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Here are entered works on the reading interests of children or books recommended for children. Collections of literary works or individual literary works written by children under 15 years of age are entered under Children's writings. Works on child authors as a class of persons are entered under Child authors. Collections of works published for children, including literary works, nonliterary works, or both, are entered under Children's literature. Works on books for children considered as physical objects are entered under Children's books.

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• Dare to be Creative! A Lecture Presented at the Library of Congress, November 16, 1983 (Washington: Library of Congress, 1984), by Madeleine L'Engle, contrib. by John Young Cole and Sybille A. Jagusch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Imagination and Children's Reading (Northampton, MA: Hampshire Bookshop, 1921), by Grace Hazard Conkling
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  • multiple formats at archive.org
• American Potpourri: Multi-Ethnic Books for Children and Young Adults; A Bibliography Based on the Acquisitions of the Educational Materials Center (Washington: Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Office of Education, 1977), by Mary DeWitt Billings, Janet Shenk, and Rita D. McCain (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selected Books for Young Children; Selected Pictures for Young Children (second edition; New York: Educational Playthings, c1934), by Alice Dalgliesh and Rita Scherman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Children's Booklist, by Theosophical Society Children's Committee (HTML at theosophy-nw.org)
• A Pleasing Toy for Children (Concord, NH: Rufus Merrill, 1843)
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• La culture par l'anglais (É. Privat;, 1914), by Floris Delattre (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Aids to media selection for students and teachers (U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Office of Education, 1976), by Kathlyn Johnson Moses and Lois Belfield Watt (page images at HathiTrust)
• The openhearted audience : ten authors talk about writing for children (Library of Congress :, 1980), by Virginia Haviland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Books and babies (A. C. McClurg & co., 1938), by Garry Cleveland Myers and Clarence Wesley Sumner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Library service for children (American library association, 1929), by Effie Power and American Library Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literary landmarks: a guide to good reading for young people, and teachers' assistant (Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1889), by Mary E. Burt (page images at HathiTrust)
• The effect of the physical make-up of a book upon children's selection (The Johns Hopkins press, 1922), by Florence Eilau Bamberger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Children's interests in reading (Teachers college, Columbia university, 1921), by Arthur Melville Jordan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Children's interests in reading. (University of North Carolina Press, 1926), by Arthur Melville Jordan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Children's interests in reading (AMS Press, 1972), by Arthur Melville Jordan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The dawn of juvenile literature in England. (H.J. Paris, 1925), by Gesiena Andreae (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Class room libraries for public schools (Printed for the Library, 1902), by N.Y.) Buffalo Public Library (Buffalo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fingerposts to children's reading (A. C. McClurg & co., 1907), by Walter Taylor Field (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Library and the school (Harper & brothers, 1910), by Claude G. Leland and Harper & Brothers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Children's books and reading. (Gryphon Books, 1971), by Montrose Jonas Moses (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The children's reading (Houghton Mifflin, 1912), by Frances Jenkins Olcott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Children's reading; a guide for parents and teachers (D. Appleton and company, 1926), by Lewis M. Terman and Margaret Lima (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The right reading for children in the school, the home and the library (D. C. Heath & co., 1905), by Charles Welsh (page images at HathiTrust)
• The child as reader (Libraco limited, 1927), by L. Stanley Jast (page images at HathiTrust)
• Interest factors in primary reading material (Teachers College, Columbia University, 1921), by Fannie Wyche Dunn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Literature for children (Macmillan, 1914), by Orton Lowe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Children's interests in reading (Teachers College, Columbia University, 1921), by Arthur Melville Jordan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le biblioteche delle scuole elementari e la letteratura infantile; conferenza tenuta agl'insegnanti delle scuole primarie di Modena il 30 dicembre 1915. (Tip. A. Cappelli, 1916), by Angelo Scuppa (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Books to build on; first books to buy for school libraries: elementary, junior high, high school. (R.R. Bowker Co., 1957), by Elvajean Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Furious children and the library (Top of the news, 1960), by Fritz Redl and National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Your child and his reading; how parents can help. (Public Affairs Committee, 1960), by Nancy Larrick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Helping your child use the library (Office of Educational Research and Improvement, U.S. Dept. of Education, 1989), by Kathryn Perkinson and United States. Office of Educational Research and Improvement (page images at HathiTrust)
• Coḿo ayudar a sus hijos a usar la biblioteca (Office of Educational Research and Improvement, U.S. Dept. of Education, 1992), by Kathryn Perkinson, Brian Griffin, and United States. Office of Educational Research and Improvement (page images at HathiTrust)
• The child and the book. (American Library Association, 1922), by Christopher Morley (page images at HathiTrust)
