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Welcome to the Children's Literature Guides section of Fine Books.  Here are great guides to the best in children's literature such as stories, fairy tales, and more.  Some of the books here even reveal the secrets to getting childrens' works published. 

Other Children's Literature Books:

 

1. The Read-Aloud Handbook (4th Ed) ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Jim Trelease / Penguin USA (Paper) / August 1995
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2. Great Books for Girls : More Than 600 Books to Inspire Today's Girls and Tomorrow's Women ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Kathleen Odean / Ballantine Books (Trd Pap) / January 1997
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3. 1998 Children's Writer's & Illustrator's Market : 850 Places to Sell Your Work (Serial) ~ Usually ships in 1-2 weeks

Alice P. Buening(Editor) / Writers Digest Books / January 1998
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4. The Uses of Enchantment : The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Bruno Bettelheim / Vintage Books / April 1989
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5. Great Books for Boys : More Than 600 Books for Boys 2 to 14 ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Kathleen Odean / Ballantine Books (Trd Pap) / March 1998
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6. Tending the Heart of Virtue : How Classic Stories Awaken a Child's Moral Imagination ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days

Vigen Guroian / Oxford Univ Pr (Trade) / May 1998
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7. Dear Genius : The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Ursula Nordstrom, Leonard S. Marcus (Editor) / Harpercollins / March 1998
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8. The Mysterious Case of Nancy Drew & the Hardy Boys ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Marvin Heiferman, Carole Kismaric / Fireside / October 1998
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9. Let's Hear It for the Girls : 375 Great Books for Readers 2-14 ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Erica Bauermeister, Holly Smith (Contributor) / Penguin USA (Paper) / March 1997
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10. Books to Build on : A Grade-By-Grade Resource Guide for Parents and Teachers (Core Knowledge Series) ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

E. D., Jr Hirsch(Editor), John Holdren (Editor) / Delta / November 1996
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11. Valerie & Walter's Best Books for Children : A Lively, Opinionated Guide ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Valerie V. Lewis, et al / Avon Books (Pap Trd) / August 1998
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12. Honey for a Child's Heart : The Imaginative Use of Books in Family Life ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Gladys M. Hunt / Zondervan Publishing House / December 1989
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13. Books That Build Character : A Guide to Teaching Your Child Moral Values Through Stories ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

William Kilpatrick, et al / Simon & Schuster (Paper) / November 1994
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14. I Never Saw Another Butterfly : Children's Drawings and Poems from Terezin Concentration Camp 1942-1944 ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Hana Volavkova(Editor) / Schocken Books / March 1994
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15. From the Beast to the Blonde : On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Marina Warner / Noonday Pr / September 1996
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16. The New York Times Parent's Guide to the Best Books for Children ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Eden Ross Lipson, Susan Luke (Editor) / Times Books / September 1991
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17. A Caldecott Celebration : Six Artists Share Their Paths to the Caldecott Medal ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Leonard S. Marcus / Walker & Co / October 1998
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18. Books Children Love : A Guide to the Best Children's Literature ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Elizabeth L. Wilson(Editor), Susan S. Macaulay (Designer) / Crossway Books / September 1987
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19. Hey! Listen to This : Stories to Read Aloud ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days

Jim Trelease(Editor) / Penguin USA (Paper) / April 1992
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20. From Cover to Cover : Evaluating and Reviewing Children's Books ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Kathleen T. Horning / HarperTrophy / March 1997
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21. Read All About It! : Great Read-Aloud Stories, Poems, and Newspaper Pieces for Preteens and Teens ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Jim Trelease(Editor) / Penguin USA (Paper) / August 1993
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22. 99 Ways to Get Kids to Love Reading : And 100 Books They'll Love ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Mary Leonhardt / Crown Pub / May 1997
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23. I Never Saw Another Butterfly : Children's Drawings and Poems from Terezin Concentration Camp, 1942-1944 ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Hana Volavkova(Editor), et al / Pantheon Books / March 1993
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24. Don't Tell the Grown-Ups : The Subversive Power of Children's Literature ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Alison Lurie / Little Brown & Co (Pap) / July 1998
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25. Once upon a Heroine : 400 Books for Girls to Love ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Alison Cooper-Mullin, Jennifer Marmaduke Coye / NTC/Contemporary Publishing / May 1998
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26. A Field Guide to Irish Fairies ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days

