Every public library should have one [and] it is an essential purchase for any self respecting school library or English Department genuinely interested in promoting reading for pleasure.

School Librarian, Joy Court

the volume that Hahn has put together does a very good job in balancing the influential writers of the past with newer voices, and offering a real sense of how children's literature has grown over the years.

A Hermit's Progress, Victoria Addis 07/06/2015

a vast, rich yet contained network, in which new worlds can be discovered, and old worlds savoured afresh.

Times Literary Supplement, Philip Womack

an erudite, passionate dictionary of children's literature that runs from Aesop to Harry Potter... excitingly up to date

Daily Telegraph, Simon Mason

It remains an indispensable, comprehensive and readily comprehensible Companion for old hands and new, crafted with loving care. It is a distillation of knowledge of a depth and breadth that makes you boggle anew at what one book can do.

Guardian, Lucy Mangan

a learned and totally addictive guide

Times, Alex O'Connell

This is one reference work that no one interested in the world of children's books should be without.

Oxford Times, Jaine Blackman

A tremendous achievement and a very worthy successor to the original. You should buy a copy.

Achuka, Michael Thorn

perhaps best of all, Hahn has preserved the agreeably donnish atmosphere of the original version, with its long entries on obscure authors or titles all written with love as well as erudition... I would not therefore ever want to be without the Oxford Companion, not so much despite but because of its endearing eccentricities, with its second edition admirably following up the charm and achievements of the first.

Books for Keeps, Nicholas Tucker

If you like children's books, there is no question about it; you need a copy of the second edition.

Bookwitch, Ann Giles