The Continuum Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature

Encyclopaedias and companions to children’s literature are big business. Over the years there have been Kirkpatrick, Carpenter & Prichard, Silvey, Hunt and Watson, and going back a bit Meigs and Cott and many more. Internet sources, too, are ever more accessible and comprehensive, as www.galenet.com and other Web sites indicate (like Steven Kellogg, ozlit, Mildred Taylor, Seussville at Random House, the De Grummond Collection site). Peter Hunt’s International Companion Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature (Routledge, first edition, 1996) has a second in the pipeline, while Victor Watson coordinated The Cambridge Guide to Children’s Books in English (CUP, 2001) and provided an...