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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Don't Tell the Grown-Ups	Alison Lurie	A collection of essays on great children's literature that relates the lives of the authors to the works themselves.	OL102904W
Just us girls	Wendy Rountree	vi, 124 p. ; 23 cm	OL11913918W
Demigods and Monsters	Rick Riordan,Leah Wilson	The #1 New York Times bestselling Percy Jackson series--including The Lightning Thief, The Sea of Monsters, The Titan's Curse, and The Battle of the Labyrinth--features a twelve-year-old dyslexic boy…	OL15177696W
Goodnight Moon	Margaret Wise Brown	Goodnight to each of the objects in the great green room: the chairs, a comb, and the air.	OL151798W
Irish children's literature and culture	Valerie Coghlan,Keith O'Sullivan	"Irish Children's Literature and Culture looks critically at Irish writing for children from the 1980s to the present, examining the work of many writers and illustrators and engaging with major genr…	OL15538101W
Secret gardens	Humphrey Carpenter	Examines the lives and writings of the Golden Age authors--from Alice in Wonderland to Winnie-the-Pooh.	OL15828144W
The Chronicles of Narnia and Philosophy	Jerry L. Walls,Gregory Bassham,Jerry L. Walls	Pushing through some mothballed fur coats in a wardrobe in a disused room of an old London house, Lucy and the other Pevensie children found themselves in a strange and wonderful country, populated b…	OL16097551W
Harry Potter and history	Nancy Ruth Reagin	"A guide to the history behind the world of Harry Potter?just in time for the last Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Part II). Harry Potter lives in a world that is both magi…	OL16190600W
The family in literature for young readers	John Thomas Gillespie	"Librarians and teachers will find this guide invaluable for introducing young readers to various typical family situations through contemporary and classic literature"--	OL16307774W
Children's literature	Kimberley Reynolds	Children's literature takes many forms - works adapted for children in antiquity, picture books and pop-ups - and now includes the latest online games and eBooks. This vast and amorphous subject is b…	OL16599118W
A field guide to Narnia	Colin Duriez	Are you traveling to Narnia? No matter if this is your first visit to C. S. Lewis's wonderful fantasy world or if you've been there many times, you'll want to bring along this handy companion to the …	OL16677647W
Tales for little rebels	Julia L. Mickenberg,Philip Nel	From the Publisher: In 1912, a revolutionary chick cries, "Strike down the wall!" and liberates itself from the "egg state." In 1940, ostriches pull their heads out of the sand and unite to fight fas…	OL18774256W
Was the cat in the hat black?	Philip Nel	Was the Cat in the Hat Black? presents five serious critiques of the history and current state of children's literature tempestuous relationship with both implicit and explicit forms of racism.	OL19736985W
The Wonderful World of Oz	John Fricke	The wonderful world of Oz is a magical place-and has been for generations of Americans since L. Frank Baum penned his enduring classic in 1900. With the 1939 movie starring Judy Garland, Oz was forev…	OL20200309W
Children at war	Geoff Fox,Kate Agnew	This book provides a critical appraisal of the treatment of war in children's reading during the 20th century, covering World War I, World War II and subsequent wars, including Vietnam, the Gulf War …	OL21241872W
The child that books built	Francis Spufford	"To understand the thrall of fiction, Spufford goes back to his earliest encounters with books, exploring such beloved classics as The Wind in the Willows, The Little House on the Prairie, and the Na…	OL2706776W
Imagination and the arts in C.S. Lewis	Peter J. Schakel	"Imagination and the Arts in C. S. Lewis will appeal to students and teachers of both children's literature and twentieth-century British writers. It will also be of value to readers who wish to comp…	OL3363349W
Language and control in children's literature	Murray Knowles	Children's literature has in the past received little serious linguistic analysis despite its widely acknowledged influence on the development and socialisation of young people. In this important and…	OL3747947W
Talking Books	James Carter	Talking Books sets out to show how some of the leading children's authors of the day respond to these and other similar questions. The authors featured are Neil Ardley, Ian Beck, Helen Cresswell, G…	OL4942137W
The Prydain companion	Michael O. Tunnell	A reference guide in dictionary format to the characters, places, objects, and themes in Lloyd Alexander's five-book series, the Chronicles of Prydain.	OL57512W