Children's Books in the Public Library of New South Wales

Children's Books in the Public Library of New South Wales
Author: Public Library of New South Wales
Publisher:
Total Pages: 198
Release: 1963*
Genre: Children's literature
ISBN:

"The purpose of this bibliography is to indicate the extent and strength of the holdings of children's books in the Public Library of New South Wales ... in the light of a need for a research collection in children's literature."--Introdn. Excludes Australian children's books and books published after 1900.

A Guide to Australian Children's Literature

A Guide to Australian Children's Literature
Author: Jeffrey Prentice
Publisher: Rr Bowker Llc
Total Pages: 323
Release: 1992
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9781875589111

'This book is an attempt to provide a ready reference guide to Australian children's literature. While concentrating on the literature produced locally, the guide also traces the general development of courses and historical milestones." -- Introduction.

Writing the Australian Child

Writing the Australian Child
Author: Clare Bradford
Publisher: UWA Publishing
Total Pages: 204
Release: 1996
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781875560752

This collection of essays redresses the paucity of literary critical material explicitly theorising text created for children. Drawing on Australian children's books and a range of theoretical perspectives, the essays consider a variety of topics, from clothed animals as metafictional markers to post-modern versions of Peter Pan.

First Choice

First Choice
Author: Henry Maurice Saxby
Publisher:
Total Pages: 332
Release: 1991-01-01
Genre: Best books
ISBN: 9780195531305

Entries for nearly 1000 children's books are arranged in this guide in order of reading age, ranging from wordless books to upper primary and poetry books. Authors' names and, where appropriate, brief descriptions of story lines are included. Indexes cover titles, authors, illustrators and subjects.

Subject Guide to Australian Children's Books in Print

Subject Guide to Australian Children's Books in Print
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 427
Release: 2002
Genre: Children's literature
ISBN: 9781864520484

Fifth edition of a subject guide to in-print Australian-published children's books. First published 1991 and most recently in 1999. Bibliographic records are presented under 5500 subject headings and 3300 cross-references are included. This revised and updated edition contains 7229 titles in 9641 volumes for children, covering school years P to 10 (ages 0 to 15), including general and educational books. There are also 1328 teacher reference titles in 1703 volumes, including critical works about children's literature. The physical descriptions of the books are based on the entries in the Thorpe-Bowker's 'Australian Books in Print' database as of June 2002. The compiler's other publications include 'The Whole Story' and 'Australian Books for Australian Schools'.