History

Library Catalog Subject Headings:

Children's Literature -- History and Criticism
Children's Literature, American -- History and Criticism
Children's Stories, American -- History and Criticism
Young Adult Fiction, American -- History and Criticism

Selected List of Titles

American Sweethearts: Teenage Girls in Twentieth-Century Popular Culture
Mugar PS374.G55 N37 2006

Baldwin Library of Children's Literature, Digital Collection (Recommended by Scout Report)
This collection includes over 2500 digitized children's books published in the United States and Great Britain between 1850 and 1900.

Children's Books in Children's Hands: An Introduction to their Literature
Education PN1009.A1 C5118 2006

Children's Literature: An Illustrated History
Education Reference PR990.C498 1995

Children's Literature of the Harlem Renaissance
Education PS153.N5 S62 2004

Consumerism and American Girls' Literature, 1860-1940
Mugar PS374.G55 S86 2003

A Critical Handbook of Children's Literature
Education PN1009.A1 L84 2007

A Critical History Of Children's Literature: A Survey Of Children's Books In English
Education Reference PN1009.A1 M4 1969

Critical Perspectives on Postcolonial African Children's and Young Adult Literature
Mugar PL8010.C755 1998

Introducing Children's Literature: From Romanticism to Postmodernism
Education PS374.C454 T48 2002

Learning From the Left: Children's Literature, the Cold War, and Radical Politics in the United States Mugar PS228.P6 M53 2005

Literature for Children: A Short Introduction
Education PN1009.A1 R87 2005

Making American Boys: Boyology and the Feral Tale
Mugar PS374.C454 K53 2004

Modern Children's Literature: An Introduction
Education Reference PR990 .M63 2005

Norton Anthology of Children's Literature
Education Reserve PZ5 .N655 2005

Preserving the Landscape of Imagination: Children's Literature in Africa
Mugar PL8010 .P685 1997

Studies in Children's Literature, 1500-2000
Education Reference PN1009.A1 S86 2004

Twain, Alcott, and the Birth of the Adolescent Reform Novel
Mugar PS1338 .T75 2007

Voracious Children: Who Eats Whom In Children's Literature
Education PN1009.5.F66 D36 2006

Wild Things: Children's Culture and Ecocriticism
Education PR143 .W55 2004

Yankee Doodle's Literary Sampler Of Prose, Poetry And Pictures: Being An Anthology Of Diverse Works Published For The Edification And/Or Entertainment Of Young Readers In American Before 1900
(1974) Education Reference Z1232 .H38

 

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