• General policy of reviewing and selecting children's books, adopted December 21, 1932. (The Library, 1932), by New York (N.Y.). Queens Borough Public Library (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Dad's playbook : coaching kids to read. (U.S. National Institute for Literacy, 2006), by RMC Research Corporation and National Institute for Literacy (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The effects of extrinsic rewards on children's intrinsic motivation to read (1984), by William Scott Gee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Psychological growth through reading : an annotated guide to children's books (Pupil Personnel Services Section, Minnesota Dept. of Education, 1974), by Karen A. Naslund (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sammtliche Kinder- und Jugend schriften (in der Schulbuchhandlung, 1830), by Joachim Heinrich Campe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Introducing books and language (Cornell Cooperative Extension, 1996), by Jennifer Birckmayer, Bonnie Jo Westendorf, and Cornell Cooperative Extension (page images at HathiTrust)
• Help your teenager succeed (Division of Reading Effectiveness, Indiana Dept. of Public Instruction, 1976), by Indiana. Division of Reading Effectiveness (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Di︠e︡tskai︠a︡ i narodnai︠a︡ literatura : opyt rukovodstva dli︠a︡ sistematicheskago chtenīi︠a︡ : zami︠e︡tki dli︠a︡ roditeleĭ, biblīotekareĭ i narodnykh uchiteleĭ s ukazanīem luchshikh knig (Ėlektro-tip. G. Iskolʹdskago, 1912), by A. I. Lebedev (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The wonderful letter-bag of Kit Curious : with tinted illustrations (Boston : Phillips, Sampson & Company, publishers, [between 1854-1859?], 1854), by Francis C. Woodworth, William Howland, and Sampson & Company Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)
• An die Hünglinge von der Bildung durch Lektüre. (C.F. Schwan, 1781), by Johann Georg Philipp Thiele (page images at HathiTrust)
• Book selection in education for children and young adults. (F. W. Faxon Co., 1865), by Hannah Logasa (page images at HathiTrust)
• A graded list of literature reading based on a study of children's interests (1908), by Mildred Burrill Stone (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Good advice (Published by S.A. Howland, 1842), by Henry J. Howland and S. A. Howland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Preliminary catalogue of books for young people in the public library of the city of Milwaukee. ([Milwaukee Public Library] Board of Trustees, 1889), by Milwaukee Public Library. Board of Trustees (page images at HathiTrust)
• List of books for girls and women and their clubs with descriptive and critical notes and a list of periodicals and hints for girls' and women's clubs (Published for the American Library Association Publishing Section by the Library Bureau, 1895), by Augusta H. Leypoldt and George Iles (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to provide good reading for children (Bryant Press, 1895), by Agnes Campbell Farquharson Schultz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literature (Copp, Clark , 1916) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Juvenile literature as it is. (H.J. Drane, 1888), by Edward Salmon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Citizenship in school and out : the first six years of school life (D.C. Heath & Co., 1919), by Arthur William Dunn and Hannah Margaret Harris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Coḿo ayudar a sus hijos a aprender ciencia (Departamento de Educación de los Estados Unidos, Oficina de Investigación y Progreso Educativo, 1992), by Nancy Paulu, Margaret Scott, Margery Martin, and United States. Office of Educational Research and Improvement (page images at HathiTrust)
• Leamos! (Departmento de Educación de los Estados Unidos, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, National Institute on Student Achievement, Curriculum, and Assessment :, 1996), by National Institute on the Education of At-risk Students (U.S.) and Curriculum National Institute on Student Achievement (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reading interests and informational needs of children in grades four to eight ([Urbana, Ill., 1954), by J. Harlan Shores and Herbert C. Rudman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Desirable characteristics of school library media personnel and the concept of the future as it is presented in children's books today (University of Illinois, Graduate School of Library Science, 1975), by Peggy Sullivan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Books for minority children (Sangamon State University Library, 1973), by Kathryn Harris and Sangamon State University. Library (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A supplement to the state manyal of the elementary course of study (Charleston, W. Va. : Department of Schools, 1913., 1913), by L. J. Hanifan and West Virginia. State Department of Education (page images at HathiTrust)
• Children's literature : a textbook of sources for teachers and teacher-training classes (Rand, McNally & Co., 1923), by Charles Madison Curry and Erle Elsworth Clippinger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shōkokumin (Fuji Shuppan, 1889), by Kendō Ishii (page images at HathiTrust)
• Helping your child use the library (Office of Educational Research and Improvement, U.S. Dept. of Education, 1992), by Kathryn Perkinson and United States. Office of Educational Research and Improvement (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bulletin re: idividual reading in the elementary schools (Schenectady, N. Y. : Program Office, Schenectady Public Schools, 1956., 1956) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The lure of story (National Reading Research Center, 1993), by Katherine Paterson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Influences of instruction on amount of reading : an empirical exploration of social, cognitive, and instructional indicators (National Reading Research Center, 1993), by John T. Guthrie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Books are bridges. ([Philadelphia], 1953), by American Friends Service Committee (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Children's books and reading, by Montrose Jonas Moses (Gutenberg ebook)
• Children's Literature: A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes, by Erle Elsworth Clippinger and Charles Madison Curry (Gutenberg ebook)
• Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature, by Ontario. Department of Education (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Mother's List of Books for Children, by Gertrude Weld Arnold (Gutenberg ebook)

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