Books of Criticism Indexed A listing with full bibliographic information of books indexed and ana lyzed in more than one place in this bibliography. ANDREWS, SIRI, ed. The Hewins Lectures 1947-1962. Boston: Horn Book, 1963, 375 pp. Contains the first fifteen Hewins Lectures, a series concentrating on "the writing and publishing of children's Books in New England's fertile years." ASSOCIATION FOR LIBRARY SERVICE TO CHILDREN, comp. Arbuthnot Lectures: 1970-1979. Chicago: American Library Association, 1980, 203 pp. Reprints the first ten Arbuthnot Lectures, published annually in the June issue of Top of the News. BADER, BARBARA. American Picturebooks from Noah's Ark to the Beast Within. New York: Macmillan, 1976, 615 pp. An immense, richly illustrated work that traces the development of Ameri can children's picture books. Many of the chapters on specific topics and individual illustrators have been indexed separately. The book is also rich in bibliographic rately. The book is also rich in bibliographic notes and references. BAMBERGER, RICHARD. Reading and Children's Books: Essays and Papers, A Collection of Reprints. Vienna: International Institute for Children's, Juvenile and Popular Literature, 1971, 108 pp. Includes numerous articles and addresses on children's literature and reading, many reprinted from Bookbird. BARRON, PAMELA PETRICK, and BURLEY, JENNIFER Q., eds. Jump Over the Moon: Selected Professional Readings. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1984, 512 pp. A collection of readings, reprinted from a variety of sources, on picture books and other books for children under the age of nine. Includes chapters on nursery rhymes, poetry, alphabet and counting books, wordless picture books, illustration, informational books, contemporary realistic fiction, folktales, storytelling, picture books, and controlled vocabulary books. BATOR, ROBERT. Signposts to Criticism of Children's Literature. Chicago: American Library Association, 1983, 346 pp. Reprints a number of articles of children's literature criticism from recent specialized journals and from other sources. -xvii- BLISHEN, EDWARD, ed. The Thorny Paradise: Writers on Writing for Chil dren. London: Kestrel Books, 1975, 176 pp. Twenty-two writers discuss children's literature and their own work. Includes articles by Geoffrey Trease, Catherine Storr, John Gordon, Joan Aiken, C. Walter Hodges, Jill Paton Walsh, Nina Bawden, Russell Hoban, Jane Gardam, Leon Garfield, Ursula K. Le Guin, Rosemary Sutcliff, Ian Serraillier, Penelope Farmer, Helen Cresswell, Nicholas Fisk, K.M. Peyton, Mollie Hunter, Philippa Pearce, John Rowe Townsend, Barbara Willard, and Richard Adams. BUTLER, FRANCELIA. Sharing Literature with Children. New York: McKay, 1977, 492 pp. Combines excerpts and selections of children's literature with critical essays, grouped around themes of toys and games, fools, masks and shadows, sex roles, and circles. Several essays are reprints, some are original. BUTTS, DENNIS, ed. Good Writers for Young Readers. St. Albans, England: Hart-Davis Educational, 1977, 144 pp. Contains articles on Joan Aiken, Lucy Boston, Leon Garfield, Alan Garner, Cynthia Harnett, Russell Hoban, William Mayne, Mary Norton, Philippa Pearce, K.M. Peyton, Richard Adams, Ursula K. LeGuin, Ivan Southall, and Rosemary Sutcliff. Mostly reprinted from the British journal Use of English (see Appendix). CADOGAN, MARY, and CRAIG, PATRICIA. You're A Brick, Angela! A New Look at Girls' Ficton from 1839 to 1975. London: Gollancz, 1976, 397 pp. "We have tried here to relate each book discussed to the context of its own time, and also to indicate how it is regarded now." CAMERON, ELEANOR. The Green and Burning Tree: On the Writing and Enjoyment of Children's Books. Boston: Little, Brown, 1962, 377 pp. New and revised essays, many focusing on fantasy. CARPENTER, HUMPHREY. Secret Gardens: A Study of the Golden Age of Children's Literature. