an international directory. Chicago: ALA, 1995.
 

AWARDS AND "NOTABLE" LISTS

Brown, Muriel W., and Rita Schoch Foudray. Newbery and Caldecott medalists and honor book winners: bibliographies and resource material through 1991. 2nd ed. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, 1992.

Hearne, Betsy Gould. Choosing books for children: a commonsense guide. New York: Delacorte Press, 1981.

Peterson, Linda Kauffman, and Marilyn Leathers Solt. Newbery and Caldecott Medal and Honor books: an annotated bibliography. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1982.

Smith, Laura J. Children's book awards international: a directory of awards and winners, from inception through 1990. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., 1992.

Sutherland, Zena, Betsy Hearne, and Roger Sutton. The best in children's books: the University of Chicago guide to children's literature, 1985-1990. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.

Sutherland, Zena. The best in children's books: the University of Chicago guide to children's literature, 1979-1984. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986.
 

BIBLIOGRAPHIES

Bingham, Jane M., ed. Writers for children: critical studies of major authors since the seventeenth century. New York: Scribner's, 1988.

Hendrickson, Linnea. Children's literature: a guide to the criticism. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1987.

Rahn, Suzanne. Children's literature: an annotated bibliography of the history and criticism. New York: Garland, 1981.
 

INDEXES

Children's book review index.

Index to literary criticism for young adults.
 
 

JOURNALS

Bookbird.

Book links.

Booklist.

Children's Literature.

Children's literature in education.

Children's literature association quarterly.

Hornbook magazine.

International review of children's literature and librarianship: IRCLL.

Journal of youth services in libraries.

The Lion and the Unicorn.

New advocate.

School library journal.