Books about Children's Books 2001

Compiled by Sheila Ray.

This list does not claim to be comprehensive. It includes titles not specifically mentioned in the essay. The date of publication is given for those books not published in 2000. The address of Eurospan, a distributor mentioned several times, is 3 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, London WC2E 8LU. For books not distributed in the UK I have given as much information as possible to assist in their acquisition.

• Graham Anderson, Fairytale in the Ancient World.
  272 pages. 0 415 23702 5 (hardback); 0 415 23703 3 (paperback). Routledge, £48; £16.99.
  
  
• Edward Ardizzone, Sketches for Friends, compiled and introduced by Judy Taylor.
  128 pages. 0 7195 5730 5. John Murray, £10.99.
  
  
• Eileen Armstrong & Sue Beever, compilers, Books to Enjoy 16-19. 2001.
  48 pages. 0 900641 99 1. School Library Association, £5 (£4 to members)
  
  
• Association for Library Service to Children. The Newbery and Caldecott Awards: A Guide to the Medal and Honor Books. 1999.
  157 pages. 0 8389 3495 1. American Library Association, £12.50. Distributed in the UK by Eurospan.
  
  
• Rosemary Auchmuty & Joy Wotton, editors, The Encyclopaedia of School Stories. 2 volumes.
  Volume 1, Girls' School Stories by Sue Sims & Hilary Clare.
  432 pages. 0 7546 0082 3.
  Volume 2, Boys' School Stories by Robert J. Kirkpatrick.
  400 pages. 0 7546 0083 1. Ashgate,
  £35 each volume.
  
  
• Authorzone, edited by Peter Sheldon. Issue 1 (1999), Issue 2 (2000).
  Peters Bookselling Services, £4.95 each, plus post & packing, from Marketing Department, 120 Bromsgrove Street, Birmingham B5 6RJ.
  
  
• K. Bakewell & P. Williams, Indexing Children's Books. (Society of Indexers Occasional Papers on Indexing 2).
  66 pages. 1871577217. Society of Indexers, £13, from the Society Sales Administrator, Society of Indexers, Globe Centre, Penistone Road, Sheffield S6 3AE.
  
  
• Gillian Baverstock, Gillian Baverstock Remembers Enid Blyton. (Telling Tales).
  60 pages. 0 7497 4275 5. Mammoth, £2.99.
  
  
• Eve Bearne & Victor Watson, editors, Where Texts and Children Meet.
  220 pages. 0 415 20662 6 (hardback); 0 415 20663 4 (paperback). Routledge, £55; £16.99.
  
  
• Quentin Blake, Words and Pictures.
  208 pages. 0 224 03266 6. Jonathan Cape, £20.
  
  
• Mary Cadogan, Frank Richards: The Chap Behind the Chums. New edition with an introduction by Jeffrey Richards and a Foreword by Una Hamilton Wright.
  258 pages. 1 903400 03 1. Swallowtail Books, £9.95.
  
  
• Alasdair Campbell, compiler, From Goggle-Eyes to Harry Potter: A Ten-Year Supplement to Outstanding Children's Books (1932-1988).
  47 pages. 0 90122 35 8. Librarians of Institutes and Schools of Education, £8.50.
  
  
• Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: A Classic Illustrated Edition, compiled by Cooper Edens.
  152 pages. 0 8118 2274 5. Chronicle Books, £13.99. UK distribution, Ragged Bears, Ragged Appleshaw, Andover, Hampshire SP11 9HX.
  
  
• Lewis Carroll, The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition, illustrated by John Tenniel, introduced by Martin Gardner.
  384 pages. 0 7139 9417 7. Allen Lane, £20.
  
  
• David Carter, Ransome's Railways.
  22 pages. Arthur Ransome Society, £3. Information from the Society, Abbot Hall, Kendal, Cumbria LA9 5AL.
  
  
• Chalk Talk Secondary / Chalk Talk Primary 1.
  Distributed free with Children's Books in Ireland Magazine.
  Information from Claire Ranson, Children's Books Ireland, First Floor, 17 Lower Camden Street, Dublin 2.
  