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985, 235 pp. Examines major writers of children's literature from the 1860s to the 1930s and finds in them a common theme of rejection of grown-up values and society in favor of Arcadia, The Enchanted Place, Never Never Land, and The Secret Garden. Concentrates on Charles Kingsley, Lewis Carroll, George MacDonald, Louisa May Alcott, Richard Jeffries, Kenneth Grahame, E. Nes bit, Beatrix Potter, J.M. Barrie, and A.A. Milne. CARR, JO, comp. Beyond Fact: Nonfiction for Children and Young People. Chicago: American Library Association, 1982, 224 pp. Reprints articles on informational books for children. CECH, JOHN, ed. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 22, American Writers for Children, 1900-1960. Detroit: Gale, 1983, 412 pp. See annotation in Appendix. CHAMBERS, NANCY, ed. The Signal Approach to Children's Books. Ham mondsworth, Middlesex, England: Kestrel; Metuchen, New Jersey: Scarecrow, 1980, 352 pp. A collection of articles from the first ten years of Signal (1970-80). CHILDREN'S LITERATURE ASSOCIATION. Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Conference. Harvard University, 1978. Edited by Margaret P. Esmonde, and Priscilla A. Ord. Villanova, Pa.: Villanova University, 1979, 122 pp. -----. Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Conference. University of Toronto, 1979. Edited by Margaret, P. Esmonde, and Priscilla, A. Ord. Villanova, Pa.: Villanova University, 1980, 203 pp. -----. Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Conference. Baylor University, March 1980. Edited by Priscilla, A. Ord. New Rochelle, N.Y.: The Asso ciation, 1982, 174 pp. -----. Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Conference. University of Minnesota, March 1981. Edited by Priscilla A. Ord. New Rochelle, N.Y.: The Associa tion, 1982, 140 pp. -----. Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Conference: The Child and the Story: An Exploration of Narrative Forms. University of Florida, March 1982. Edited by Priscilla A. Ord. Ruth K. MacDonald, Managing Editor. Boston: The Association, 1983, 157 pp. From the tenth annual conference in 1983, through the twelfth annual conference in 1985, the proceedings were published in the winter issues of the Children's Literature Association Quarterly, vol. 8-10. Vol. 8, no. 4 (Winter 1983) also contains an index to the first five separately published proceedings. Beginning with the 1986 conference, the proceedings will again be published separately. COTT, JONATHAN. Pipers at the Gates of Dawn: The Wisdom of Children's Literature. New York: Random House, 1983, 327 pp. Contains articles on Dr. Seuss, Maurice Sendak, William Steig, Astrid Lindgren, Chinua Achebe, P.L. Travers, and Iona and Peter Opie. CROUCH, MARCUS. The Nesbit Tradition: The Children's Novel in England 1945-1970. London: Ernest Benn, 1972, 239 pp. Traces the influences of E.Nesbit on recent British children's fiction, examining a number of writers at length. CULPAN, NORMAN, and WAITE, CLIFFORD, eds. Variety is King: Aspects of Fiction for Children. Oxford: School Library Association, 1977, 173 pp. A collection of reprinted articles on children's fiction from a wide range of British journals. Topics include reading and child development, comic books, popular fiction, writing and illustrating children's books, young adult novels, and the reviewing of children's books. DIXON, BOB. Catching Them Young: Sex, Race, and Class in Children's Fic tion. London: Pluto Press, 1977, 176 pp. An issues approach to children's literature from a British perspective. DONELSON, KENNETH, and NILSEN, ALLEEN PARE. Literature for Today's Young Adults. Glenview, Ill.: Scott, Foresman & Co., 1980, 484 pp. Combines original and reprinted essays. DOOLEY, PATRICIA, ed. The First Steps: Articles and Columns from the "Children's Literature Association Newsletter/Quarterly," Volume