General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1911 Original Publisher: Eaton

For centuries educators, scholars, writers, and psychologists have debated the value of folk literature for children and the impact of folktales on the young. This bibliography of 465 entries lists a wide range of relevant criticism, scholarship, and opinion. . . . Folk Literature and Children leads one to valuable resource material on the subject of folk literature and children and should prove useful to teachers, librarians, psychologists, and students and scholars of children's literature. Booklist

Library science dissertations, 1973-1981; Statistical profile of library science dissertations, 1973-1981.

Current research in library and information science.

Covering works as diverse as a historical survey of the alphabet book and an analysis of the young adult novels of Judy Blume, this annotated bibliography draws together significant articles, books, and disseratations of children's literature criticism. Compiled from a wide variety of popular and scholarly sources, Children's Literature provides a thorough and easy-to-use resource to this burgeoning field of study. Children's Literature categorizes and assesses the critical response to fiction, drama, poetry, and some nonfiction written for children between the ages of one and sixteen. The children's literature covered ranges in format and style from the picture book to the young adult novel. The emphasis is on twentieth-century children's literature, although classics from earlier centuries have been included. -- Book Jacket.