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• The ABC of It: Why Children's Books Matter (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, c2019), by Leonard S. Marcus (PDF with commentary at Minnesota; 643 MB)
• A Mid-Century Child and Her Books (New York: Macmillan, 1926), by Caroline M. Hewins
  • illustrated HTML with commentary at merrycoz.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Child and His Picture Book: A Discussion of the Preferences of the Nursery Child (Chicago: Northwestern University Press, 1933), by Larry Freeman and Ruth S. Freeman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Children's Literature: A Guide to the Criticism (c1987), by Linnea Hendrickson (text files at Wayback Machine)

• Monteiro Lobato: Um Estudo de A Chave do Tamanho (in Portuguese; Sao Paulo: Editora UNESP, c2011), by Thiago Alves Valente (PF at UNESP)

• The Dawn of Juvenile Literature in England (Amsterdam: H. J. Paris, 1925), by Gesiena Andreae (page images at delpher.nl)

• Children's Literature: A Guide to the Criticism (c1987), by Linnea Hendrickson (text files at Wayback Machine)

• Fairy Tales From Before Fairy Tales: The Medieval Latin Past of Wonderful Lies (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Jan M. Ziolkowski (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Psychiatric Study of Fairy Tales: Their Origin, Meaning, and Usefulness (Springfield, IL: C. C. Thomas, c1963), by Julius E. Heuscher, illust. by Melba Bennett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fairy Tales, Their Origin and Meaning: With Some Account of Dwellers in Fairyland (1878), by John Thackray Bunce (Gutenberg text)
• A Study of Fairy Tales, by Laura Fry Kready (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• Spellbound: The Fairy Tale and the Victorians (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Molly Clark Hillard (PDF with commentary at Ohio State)
• Feminist Narrative Ethics: Tacit Persuasion in Modernist Form (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Katherine Saunders Nash (PDF at Ohio State)

• Children's Literature in Translation: Texts and Contexts (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2020), ed. by Jan van Coillie and Jack McMartin (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Baby World: Stories, Rhymes, and Pictures for Little Folks, Compiled From St. Nicholas (New York: The Century Co., c1884), ed. by Mary Mapes Dodge
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at MOA
• The Children's Book (New York: Cupples and Leon Co., c1915), ed. by Frances Hodgson Burnett (multiple formats at archive.org)
• From the Tower Window of My Bookhouse (book 5 of original "My Book House" series; Chicago and Toronto: The Bookhouse for Children, c1921), ed. by Olive Beaupré Miller (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Journeys through Bookland: A New and Original Plan for Reading, Applied to the World's Best Literature for Children (10 volumes; Chicago: Bellows-Reeve Co., c1909), ed. by Charles Sylvester (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Junior Classics (10 volumes; New York: P. F. Collier and Son, 1918), ed. by William Patten, contrib. by Charles William Eliot and William Allan Neilson (multiple formats at archive.org, HathiTrust, and Gutenberg)
• The Treasure Chest of My Bookhouse (book 4 of original "My Book House" series; Chicago: The Bookhouse for Children, c1920), ed. by Olive Beaupré Miller (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Types of Children's Literature: A Collection of the World's Best Literature for Children, For Use in Colleges, Normal Schools and Library Schools, ed. by Walter Barnes (Gutenberg text)
• Good Stories for Great Holidays, ed. by Frances Jenkins Olcott (HTML at Virginia)
• Good Stories for Great Holidays, ed. by Frances Jenkins Olcott (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
• Imagination and Children's Reading (Northampton, MA: Hampshire Bookshop, 1921), by Grace Hazard Conkling
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Latch Key of My Bookhouse (book 6 of original "My Book House" series; Chicago: The Bookhouse for Children, c1921), ed. by Olive Beaupré Miller (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Grandpa's Notebook: Ideas, Models, Stories and Memoirs to Encourage Intergenerational Outreach and Communication (2000 edition), by Meyer Moldeven (Gutenberg text)

• The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C.L. Dodgson) (New York: The Century Co., 1899), by Stuart Dodgson Collingwood, contrib. by Lewis Carroll
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• 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)
• A Mid-Century Child and Her Books (New York: Macmillan, 1926), by Caroline M. Hewins
  • illustrated HTML with commentary at merrycoz.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Children's Book-A-Day Almanac (online version, updated regularly), by Anita Silvey (illustrated HTML at childrensbookalmanac.com)
• Children's Booklist, by Theosophical Society Children's Committee (HTML at theosophy-nw.org)
• Children as Authors (ca. 1936), by Utica Public Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Art of the Story-Teller (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1917 (c1915)), by Marie L. Shedlock (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• The Child and His Book: Some Account of the History and Progress of Children's Literature in England (London: W. Gardner, Darton and Co., ca. 1891), by Mrs. E. M. Field (multiple formats at archive.org)

• St. Nicholas (partial serial archives)
• John Martin's Book (partial serial archives)
• Little Folks (American children's magazine published by Cassino from 1897-1926) (partial serial archives)
• The Boy's Own Annual (partial serial archives)
• The Boy's Own Magazine (partial serial archives)
• Every Youth's Gazette (full serial archives)
• Forrester's Boys' and Girls' Magazine, and Fireside Companion (partial serial archives)
• Joy Street (partial serial archives)
• Routledge's Every Boy's Annual, ed. by Edmund Routledge (partial serial archives)
• Routledge's Every Girl's Annual, ed. by Alicia Amy Leith (partial serial archives)
• Solstrålen: Sagostundsbarnens Tidning (children's magazine in Swedish; issues online 1906-1909) (partial serial archives)
• The Student and Schoolmate (partial serial archives)
• Young Israel (Union of American Hebrew Congregations, 1907-ca. 1940) (partial serial archives)

• Children's Book-A-Day Almanac (online version, updated regularly), by Anita Silvey (illustrated HTML at childrensbookalmanac.com)

• The Children's Encyclopaedia (8 volumes; London: Educational Book Co., ca. 1910), ed. by Arthur Mee (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Child's Guide to Knowledge: Being a Collection of Useful and Familiar Questions and Answers on Every-Day Subjects Adapted for Young Persons, and Arranged in the Most Simple and Easy Language (published anonymously, but originally written by Umphelby; 38th edition; London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co, 1865), by Fanny Umphelby
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

More items available under broader and related terms at left.