Bibliografía básica:

Townsend, John Rowe, Written for Children: An Outline of English-Language Children’s Literature .London: The Bodley Head, 1990 (6th revision)

Hunt, Peter, Children’s Literature. An Illustrated History. Oxford: O.U.Press, 1995.

Avery, Gillian and Julia Briggs, Children and Their Books. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990.

Russell, D. L. Literature for Children. A short introduction. Boston-New York: Pearson, 6^th ed., 2009.

Bibliografía secundaria:

Avery, Gillian. Childhood’s Pattern: A Study of the Heroes and Heroines of Children’s Fiction 1770-1950. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1975.

Bratton, J.S. The Impact of Victorian Children’s Fiction. London: Croom Helm, 1981.

Carpenter, Humphrey. Secret Gardens: A Study of  the Golden Age of Children’s Literature. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1985.

Demers, Patricia. From Instruction to Delight. Toronto: O.U.P. 2004

Griswold, J. Feeling like a Kid. N.Y.: Johns Hopkins, 2006.

Hallet, M. and Barbara Karasek.

Abate, Ann Michelle and Kidd, Kenneth (eds.) Over the Rainbow. Queer Children's and Young Adult Literature.Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2011.

Daniel, Carolyn. Voracious Children: Who Eats Whom in Children's Literature. London: Routledge, 2006.

Cart, Michael and Jenkins, C. The Heart has its Reasons: Young Adult Literature with Gay/Lesbian/Queer Content, 1969-2004. Toronto: Scarecrow Press, 2006.

Lynch, Jennifer. Boys will Be Boys...Or Not? An Analysis of Sexual Attitudes and Behabiour of Male Teenagers in Young Adult Literature.Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009.