The works are listed in general order of their usefulness to me. The first book in the list, A World of Stories for Children, has been especially valuable, not only because it is the most comprehensive anthology of folk tales that I have encountered, but also because of the extensive discussion of bibliographic references included on pp. 821-823.
A World of Stories for Children by Barrett H. Clark and M. Jagendorf, 1940
Realms of Gold in Children's Books compiled by Bertha E. Mahony and Elinor Whitney, 1929
Index to Fairy Tales, Myths, and Legends by Mary Huse Eastman, 1926
Manual of Stories by William Byron Forbush, 1915
Fingerposts to Children's Reading by Walter Taylor Field, 1918
The Children's Reading by Frances Jenkins Olcott, 1912
Catalogue of Books in the Children's Department of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, 1909
Annotated Catalogue of Books Used in the Home Libraries and Reading Clubs Conducted by the Children's Department, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, 1905
A Study of Fairy Tales by Laura F. Kready, 1916
How To Tell Stories to Children by Sara Cone Bryant, 1905
Anthology of Children's Literature by Edna Johnson, Carrie E. Scott, and Evelyn R. Sickels, 1935, 1948
The Arbuthnot Anthology of Children's Literature compiled by May Hill Arbuthnot, 1952, 1953
The Book of Virtues by William J. Bennett, 1993
The Moral Compass by William J. Bennett, 1995
The Children's Hour, 10 vols., selected and arranged by Eva March Tappan, 1907
The Junior Classics, 10 vols., selected and arranged by William Patten, 1912, 1918
The New Junior Classics, 10 vols., edited by Mabel Williams and Marcia Dalphin, 1938
Journeys Through Bookland, 10 vols., by Charles H. Sylvester, 1909
The Young Folks Treasury, 12 vols., by Hamilton Wright Mabie, Edward Everett Hale, and William Byron Forbush, 1919
My Bookhouse, 6 vols., edited by Olive Beaupré Miller, 1921, 1922
My Roads to Childhood, by Anne Carroll Moore, 1920, 1923, 1926
How to Grow a Young Reader: Books from Every Age for Readers of Every Age by Kathryn Lindskoog and Ranelda Mack Hunsicker, 1999
Who Reads What When by Jane A. Williams, 1988
A Landscape with Dragons by Michael D. O'Brien, 1998
Books That Build Character by William Kilpatrick and Gregory and Suzanne Wolfe, 1994
Books Children Love by Elizabeth Wilson, 1988