Children's Literature
Educating Dissent: Children's Literature and the Left, 1935-1965, Julia Mickenberg, University of Minnesota, 2000
Raising Reds: The Young Pioneers, Radical Summer Camps, and Communist Political Culture in the United States, Paul Mishler, Columbia University Press, 1999
Should We Burn Babar?: Essays on Children's Literature and the Power of Stories, Herbert R. Kohl, Jack Zipes, intro., New Press, 1995
Schooling for "Good Rebels": Socialist Education for Children in the United States, 1900-1920, Kenneth Teitelbaum, Temple University Press, 1993
How Much Truth Should We Tell the Children?, Betty Bacon, ed., Marxist Educational Press, 1988
Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales, Jack Zipes, ed. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1979
"'Never overlook the art of the seemingly simple': Crockett Johnson and the Politics of the Purple Crayon," Philip Nel, Children's Literature 29 (2001): 142-74.
"Communist in a Coonskin Cap? Meridel Le Sueur's Books for Children and Reformulation of America's Cold War Frontier Epic," Julia Mickenberg, The Lion and the Unicorn 21.1, January 1997