I-VI. Lafayette, Ind.: Children's Literature Association Publications, 1984, 148 pp. Title on front cover reads: The First Steps: Best of the Early Children's Literature Association Quarterly. Contains excerpts from the first six years (1976-81) of the Children's Literature Association Newsletter, later called the Quarterly. A few of the articles have also been reprinted in Children and Their Literature: A Readings Book, edited by Jill May, and in Festschrift, edited by Perry Nodelman. EGOFF, SHEILA. Thursday's Child: Trends and Patterns in Contemporary Chil dren's Literature. Chicago: American Library Association, 1981, 323 pp. A survey, by genre and time period. Includes chapters on realistic fiction and the problem novel; the new fantasy; science fiction; historical fiction; folklore, myth, and legend; poetry; picture books; and European children's novels in translation. EGOFF, SHEILA., ed. One Ocean Touching: Papers from the First Pacific Rim Conference on Literature. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow, 1979, 252 pp. The conference papers are divided into international and Canadian catego ries. Representatives from a number of countries touching the Pacific report on the literature of those countries and a number of Canadian authors, illus trators, and critics discuss their work and the status of Canadian children's literature. EGOFF, SHEILA; STUBBS, G.T.; AND ASHELY, L.F., eds. Only Connect: Readings in Children's Literature. 1st ed. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1969, 471 pp. Gathers together from divergent sources a number of articles and essays on children's literature. See following entry for notes on changes in the second edition. -----. Only Connect: Readings on Children's Literature. 2d ed. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1980, 471 pp. Reprints numerous essays on children's literature. The second edition deletes eleven articles from the first edition and adds nine new ones. Articles reprinted on the same pages in both editions have been listed without an edition number in this bibliography. Those found only in one edition or the other, or on different pages in each, include edition references. ESCARPIT, DENISE, ed. The Portrayal of the Child in Children's Literature: Proceedings of the Sixth Conference of the International Research Society for Children's Literature. University of Gascony (Bordeaux, France), September 1983. Munich: K.G. Saur, 1985, 392 pp. Includes 36 papers in French and in English, with summaries in the alter nate language. Papers are grouped under the following topics: the child in national literature, the child in illustration, the child in minority groups, the child in literary genres, and individual visions of the child. Selected papers have been indexed under individual topics in this bibliography. FENWICK, SARA INNIS, ed. A Critical Approach to Children's Literature: The Thirty-First Annual Conference of the Graduate Library School, August 1-3, 1966. University Graduate Library School Conference, 1966. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1967, 129 pp. (Also published in Library Quarterly 37 [1967]:1-130.) Perhaps the first conference devoted to criticism of children's literature. Includes several influential papers. FORD, BORIS, ed. Young Writers, Young Readers: An Anthology of Children's Writing and Reading. London: Hutchinson, 1960, 174 pp. Includes articles on Enid Blyton, W.E. Johns, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Walter De la Mare. FOX, GEOFF, et al., eds. Writers, Critics, and Children: Articles from Chil dren's Literature in Education. New York: Agathon Press, 1976; London: Heinemann, 1976, 245 pp. Reprints many articles from the early years of CLE. FOX, GEOFF, and HAMMOND, GRAHAM, eds. Responses to Children's Liter ature: Proceedings of the Fourth Symposium of the International Research Society for