Books about Children's Books 1999

Compiled by Sheila Ray.

This survey does not claim to be comprehensive; the listing below includes titles not specifically mentioned in the essay. Some of the publications originating in the US have earlier publication dates but became available in the UK during 1998. The address of Eurospan, the distributor mentioned several times in these references, is 3 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, London WC2E 8LU.

• Ruth Allen, Children's Book Prizes: An Evaluation and History of Major Awards for Children's Books in the English-Speaking World.
  333 pages. 1 85928 237 7. Ashgate, £49.50.
  
  
  
• Keith Barker, Outstanding Books for Children and Young People: The LA Guide to Carnegie/Greenaway Winners 1937-1997.
  135 pages. 1 85604 287 1. Library Association, £15.95.
  
  
  
• Myra Barrs & Sue Ellis, Reading Together Parents' Handbook.
  12 pages. 0 7445 5708 9. Walker Books, £2.99.
  
  
  
• Myra Barrs & Sue Pidgeon, editors, Boys and Reading.
  49 pages. 1 872267 14 9. Centre for Language in Primary Education, £8.
  
  
  
• Leila Berg, Flickerbox: An Autobiography (1997). Paperback edition.
  256 pages. 1 86207 043 1. Granta, £6.99.
  
  
  
• Catherine Blanshard, Managing Library Services for Children and Young People: A Practical Handbook.
  203 pages. 1 85604 226 X. Library Association, £37.50 (£30 to members).
  
  
  
• Michael Bond, Bears and Forebears: A Life So Far (1997). Paperback edition.
  256 pages. 0 00638771 3. HarperCollins, £6.99.
  
  
  
• Alasdair Campbell with Deborah Gibbons, Outstanding Sequence Stories: A Guide to Children's Books that Carry the Reader Forward.
  88 pages. 0 901922 32 3. Librarians of Institutes and Schools of Education, £11.50.
  
  
  
• Nancy L. Canepa, editor, Out of the Woods: The Origins of the Literary Fairy Tale in Italy and France.
  363 pages. 0 8143 2687 0 (hardback); 0 8143 2688 9 (paperback). Wayne State University Press, £39.95; £15.95.
  Distributed in the UK by Eurospan.
  
  
  
• Dennis Carter, Teaching Poetry in the Primary School: Perspectives for a New Generation.
  160 pages. 1 85346 567 4, David Fulton, £14.
  
  
  
• Anne Chisholm, Rumer Godden: A Life.
  356 pages. 0 333 62275 8. Macmillan, £20.
  
  
  
• Wendy Cooling, compiler, Books to Enjoy 8-12.
  36 pages. 0 900641 86 X. School Library Association, £4.50 (£3.50 to members).
  
  
  
• Wendy Cooling, compiler, Great Books for the Literacy Hour and Beyond.
  0 09 926713 6. Random House Children's Books, gratis.
  
  
  
• Wendy Cooling, compiler, The Puffin Literacy Hour Booklist.
  32 pages. Penguin Books, gratis.
  
  
  
• Penni Cotton, editor, European Children's Literature II: Papers presented in Austria, May 1998.
  146 pages. 1 899711 11 2, Kingston University, £10 post free. (Maureen Beard, Publications Unit, Business Faculty, Kingston University, Kingston Hill, Kingston on Thames KT2 7LB)
  
  
  
• Kevin Crossley-Holland, Different-But Oh How Like! (Oracle Series 3).
  21 pages. 1 898878 05 6. Daylight Press for The Society of Storytelling, £3.50 (£2.50 to members), included p&p from PO Box 2344, Reading RG6 7FG.
  
  
  
• Cedric Cullingford, Children's Literature and its Effects: The Formative Years. (Children, Teachers and Learning).
  218 pages. 0 304 70093 2 (hardback); 0 304 70092 4 (paperback). Cassell, £45;£15.99
  
  
  
• Geoff Dean, Challenging the More Able Language User.
  129 pages. 1 85346 517 8. David Fulton in association with the National Association for Able Children in Education, £12.99.
  
  
  
• Jane Doggett, compiler, Bullying Booklist.
  44 pages. 1 873942 96 6. Lucky Duck Publishing for the Gloucestershire Library Service, £6.
  
  
  
• Janet Evans, editor, What's in the Picture?
  206 pages. 1 85396 379 8. Paul Chapman, £14.99
  
  
  
• Vesna Goldsworthy, Inventing Ruritania: The Imperialism of the Imagination.
  254 pages. 0 300 07312 7. Yale University Press, £19.95.
  
  
  
• George Greenfield, Enid Blyton. (Pocket Biographies).
  105 pages. 0 7509 1633 8. Sutton Publishing, £4.99.
  
  
  
• Betty Greenway, A Stranger Shore: A Critical Introduction to the Work of Mollie Hunter.
  187 pages. 0 8108 3469 3. Scarecrow Press, £41.80. Distributed in the UK by Shelwing, 127 Sandgate Road, Folkestone, Kent CT20 2BL.
  
