The Top 100 New Zealand Children’s Books of the 20th Century

Primary Source List

Beckingsale, Helen. New Zealand’s Award-Winning Children’s Books 1982-1992: is there any correlation between adult choice and children’s preferences? In The Inside Story: Year Book 2000 (Auckland: Children’s Literature Foundation of New Zealand Inc., 2001)

Fabulous & Familiar: Children’s Reading in New Zealand, Past and Present (Wellington: National Library of New Zealand, 1991)

Fitzgibbon, Tom, with Barbara Spiers. Beneath Southern Skies: New Zealand Children’s Books Authors & Illustrators (Auckland: Ashton Scholastic, 1993)

Gilderdale, Betty. A Sea Change: 145 Years of New Zealand Junior Fiction (Auckland: Longman Paul, 1982)

Hebley, Diane. Off the Shelf: Twenty-One Years of New Zealand Books for Children (Auckland: Methuen, 1980)

Hebley, Diane. The Power of Place: Landscape in New Zealand Children’s Fiction, 1970-1989. (Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 1998)

The Kiwi Kids’ Top 100 [poster] (Whitcoulls, 1998)

New Zealand Book Council website at http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/

New Zealand Books For Children: Exhibited at the International Youth Library, Munich, 1981 (Auckland?: Exhibition Committee, Children’s Literature Association of New Zealand, 1981)

New Zealand Books For Children: Exhibited at the International Youth Library, Munich, 1985 (Auckland? Exhibition Committee, Children’s Literature Association of New Zealand, 1985)

New Zealand Children’s Book Awards: a complete list of winners and books shortlisted, at http://lib.cce.ac.nz/nzcba/

Noble, Jo, ed. New Zealand Children’s Books in Print (Auckland: Junior Publications, 2001)

100 Contemporary New Zealand Children’s Authors and Illustrators (Auckland: Children’s Book Foundation of New Zealand Inc., 2000)

Ringer, J.B. Young Emigrants: New Zealand Juvenile Fiction 1833-1919 (Hamilton: Thackeray Street, 1980)

Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, eds. The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1989)

Sturm, Terry, ed. The Oxford History of New Zealand Literature in English. (Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1991 and 1998).

Tea-Tree and Iron Sands (Auckland: Auckland College of Education, 1989)

© 2001 Lorraine Orman

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