By Leonard S. Marcus

How Golden Books Won Children's Hearts, Changed Publishing Forever, and Became an American Icon Along the Way

Golden Legacy is a lively, never-before-told history of a company, its line of books, the groundbreaking writer and artists who created them, and the cultural landscape that surrounded them.

By Leonard Marcus

From Jessie Wilcox Smith and N.C. Wyeth to Maurice Sendak and Chris Van Allsburg, Children's Book Week posters tell the story of children's books in America. Here, in one glorious volume, are all sixty-nine posters, truly a celebration of great American children's book illustrators.

By Selma G. Lanes

This collection of essays by writer and critic Lanes focuses on the masters she most admires: Sendak, Gorey, L. Frank Baum, Tomi Ungerer, Jack Keats, Margot Zemach, and a lone editor of genius, Ursula Nordstrom of Harper and Row.

By Ellen Handler Spitz

How do picture books shape our lives early on and even later into adulthood? This book takes up such questions. It explores the profound impact of the experience of reading to children. Ellen Handler Spitz reveals how classic picture books transmit psychological wisdom, convey moral lessons, shape tastes, and implant subtle prejudices.

By Brian Alderson

The English Picture Book Tradition and Randolph Caldecott

The sixteen picture books that Randolph Caldecott produced between 1878 and 1886 represent a high-point in the Victorian craft of picture-book making and a model for the blending of words and pictures in books for children.

This book, prepared on the occasion of a commemorative exhibition at the British Library, is a tribute to Caldecott's pre-eminence as an illustrator. At the same time, it seeks to define his high standing in that distinctive tradition of narrative illustration in England that runs from Hogarth and Rowlandson to the present day -- a tradition characterized by comedy, storytelling and graphic exuberance.