Children’s Literature: An Illustrated History (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1995); Seth Lerer,

Children’s Literature: A Reader’s History from Aesop to Harry Potter (London and Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008); Percy Muir,

English Children’s Books, 1600-1900 (London: B. T. Batsford, 1954); John Rowe Townsend,

Written for Children: An Outline of English-Language Children’s Literature , 5th edn. (London: Bodley Head, 1995 [1965]); Jack Zipes (ed.),

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006).

Digital versions of many early children’s books can be read at, for example, Eighteenth-Century Collections Online (information at http://gale.cengage.co.uk/product- highlights/history/eighteenthcentury-collections-online.aspx), the Hockcliffe Collection (http://www.cts.dmu.ac.uk/hockliffe/) and Project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/).

The importance of radical Protestantism in relation to children’s literature is considered in C. John Sommerville,

The Discovery of Childhood in Puritan England (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1992).

For information about the materials made by Jane Johnson, see Evelyn Arizpe, Morag Styles, and Shirley Brice Heath,

Reading Lessons from the Eighteenth Century (Lichfield: Pied Piper Press, 2006).

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