  
  
• Kathleen Hale, A Slender Reputation: The Autobiography of Kathleen Hale (1994). Reissue.
  288 pages. 0 7232 3797 2. Warne, £20.
  
  
  
• Steve Hare, editor, Lost Causes. (Miscellany 13).
  65 pages. 0954-8157. Penguin Collectors Society, £6 (including p&p), from the Society, 6 Church Lane, Owermoigne, Dorchester DT2 8HS.
  
  
  
• Simon Heywood, The New Storytelling: A History of the Storytelling Movement in England and Wales. Papyrus Series 2.
  60 pages. 1 898878 06 4.Daylight Press for the Society for Storytelling, £4, members; £5, non-members.
  
  
  
• Elaine Jacobsen & Veronica Simmons, Beatrix Potter Studies: Index to Volumes I-VI.
  5 pages. The Beatrix Potter Society, £3.50 (UK); £4.70 (overseas).
  
  
  
• Sarah Jardine-Willoughby & Ferelith Hordon, compilers, The Wandsworth Collection of Early Children's Books: An Illustrated Catalogue. 2nd edition.
  242 pages. 0 902 83735 4. Wandsworth Borough Council, £25.
  
  
  
• Jo Elwyn Jones & J. Francis Gladstone, editors, The Alice Companion: A Guide to Lewis Carroll's Alice Books.
  319 pages. 0 333 67349 2. Macmillan Press, £25.
  
  
  
• Louise Jordan, How to Write for Children and Get Published.
  240 pages. 0 7499 17024. Piatkus, £14.99.
  
  
  
• Elizabeth Lennox Keyser, editor, Children's Literature 26: Annual of the Modern Language Association Division on Children's Literature and The Children's Literature Association.
  254 pages. 0 300 07415 8 (hardback); 0 300 07416 6 (paperback). Yale University Press, £35; £11.95.
  
  
  
• Margaret Kinnell & Judith Elkin, editors, The New Review of Children's Literature and Librarianship 3, 1997.
  159 pages. 1361-4568. Taylor Graham, £57.
  
  
  
• Riitta Kuivasmäki, Guidepost: Some Facts about Children's Literature in Finland. 4th revised edition.
  43 pages. 952 9577 08 7. The Finnish Institute for Children's Literature. Information from Suomen Nuorisokirjallisuuden Instituutti, Puutarhakatv 2 D-E, 33100 Tampere, Finland.
  
  
  
• Ann Lazim & Elaine Moss, The Core Booklist: A Booklist to accompany The Core Book. 2nd edition.
  61 pages. 1 872267 10 6. Centre for Language in Primary Education, £4.50.
  
  
  
• Janet McGonagle, Promoting Literacy Through the Primary School Library.
  28 pages. 0 900 641 90 8. School Library Association, £5 (£4 to members).
  
  
  
• John E. Miller, Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder.
  306 pages. 0 8262 1167 4. University of Missouri Press, £23.95. Distributed in the UK by Eurospan.
  
  
  
• Sally Mitchell, The New Girl: Girls' Culture in England 1880-1915.
  258 pages. 0 231 10247 X. Columbia University Press, £15. Distributed in the UK by John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 1 Oldlands Way, Bognor Regis, West Sussex PO22 9SA.
  
  
  
• W.R. Mitchell, Beatrix Potter: Her Life in the Lake District. Enlarged and revised edition of Beatrix Potter Remembered, with a foreword by Judy Taylor.
  120 pages. 1 871064 82 1. Castleberg, £6.20.
  
  
  
• Sally Morris & Jan Hallwood, Living with Eagles: Marcus Morris, Priest and Publisher.
  320 pages. 07188 2982 4. Lutterworth, £25.
  
  
  
• Northern Children's Book Festival, Read On! Write On! Revised edition.
  65 pages. 1 873217 03 X. NCBF, £5.50.
  
  
  
• Raphael Patai, editor, Arab Folktales from Palestine and Israel.
  217 pages. 0 8143 2710 9. Wayne State University Press, £19.95. Distributed in the UK by Eurospan.
  
  
  
• Lissa Paul, Reading Otherways.
  96 pages. 0 903355 46 9. Thimble Press, £7.50.
  
  
  
• Jean Perrot, Tomi Ungerer's Toys and Tales.
  142 pages. 2 912 404 10 X. In Press Editions, 12 Rue de Texel, 75014 Paris, France.
  
  
  
• Peters Library Service, Can Read, Won't Read and Learning to Read Should be Fun.
  8 pages each. Pack of 25, £15.
  
  
  
• Peters Library Service, Author Talkback.
  50 pages. £3.99. Information from Peters Library Service, 120 Bromsgrove Street, Birmingham B5 6RL.
  
  
  
• Beatrix Potter, Beatrix Potter's Farming Friendship: Lake District Letters to Joseph Moscrop, 1926-1943, edited by Judy Taylor.
  94 pages. 1 869980 13 1. The Beatrix Potter Society, £8.40 (UK); £9.70 (overseas).
  
