Children's Literature Criticism Must-Reads (Books):

Bishop, Rudine. Shadow and Substance

Bottigheimer, Ruth. Bad Boys and Bold Girls

Chambers, Aidan. Booktalk

Clark, Beverly Lyon. Kiddie Lit
---. Regendering the School Story

Clark, Beverly Lyon & Higonnet, Margaret. Boys, Girls, Books, Toys

Coats, Karen Looking Glasses and Neverlands

Darton, Children’s Books in England

Dixon, Catching Them Young

Foster & Simon, What Katy Read

Griswold, Jerry. Audacious Kids

Hunt, Peter Criticism, Theory, and Children’s Literature

Jenkins, Henry The Children’s Culture Reader

Johnson, Dianne Telling Tales

Kertzer, Adrienne My Mother’s Voice

Kidd, Kenneth Making American Boys

Kuznets, Lois When Toys Come Alive

McGillis, Roderick. The Nimble Reader

Mintz, Steven Huck’s Raft: A History of American Childhood

Nikolajeva, Maria.  From Mythic to Linear

Nodleman, Perry. Words About Pictures

MacCann, Donna Rae. White Supremacy in Children’s Literature

Martin, Michele. Brown Gold

Paley, Boys & Girls

Rose, Jacqueline. The Case of Peter Pan

Steedman, Landscape for a Good Woman

Stephens, John. Language and Ideology in Children’s Literature

Stephens, John, and Robyn McCallum, Retelling Stories, Framing Culture: Traditional Story and Metanarratives in Children’s Literature

Trites, Roberta Seelinger. Disturbing the Universe

---.  Waking Sleeping Beauty

Townsend, John Rowe. Written for Children

Vallone, Lynne Disciplines of Virtue

Zipes, Jack. Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion

Articles:

Hollindale, Peter. “Ideology and the Children’s Book”

Higgonet, “The Playground of the Paratext”

Paul, Lissa. “Enigma Variations”