General references:
The Exclusive White World of Preservice Teacher’s Book Selections for the Classroom: Influences and Implications for Practice
Authors Weigh in on debate over language changes
Roald Dahl Revisions
ABC News
The Importance of Children’s Literature as a Means of Public History
Australia Reads National Survey
Rewriting Dahl
Conservative Book bannings
Roald Dahl and food
Lizi Jackson-Barratt
Children’s books under fire
Books/written works:
- James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
- Matilda by Roald Dahl
- The Witches by Roald Dahl
- The Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Possum Magic by Mem Fox
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
- The Rainbow Fish by Markus Pfister
- We're Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen
- Hairy Maclary from Donaldson’s Dairy by Lynley Dodd
- Wombat Stew by Mem Fox
- Rosie's Walk by Pat Hutchins
- Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
- The Famous Five by Enid Blyton
- The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
- Beauty and the Beast by the Brothers Grimm
- The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
- Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
- Doctor Doolittle by Hugh Lofting
- Babar by Jean de Brunhoff
- The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer-Bradley
- Dances with Wolves by Michael Blake
- The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
- Circe by Madeline Miller
- After Alice by Gregory Maguire
- Ahab’s Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund
- The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
- Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan
- David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
- Bridgerton series by Julia Quinn
Authors/publishers:
- Roald Dahl
- Puffin
- Enid Blyton
- Dr Seuss
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Maurice Sendak
- E.B. White
- Eric Carle
- John Marsden
- Will Kostakis
- Jackie French
- Andy Griffiths
- David Walliams
- Agatha Christie