  
• Cheshire Education Library Service, What the Big Boys Read.
  34 pages. Cheshire Education Library Service, £6 from Browning Way, Woodford Park Industrial Estate, Winsford, Cheshire CW7 2JN.
  
  
• Susan Clancy with David Gilbey, editors, Something to Crow About: New Perspectives in Literature for Young People. Literature and Literacy for Young People: An Australian Series 4). 1999.
  190 pages. 0 949060 94 1. Centre for Information Studies, Charles Sturt University, Locked Bag 660, Wagga Wagga, NSW 2678, Australia, A$50.
  
  
• George Clark & Daniel Timmons, J.R.R. Tolkien: His Literary Resources: Views of Middle-Earth. (Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy 91).
  248 pages. 0 313 30845 4. Greenwood Press, £41.50. UK distribution, Eurospan.
  
  
• Valerie Coghlan & Celia Keenan, editors, The Big Guide 2: Irish Children's Books.
  159 pages. 1 872917 06 2. Children's Books Ireland, £11.50.
  
  
• Robert Colling-Pyper & Margaret Stravridi, Schicklgrüber: Some Cautionary Tales of Modern Times. Facsimile reprint with introduction and translation by Walter Sauer.
  32 pages. 3 934547 53 2 (hardback); 3 934 547 54 0 (paperback). Kari Verlag und Druckhaus, DM69.60; 36.60. Available in the UK from The Book Centre, 24-26 Fawkon Walk, Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire EN11 8TJ at £15, including inland p&p.
  
  
• Eileen Colwell, Once Upon a Time . . . : An Autobiography.
  192 pages. 1 873378 33 5. Pennine Pens, £10.
  
  
• Wendy Cooling, compiler, More Books to Enjoy: 12-16.
  36 pages. 0 900641 98 3. School Library Association, £5 (£4 to members).
  
  
• Penni Cotton, Picture Books Sans Frontières.
  145 pages. 1 85856 184 1 (hardback); 1 85856 183 3 (paperback). Trentham Books, £45; £14.95.
  
  
• Penni Cotton, editor, European Children's Literature III: Proceedings from the Third European Children's Literature Conference, 2000.
  184 pages. 1 902743 28 8. National Centre for Research in Children's Literature, £13 from NCRCL, University of Surrey Roehampton, Digby Stuart College, Roehampton Lane, London SW15 5PH.
  
  
• John Cowen, A Ransome Book-Case.
  111 pages. Amazon Publications, by subscription. Information from Arthur Ransome Society, Abbot Hall, Kendal, Cumbria LA9 5AL.
  
  
• Claire Creaser, A Survey of Library Services to Schools and Children in the UK 1998-99. 1999.
  273 pages. 1 901786 25 0. LISU, Loughborough University, £27.50; ...1999-2000. 270 pages. 1 901786 37 4. £27.50.
  
  
• Marie C. Davis, editor, Children of the Shoah: Holocaust and Education. (Canadian Children's Literature 95).
  202 pages. 0319-0080. Canadian Children's Press, Can. $12. Information from Canadian Children's Literature, Department of English, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G 2WI.
  
  
• Susan Denyer, Beatrix Potter at Home in the Lake District.
  144 pages. 0 7112 1434 4. Frances Lincoln in association with the National Trust, £20.
  
  
• Geoff Dubber & Elspeth Scott, Running a Successful School Library Event.
  40 pages. 0 900641 97 5. School Library Association, £5 (£4 to members).
  
  
• Judith Elkin & Margaret Kinnell, editors, A Place for Children: Public Libraries as a Major Force in Children's Reading. (British Library Research and Innovation Report 117).
  198 pages. 1 85604 320 7. LA Publishing, £34.95 (£27.96 to members).
  
  
• Verlyn Flieger & Carl F. Hostetter, editors, Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on the History of Middle-Earth. (Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy 86).
  274 pages. 0 313 30530 7. Greenwood Press, £43.95. UK distribution, Eurospan.
  
  
• Carol Fox, Annemie Leysen & Irène Koenders, editors, In Times of War: An Anthology of War and Peace in Children's Literature.
  160 pages. 1 86205 446 0. Pavilion Books, £14.99.
  
  
• Lindsey Fraser, Beginning with Books.
  12 pages. Scottish Book Trust, £1.50. (Reduction for bulk purchase).
  