Children's Literature. New York: K.G. Saur, 1980, 141 pp. Includes numerous papers, several concentrating on reader response criti cism, and many concerned specifically with response to illustrations. FRYATT, NORMA R., ed. A Horn Book Sampler: On Children's Books and Reading, Selected from Twenty-Five Years of The Horn Book Magazine, 1924-1948. Boston: Horn Book, 1959, 261 pp. Reprints numerous Horn Book articles. GERHARDT, LILLIAN, ed. Issues in Children's Book Selection. New York: Bowker, 1977, 216 pp. Reprints twenty-nine articles from School Library Journal. HAVILAND, VIRGINIA. Children and Literature: Views and Reviews. Glen view, Ill.: Scott, Foresman, 1973, 461 pp. Primarily includes reprinted essays and selections, although some material has been revised, expanded, or written expressly for this volume. Chapters 1 through 4 concern the history of children's literature, 5 through 9 concentrate on major genres, chapter 10 is an international survey, and chapters 11 and 12 discuss children's literature criticism and awards. -----. The Openhearted Audience. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1980, 198 pp. Contains talks first given at the Library of Congress and published in the Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress from 1967 to 1979. Contents include "Only Connect," by P.L. Travers, "Questions to an Artist Who Is Also an Author," by Maurice Sendak with Virginia Haviland, "Between Family and Fantasy: An Author's Perspectives on Children's Books," by Joan Aiken, "Portrait of a Poet: Hans Christian Andersen and His Fairy Tales," by Erik Christian Haugaard, "Sources and Responses," by Ivan Southall, "The Child and The Shadow," by Ursula K. Le Guin, "Illusion and Reality," by Virginia Hamilton, "Under Two Hats," by John Rowe Townsend, "Into Something Rich and Strange: Of Dreams, Art, and the Unconscious" by Eleanor Cameron, and "The Lords of Time," by Jill Paton Walsh. HAZARD, PAUL. Books, Children, and Men. Translated by Marguerite Mitchell. 4th ed. Boston: Horn Book, 1960, 176 pp. (Fifth printing 1963.) First translated into English in 1944, a highly influential classic of children's literature criticism. HEINS, PAUL, ed. Crosscurrents of Criticism: Horn Book Essays, 1968-1977. Boston: Horn Book, 1977, 359 pp. A collection of articles from Horn Book. HEARNE, BETSY, and KAYE, MARILYN, eds. Celebrating Children's Books: Essays on Children's Literature in Honor of Zena Sutherland. New York: Lothrop, Lee, and Shepard, 1981, 244 pp. Contains essays by a number of well-known children's authors, including Arnold Lobel, Jean Fritz, Lloyd Alexander, Susan Cooper, Paula Fox, John Rowe Townsend, Virginia Hamilton, E.L. Konigsburg, and Jill Paton Walsh. HOFFMAN, MIRIAM, and SAMUELS, EVA, comps. Authors and Illustrators of Children's Books: Writings on Their Lives and Their Works. New York: Bowker, 1972, 471 pp. Authors and illustrators discussed in this collection of articles are Edward Ardizzone, Ludwig Bemelmans, Margaret Wise Brown, Clyde Robert Bulla, Virginia Lee Burton, Natalie S. Carlson, Ann Nolan Clark, Beverly Cleary, Elizabeth Coatsworth, Marguerite De Angeli, Meindert De Jong, Elizabeth Borton De Trevino, Roger Duvoisin, Ed Emberley, Marie Hall Ets, Genevieve Foster, Doris Gates, Theodor Seuss Geisel, Hardy Gramatky, Berta and Elmer Hader, Virginia Hamilton, Carolyn Haywood, Marguerite Henry, Holling C. Holling, Kristin Hunter, Clara Ingram Judson, Ezra Jack Keats, E.L. Konigs burg, Ruth Krauss, Robert Lawson, Lois Lenski, Julius Lester, C.S. Lewis, Astrid Lindgren, Leo Lionni, Robert McCloskey, Katherine Milhous, Mary Norton, Scott O'Dell, Leo Politi, Mariana Prieto, Margaret and H.A. Rey, Maurice Sendak, Kate Seredy, John R. Tunis, May McNeer and Lynd Ward, E.B. White, Brian Wildsmith, Maia Wojciechowska, and Elizabeth Yates. HUNT, PETER, ed. Further Approaches to Research in Children's Literature. Proceedings of the