Readings on "Story":

Borgman, Dean. Hear My Story: Understanding the Cries of Troubled Youth. Peabody: Hendrickson, 2003.

Buechner, Frederick. Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Comedy, Tragedy, and Fairytale. SanFrancisco: Harper, 1977.

Cooper, Susan. Dreams and Wishes: Essays on Writing for Children. New York: Margaret K. McElderry Books, 1996.

Hunt, Peter and Lenz, Millicent. Alternative Worlds in Fantasy Fiction. New York: Continuum, 2001.

Paterson, Katherine. The Invisible Child. New York: Dutton Children’s Books, 2001.

Peterson, Eugene H. Five Smooth Stones for Pastoral Work. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1980. Chapter 2, “The Pastoral Work of Story Making”

J.R.R. Tolkien:

Bruner, Kurt and Ware, Jim. Finding God in The Lord of the Rings. Wheaton, Ill.:Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., 2001.

Lobdel, Jared ed. A Tolkien Compass. Chicago, Il: Open Court Publishing Company, 2003.

Wood, Ralph C. The Gospel According to Tolkien: Visions of the Kingdom in Middle-Earth. Louisville, Westminster John Knox Press. 2003.

C.S. Lewis:

Peters, Thomas C., Simply C. S. Lewis (Wheaton, Ill.: Crossway Books, 1997).

Dorsett, Lyle W. and Mead, Marjorie Lamp, eds., C. S. Lewis Letters to Children (New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, 1985).

Gormley, Beatrice. C. S. Lewis Christian and Storyteller. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans Books, 1998.

Lindskoog, Kathryn. Journey into Narnia. Pasadena, Calif.: Hope Publishing House, 1998.

Phillip Pullman:

An interview with Phillip Pullman.

Pullman's Page on the Random House website.

A website critical of Pullman.

An article from The Spectator critical of Pullman.

J.K. Rowling:

Neal, Connie. The Gospel According to Harry Potter. Louisville, Kent.: Westminster John Knox Press, 2002.

Schafer, Elizabeth. Beacham’ Sourcebooks for Teaching Young Adult Fiction: Exploring Harry Potter (Osprey FL.: Beacham Publishing, 2000).