Bob Curran, Andrew Whitson (Illustrator) / Chronicle Books / October 1998
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27. Goodnight Moon ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Margaret Wise Brown, et al / Harpercollins Juvenile Books / February 1997
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28. The Nancy Drew Scrapbook ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Karen Plunkett-Powell / St. Martin's Press / November 1993
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29. Classics to Read Aloud to Your Children ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days

William F. Russell / Crown Pub / January 1992
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30. Story Stretchers : Activities to Expand Children's Favorite Books ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Shirley C. Raines, et al / Gryphon House / July 1990
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31. Children's Books and Their Creators ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Anita Silvey(Editor) / Houghton Mifflin Co (Trd) / November 1995
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32. From Mother Goose to Dr. Seuss : Children's Book Covers, 1880-1960 ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Harold Darling / Chronicle Books / May 1999
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33. When Dreams Come True : Classical Fairy Tales and Their Tradition ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Jack David Zipes / Routledge / December 1998
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34. Through the Eyes of a Child : An Introduction to Children's Literature ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days

Donna E. Norton, Saundra E. Norton / Prentice Hall College Div / July 1998
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35. Collector's Guide to Children's Books 1850 to 1950 : Identification & Values ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days

Diane McClure Jones, Rosemary Jones (Contributor) / Collector Books / November 1996
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36. Black Books Galore! : Guide to Great African American Children's Books ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Donna Rand, et al / John Wiley & Sons / October 1998
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37. Babies Need Books : Sharing the Joy of Books With Your Child from Birth to Six ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Dorothy Butler(Preface) / Heinemann / January 1998
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38. Happily Ever After : Fairy Tales, Children, and the Culture Industry ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Jack David Zipes / Routledge / March 1997
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39. The Annotated Charlotte's Web ~ Back Ordered

Peter F. Neumeyer, et al / HarperTrophy / September 1997
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40. Children & Books (Children and Books, 9th Ed) ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Zena Sutherland, Trina Schart Hyman (Illustrator) / Addison-Wesley Pub Co / December 1996
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41. Struwwelpeter : Fearful Stories and Vile Pictures to Instruct Good Little Folks ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Heinrich Hoffmann, et al / Feral House / June 1999
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42. Rediscovering Nancy Drew ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days

Carolyn Stewart Dyer(Editor), et al / Univ of Iowa Pr / May 1995
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43. A Treasury of the Great Children's Book Illustrators ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Susan E. Meyer / Harry N Abrams (Pap) / April 1997
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44. Meet the Authors and Illustrators : 60 Creators of Favorite Children's Books Talk About Their Work (Scholastic Reference Library) ~ Usually ships in 1-2 weeks

Deborah Kovacs, et al / Scholastic Trade / February 1994
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45. Should We Burn Babar? : Essays on Children's Literature and the Power of Stories ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Herbert R. Kohl, Jack Zipes (Introduction) / New Press / August 1996
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46. Literature for Today's Young Adult ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Kenneth L. Donelson, et al / Addison-Wesley Pub Co / October 1996
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47. A Critical Handbook of Children's Literature ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Rebecca J. Lukens / Addison-Wesley Pub Co / January 1999
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48. A Child's Delight ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Noel Perrin / Dartmouth College / November 1997
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49. Parents Who Love Reading, Kids Who Don't : How It Happens and What You Can Do About It ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days

Mary Leonhardt / Crown Pub / April 1995
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50. More Classics to Read Aloud to Your Children ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

