From Cover to Cover (19 page)

Opie, Iona, and Peter Opie.
The Classic Fairy Tales.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1974.

Reese, Debbie. “Proceed with Caution: Using Native American Folktales in the Classroom,”
Language Arts
84:3 (January 2007), pp. 245–56.

Stevenson, Deborah. “‘If You Read This Last Sentence, It Won’t Tell You Anything’: Postmodernism, Self-Referentiality, and
The Stinky Cheese Man
,”
Children’s Literature Association Quarterly
19:1 (Spring 1994), pp. 32–34.

Thurber, James. “Fables for Our Time—1,”
The New Yorker
14:49 (January 21, 1939), p. 19.

Yeh, Phoebe. “Multicultural Publishing: The Best and the Worst of Times,”
Journal of Youth Services in Libraries
6:2 (Winter 1993), pp. 157–60.

Yolen, Jane. “Once upon a While Ago: Folktales in the Course of Literature,” in
Children’s Literature Remembered: Issues, Trends, and Favorite Books
. Edited by Linda M. Pavonetti. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited, 2004, pp. 39–48.

C
HILDREN’S
B
OOKS
C
ITED

Barton, Byron.
The Three Bears
. New York: HarperCollins, 1991.

Bierhorst, John, ed.
The White Deer, and Other Stories Told by the Lenape
. New York: William Morrow, 1995.

Bruchac, Joseph, and Gayle Ross.
The Girl Who Married the Moon: Tales from Native North America
. Mahwah, NJ: Bridge Water Books, 1994.

Crossley-Holland, Kevin.
British Folk Tales: New Versions
. New York: Orchard Books, 1987.

Grimm, Jakob, and Wilhelm Grimm.
Hansel and Gretel
. Translated
from the German by Elizabeth D. Crawford. Illustrated by Lisbeth Zwerger. New York: William Morrow, 1979.

—.
Hansel and Gretel
. Translated by Mrs. Edgar Lucas. Illustrated by Susan Jeffers. New York: Dial, 1980.

—.
Hansel and Gretel
. Adapted from the translation by Eleanor Quarrie. Illustrated by Anthony Browne. New York: Franklin Watts, 1981.

—.
Hansel and Gretel
. Translated and retold by Rika Lesser. Illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1984.

Kajikawa, Kimiko.
Tsunami!
Illustrated by Ed Young. New York: Philomel Books, 2009.

Lester, Julius.
John Henry
. Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney. New York: Dial Books, 1994.

MacDonald, Margaret Read.
Mabela the Clever
. Illustrated by Tim Coffey. Morton Grove, IL: Albert Whitman, 2001.

Marshall, James.
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
. New York: Dial Books, 1988.

Oberman, Sheldon.
Solomon and the Ant, and other Jewish Folktales
. Introduction and commentary by Peninnah Schram. Honesdale, PA: Boyds Mills, 2006.

Schwartz, Alvin.
In a Dark, Dark Room, and Other Scary Stories
. Illustrated by Dirk Zimmer. An I Can Read Book. New York: HarperCollins, 1984.

—.
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark: Collected from American Folklore
. Illustrated by Stephen Gammell. New York: Lippincott, 1981.

Scieszka, Jon.
The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs, by A. Wolf
. Illustrated by Lane Smith. New York: Viking, 1989.

Wiesner, David.
The Three Pigs
. New York: Clarion Books, 2001.

Willey, Margaret.
The 3 Bears and Goldilocks
. Illustrated by Heather M. Solomon. New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2008.

Yolen, Jane.
Not One Damsel in Distress: World Folktales for Strong Girls
. Illustrated by Susan Guevara. San Diego: Silver Whistle Books/Harcourt, 2000.

CHAPTER 4: POETRY, VERSE, RHYMES, AND SONGS

C
ITATIONS

Karla Kuskin poem “Thistles” pp. 69–70 from
Dogs & Dragons, Trees & Dreams
, p. 4.

Eloise Greenfield poem “Lessie” pp. 70–71 from
Honey, I Love
, p. [32].

Douglas Florian poem “When Winter” p. 71 from
Handsprings
, p. 8.

Arnold Adoff poem p. 72 from
i am the running girl
, p. [27].

Gwendolyn Brooks poem “Cynthia in the Snow” p. 73 from
Bronzeville Boys and Girl
, p. 12.

Iona and Peter Opie quote p. 75 from
The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes
, p. 1.

X. J. Kennedy poem “Lighting a Fire” p. 78 from
The Forgetful Wishing Well
, p. 52.

Paul B. Janeczko quote p. 80 from “Of Poems and Possibilities,” p. 8.