Second British Research Seminar in Children's Literature, Cardiff, September, 1981. Cardiff: University of Wales, Institute of Science and Technology, Dept. of English, 1982, 129 pp. Includes major papers and brief summaries by a number of participants of research in progress. HUNTER, MOLLIE. Talent Is Not Enough: Mollie Hunter On Writing for Children. Introduction by Paul Heins. New York: Harper, 1975, 126 pp. Collects a number of Hunter's previously published addresses and essays. HURLIMANN, BETTINA. Three Centuries of Children's Books in Europe. Translated and Edited by Brian W. Alderson. Cleveland: World Publishing Co., 1968, 297 pp. Surveys the contributions to children's literature of several outstanding European authors, and discusses the handling of various genres and themes by a number of writers. INGLIS, FRED. The Promise of Happiness: Value and Meaning in Children's Fiction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981, 333 pp. These essays tend to emphasize social theory rather than literary criticism. Inglis seeks to understand "the nature of popular culture, and the way these particular forms of the social imagination try to fix admired social values in a story." JAN, ISABELLE. On Children's Literature. Translated and edited by Catherine Storr. Introduction by Anne Pollowski. London: Allen Lane, 1973; New York: Schocken, 1974, 189 pp. A classic attempt to define children's literature. JONES, CORNELIA, and WAY, OLIVIA R. British Children's Authors: Inter views at Home. Chicago: American Library Association, 1976, 176 pp. A collection of interviews with British authors and illustrators. Each interview includes biographical background, the subject's discussion of his or her philosophy and method of working, and an annotated bibliography of his or her works. Those interviewed are Joan Aiken, Victor G. Ambrus, Edward Ardizzone, Ruth Arthur, Nina Bawden, Michael Bond, Lucy Boston, Pauline Clarke, Penelope Farmer, Joyce Gard, Alan Garner, Charles Keeping, Allan Campbell McLean, Margaret MacPherson, Kathleen Peyton, Barbara Leonie Picard, Rosemary Sutcliff, Brian Wildsmith, and Barbara Willard. KINGSTON, CAROLYN T. The Tragic Mode in Children's Literature. New York and London: Teachers College Press, 1974, 177 pp. Examines tragic moments in realistic fiction for eight to twelve year olds. KOEFOED, INGERLISE, ed. Children's Literature and the Child: Lectures and Debates. From the International Course on Children's Literature, Loughbo rough Summer School 1972, Hindgoul, Denmark. Copenhagen: Danish Library Association-Scandinavian Library Center, 1975, 70 pp. LANES, SELMA G. Down the Rabbit Hole: Adventures and Misadventures in the Realm of Children's Literature. New York: Atheneum, 1971, 239 pp. Concentrates on books for children under seven. LENZ, MILLICENT, and MAHOOD, RAMONA M., comps. Young Adult Liter ature: Background and Criticism. Chicago: American Library Association, 1980, 516 pp. A wide-ranging collection of essays. MacCANN, DONNARAE, and WOODARD, GLORIA, eds. The Black American in Books for Children: Readings in Racism. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow, 1972, 223 pp. A collection of essays and reprints of articles examining the portrayal of blacks in American children's books. -----. Cultural Conformity in Books for Children: Further Readings in Racism. