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Minders of Make-Believe: Idealists, Entrepreneurs, and the Shaping of American Children's Literature

Minders of Make-Believe: Idealists, Entrepreneurs, and the Shaping of American Children's Literature > Lists

by
Leonard S. Marcus


Wild Things by Bruce HandyThe Oxford Companion to Children's Literature by Humphrey CarpenterChildren's Literature by Seth LererBookworm by Lucy ManganBeyond Babar by Sandra L. Beckett
Nonfiction Books on Children's Literature
61st out of 416 books — 34 voters
Racial Innocence by Robin BernsteinSuffering Childhood in Early America by Anna Mae DuaneThe Children's Table by Annette Ruth AppellThe Norton Anthology of Children's Literature by Jack D. ZipesOver the Rainbow by Michelle Ann Abate
Best Scholarly Children's Lit Books
31st out of 44 books — 6 voters

Racial Innocence by Robin BernsteinGrowing Up with the Country by Elliott WestChildren's Literature by Seth LererBalderdash! by Michelle MarkelSmall Worlds by Elliott West
History of Children and Childhood
8th out of 23 books — 4 voters
Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskeyDon't Make Me Pull Over! by Richard RatayRude Bitches Make Me Tired by Celia RivenbarkMake Good Art by Neil GaimanBring Me Some Apples and I'll Make You a Pie by Robbin Gourley
'Make' Me
575th out of 727 books — 22 voters

Dostoevsky by Joseph FrankGoethe by Rüdiger SafranskiEternity's Sunrise by Leo DamroschBalzac by Graham RobbThomas Mann by Ronald Hayman
Non-Fiction Books about Literature & the Arts
136th out of 180 books — 6 voters


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