  
  
• Chris Powling, Talk Back: An Antidote to the Worst Excesses of Educational Reform.
  32 pages. 07149 1269 4. Reading and Language Information Centre, £4.50.
  
  
  
• Arthur Ransome, Ransome the Artist: Sketches, Illustrations and Paintings, selected and introduced by Roger Wardale.
  188 pages. 0 9521313 2 3. Amazon Publications, by subscription. Information from The Arthur Ransome Society, Abbot Hall, Kendal, Westmoreland LA9 5AL.
  
  
  
• Claire Ranson & Sarah Webb, Best Books! Children's Book Festival Reading Guide.
  64 pages. Children's Books Ireland and the Library Association of Ireland Youth Library Group, gratis.
  
  
  
• Nicholas Reed, Enid Blyton in Beckenham and Bromley: An Illustrated Biography of Her Early Life. 2nd revised edition.
  19 pages. 1 901167 05 4. Lilburne Press, £1.75.
  
  
  
• Kimberley Reynolds, editor, Childhood Remembered: Proceedings of the 4th Annual IBBY/MA Children's Literature Conference at Roehampton Institute. (NCRCL Papers 3).
  172 pages. 1 871954 95 9. National Centre for Research in Children's Literature, £11.
  
  
  
• Kimberley Reynolds & Nicholas Tucker, editors, Children's Book Publishing in Britain since 1945.
  167 pages. 1 85928 236 9. Scolar Press, £39.95.
  
  
  
• Ann Romines, Constructing the Little House: Gender, Culture and Laura Ingalls Wilder.
  287 pages. 1 55849 121 X (hardback); 1 55849 122 8 (paperback). University of Massachusetts Press, £43.95; £13.50. Distributed in the UK by Eurospan.
  
  
  
• Marion Sader, Storytelling Encyclopaedia: Historical, Cultural and Multiethnic Approaches to Oral Traditions Around the World.
  543 pages. 1 57356 025 1. Oryx Press, £55.95. Distributed in the UK by Eurospan.
  
  
  
• Scottish Book Trust, Off the Shelf.
  96 pages. 1 901077 01 2. Scottish Book Trust, £5.
  
  
  
• Madeleine B. Stern, Louisa May Alcott: From Blood & Thunder to Hearth & Home.
  274 pages. 1 55553 348 5. Northeastern University Press, £16.10. Distributed in the UK by Biblios, Star Road, Partridge Green, West Sussex RH13 8LD.
  
  
  
• Rosemary Stones, editor, Children's Books about Bullying: An Annotated Bibliography of Books for 0-15 year olds.
  32 pages. 1 871 56604 5. Books for Keeps and the Reading and Language Information Centre, £5.
  
  
  
• Morag Styles, From the Garden to the Street: An introduction to 300 years of poetry for children.
  304 pages. 0 304 3324 0 (hardback); 0 304 33222 4 (paperback). Cassell, £35; £15.99.
  
  
  
• Geoffrey Trease, Farewell the Hills.
  168 pages. 0 953199 8 0 0. GT Publications. Information from Jocelyn Payne, Oak Gables, 192 Newbridge Road, Bath BA1 3LF.
  
  
  
• Volunteer Reading Help, My Best Book: A Guide to Sharing the Pleasures of Reading.
  32 pages. Volunteer Reading Help, £2. Ebury Bridge Centre, Sutherland Street, London SW1V 4LH.
  
  
  
• Truusje Vrooland-Löb, Dick Bruna: Biography.
  16 pages. Mercis Publishing b.v., Amsterdam.
  
  
  
• Marina Warner, No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock.
  320 pages. 0 7011 6593 6. Chatto, £25.
  
  
  
• Welsh Books Council, Catalog Llyfrau Plant: Llyfrau ac Adnoddau Addysgol. (Welsh Books and Educational Resources for Children).
  92 pages. 0953-6396. Welsh Books Council, gratis from Children's Book Department, Castell Brychan, Aberystwyth SY23 2JB.
  
  
  
• Welsh Books Council, Wales in English: Books and Educational Resources for Young People.
  24 pages. 1362-3176. Welsh Books Council, gratis.
  
  
  
• Mark West, Trust Your Children: Voices against Censorship in Children's Literature. 2nd edition.
  235 pages. Neal-Schuman, £23.95. Distributed in the UK by Eurospan.
  
  
  
• Donna R. White, A Century of Welsh Myth in Children's Literature. (Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy 77).
  162 pages. 0 313 30570 6. Greenwood Press, £43.95. Distributed in the UK by Eurospan.
  
  
  
• Young Book Trust, The Children's Book Handbook. 1998,
  56 pages. 0 85353 472 1. Young Book Trust, £5.99.
  
  
  
• Young Book Trust, 100 Best Books 1998.
  33 pages. 0 85353 473 X. Young Book Trust, £1.95.
  
  
  
• Young Book Trust, Organising a Book Event during the National Year of Reading.
  23 pages. 0 85353 476 4. Young Book Trust, gratis.