  
• Lindsey Fraser, An Interview with J.K. Rowling. (Telling Tales).
  60 pages. 0 7497 4394 8. Mammoth, £2.99.
  
  
• Prue Goodwin & Angela Redfern, Non-Fiction in the Literacy Hour.
  24 pages. 0 7049 1344 5. Reading and Language Information Centre, University of Reading, £5.95.
  
  
• Joan Goody & Kit Thomas, editors, Multi-Cultural Literature in the Classroom.
  58 pages. 0 901291 75 7. National Association of Teachers of English, £5.50 (£4.50 to members).
  
  
• R. Graham, J. Passman & S. Sillito, editors, Something Special: Library Resources for PSHE and Citizenship: Key Stages One and Two.
  24 pages. 090 135 4902. Hertfordshire County Council, £4.50.
  
  
• Roger Lancelyn Green & Walter Hooper, C.S. Lewis: A Biography. New edition, revised by Walter Hooper.
  272 pages. 0 00 628164 8. HarperCollins, £12.99
  
  
• Elizabeth Hammill, Daft as a Bucket: Inside the World of Colin McNaughton. 1999.
  30 pages. 0583 853 11 0. Centre for the Children's Book, £4.99 from Pendower Hall, West Road, Newcastle upon Tyne NE15 6PP.
  
  
• Christina Hardyment, Literary Trails: Writers in Their Landscape.
  256 pages. 0 7078 0375 6. National Trust, £29.99.
  
  
• Gabrielle Cliff Hodges, Mary Jane Drummond & Morag Styles, editors, Tales, Tellers and Texts.
  162 pages. 0 304 70641 8. Cassell, £15.99.
  
  
• Peter Hollindale, Aesop in the Shadows.
  22 pages. 1 869980 18 2. Beatrix Potter Society, £2 (UK); £3 (overseas). Reprinted from Signal 89, May 1999.
  
  
• John Howe, A Tolkien Gallery: A Portfolio of Illustrated Work.
  192 pages. HarperCollins, £19.99.
  
  
• Marie Hrynczak, Sally Phillips & Joy Wotton, editors, The A-Z of Chalet School Characters. (Supplement 6).
  92 pages. 1366-3860. New Chalet Club, £3 from Amanda Crawford, 25 Sedley Close, Rainham, Gillingham, Kent ME8 9QZ.
  
  
• Carey Fluker Hunt, Tales for the Telling: A Journey Through the World of Folk Tales: The Education Pack.
  132 pages. Centre for the Children's Book, £11.95 from Pendower Hall, West Road, Newcastle upon Tyne NE15 6PP.
  
  
• Peter Hunt, Children's Literature. (Blackwell Guides to Literature).
  334 pages. 0 631 21140 3 (hardback); 0 631 21141 1 (paperback). Blackwell, £50; £14.99.
  
  
• Peter Hunt, editor, Children's Literature: An Anthology 1801-1902. 2001.
  480 pages. 0 631 21048 2 (hardback); 0 631 21049 0 (paperback). Blackwell, £65; £16.99
  
  
• Lois Keith, Take Up Thy Bed and Walk: Death, Disability and Cure in Classic Fiction for Girls. 2001.
  274 pages. 0 7043 4651 6. Women's Press, £11.99.
  
  
• Elizabeth Lennox Keyser, "Little Women": A Family Romance.
  160 pages. 0 8203 2280 6. University of Georgia Press, £11.50. UK distribution, Eurospan.
  
  
• Elizabeth Lennox Keyser & Julie Pfeiffer, editors, Children's Literature 28.
  288 pages. 0 300 08234 7 (hardback); 0 300 08235 5 (paperback). Yale University Press, £32.50; £11.50.
  
  
• U.C. Knoepflmacher, Ventures into Childhood: Victorians, Fairy Tales and Femininity. 1998.
  464 pages. 0 226 44815 0. University of Chicago Press, £22.50.
  
  
• Carol Ann Lee, Roses from the Earth: The Biography of Anne Frank.
  320 pages. 0 14 027628 9. Penguin, £7.99.
  
