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 Helmer, Dona. Reference sources for children's and young adult literature. Chicago: Booklist Publications, American Library Association, 1996.

Smith, Elva Sophronia. Elva S. Smith's The history of children's literature: a syllabus with selected bibliographies. Rev. and enl. ed. by Margaret Hodges and Susan Steinfirst. Chicago: American Library Association, 1980.
 

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, Columbia University, 1955.

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

HISTORIES AND SURVEYS

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.

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.
 

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 Co., 1987.

Carpenter, Humphrey, and Mari Prichard. The Oxford companion to children's literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984.

Chester, Tessa. Sources of information about children's books. Stroud, Gloucester: Thimble Press in association with Westminster College, Oxford, 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.

Sarkissian, Adele. Children's authors and illustrators: an index to biographical dictionaries. 2d ed. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1978.

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.
 

GUIDES TO GENRES, SUBJECTS, & SPECIAL TOPICS

FICTION & FANTASY

Lynn, Ruth Nadelman. Fantasy literature for children and young adults: an annotated bibliography. 3rd ed. New York: R.R. Bowker Co., 1989.

Pflieger, Pat, and Helen M. Hill. Reference guide to modern fantasy for children. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1984.

Spencer, Pamela G. What do young adults read next?: a reader's guide to fiction for young adults. Detroit: Gale Research, 1994.

Waggoner, Diana. The hills of faraway: a guide to fantasy. New York: Atheneum, 1978.

HISTORY

Adamson, Lynda G. A reference guide to historical fiction for children and young adults. New York: Greenwood Press, 1987.

Metzner, Seymour. American history in juvenile books; a chronological guide. New York, H. W. Wilson Co., 1966.

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 Pub., 1994.

POETRY

Children & poetry: a selective, annotated bibliography. Compiled by Virginia Haviland, Head, Children's Literature Center, and William Jay Smith, Consultant in Poetry, 1968-70. 2d ed., rev. Washington: Library of Congress, 1979.

SCIENCE

Bringing the world alive: a bibliography of nature stories for children. New York: Orion Society, 1995.

Richter, Bernice, and Duane Wenzel. The Museum of Science and Industry basic list of children's science books, 1988. Chicago: American Library Association, 1988.
 

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.
 
 

GENDER AND MULTI-CULTURAL THEMES

Children's books from other countries. Ed. Carl M. Tomlinson. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 1998.

Dodsen, Shireen. 100 books for girls to grow on. New York : HarperCollins Publishing Inc., 1998.

Elleman, Barbara. Children's books of international interest. 3rd ed. Chicago: American Library Association, 1984.

A guide to non-sexist children's books, volume II, 1976-1985. Ed. Denise Wilms and Irene Cooper. Chicago: Academy Chicago Publishers, 1987.

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

Marley, Anne. Fair's fair: an annotated list of books with positive images of age, culture, gender, disability and class. [Newcastle-under-Lyme, England?]: Youth Libraries Group, 1996.

Miller-Lachmann, Lyn. Our family, our friends, our world: an annotated guide to significant multicultural books for children and teenagers. New Providence, N.J.: R.R. Bowker, 1992.

Odean, Kathleen. Great books for boys: more than 600 books for boys 2 to 14. New York : Ballantine Books, 1998.

Odean, Kathleen. Great books for girls: more than 600 books to inspire today's girls and tomorrow's women. New York: Ballantine Books, 1997.

Povsic, Frances F. Eastern Europe in children's literature: an annotated bibliography of English-language books. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1986.

Schon, Isabel. Recommended books in Spanish for children and young adults, 1991-1995. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 1997.
 
 

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.

Horn book 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.