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Cameron, Eleanor. The Green and Burning Tree. Boston: Little, Brown, 1962.
Estimation of Lofting's importance as a children's author, especially his talent for fantasy in Doctor Dolittle in the Moon.
Carpenter, Humphrey, and Mari Prichard. The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984. Short biography of Lofting and description of his works.
Dixon, Bob. Catching them Young: Sex, Race, and Class in Children's Fiction.
London: Pluto Press, 1977. Discussion of racism in the Doctor Dolittle books.
Kunitz, Stanley J., and Howard Haycraft, eds. The Junior Book of Authors 2d ed., rev. New York: H. W. Wilson, 1951. Short biography of author and his beliefs on writing for children.
Ma Cann, Donnarae, and Gloria Woodward, eds. The Black American in Books for Children: Readings in Racism. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1972. Includes Isabelle Suhl's indictment of Lofting's racism in the Doctor Dolittle books.
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