William F. Russell / Crown Pub / September 1994
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51. Popular Ya Reading : A Collection of Booklist Columns ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days

Sally Estes(Editor) / Amer Library Assn Editions / July 1996
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52. From Hinton to Hamlet ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Sarah K. Herz, Donald R. Gallo (Contributor) / Greenwood Publishing Group / May 1996
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53. Best Books for Beginning Readers ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Thomas G. Gunning / Allyn & Bacon / August 1997
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54. Meet the Authors and Illustrators : 60 Creators of Favorite Children's Books Talk About Their Work (Scholastic Reference Library) ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days

Deborah Kovacs, et al / Scholastic Trade / May 1996
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55. Waking Sleeping Beauty : Feminist Voices in Children's Novels ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days

Roberta Seelinger Trites / Univ of Iowa Pr / June 1997
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56. Eyeopeners II : Children's Books to Answer Children's Questions About the World Around Them ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Beverly Kobrin / Scholastic Trade / September 1995
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57. Literacy Through the Book Arts ~ Usually ships in 1-2 weeks

Paul Johnson / Heinemann (Txt) / February 1993
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58. The Read-Aloud Handbook ~ Publisher Out Of Stock

Jim Trelease / Penguin Audiobooks / August 1995
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59. From Cover to Cover : Evaluating and Reviewing Children's Books ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Kathleen T. Horning / Harpercollins Juvenile Books / March 1997
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60. The Newbery and Caldecott Awards : A Guide to the Medal and Honor Books 1998 (Annual) ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days

/ Amer Library Assn Editions / May 1998
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61. Literacy Through Literature ~ Usually ships in 1-2 weeks

Terry D. Johnson, Daphne R. Louis (Contributor) / Heinemann (Txt) / December 1987
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62. The Very Best of Children's Book Illustration ~ Out of Print--Try our out-of-print search service!

/ North Light Books / September 1993
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63. Works on Paper ~ Back Ordered

Anne Hobbs / Frederick Warne and Company Inc / February 1990
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64. Angels and Wild Things : The Archetypal Poetics of Maurice Sendak ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

John Cech / Pennsylvania State Univ Pr (Trd) / January 1996
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65. Nancy Drew and Company : Culture, Gender, and Girls' Series ~ Usually ships in 1-2 weeks

Sherrie A. Inness(Editor) / Bowling Green State Univ / August 1997
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66. Essentials of Children's Literature ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days

Carol Lynch-Brown, Carl M. essentials Tomlinson / Allyn & Bacon / October 1998
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67. The New Press Guide to Multicultural Resources for Young Readers ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days

Daphne Muse(Introduction), New Press / New Press / November 1997
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68. Now or Neverland : Peter Pan and the Myth of Eternal Youth (Studies in Jungian Psychology, 82) ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Ann Yeoman, et al / Inner City Books / March 1999
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69. The Pleasures of Children's Literature ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days

Perry Nodelman / Addison-Wesley Pub Co / October 1995
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70. The Magic Bookshelf: A Parent's Guide to Showing Growing Minds the Path to the Best Children's Literature ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Janie Jarvis, et al / Lorica Publishing / January 28, 1999
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71. A to ZOo : Subject Access to Children's Picture Books (5th Ed) ~ Not Yet Published

Carolyn W. Lima, John A. Lima / Rr Bowker / March 1998
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72. From Butterflies to Thunderbolts : Discovering Science With Books Kids Love ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days

Anthony D. Fredericks, et al / Fulcrum Pub / September 1997
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73. Talk Talk : A Children's Book Author Speaks to Grown-Ups ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days

E. L. Konigsburg / Atheneum / May 1995
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74. First Words : Earliest Writings from Favorite Contemporary Authors ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Paul Mandelbaum(Editor) / Algonquin Books / October 1993
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75. Books to Grow by ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days

Robert Keeshan, et al / Fairview Pr / February 1996
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