Canadian Literature & Poetry
in English
Children’s Literature
Encyclopedias
The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature
A comprehensive, authoritative guide to many different genres,
topics, and aspects of Canadian literary history, including children’s literature.
The Republic of Childhood: A Critical Guide to Canadian Children’s Literature in English
A collection of critical essays, which are organized by genres
and topics in Canadian children’s fiction and nonfiction: oral tradition, Inuit and
Indigenous stories, folktales, fantasy, historical fiction, the realistic animal story, history
and biography, poetry and plays, illustration and design, picture books and picture
storybooks, and early Canadian children’s books.
Each essay traces the development of the genre or subject and
is accompanied by a list of books, published up to the mid-1970s. Second edition.
PN 1009 .A1 E3
1975
Reference
Bibliographies
Bibliography of Canadian Bibliographies
The section entitled “Arts and Humanities” includes
a list of bibliographies on children’s literature. A comprehensive and exhaustive
bibliography of published bibliographies.
History, Literary Interpretation & Criticism
Home Words: Discourses of Children’s Literature in Canada
The edited volume explores the idea of “home”
through the issues of exile, immigration, homelessness, land use, the impact of imperialism,
and other topics in the history and intrepretation of Canadian children’s books.
The analysis is rooted in the interdisciplinary approach to
children’s literature.
From Nursery Rhymes to Nationhood: Children’s Literature and
the Construction of Canadian Identity
Studies children’s literature published between 1867 and
1911 in the context of the emergence of the Canadian national identity and nationalism.
Topics that Galway explores are the depictions of history,
French Canadians, and Indigenous Peoples in children’s books, regionalism, landscape,
environment, and others.
From Colonial to Modern: Transnational Girlhood in Canadian,
Australian, and New Zealand Children’s Literature, 1840–1940
Through a comparison of Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand
texts published between 1840 and 1940, the editors develop a new history of colonial girlhoods
revealing how girlhood in each of these emerging nations reflects a unique political, social,
and cultural context from the perspectives of print culture, the notions of girlhood throughout
the British Empire, family, race, work, and education
Picturing Canada: A History of Canadian Children’s
Illustrated Books and Publishing
Examines illustrated children’s books from geographical,
historical, and cultural perspectives on the Canadian national identity, published between the
1890s to 2005.
The authors also study the institutions and the professionals
involved in the Canadian book writing, publishing, and reading, including authors, publishers,
illustrators, editors, librarians, booksellers, and critics.
Z 483 .E46 2010
Stacks
Only Connect: Readings on Children’s Literature
Forty-eight known writers discuss all aspects of children’s literature and Egoff provides a synthesized critique of writing intended for children.
PN 1009 .A1 O5
1980
Stacks
Anne of Green Gables
100 Years of Anne with an “e”: The Centennial Study of
Anne of Green Gables
Analyzes the career of L.M. Montgomery, her writing practices,
influence on Canadian fiction.
Other topics included in the collection study the shifting views
and definitions of childhood, domesticity, identity and place, Anne on film, and the aesthetic
and cultural legacy of the novel.
Looking for Anne: How Lucy Maud Montgomery Dreamed Up a Literary
Classic
Part biography, part cultural history, the book studies the
popular-culture images that inspired Montgomery and which she incorporated into the novel, such
as religious newspapers, women’s magazines, advertisements, mass market periodicals, and
other publications.
PR 9199.3 .M6
Z687 2008
Stacks
Anne Around the World: L.M. Montgomery and Her Classic
A collection of essays analyzing the reception and the enduring
popularity of Anne of Green Gables internationally and the influence of Montgomery’ work on other authors.
The essays critically examine the issues of class, race, gender,
and colonial history, and discuss Anne’s place within the context of children’s
world literature.
Journals
Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures
Peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary, and international journal
publishing research on cultural representations of children, including their depiction in
children’s and young-adult literature.
Canadian Children’s Book News
A quarterly magazine publishing book reviews, author and
illustrator interviews, profiles of publishers and bookstores, and news about children’s
education and reading.
reviewed & updated 20 May 2021 | compiled by Agatha Barc, MI