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow, 1977. A collection of essays and reprints of articles that examine the portrayal of various ethnic groups in children's books. MacLEOD, ANNE S., ed. Children's Literature: Selected Essays and Bibliogra phies. Student Contribution Series, no. 9. College Park: University of Maryland, College of Library and Information Services, 1977, 153 pp. McVITTY, WALTER. Innocence and Experience: Essays on Contemporary Aus tralian Children's Writers. Melbourne, Victoria, Australia: Nelson, 1981, 277 pp., bibl. Discusses Mavis Thorpe Clark, Joan Phipson, Eleanor Spence, Patricia Wrightson, H.F. Brinsmead, David Martin, Colin Thiele, Ivan Southall. MASON, BOBBIE ANN. The Girl Sleuth: A Feminist Guide. Old Westbury, N.Y.: Feminist Press, 1975, 145 pp. Examines female roles in popular girls' series books. MAY, JILL P., ed. Children and Their Literature: A Readings Book. West Lafayette, Ind.: Children's Literature Association Publications, 1983, 179 pp. Includes reprinted articles, many from early Children's Literature Associa tion Proceedings. MEEK, MARGARET; WARLOW, AIDAN; and BARTON, GRISELDA, eds. The Cool Web: The Pattern of Children's Reading. London: Bodley Head, 1977. Contains articles concentrating on several aspects of children's literature: the readers, the authors, approaches to criticism, and future directions for research. NODELMAN, PERRY, and MAY, JILL, P., eds. Festchrift: A Ten Year Retrospective. West Lafayette, Ind.: Children's Literature Association Publications, 1983, 79 pp. Reprints articles from various publications from the Children's Literature Association's first ten years. Includes an index to the Children's Literature Association Quarterly, vols. 1-7. NORTON, ELOISE S., ed. Folk Literature of the British Isles: Readings for Librarians, Teachers, and Those Who Work with Children and Young Adults. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow, 1978, 263 pp. Reprints a number of articles. Includes sources for additonal information and lists retellings of British folktales published for children. PRAGER, ARTHUR. Rascals at Large, or, The Clue in the Old Nostalgia. Gar den City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1971, 334 pp. Examines boys' series books. REES, DAVID. Marble in the Water: Essays on Contemporary Writers of Fic tion for Children and Young Adults. Boston: Horn Book, 1980, 211 pp. Essays on Nina Bawden, Judy Blume, Jill Chaney, Beverly Cleary, Robert Cormier, Penelope Farmer, Paula Fox, Alan Garner, E.L. Konigsburg, Ursula K. Le Guin, Penelope Lively, Philippa Pearce, Doris Buchanan Smith, Rodie Sudbery, Mildred Taylor, Jill Paton Walsh, E.B. White, and Paul Zindel. -----. Painted Desert, Green Shade: Essays on Contemporary Writers of Fiction for Children and Young Adults. Boston: Horn Book, 1984, 197 pp. Rees attempts to "cast a retrospective light" on thirteen British and American writers for young people: L.M. Boston, M.E. Kerr, Betsy Byars, Ted Hughes, Jan Mark, Jane Langton, Katherine Paterson, John Rowe Town send, Robert Westall, S.E. Hinton, Russell Hoban, Peter Dickinson, and Virgi nia Hamilton. ROBINSON, EVELYN R., ed. Readings About Children's Literature. New York: David McKay, 1966, 431 pp. Divided into sections on children and reading, the evaluation and selection of books, history and trends, illustrations, the young child, traditional and modern imaginative tales, fiction for older children, and nonfiction. Most of the articles are readily available in Horn Book, Elementary English, Elementary School Journal, English Journal, Library Journal, and Top of the News. ROBINSON, MOIRA, ed. Readings in Children's Literature: Proceedings of the National Seminar on Children's Literature. Frankston, Victoria, Australia: Frankston State College, 1975, 293 pp. Includes talks by Helen Oxenbury and John Burningham, Patricia Wright son, Joan Phipson, Walter McVitty, Emily Neville, and others on various aspects of children's literature. SALE, ROGER. Fairy Tales and After: From Snow White to E.B. White. Cam bridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1978, 280 pp. Hailed as the first scholarly book on children's literature to be published by a university press, the book includes essays on Lewis Carroll, Beatrix Potter, Kenneth Grahame, Rudyard Kipling, L. Frank Baum, and E.B. White, among others. SAYERS, FRANCES CLARKE. Summoned By Books: Essays and Speeches. Compiled by Marjeanne Jensen