The Spirited Life: Bertha Mahony Miller and Children's Books.
Horn Book, 1973, 1st printing; 274 pp. Reference biography, hardback. Bertha Mahony Miller and Children's Books.
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My Roads to Childhood, Views and Reviews of Children's Books.
New York: Doubleday & Co, Inc, 1939 (1920, 1923, 1926) stated 1st; blue cloth, blue top edge, in pale blue-green jacket with only "My Roads" and oval landscape in tan, blue green, and black, black titles; 8vo; 399 pp. Reference essays, hardback, ex-lib. The three previous "Roads" books, edited, brought.....
My Roads to Childhood, Views and Reviews of Children's Books.
New York: Doubleday & Co, Inc, 1939 (1920, 1923, 1926) stated 1st; blue cloth, blue top edge, in pale blue-green jacket with only "My Roads" and oval landscape in tan, blue green, and black, black titles; 8vo; 399 pp. Reference essays, hardback. The three previous "Roads" books, edited, brought up.....
Roads to Childhood
New York: George H. Doran Company(1920); brown boards with dark brown spine and pasted on label, small 8v0; 240 pp incld 23 pp index. Reference essays, hardback. The first of Moore's "Roads" collection of sometimes outspoken essays and reviews of children's books.
Pauses: Autobiographical Reflections of 101 Creators of Children's Books.
HarperCollins, (1995),2nd; 233 pp. Reference biography, hardback. .
Twentieth-Century Children's Writers.
NY: St. Martin's Press, (1978 London Macmillan), 1st Am edition, printing unknown. Black cloth boards, blue dustjacket, 1507 pp. Reference biography, hardback, ex-lib. An indispensable reference for children's literature, containing short biographies and bibliographies complete to publication date of most English speaking authors. (European literature and 19th c literature are.....
Children's Books and Their Creators.
Houghton Mifflin, 1995, 2nd; 800 pp. Reference biography, hardback. A modern encyclopedic reference on children's literature.
Famous Literary Teams for Young People.
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1977, 1st printing; Famous Biographies for Young People series; 152 pp., photos, index. Reference biography, hardback. Short descriptions of 17 pairs of children's writers and illustrators: Grimm, Asbjornsen/Moe, d'Aulaire, de Brunhoff, Hader, Buff, Bryan, Carroll/Lane/Fenton, Ward/McNeer, Adams/Anderson, Yashima, De Leeuw, Blegvad, Emberley, Feelings, Devlin.
A Sounding of Storytellers.
London: Kestrel, 1979, 1st printing; 218 pp. Reference biography, hardback. Essays on Contemporary Writers for Children., followed by a short essay by the author.
The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature.
Oxford UP, 1984, 2nd; 587 pp. Reference biography, hardback. Opinionated, and full of information.
The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature.
Oxford UP, (1984); 587 pp. Reference biography, hardback. Opinionated, and full of information.
How I Came To Be a Writer.
Atheneum, 1978, 1st printing. Reference biography, hardback. Autobiography.
The Problem Child.
London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, new edition with appendix, no date, green cloth, 8vo; 267 pp. Reference education, hardback, ex-lib. .
The Unknown Paintings of Kay Nielsen.
New York: Peacock Press/Bantam Books 1977; softcover still in original shrinkwrap. With an elegy by Hildegarde Flanner. Reference biography, softcover. A collection for an edition of a Thousand and One Nights that was never published.
Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom.
New York: Harpercollins, 1998, stated 1st, nl; light brown boards with dark brown spine, gilt; tan endpapers, 6x9.25"; 406 pp incld bibliography and index. Reference essays, hardback. "Most memorable, however, is Nordstrom to her authors, cajoling, encouraging, assisting, teasing out ideas, supporting in every way possible. It would have been.....
Mary Norton.
Twayne's English Authors Series, 1994, 1st printing. Reference biography, hardback. .
Flicka's Friend.
Putnam, Book Club Edition, (1982). Reference biography, hardback. Autobiography, with photos.
The Children's Reading.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, Riverside Press Cambridge 1912; red cloth, gilt titles, 8vo; 344 pp in all. Reference essays, hardback. 14 chapters beginning with The Influence of Good Books, then Some Modern Conditions and the Effects of Bad Books, followed by consideration of children reading and different types.....
Children's Games in Street and Playground.
Oxford: Clarendon Press 1970/1969, 3rd printing with corrections; blue boards, in blue jacket with photo of children playing, 372 pp. Reference childhood, hardback. Based on ten years of the contributions of more than 10,000 children as they play together outdoors and independently, each game with its variants and similar ones.....
The People in the Playground.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1993, 1st sd; black cloth in white jacket with children playing; 8vo; 249 pp including index. Reference childhood, hardback. Beginning in 1970 Iona Opie made regular visits to the local school playground, ostensibly to collect games but actually to see how the children's play evolved.....
Gates of Excellence.
Elsevier/Nelson, 1981, 1st printing; 127 pp. Reference essays, hardback. On reading and writing books for children.
The Child & Reality, Problems of Genetic Psychology.
New York: Grossman Publishers, 1972, previously written but 1st printing thus collected; translated by Arnold Rosin; green cloth boards, dark green jacket, 8vo; 182 pp incl. index. Reference education, hardback. The third of a group of selection's of Piaget's writings designed to make his work accessible to the general reader.....
Franz Graf von Pocci: Die gesamte Druckgraphik.
Munich, München: Rogner & Bernard; 1974, 1st printing, 1-7 thousand; foreword by Eugen Roth; yellow cloth in colourful jacket of Pocci illustrations; 8vo; 655 pp. Reference illustration, hardback. .
Franz Graf von Pocci: Die gesamte Druckgraphik.
Munich, München: Rogner & Bernard; n. d. for Manfred Pawlak Herrsching, foreword by Eugen Roth; yellow cloth in colourful jacket of Pocci illustrations; 8vo; 655 pp. Reference biography, hardback. .
How to Draw Children.
New York and London: The Studio, 1943, 1st US; plain tan cloth boards, black title on spine, gray endpapers; 5.25x6.75"; 64 pp. Reference illustration, hardback, ex-lib. Round large eyed babies and young children by the well known illustrator and commercial artist. Lots of tips in this little book.