Books and Articles About Lois Lenski

"1969 Regina Medal Given to Lois Lenski." Publishers Weekly 195 (17 Feb. 1969): 134.

Bader, Barbara. "A Second Look: "The Little Family"." Horn Book Magazine 61
        (1985): 168-71.

Belk, Joanne. "Dear Miss Lenski, Come and See Where We Live and What We Do:
       Please Come and Write About Us." Lutheran Standard 114 (1 September 1956):
       10-11.

Bird, Nancy. The Lois Lenski Collection in the Florida State University Library.        Tallahassee: Friends of the Florida State University Library, 1966.

Bradlau, Eleanor Carlson. "The Fourth R: Teaching Human Relations through the
       Books of Lois Lenski." Thesis (M.S.)-- Eastern Connecticut State College, 1969.

Conaway, Baron D. "Children Learning Love of God and Country." The New Age 88        (1980): 27-28.

Dean B. Ellis Library. The Lois Lenski Collection in Dean B. Ellis Library, Arkansas        State University. State University, Ark.: [s.n.], 1972.

A Display of the Lois Lenski Collection at Milner Library, Illinois State University,        Normal, Illinois, July, 1965. [Normal, Ill.]: Illinois State University, 1965.

Fish, H. D. "Lois Lenski, 1945 Newbery Winner." Library Journal 71 (1946): 945-7.

Frank, C. "We Helped an Author." Instructor 64 (1955): 85.

Giambra, Carolyn. The Lois Lenski Children's Collection in the Edward H. Butler        Library. Buffalo, N.Y.: State University College at Buffalo, 1972.

Hawk, Ruby Elizabeth. "Lois Lenski and Her Influence on American Children's
       Literature." Thesis (M.S.)--East Texas State College, 1961.

Hein, Lucille E. "A Story-teller Serves God: Lois Lenski Is an Author and an Artist." The        Lutheran 38 (1956): 14-17.

Hollabaugh, Elaine. "Children's Books Are Lois Lenski's Labor of Love." Lutheran        Libraries 12 (1969): 5-7.

---. "Lois Lenski: The Rarest Kind of Best." This Day 21 (1970): 22-25.

---. "To Children: With Love." Lutheran Standard 10 (15 Sept. 1956): 1-10.

"Honorary Degree to Lois Lenski." School Library Journal 9 (1962): 28.

"Honorary Degree to Lois Lenski." Library Journal 87 (1962): 4604.

Huck, C. S. "Lois Lenski: Children's Interpreter." Catholic Library World 40 (1969):        346-50.

Is She at Work or Play? Columbus, Ohio: Martha Kinney Cooper Ohioana Library        Association, 1962 (Ohioana, v. 4, no. 4).

Isa, Joella Whitaker. "Lois Lenski: Her Contribution to Children's Literature." Thesis        (M.S.)--University of Washington, 1957.

Jacobs, L. B. "Lois Lenski's Regional Literature." Elementary English 30 (1953): 261-6.

Koplowitz, Bradford. "Lois Lenski and the Battle Between Fact and Fiction." Journal
       of Youth Services in Libraries
5 (1991): 95- 103.

Kuznets, Lois R. "Fiction, Faction, and Formula in the Regional Novels of Lois        Lenski." The Child and the Story: An Exploration of Narrative Forms, 96-106.        Ed. Priscilla Ord. Boston: Children's Literature Association, 1983.

Lind, Miriam Sieber. "Friend of the Family: the Story of One Family's Adventures with One        Author's Books." Christian Living (November 1956): 3-5.

Lois Lenski: An Appreciation, Ed. Charles M. Adams. Greensboro, N.C.: Friends of the        Library, Woman's College of the University of North Carolina, 1963.

Lois Lenski, Friend of Children. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1958.

"Lois Lenski Wins CLA's Regina Medal." ALA Bulletin 63 (1969): 415.

Lovelace, Maud Hart. "Lois Lenski." Horn Book Magazine 22 (1946): 276-82.

"Obituary." Catholic Library World 46 (1974): 233.

"Obituary." Horn Book Magazine 50 (1974): 729.

"Obituary." Library Journal 99 (1974): 3009.

"Obituary." School Library Journal 21 (1974): 19.

"Obituary." AB Bookman's Weekly 54 (7 October 1974): 1382.

Portwood, Dorothy. "The Geographical, Socio-Economical and Psychological Values
       in Lois Lenski's Regional Books." Thesis (M.A.)--Stephen F. Austin State
       College, 1954.

Ram, Marie L. "An Analysis of the Lois Lenski Literature from a Sociological Point of        View." Thesis (Ed.D.)--State University of New York at Buffalo, 1958.

---. "The Regional Stories of Lois Lenski." Thesis (M.S.)--State University College at        Buffalo, 1952.

Redmon, Mary A. The Lois Lenski Collection. [Liberty, Mo.]: William Jewell College        Library, 1970.

"Regina Medal Award, 1969." Catholic Library World 41 (1969): 15.

"Regina Medal Goes to Lois Lenski." ABC Bulletin 10, no. 2 (1969): 1-2.

"Regina Medal Luncheon." ABC Bulletin 10, no. 3 (1969): 1-2.

"Regina Medalist: Lois Lenski Covey." Catholic Library World 40 (1969): 427.

Richard B. Harrison Public Library (Raleigh, N. C. ). The Roundabout America        Collection. [Raleigh, N.C.: s.n.], 1972. Catalog of an exhibit.

Ross, Alice Marie. Lois Lenski: Real Live Author. [S.l.: s.n.], 1970. Speech given at April        17, 1970 meeting of the Library Association of Northeast Arkansas, Jonesboro, Ark.

State University College at Buffalo. Edward H. Butler Library. Lois Lenski Collection at        Edward H. Butler Library, State University College for Teachers. Buffalo: [s.n.,        19--].

Straus, F. "Children's Book Award." Child Study 25 (1948): 86.

University of Oklahoma. Library. The Lois Lenski Collection in the University of        Oklahoma Library. Norman: University of Oklahoma Library and School of
       Library Science, 1963.

University of Southern Mississippi. Special Children's Collection Medallion: Lois
       Lenski, 1969 Recipient
. [Hattiesburg: University of Southern Mississippi, 1969].

Vail, R. W. G. "Lois Lenski, Newbery Medal Winner for 1946." Publishers Weekly
       149 (1946): 3200-2.

Vandergrift, Kay E. "A Feminist Perspective on Multicultural Children's Literature in
       the Middle Years of the Twentieth Century." Library Trends 41 (1993): 354-77.

Wagner, Ruth H. "Lois Lenski's Latest Book Has an Iowa Setting, and It's Called        Corn-Farm Boy: Here is the Story behind the Story." Midland Schools 69 (1954):        10-11+.

Webb, Marian A. "Regionalism in Young People's Books." Elementary English 28
       (1951): 76-81.

Wilson, George P. "Lois Lenski's Use of Regional Speech." North Carolina Folklore
       9, no. 2 (1961): 1-3.

--Cecile M. Jagodzinski


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