ABSTRACT
Simple enumerative bibliography lists precisely what was published in a given period or genre, or by a particular author. Analytical bibliography can go much further, exploring the often complicated progress from author’s manuscript to published book, the processes of book manufacture and marketing, and the nature of readers’ and other writers’ responses. The very lack of bibliographical work has necessitated the incorporation of historical, and for that matter enumerative, bibliography into even the most theoretical of children’s literature studies. Bibliography, which can follow the flight of texts across political boundaries, has a significant role to play in illuminating the full extent and complexity of the web of influences which have lain behind the development of children’s literature. Regrettably, even the bibliography of particular genres of children’s books, which could be the perfect vehicle for tracing international connections, seldom manages to overcome national borders.
