Appendix: Resources in Children's Literature REFERENCE WORKS CARPENTER, HUMPHREY, and PRICHARD, MARI. The Oxford Companion to Chil dren's Literature. New York: Oxford University Press, 1984, 587 pp. Contains entries on individual authors and illustrators, titles, characters from children's fiction, fairy tales, and many aspects of children's culture. CECH, JOHN, ed. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 22, American Writ ers for Children, 1900-1960. Detroit: Gale, 1983, 412 pp. Provides signed essays and extensive bibliographical information on forty-three writers. Children's Literature Abstracts, May 1973-. Published quarterly in England by the International Federation of Library Associations and edited by Colin Ray. Abstracts articles about children's literature. Cummulative indexes are available for nos. 1-28 (May 1973-March 1980) and for nos. 29-44 (June 1980-March 1984). Children's Literature Review: Excerpts from Reviews, Criticism, and Com mentary on Children's Books. Detroit: Gale, 1976-. Covers writers whose work is currently "being criti cally evaluated for its suitability or appeal for present day young readers." COMMIRE, ANNE, ed. Something about the Author: Facts and Pictures about Contemporary Authors and Illustrators of Books for Young People. Detroit: Gale, 1971-. A standard continuing multi-volume source of information on juvenile authors and illustrators. Entries include biographi cal data, bibliographies, and critical comments. FORDYCE, RACHEL. "Dissertations of Note." Children's Literature, 1972-. An annual annotated listing. HAVILAND, VIRGINIA. Children's Literature: A Guide to Reference Sources. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1966, 341 pp. First Supple ment, 1972, 316 pp.; Second Supplement, 1977, 413 pp. Critically annotated guides to the entire field of chil dren's literature. Includes sections on history and criti cism, individual authors, illustration, bibliography teaching, and storytelling, libraries, and international and national studies. KIRKPATRICK, D.L., ed. Twentieth-Century Children's Writers. 2d ed. New York: St Martin's, 1983, 1024 pp. Includes biocritical essays and extensive lists of each author's writings for both children and adults, for over 700 English-language children's writers. LEIF, IRVING P. Children's Literature: A Historical and Contemporary Bibliography. Troy, N.Y.: Whitson, 1977, 338 pp. Includes numerous master's theses in addition to a selec tion of books and articles pertaining to children's litera ture. Literature, Literary Response, and the Teaching of Literature: Abstracts of Doctoral Dissertations Published in "Dissertation Abstracts Interna tional." ERIC Educational Document Reproduction Service. An ongoing semi-annual series providing abstracts of recent doctoral dissertations, many relating to the study and teach ing of children's and young adult literature. LUKENBILL, W. BERNARD. A Working Bibliography of American Doctoral Disser tations in Children's and Adolescents' Literature, 1930-1971. Occa sional Papers, no. 103. Champaign: University of Illinois, Graduate School of Library Science, 1972, 56 pp. Attempts to identify dissertations in "almost all areas of children's literature, including reading interests and peda gogical techniques." A bibliographic essay includes subdivi sions on types of literature and history and criticism. MacDONALD, RUTH. "Proceedings: An Index to the First Five." ChLAQ 8, no 4 (Winter 1983):46-48. An author, title, and subject index to the proceedings of the Children's Literature Association's conferences five through nine, 1978-82. MEACHAM, MARY. Information Sources in Children's Literature: A Practical Reference Guide for Children's Librarians, Elementary School Teachers, and Students of Children's Literature. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1978, 256 pp. MONSON, DIANE L., and PELTOLA, BETTE, comps. Research in Children's Liter ature: An Annotated Bibliography. Newark, Del.: International Reading Association, 1976, 96 pp. Includes dissertations and ERIC Documents from 1960 to 1974 and research published in journals between 1965 and 1974. Phaedrus: An International Journal of Children's Literature Research, 1973-. Each issue includes extensive bibliographies of critical articles, books, and dissertations relating to children's lit erature, as well as critical essays centered around themes or geographic areas. Indexed in Library Literature. RAHN, SUZANNE. Children's Literature: An Annotated Bibliography of the History and Criticism. New York: Garland, 1981, 451 pp. Covers criticism of numerous writers for children from ear liest times to the present, as well as articles grouped according to broad topics. ROGINSKI, JIM, comp. Newbery and Caldecott Medalists and Honor Book Win ners: Bibliographies and Resource Materials through 1977. Littleton, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 1982, 339 pp. Provides listings of awards, primary and secondary sources, media, collections, and exhibitions. SARKISSIAN, ADELE, ed. Children's Authors and Illustrators: An Index to Biographical Dictionaries. 