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1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up
Call Number: Reference 011.62 O584 2009
A beautiful book with wonderful artwork.
Children's Picturebooks by Martin Salisbury; Morag Styles
Call Number: 741.642 S167c 2012

Books at Citrus

The story of Charlotte's web : E.B. White's eccentric life in nature and the birth of an American classic / Michael Sims
Call Number: 818.5209 W582s 2011
Oxford Companion to Children's Literature
Call Number: 809 C295o 1984
Victorian horizons : the reception of the picture books of Walter Crane, Randolph Caldecott, and Kate Greenaway
Call Number: 741.6 L963v 2001
The historian's Wizard of Oz : reading L. Frank Baum's classic as a political and monetary allegory / edited by Ranjit S. Dighe
Call Number: 813.4 B347Zh 2002

Welcome to the Children's Literature Research Guide!

                                      "Once upon a time, there were four
                                       little Rabbits, and their names were----
                                       Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail, and Peter...,"
                                                        The Tale of Peter Rabbit, 1902
                                                        Beatrix Potter

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More Books

Only Connect: Readings on Children's Literature by Sheila A. Egoff (Editor); Gordon Stubbs (Editor); Ralph Ashley (Editor); Wendy Sutton (Editor)
Call Number: 809 E310

New Picture Book Collection

Hayden Memorial Library recently acquired a new collection of children's picture books featuring characters with disabilities. Here are just a few examples (click on image to see more information).