Virginia Euwer Wolff quote p. 82 from “An Interview with Virginia Euwer Wolff,” by Roger Sutton, p. 282.

S
OURCES

Copeland, Jeffrey S.
Speaking of Poets: Interviews with Poets Who Write for Children and Young Adults
. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 1993.

Copeland, Jeffrey S., and Virginia L. Copeland.
Speaking of Poets 2: More Interviews with Poets Who Write for Children and Young Adults
. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 1994.

Deutsch, Babette.
Poetry Handbook: A Dictionary of Terms
. Fourth Edition. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1974.

England, Claire, and Adele M. Fasick.
Child View: Evaluating and Reviewing Materials for Children
. Littleton, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1987.

Gill, Sharon Ruth. “The Forgotten Genre of Children’s Poetry,”
The Reading Teacher
60:7 (April 2007), pp. 622–25.

Hopkins, Lee Bennett.
Pass the Poetry, Please!
Revised, enlarged, and updated 3rd ed. New York: HarperCollins, 1998.

Janeczko, Paul B. “Of Poems and Possibilities,”
CSLA Journal
31:1 (Fall 2007), pp. 8–9.

Korbeck, Sharon. “Children’s Poetry: Journeying Beyond the Road Less Traveled,”
School Library Journal
41:4. (April 1995), pp. 43–44.

Leeper, Angela.
Poetry in Literature for Youth: A Guide and Resource Book
. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 2006.

Long, Joanna Rudge. “How to Choose a Goose: What Makes a Good Mother Goose,”
The Horn Book
84:1 (January/February 2008), pp. 49–57.

Lukens, Rebecca J.
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Opie, Iona, and Peter Opie, eds.
The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes
. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1951.

Sullivan, Ed. “Fiction or Poetry? A Librarian Looks at the Profusion of Novels Written in Verse,”
School Library Journal
49:8 (August 2003), pp. 44–45.

Sutton, Roger. “An Interview with Virginia Euwer Wolff,”
The Horn Book
77:3 (May/June 2001), pp. 280–86.

Whalin, Kathleen. “Becoming Versed in Poetry,”
School Library Journal
42:4 (April 1996), pp. 38–39.

C
HILDREN’S
B
OOKS
C
ITED

Adoff, Arnold.
i am the running girl
. Illustrated by Ronald Himler. New York: Harper & Row, 1979.

Brooks, Gwendolyn.
Bronzeville Boys and Girls
. Illustrated by Faith Ringgold. New York: Amistad/HarperCollins, 2007.

Bryan, Ashley, illus.
Let It Shine: Three Favorite Spirituals
. New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2007.

Creech, Sharon.
Hate That Cat
. New York: Joanna Cotler Books/HarperCollins, 2008.

—.
Love That Dog
. New York: Joanna Cotler Books/HarperCollins, 2001.

Crews, Nina.
The Neighborhood Mother Goose
. New York: Greenwillow Books, 2004.

Florian, Douglas.
Handsprings: Poems and Paintings
. New York: Greenwillow Books, 2006.

Frost, Helen.
Diamond Willow
. New York: Frances Foster Books/Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2008.

—.
Spinning Through the Universe
. New York: Frances Foster Books/Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2004.

Gordon, Ruth.
Under All Silences: Shades of Love.
New York: Charlotte Zolotow/Harper & Row, 1987.

Greenfield, Eloise.
Honey, I Love, and Other Love Poems
. Illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1978.

Hale, Sarah Josepha.
Mary Had a Little Lamb
. Photographs by Bruce McMillan. New York: Scholastic, 1990.

Hinojosa, Tish.
Cada Niño/Every Child: A Bilingual Songbook for Children
. Illustrated by Lucia Angela Perez. El Paso, TX: Cinco Puntos, 2002.

Hopkins, Lee Bennett.
Hamsters, Shells, and Spelling Bees: School Poems.
An I Can Read Book. Illustrated by Sachiko Yoshikawa. New York: HarperCollins, 2008.

—.
Incredible Inventions.
Illustrated by Julia Sarcone-Roach. New York: Greenwillow Books, 2009.

Janeczko, Paul B.
A Foot in the Mouth: Poems to Speak, Sing, and Shout
. Illustrated by Chris Raschka. Somerville, MA: Candlewick, 2009.

Kennedy, X. J.
The Forgetful Wishing Well: Poems for Young People
. Illustrated by Monica Incisa. New York: Margaret K. McElderry/Atheneum, 1985.

Kuskin, Karla.
Dogs & Dragons, Trees & Dreams: A Collection of Poems.
New York: Harper & Row, 1980.

