This is a necessarily partial list of books available for you to review. If you have one that is not on the list, feel free to run it by me.

Bixler, Phyllis. The Secret Garden: Nature's Magic.
Bottigheimer, Ruth. Grimms' Bad Girls & Bold Boys
Carpenter, Secret Gardens
Cott, Pipers at the Gates of Dawn
Demers, Heaven Upon Earth
Dixon, Catching Them Young (2 vols.)
Griswold, Jerry. Audacious Kids.
Higgonet, Anne. Pictures of Innocence: The History and Crisis of Ideal Childhood. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1998.
Hunt, Peter. Criticism, Theory, and Children's Literature. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1991.
Johnson, Telling Tales
Keyser, Whispers in the Dark
Khorana, Meena, ed. Critical Perspectives on Postcolonial African Children's and Young Adult Literature. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998.
Kincaid, James. Child-loving: The Erotic Child and Victorian Culture. New York: Routledge, 1992.
Knoepflmacher, U. C. Ventures into Childhood: Victorians, Fairy Tales, and Femininity. Chicago: U of Chicago Press, 1998.
Kuznets, Lois. When Toys Come Alive
May, Jill P. Children's Literature and Critical Theory. New York: Oxford UP, 1995.
McGillis, Rod. A Little Princess: Gender and Empire. Twayne Masterwork Studies, no. 159. New York: Twayne, 1996.
----------The Nimble Reader: Literary Theory and Children's Literature. New York: Twayne, 1996.
Nikolajeva, Maria. Children's Literature Comes of Age: Toward a New Aesthetic. New York: Garland, 1996.
Nikolajeva, Maria, ed. Aspects and Issues in the History of Children's Literature. Contributions to the Study of World Literature 60. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1995.
Paul, Lissa. Reading Otherways. Stroud, Glos.: Thimble Press, 1998.
Rahn, Suzanne. Rediscoveries in Children's Literature. New York: Garland, 1995.
Rollin, Lucy. Cradle and All.
Rose, Jacqueline. The Case of Peter Pan, or The Impossibility of Children's Literature.
Trites, Roberta Seelinger. Disturbing the Universe.
--------Waking Sleeping Beauty.
Vallone, Lynne. Disciplines of Virture
Wall, Barbara. The Narrator's Voice.

* These books are from the Children's Literature and Culture Series edited by Jack Zipes, published through Garland. Any book from that series is appropriate.