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Beyond the Secret Garden Children’s Literature and Representations of Black and Racially minoritised People

Darren Chetty, Karen Sands-O’Connor
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The Haunted Wood A History of Childhood Reading

Sam Leith
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Before Tom Brown: the Origins of the School Story

Robert J Kirkpatrick
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The Women who Invented Twentieth-Century Children’s Literature

Elizabeth West
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Enid Blyton: A Literary Life

Andrew Maunder
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How the Just So Stories were made

John Batchelor
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The Age Between: Personal Reflections on Youth Fiction

Aidan Chambers
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Seeing Sense: visual literacy as a tool for libraries, learning and reader development

Jake Hope
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The Making of Lewis Carroll’s Alice and the Invention of Wonderland

Peter Hunt
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Fierce Bad Rabbits: The Tales Behind Children’s Books

Clare Pollard
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The 100 Best Children’s Books

Brian Alderson
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Why was Billy Bunter Never Really Expelled? And another twenty-five mysteries of children’s literature

Dennis Butts, Peter Hunt
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The King of the Golden River

John Ruskin
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Reading & Rebellion: An Anthology of Radical Writing for Children 1900-1960

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A History of Children’s Books in 100 Books

Roderick Cave, Sara Ayed
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Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading

Lucy Mangan
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Drawn from the Archive: Hidden Histories of Illustration 

Sarah Lawrance
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Children’s Literature

Pat Pinsent
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