Teaching Children's Literature It's Critical! (2013) Christine Leland, Mitzi Lewison & Jerome Harste New York: Routledge
This was the required text in my EDUC 472 class during my Summer Methodology and I think it is AMAZING! Leland, Lewison, and Hartse give suggestions on how you can create critical-thinking students by having a Language Arts curriculum that is literature-based. More importantly, the authors try to present children's literature "in a socially conscious fashion to prepare a critical literate citizenry for the 21st century" (Leland, Lewison & Harste, pg vii).
Nonfiction Writing Power (2014) Adrienne Gear Markham: Pembroke Publishers
Show Me a Story!: Why Picture Books Matter: Conversations with 21 of the World's Most Celebrated Illustrators (2012) By Leonard S. Marcus, Foreword by David Wiesner Candlewick Press