Lionni, Leo. Between Worlds: the Autobiography of Leo Lionni. Knopf. (N 6537 L557 A2 1997). This one would be a great supplement to The Girl With the Brown Crayon.

Perrin, Noel. A Child's Delight. University Press of New England. (PR 830 C513 P47 1997). Personal essays on 30 different "wonderful but little-known books for children," a number of them first published in the Washington Post. Perrin teaches literature at Dartmouth where he used his classes as control groups to ascertain that the selected titles are "little-known to children." Very readable, great for book talking.

Spitz, Ellen Handler. Inside Picture Books. Yale University Press. (BF 456 R2 S685 1999). This is a wonderful discussion of a number of enduring, loved by children for years, picture books. In the Foreword Robert Coles describes the book as an "effort on the part of a psychoanalytically informed educator to offer some considered thought to those of us who love reading, love reading to children, and want these children, down the line, to love reading too ….We are asked here to understand and appreciate the psychological complexity of stories, and the complexity, as well, of the reception they receive from young readers."

Virginia Hamilton Conference. Art & Story: The Role of Illustration in Multicultural Literature for Youth. Highsmith Press. (NC 975 V57 1997). This is the second book of presentations from this conference (Many Faces, Many Voices: Multicultural Literary Experiences for Youth, PS 490 M36 1992, is the first), spanning the years 1985-1996. Appendices include an annotated list of recommended books, an annotated list of recommended films and videos, a list of recipients of the annual Virginia Hamilton Essay Award (I've included a copy of this), and a history of the conference.

Zipes, Jack David. When Dreams Came True: Classical Fairy Tales and Their Tradition. Routledge. (PN 3437 Z57 1999). This is Zipes attempt at a social history of the literary fairy tale. He has collected and revised his previously written essays which have appeared as introductions and afterwards to various books. Zipes' "focus has been on the role that the literary fairy tale has assumed in the civilizing process by imparting values, norms, and aesthetic taste to children and adults." I found the chapter on Baum and Oz especially interesting.