  
• Charles Lewsen, How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear.
  24 pages. Friends of the British Oncology Centre, £10 donation to the Centre, Horfield Road, Bristol BS2 8HD.
  
  
• Andrew Lycett, Rudyard Kipling. Paperback edition; first published 1999.
  672 pages. 0 7538 1085 9. Phoenix Paperbacks, £9.99.
  
  
• Kerry Mallan, In the Picture: Perspectives on Picture Book Art and Artists (Literature and Literacy for Young People: An Australian Series 3). 1999.
  185 pages. 0 949060 93 3. Centre for Information Studies, Charles Sturt University, Locked Bag 660, Wagga Wagga, NSW 2678, Australia, A$40.
  
  
• Sharon Markless & David Streatfield, From Survival to Growth. (Library & Information Commission Report 49).
  54 pages. 0 9538432 3 8. Information Management Associates, £10 from IMA, 28 Albion Road, Twickenham TW2 6QZ.
  
  
• Mary Medlicott & Mary Steele, editors, Eileen Colwell: An Excellent Guide: Writings in Celebration.
  84 pages. 1 898878 08 0. Society for Storytelling. £6 from the Society, PO Box 2344, Reading RG6 7FG.
  
  
• Haydn Middleton, Grimm's Last Fairytale. Paperback edition; first published 1999.
  256 pages. 0 349 11120 0. Abacus, £6.99.
  
  
• Christopher Milne, Beyond the World of Pooh.
  304 pages. 0 413 74320 9. Methuen, £14.99.
  
  
• Ann R. Montanaro, Pop-Up and Movable Books: A Bibliography—Supplement 1, 1991-1997.
  958 pages. 0 8108 2650 X. Scarecrow Press, £65. Distributed in UK from 4 Pleydell Gardens, Folkestone, Kent CT20 2DN.
  
  
• Sharon Moore, compiler, We Love Harry Potter: We'll Tell you Why. 1999.
  192 pages. 0 312 26481 X. St Martin's Press, £4.99.
  
  
• Melissa Muller, Anne Frank. Paperback edition; first published 1999.
  256 pages. 0 7475 4523 5. Bloomsbury, £7.99.
  
  
• Maria Nikolajeva, From Mythic to Linear: Time in Children's Literature.
  305 pages. 0 8108 3713 7. Children's Literature Association and Scarecrow Press, £67.50. Distributed in UK from 4 Pleydell Gardens, Folkestone, Kent CT20 2DN.
  
  
• Gervase Phinn, Young Readers and Their Books: Suggestions and Strategies for Using Texts in the Literacy Hour.
  136 pages. 1 85346 681 6. David Fulton, £15.
  
• Tom Pocock, Captain Marryat.
  256 pages. 1 86176 130 9. Chatham Publishing, £19.95.
  
  
• Beatrix Potter, Peter Rabbit's Little Book of Harmony and Peter Rabbit's Little Book of Virtue,
  76 pages. 0 732 4642 4; 0 7232 4643 2. Warne, £2.99 each.
  
  
• Ron Powers, Dangerous Water: A Biography of the Boy Who Became Mark Twain.
  328 pages. 0 465 07670 X. Basic Books, £14.50.
  
  
• Chris Powling, Readers Who Don't and How to Persuade Them Otherwise.
  32 pages. 0 7049 1405 3. Reading and Language Information Centre, University of Reading, £3.95.
  
  
• Chris Powling, Shirley Hughes. (Tell Me about Writers and Illustrators).
  24 pages. 0 237 52039 7. Evans, £7.99.
  
  
• Alison Prince, Hans Christian Andersen: The Fan Dancer. Paperback edition; first published 1998.
  528 pages. 0 7490 0478 9. Allison & Busby, £9.99.
  
  
• Claire Ranson, Book Fest/Leabhar Fhéasta: The Recommended Reading Guide of the Children's Book Festival.
  63 pages. Children's Books Ireland, included in pack distributed by CBI, First Floor, 17 Lower Camden Street, Dublin 2, Ireland, £10.
  
  
• Kim Reynolds & Wendy Cooling, project consultants, Families Just Like Us: The One Parent Families Good Book Guide.
  48 pages. 1 85199 144 1. National Council for One Parent Families and Book Trust, £4.99.
  