Blinn. Foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell. New York: Viking, 1965, 173 pp. Reprints several of Sayer's speeches and essays, many concerning children's literature. SCHMIDT, NANCY J. Children's Fiction About Africa in English. New York: Conch Magazine, 1981, 248 pp. See annotation under Africa in Part B. SCHWARCZ, JOSEPH H. Ways of the Illustrator: Visual Communication in Children's Literature. Chicago: American Library Association, 1982, 202 pp. See annotation under picture books in Part B. SLOAN, GLENNA DAVIS. The Child As Critic. New York: Teachers College Press, 1975, 130 pp. Applies Northrop Frye's critical theories to children's and young adult literature. SMITH, LILLIAN H. The Unreluctant Years: A Critical Approach to Children's Literature. New York: Viking, 1953, 193 pp. An early, now classic, examination of children's literature as literature. Uses Matthew Arnold's "touchstone" approach, comparing new literature to that which has stood the test of time. TOWNSEND, JOHN ROWE. A Sense of Story: Essays on Contemporary Writers for Children. London: Longman, 1971, 216 pp. Contains essays on the following writers: Joan Aiken, Lucy Boston, H.F. Brinsmead, John Christopher, Helen Cresswell, Meindert De Jong, Eleanor Estes, Paula Fox, Leon Garfield, Alan Garner, Madeleine L'Engle, William Mayne, Andre Norton, Scott O'Dell, Philippa Pearce, K.M. Peyton, Ivan Sou thall, Rosemary Sutcliff, and Patricia Wrightson. -----. A Sounding of Storytellers: New and Revised Essays on Contemporary Writers for Children. New York: Lippincott, 1979, 218 pp. A revised edition of A Sense of Story, adding seven new writers to seven previously discussed. Writers added are Nina Bawden, Vera and Bill Cleaver, Peter Dickinson, Virginia Hamilton, E.L. Konigsburg, Penelope Lively, and Jill Paton Walsh. Revised essays are on Paula Fox, Leon Garfield, Alan Garner, William Mayne, K.M. Peyton, Ivan Southall, and Patricia Wrightson. TUCKER, NICHOLAS. The Child and the Book: A Psychological and Literary Exploration. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981, 259 pp. Concentrates on the psychological aspects of chidren's literature for various age groups. -----. Suitable for Children? Controversies in Children's Literature. London: Sussex University Press; Chatto & Windus, 1976, 224 pp. Reprints essays grouped around controversial topics. VANDERGRIFT, KAY E. Child and Story: The Literary Connection. New York: Neal Schuman, 1980, 340 pp. Applies critical theory and literary criticism to the teaching of children's literature to children. VARLEJS, JANA, ed. Young Adult Literature in the Seventies: A Selection of Readings. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow, 1978, 452 pp. Articles are grouped according to topics such as realism, censorship, minorities, and nonfiction. WHITE, MARY LOU, ed. Children's Literature: Criticism and Response." Columbus, Ohio: Charles E. Merrill, 1976, 252 pp. A collection of reprinted articles, designed to be used as a textbook. WINTLE, JUSTIN, and FISHER, EMMA. The Pied Pipers: Interviews with the Influential Creators of Children's Literature. New York: Two Continents, 1975, 320 pp. Twenty-four English and American writers of children's books are included, often with portraits and examples of illustrations from their works: Maurice Sendak, Edward Ardizzone, Charles Keeping, Richard Scarry, Laurent de Brunhoff, Charlotte Zolotow, Roald Dahl, Dr. Seuss, E.B. White, Richard Adams, Nicholas Stuart Gray, Joan Aiken, Scott O'Dell, Rosemary Sutcliff, Leon Garfield, Lloyd Alexander, Alan Garner, John Rowe Townsend, Made leine L'Engle, K.M. Peyton, Lucy Boston, Rumer Godden, Maia Wojciech owska, and Judy Blume. YOLEN, JANE. Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie and Folklore in the Literature of Childhood. New York: Philomel, 1981, 96 pp. A collection of essays on folktale, fairy tale, and myth in children's literature.