2d ed. Detroit: Gale, 1978, 251 pp. Covers approximately 15,000 authors and illustrators who are cited in about 150 reference sources. -----. Writers for Young Adults: Biographies Master Index. 1st ed. Detroit: Gale, 1979, 199 pp. Covers sources of biographical information on writers of interest of high-school students. SHANNON, GEORGE W.B. Folk Literature and Children: An Annotated Bibliog raphy of Secondary Materials. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1981, 124 pp. Covers materials published from 1693 through 1979 that are concerned with the combination of children and folk litera ture. SMITH, ELVA S. The History of Children's Literature: A Syllabus with Selected Bibliographies. Revised and enlarged edition by Margaret Hodges and Susan Steinfirst. Chicago: American Library Association, 1980, 290 pp. Covers English-language criticism of an international array of children's writers up to the beginning of the twentieth century. Includes listings of primary and secondary materi als. WHITAKER, MURIEL A., ed. Children's Literature: A Guide to Criticism. Edmonton: Athabascan Publishing Co., 1976, 64 pp. Includes sections on bibliographies and general reference guides, and lists materials relating to the history of chil dren's literature, myth, and folklore. Has a brief section devoted to criticism of individual authors. WHITE, VIRGINIA L., and SCHULTE, EMRITA S., comps. Books about Children's Books: An Annotated Bibliography. ERIC Educational Document Reproduc tion Service, 1979, 49 pp., ED 176 333. Lists 145 sources of information on children's literature in categories of bibliography, biography, criticism, history, indexes, research, teaching methods, and textbooks. "Year's Work in Children's Literature Studies: 1982. ChLAQ 8, no. 4 (Win ter 1983):42-45. Lists 161 articles from a number of journals, by critic name and category. In addition to the above sources, computerized and manual searches of the following indexing and abstracting services yielded numerous citations: Education Index, Current Index to Journals in Education, Resources in Education, Dissertation Abstracts, Psychological Abstracts, Library Litera ture, and the MLA and MHRA bibliographies. JOURNALS Advocate, 1981-. Published three times yearly by Southeastern Advocates for Literature Published three times yearly by Southeastern Advocates for Literature for Young People and the Center for the Study of Literature for Young People. Includes practical and scholarly articles on literature for children and young people. ALAN Review, 1973-. Published three times yearly by the Assembly on Literature for Ado lescents of the National Council of Teachers of English. Devoted to young adult literature. Bookbird: Literature for Children and Young People, Problems of Juvenile Reading, Best Books from All over the World, 1963-. Issued quarterly by the International Board of Books for Young People (IBBY) and the International Institute for Children's Literature and Reading Research. Indexed in Library Literature. Canadian Children's Literature, 1975-. Published quarterly. Devoted to "the literary analysis, criticism, and review of books written for Canadian children." Indexed in Canadian Periodical Index and in Children's Literature Abstracts. Children's Literature, 1972-. Published annually by the Children's Literature Association, edited by Francelia Butler. Includes scholarly articles, reviews of signifi cant scholarly works, and a section of varia that includes an annotated listing of dissertations. Indexed in the MLA Bibliography, Vol 11 (1983), contains an index to volumes 6-10. Twenty-six articles from the first ten years have been reprinted in Reflections on Children's Litera ture, edited by Francelia Butler and Richard Rotert (Hamden, Conn.: Shoe-String Press, 1984), 281 pp. Children's Literature Assembly of NCTE. Bulletin, 1975-. Formerly called Ripples, this is the newsletter of the Assembly. Occasionally contains substantial articles. Children's Literature Association Quarterly, 1976-. First published as a newsletter, the Quarterly contains extensive articles devoted to critical analysis of children's literature. Since 1983 the proceedings of the annual conferences of the Association have been published in the winter issue. Children's Literature in Education, 1969-. Published quarterly by Agathon Press