Her publications include Modern Canadian Children's Books (Oxford University Press), The New Republic of Childhood (with Sheila Egoff, Oxford University Press), and the picture book Goldie and the Sea (Groundwood Books). She is the editor of The Riverside Anthology of Children's Literature (Houghton Mifflin). She and Gail Edwards are currently writing a monograph on Canadian children's illustrated books, which will be published by University of Toronto Press.