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Map search. Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, University of Florida. https://ufdc.ufl.edu/juv/map

International Children's Digital Library, University of Maryland. http://www.childrenslibrary.org/

Caribbean

Anansesem. Web-based children’s literary magazine. www.anansesem.com

Digital Library of the Caribbean. https://www.dloc.com/

Diptee, Audra A. and David V. Trotman. “Atlantic Childhood and Youth in Global Context: Reflections on the Global South.” Atlantic Studies 11.4 (2014): 437-448.

Drayton, Kathleen. Politics of Textbooks: School Books and the Making of the Colonial Mind. A Paper Presented at the First Biennial Conference on Education. April 1990, Jamaica.

James, Cynthia. “From Orature to Literature in Jamaican and Trinidadian Children’s Folk Traditions.” Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 30.2 (2005): 164-178.

Livesay, Daniel. Children of Uncertain Fortune: Mixed-Race Jamaicans in Britain and the Atlantic Family, 1733-1833. Williamsburg: University of North Carolina Press, 2018.

Norcia, Megan. X Marks the Spot: Women Writers Map the Empire for British Children. Athens: Ohio University Press 2010

O’Callaghan, Evelyn. Women Writing the West Indies, 1804-1939. New York: Routledge, 2004.

O’Connor, Karen. Soon Come Home to This Island: West Indians in British Children’s Literature. New York: Routledge, 2008.

Paul, Lissa. "'To Communicate Energy': Eliza Fenwick Cultures the New-World Child." Literary Cultures and Eighteenth-Century Childhoods. Ed. Andrew O’Malley. London: Palgrave, 2018.

Rampaul, Giselle and Geraldine Elizabeth Skeete, ed. The Child and the Caribbean Imagination. Kingston: University of the West Indies Press, 2012.

Van Rossemen, Cefas and Hein Van Der Voort, Di Creol Taal: 250 Years of Negerhollands Texts. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 1996.

Vasconcellos, Colleen A. Slavery, Childhood and Abolition in Jamaica, 1788-1838. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2015.

India

Children's Books from Bengal: A bibliography of Bengali children's literature till 1910. http://bengalichildrensbooks.in/about.php

Bandhyopadhyay, Sibaji. "The Gopal Rakhal Dialectic: Colonialism and Children’s Literature in Bengal." Trans by Rani Ray and Nivedita Sen. New Delhi: Tulika Books (2015).

Dasgupta, Sreemoyee. "A" Moderately" Bengali Alice: Tracing Moderate Nationalism in Trailokyanath Mukhopadhyay's Kankabati." Children's Literature 48, no. 1 (2020): 1-31.

Gangopadhyay, Gargi. "“Our Motherland”: Mapping an Identity in Bengali Children’s Literature." In The Nation in Children's Literature, pp. 153-172. Routledge, 2013.

Goswami, Supriya. Colonial India in children's literature. Routledge, 2012.

Roy, Gautam Chando. "Science for children in a colonial context: Bengali juvenile magazines, 1883–1923." BJHS Themes 3 (2018): 43-72.

Sen, Nivedita. Family, School and Nation: The Child and Literary Constructions in 20th-Century Bengal. Routledge India, 2015.

Sen, Satadru. Colonial childhoods: the Juvenile Periphery of India 1850-1945. Anthem Press, 2005.

Superle, Michelle. Contemporary English-language Indian children’s literature: Representations of nation, culture, and the new Indian girl. Vol. 78. Routledge, 2011.

Viswanathan, Gauri. Masks of Conquest: Literary study and British rule in India. Columbia University Press, 2014.

Philippines

Almario, Ani Rosa, Neni Sta. Romana Cruz, and Ramón C. Sunico, eds. Bumasa at Lumaya 2: A Sourcebook on Children’s Literature in the Philippines. Anvil Publishing Inc., 2016.

Almario, Virgilio, Ramon V. Sunico, Maria Elena Paterno, and Rene O. Villanueva, eds. Bumasa at Lumaya: A Sourcebook on Children’s Literature in the Philippines. Anvil Publishing, 1994.

Garces-Bacsal, Myra and Jesus Federico Hernandez. Beyond Folktales, Legends, and Myths: A Rediscovery of Children’s Literature in Asia. AFCC Publications, 2013.

Gutierrez, Anna Katrina. Mixed Magic: Global-local dialogues in fairy tales for young readers. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2017.