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The following lists of books are presented for two reasons: (1) to give you a sense of the 'tradition' of children's literature in English from before 1700 to the present (though these lists represent only a small sample of the children's books published in this period); (2) to give you some leads in deciding which books to use for your essays and projects. Most of the books in the lists are in the university library - either in the Main Library or in the Jordanhill Library (which has a superb collection of children's literature).
Studying children's literature at Strathclyde is particularly appropriate since the Jordanhill section of the University of Strathclyde Library contains the largest collection of contemporary children's books in Scotland, with some 15,000 volumes. In addition, both the Main Library and the Jordanhill Library contain substantial collections of secondary criticism and scholarship on children's literature. We also subscribe to all the major journals devoted to Children's Literature. Further potential resources include the National Library in Edinburgh, whose substantial collection of children's books includes the Eudo Mason Collection (c.3,600 volumes) and the Lauriston Castle Collection (c.11,000 volumes), and the Museum of Childhood in Edinburgh, which has about 11,000 children's books from the early nineteenth century.
References in the text are to Children's Literature: An Illustrated History, edited by Peter Hunt (Oxford University Press, 1995) and to The Cambridge Guide to Children's Books in English, edited by Victor Watson (Cambridge University Press, 2001).
For further information about the Children's Literature class, please contact Dr Tom Furniss at t.furniss@strath.ac.uk
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