The Oxford Companion to Children’s Literature (2nd edition)

This is a welcome second edition to an invaluable repository of information about all aspects of children’s literature. Such a work serves to remind us that the sphere of literature written specifically for children is relatively recent and for teenagers/young adults even more so.

The first edition of 1984 has not just been updated with information on the large number of books published in past 30 years; it remains a key precursor to this companion, and it would be wise for libraries to keep both if they wish to retain as full an information source as possible on the subject,...