Books especially recommended by the Book Award Committee

Titles published in 2008:
Penny Brown, A Critical History of French Children’s Literature (Routledge)

Anita Clair Fellman, Little House, Long Shadow:  Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Impact on American Culture (University of Missouri Press)

Perry Nodelman, The Hidden Adult:  Defining Children’s Literature (Johns Hopkins University Press)

Annette Wannamaker, Boys in Children’s Literature and Popular Culture:  Masculinity, Abjection, and the Fictional Child (Routledge)

Michael Ward, Planet Narnia:  The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C. S. Lewis (Oxford University Press)

Title published in 2007:
Owen Dudley Edwards, British Children’s Fiction in the Second World War (Edinburgh University Press)

Titles published in 2006:
Charles  Butler, Four British Fantasists Place and Culture in the Children's Fantasies of Penelope Lively, Alan Garner, Dianne Wynne Jones, and Susan Cooper (Scarecrow).

Michael Cart and Christine Jenkins, The Heart Has Its Reasons: Young Adult Literature with Gay/Lesbian/Queer Content 1969-2000 (Scarecrow).

Lorinda Cohoon, Serialized Citizenships: Periodicals, Books, and American Boys, 1840-1911 (Scarecrow).

Tess Cosslett, Talking Animals in British Children's Fiction 1786-1914 (Ashgate).

Jacalyn Eddy, Bookwomen: Creating an Empire in Children's Publishing, 1919-1939 (University of Wisconsin Press in collaboration with the Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America and the University of Wisconsin-Madison General Library System Office of Scholarly Communication).

Sarah Wadsworth, In the Company of Books: Literature and Its "Classes" in Nineteenth-Century America (University of Massachusetts Press).