  
• Harry Ricketts, The Unforgiving Minute: A Life of Rudyard Kipling. Paperback edition; first published 1999.
  352 pages. 0 7126 6471 8. Pimlico, £12.50.
  
  
• Carol Rose, Giants, Monsters and Dragons: An Encyclopaedia of Folklore, Legend and Myth.
  400 pages. 0 87436 988 6. ABC-Clio, £45.50. Distributed in the UK by Plymbridge Distributors Ltd, Estover, Plymouth PL6 7PZ.
  
  
• David Rudd, Enid Blyton and the Mystery of Children's Literature.
  266 pages. 0 312 23212 8. Macmillan Press, £40.
  
  
• Elizabeth D. Schafer, Exploring Harry Potter. (Beacham's Source Books for Teaching Young Adult Fiction).
  496 pages. 00 918 793 02. Ebury Press, £12.99.
  
  
• Michael Senior, Did Lewis Carroll Visit Llandudno? An Investigation.
  82 pages. 0 86381 609 6. Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, £3.50. £4.50 from Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, 12 Iard yr Orsaf, Llanrwst, Wales LL26 OEH.
  
  
• Tom Shippey, J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century.
  320 pages. 0 261 10400 4. HarperCollins, £16.99.
  
  
• Daniel Stashower, Teller of Tales: A Life of Conan Doyle,
  496 pages. 0 7139 9373 1. Allen Lane, £18.99.
  
  
• Willow Taylor, Through the Pages of My Life: And My Encounters with Beatrix Potter.
  96 pages. 1 869980 17 4. Beatrix Potter Society, £10.
  
  
• J.R.R. Tolkien, The Tolkien Gift Pack.
  HarperCollins, £19.99. (Includes map, booklet, postcards, CD and a special edition of The Hobbit).
  
  
• Roger Wardale, Arthur Ransome and the World of Swallows and Amazons.
  160 pages. 0 9535035 4 2. Great Northern Books, £16.99.
  
  
• Marina Warner, No Go the Bogeyman. Paperback edition; first published 1998.
  320 pages. 0 09 973981 X. Vintage, £10.99.
  
  
• Victor Watson, Reading Series Fiction: From Arthur Ransome to Gene Kemp.
  230 pages. 0 415 22702 X. Routledge Falmer, £13.99.
  
  
• Gary Westfahl, Science Fiction, Children's Literature and Popular Culture: Coming-of-Age in Fantasyland. (Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy 88).
  228 pages. 0 313 30847 0. Greenwood Press, £45. UK distribution, Eurospan.
  
  
• Martha Westwater, Giant Despair Meets Hopeful: Kristevan Readings in Adolescent Fiction.
  190 pages. 0 88864 320 9. University of Alberta Press, $29.95 Canadian
  
  
• G. Peter Winnington, Vast Alchemies: The Life and Work of Mervyn Peake.
  256 pages. 0 7206 1079 6. Peter Owen, £18.95.
  
  
• Norman Wright, The Famous Five: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know.
  154 pages. 0 340 792280 (hardback); 0 340 792299 (paperback). Hodder, £14.99; £7.99.
  
  
• Jackie Wullschlager, Hans Christian Andersen: The Life of a Storyteller.
  528 pages. 0 7139 9325 1. Allen Lane, £20.
  
  
• Young Book Trust, The Children's Book Handbook.
  64 pages. 0 85353 486 1. Young Book Trust, £6.50. Note: The 2001 edition is available from March 2001.
  
  
• Youth Libraries Group, Library Association, The Best of Carnegie; The Best of Kate Greenaway.
  Folded leaflets compiled by Sarah Wilkie & Teresa Scragg. Sold in multiples of 50.
  Information from Norfolk Children's Book Centre, Alby, Norfolk NR11 74B.
  
  
• Jack Zipes, The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales: The Western fairy tale tradition from medieval to modern.
  640 pages. 0 19 860115 8. Oxford University Press, £35.
  
  
• Jack Zipes, Sticks and Stones: The Troublesome Success of Children's Literature from Slovenly Peter to Harry Potter.
  176 pages. 0 415 928 117. Routledge, £15.99.