Langstaff, John M., ed.
Hi! Ho! The Rattlin’ Bog, and Other Folk Songs for Group Singing
. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1969.

Larrick, Nancy.
Cats Are Cats.
Illustrated by Ed Young. New York: Philomel Books, 1988.

—.
To the Moon and Back: A Collection of Poems.
Illustrated by Catherine O’Neill. New York: Delacorte, 1991.

Marshall, James, illus.
Old Mother Hubbard and Her Wonderful Dog
. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1991.

Nye, Naomi Shihab.
The Space Between Our Footsteps: Poems and Paintings from the Middle East.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998.

—.
What Have You Lost?
Photographs by Michael Nye. New York: Greenwillow Books, 1999.

Opie, Iona, and Peter Opie.
Tail Feathers from Mother Goose: The Opie Rhyme Book
. Boston: Little, Brown, 1988.

Park, Linda Sue.
Tap Dancing on the Roof: Sijo (Poems).
Illustrated by Istvan Banyai. New York: Clarion Books, 2006.

Pearson, Tracey Campbell.
Diddle, Diddle, Dumpling
. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2005.

—.
Little Bo-Peep
. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2004.

—.
Little Miss Muffet
. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2005.

Prelutsky, Jack.
If Not for the Cat: Haiku.
Illustrated by Ted Rand. New York: Greenwillow Books, 2004.

Rosen, Michael J.
The Cuckoo’s Haiku
. Illustrated by Stan Fellows. Somerville, MA: Candlewick, 2009.

Ross, Tony.
Three Little Kittens and Other Favorite Nursery Rhymes
. New York: Henry Holt, 2009.

Sanderson, Ruth.
Mother Goose and Friends
. Boston: Little, Brown Young Readers, 2008.

Schnur, Stephen.
Winter: An Alphabet Acrostic.
Illustrated by Leslie Evans. New York: Clarion Books, 2002.

Seeger, Laura Vaccaro.
I Had a Rooster: A Traditional Folk Song
. Foreword by Pete Seeger. New York: Viking, 2001.

Silverstein, Shel.
Falling Up: Poems and Drawings
. New York: HarperCollins, 1996.

—.
A Light in the Attic
. New York: Harper & Row, 1981.

—.
Where the Sidewalk Ends: The Poems and Drawings of Shel Silverstein
. New York: Harper & Row, 1974.

Wolff, Virginia Euwer.
Make Lemonade
. New York: Henry Holt, 1993.

Worth, Valerie.
Small Poems
. Illustrated by Natalie Babbitt. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1972.

Yolen, Jane, and Andrew Fusek Peters.
Here’s a Little Poem: A Very First Book of Poetry
. Illustrated by Polly Dunbar. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick, 2007.

CHAPTER 5: PICTURE BOOKS

C
ITATIONS

Dilys Evans quote p. 87 from “An Extraordinary Vision: Picture Books of the Nineties,” p. 759.

Margaret Wise Brown quote p. 89 from
The Indoor Noisy Book
, p. [16].

Margaret Wise Brown quotes pp. 92–93 from
The Runaway Bunny
, pp. [8–9] and [12–13].

Margaret Wise Brown quote p. 94 from
The Little Island
, pp. [9], [11], [13], [15], and [17].

Timothy M. Rivinus and Lisa Audet quote p. 102 from “The Psychological Genius of Margaret Wise Brown,” p. 10.

Lane Smith quote p. 109 from “How I Learned to Love the Computer,” p. 53.

S
OURCES

Association for Library Service to Children.
The Newbery and Caldecott Awards: A Guide to the Medal and Honor Books
, 2009 ed. Chicago: American Library Association, 2009.

Bader, Barbara.
American Picturebooks from Noah’s Ark to The Beast Within
. New York: Macmillan, 1976.

Bang, Molly.
Picture This: How Pictures Work
. New York: SeaStar Books, 2000.

Behrmann, Christine. “The Media Used in Caldecott Medal Picture Books: Notes Toward a Definitive List,”
Journal of Youth Services in Libraries
1:2 (Winter 1988), pp. 198–212.

Cianciolo, Patricia J.
Picture Books for Children
. 4th ed. Chicago: American Library Association, 1997.

Couch, Tony.
Tony Couch’s Keys to Successful Painting
. Cincinnati, OH: North Light Books, 1992.

Evans, Dilys. “An Extraordinary Vision,”
The Horn Book
67:6 (November/December 1991), pp. 712–15.

—. “An Extraordinary Vision: Picture Books of the Nineties,”
The Horn Book
66:6 (November/December, 1992), pp. 759–63.