Carter, Lin. Imaginary Worlds: The Art of Fantasy. New York: Ballantine Books, 1973. Carter's brief positive assessment of Bellairs's combination of humor and bizarre fantasy in his adult novel The Face in the Frost provides some insight into the qualities that underlie his later novels for children.

Commire, Anne, ed. Something about the Author. Detroit: Gale Research, 1971.

Contains biographical information on Bellairs's early career.

Evory, Ann, and Linda Metzger, eds.

Contemporary Authors. New Revision Series. Detroit: Gale Research, 1983.

Biographical and bibliographical information.

Recchia, Edward. "You Can Take the Boy Out of Michigan, But . . . " Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature Newsletter 17 (Fall 1987): 1-17. A biographical and critical essay on Bellairs, focusing on the effects of his Michigan boyhood on his later writing.

Available through the Department of American Thought and Language, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan.

"Review." Booklist 74 (March 1, 1978): 1098. Criticizes weak characterization of Philpotts...