Michal Cart Books
MICHAEL CART BOOKS
Thank you for coming to Michal Cart Books. My first book, What’s So Funny? Wit and Humor in American Children’s Literature, was published in 1994. Twenty-one others have followed in the years since – twenty-two books in twenty-two years. Not bad for someone whose first book wasn’t published until he was fifty-three. Nine of the most popular are featured on this page.
For those who may be curious, here’s a complete bibliography of my – er, oeuvre.
Michael Cart Book List
YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE: FROM ROMANCE TO REALISM. 3rd edition (ALA Editions, forthcoming)
THE HEART HAS ITS REASONS. Young Adult Literature with Gay/Lesbian/Queer Content. 2nd edition. [with Christine A. Jenkins]. (Rowman and Littlefield, forthcoming)
TAKING AIM: Stories about Teens and Guns. (HarperCollins: 2015)
TOP 250 LGBT BOOKS FOR TEENS [with Christine A. Jenkins] (Huron Street/ALA: 2015)
CART’S TOP 200 ADULT BOOKS FOR YOUNG ADULTS. (ALA EDITIONS, 2012)
YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE: FROM ROMANCE TO REALISM: Revised and Expanded Edition. (ALA Editions, 2010)
TALKING ANIMALS AND OTHERS: The Life & Work of Walter R. Brooks. (The Overlook Press, 2009)
HOW BEAUTIFUL THE ORDINARY. Twelve Stories of Identity. (HarperTeen, 2009)
PASSIONS AND PLEASURES: Essays and Speeches about Literature and Libraries (Scarecrow Press, 2007)
THE HEART HAS ITS REASONS. Young Adult Literature with Gay/Lesbian/Queer Content, 1969-2004. [with Christine A. Jenkins]. (Scarecrow Press. 2006)
RUSH HOUR: A JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY VOICES (Delacorte Press/Random House, 2003-2006)
Four Volumes: Sin, Bad Boys, Face, and Reckless
NECESSARY NOISE. Stories about Our Families as They Really Are (Joanna Cotler/HarperCollins, 2003)
THE BEST AMERICAN NONREQUIRED READING (Houghton Mifflin, 2002)
THE ART OF FREDDY (The Overlook Press, 2002)
911: THE BOOK OF HELP (Marcato/Cricket Books, 2002)
IN THE STACKS. Stories about Libraries and Librarians (The Overlook Press, 2002)
LOVE AND SEX. Ten Stories of Truth (Simon & Schuster, 2001)
TOMORROWLAND. Ten Stories about the Future (Scholastic Press 1999)
MY FATHER’S SCAR (Simon & Schuster, 1996)
FROM ROMANCE TO REALISM. Fifty Years of Growth and Change in Young Adult Literature (HarperCollins, 1996)
PRESENTING ROBERT LIPSYTE (Twayne / Simon & Schuster, 1995)
WHAT’S SO FUNNY? Wit and Humor in American Children’s Literature (HarperCollins, 1994)
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