Details

Description

1 online resource (xviii, 863 pages) : illustrations

Note

"A Giniger book."

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Adventure stories -- African American literature -- African literature -- American Library Association -- American literature before 1900 -- American literature, 1900-1945 -- American literature, 1945-60 -- American literature: contemporary -- Animal stories -- Asian and Asian American literature -- Australian literature -- Awards -- Awards: publishing trends -- Bible in children's literature -- Biography -- Book clubs for children -- Book clubs for teachers -- Book design -- Books as film -- Books for the very young -- British literature -- Caldecott medal -- Canadian literature -- Caribbean literature -- Carnegie medal -- Censorship -- Chapter books for beginning readers -- Children's Book Council -- Classic novels -- Comic books and graphic novels -- Critical theorists -- Crossovers: children's books for adult readers -- Death and dying in children's literature -- De Grummond reference collection -- Disabled in children's and young adult literature -- Disney, entertainment and publishing --Drama -- Easy-to-read books -- Editors of note -- Fairy tales -- Family stories -- Fantasy -- Fine arts -- Folklore -- High interest-easy reading book series -- Holocaust -- How-to books -- Humor -- Illustration -- Indian (East) literature -- Informational books -- Informational books, an author's point of view -- International board on books for young people -- International literature -- International Reading Association -- Internet resources for children -- Kate Greenway medal -- Kerlan collection -- Coretta Scott King awards -- Latina/o literature -- Librarians and publishing -- Librarians and storytelling -- Libraries and children's reading programs -- Magazines and periodicals -- Middle-grade stories -- Miniature books -- Mother goose -- Movable books (pop-up books) -- Multicultural literature -- Music and children's literature -- Mystery and detective stories -- Mythology and legend -- National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) -- Native American literature -- Newbery medal -- New Zealand literature -- Orbis Pictus award -- Picture books -- Picture books for older readers -- Poetry in children's literature -- Professors of children's literature -- Publishers and book publishing in the United States -- Publishers, independent -- Reading Rainbow and children's literature on television -- Realistic fiction -- Research on children's literature -- Review journals -- School stories -- Science fiction -- Series books -- Society of children's book writers and illustrators -- Sports stories -- Storyographies: picture-book biographies -- Storytelling -- Storytelling: a professional point of view -- Survival stories -- Technology and communication -- Translation -- Visual literacy -- Young adult literature.

Summary

Covers 150 years of children's literature in 1,200 biographical-critical entries and nearly 100 topical articles.

Description based on

Print version record.

Local Note

EBSCOhost Biography Reference Center

Language

English.

Subject

Children's literature, American -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries.

Children's literature -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries.

Children -- Books and reading -- United States -- Dictionaries.

Children's literature, American -- Dictionaries.

Children's literature -- Dictionaries.

Children -- Books and reading.

Children's literature.

Children's literature, American.

United States.

Jeugdliteratuur.

Genre/Form

Bio-bibliography.

Dictionaries.

Added Author

Cullinan, Bernice E.

Person, Diane Goetz.

Added Title

Encyclopedia of children's literature

Other Form:

Print version: Continuum encyclopedia of children's literature. New York : Continuum : K.S. Giniger Co., 2005 0826417787 (DLC) 2006275631 (OCoLC)71224466

ISBN

0826417787 (paperback ; alkaline paper)

0826415164 (alkaline paper)

9780826417787 (paperback ; alkaline paper)

9780826415165 (alkaline paper)

Standard No.

9780826417787