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In homage to my obsessive personality, which also dislikes waste, I am posting a variety of essays and annotated bibliographies on children's literature. Please ask for permission before quoting or reposting material. All documents (including everything I post on this blog) are my intellectual property.

L. M. Boston and the World of Green Knowe
  • An Anchor in Time: A Collection of Essays and Critical Studies
  • Shrinking into Perspective: A comparative analysis of shrinking and the miniature
  • Imagination Drawn: The art of Peter Boston
  • Green Knowe Timeline
  • Oldknow Family Tree
Scandinavian and related research
  • The Danish Resistance in Children's Literature
  • Realism and fantasy in Swedish Children's Literature
  • Swedish Picture Books
  • Swedish Juvenile Mysteries
  • Märchen and Kunstmärchen: Three Representative Tales of Brentano
  • Responses to World War I
 Other Essays and Bibliographies
  • Randall Jarrell: Historical context, criticism and themes and Running away to home: Flight and journey in The Gingerbread Rabbit and the Bat-Poet
  • To Create More Worlds: A discussion of alternate worlds in Paradise Lost and Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials
  • Reborn through time: Time travel and rebirth in King of Shadows by Susan Cooper
  • Transcendental Sisters: The Feminine Tragedy of the Blithedale Romance (includes comparisons to Louisa May Alcott)
  • Cricket Winter by Felice Holman
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