in New York, but originates in England. Includes scholarly and practical articles. Indexed in Current Index to Journals in Education and Education Index. English in Education, 1966-. Published three times yearly in England. Devoted to the teaching of English. Includes articles on children's literature. English Journal, 1912-. Published eight times yearly by the National Council of Teachers of English for junior high and high school English teachers. Occasionally devotes an issue or an article to young adult literature. Indexed in Education Index and Current Index to Journals in Education. Horn Book, 1924-. Published six times yearly. Includes reviews of children's books and lengthier, in-depth articles on many aspects of children's literature. Indexed in Library Literature and Current Index to Journals in Educa tion. Interracial Books for Children Bulletin, 1966-. Published eight times yearly by the Council on Interracial Books for Children (CIBC). Includes reviews and in-depth articles examining and criticizing racial, sexist, agist, and elitist biases and stereotypes in children's books. Indexed in Education Index. Journal of Popular Culture, 1967-. Published quarterly by the Popular Culture Center of Bowling Green State University. Includes numerous articles on aspects of popular cul ture that overlap children's literature, especially comics, series books, folklore, and highly popular authors such as L. Frank Baum and Edgar Rice Burroughs. Indexed in Humanities Index. Junior Bookshelf, 1936-. Published six times yearly in Yorkshire, England. Bears some resem blance to Horn Book with its long publishing history and mix of reviews and in-depth articles. Indexed in Library Literature. Language Arts, 1924-. Previously entitled Elementary English (1947-75), and Elementary English Review (1924-46). Published by the National Council of Teachers of English for elementary school teachers. Usually has one issue every year devoted to children's literature, and occasional articles at other times. Indexed in Education Index and Current Index to Journals in Edu cation. The Lion and the Unicorn, 1977-. Began as a semi-annual publication, now published annually. Edited by Geraldine de Luca and Roni Natov. Each issue centers on a theme or genre. Indexed in the MLA Bibliography. New York Times Book Review. Features a special children's book review section twice a year, usually in November and in April or May. Orana: Journal for School and Children's Librarianship, 1976-. Published quarterly, this Australian journal was preceded by Chil dren's Libraries Newsletter. Includes numerous critical and scholarly articles on children's literature. Phaedrus: An International Journal of Children's Literature Research, 1973-. See annotation under "Books" above. Reading Teacher, 1947-. Published nine times yearly by the International Reading Association for elementary school teachers. Coverage of children's literature has varied over the years. Indexed in Current Index to Journals in Educa tion and Education Index. School Librarian, 1937-. Published quarterly by the the School Library Association in Britain. Includes a series of articles entitled "Writers for Children" and occa sionally other articles on children's literature. Indexed in Library Literature. School Library Journal, 1954-. Until 1975, published as part of Library Journal. Devoted to library work with children and teenagers. Occasionally contains important articles on children's literature. Indexed in Library Literature. Signal: Approaches to Children's Books, 1970-. Published three times yearly by Thimble Press in England. Includes scholarly critical articles on children's literature. Times (London). The Times Educational Supplement frequently features articles relat ing to children's literature and also contains some book reviews. The Times Literary Supplement features special children's book sections two or three times a year. Top of the News, 1942-. Published quarterly by the Association for Library Service to Chil dren of the American Library Association. Includes book reviews and a wide range of articles on children's and young adult literature. Indexed in Library Literature. Use of English, 1951-. Preceded by English in the Schools. Published by the Scottish Aca demic Press, Edinburgh. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s contained numer ous articles on children's literature. Indexed in British Education Index. Wilson Library Bulletin, 1914-. Published monthly. Every one or two years features an issue devoted to a particular aspect of children's literature. Monthly reviews of picture books by Olga Richard and Donna Rae MacCann are also worth not ing. Indexed in Library Literature and Education Index.