Over the past few decades there have been a number of interesting studies about the history of Dutch children’s and picture books. The most important works containing information on picture books in the period 1800-1950 are listed below.

• Lust en leering : geschiedenis van het Nederlandse kinderboek in de negentiende eeuw / by P.J. Buijnsters and L. Buijnsters-Smets. - Zwolle : Waanders, cop. 2001. - 504 pp. : ill. ; 26 cm. – With a summary in English ISBN 90-400-9529-9 Covers various genres, including picture books.

• Prentenboeken : ideologie en illustratie 1890-1950 / Saskia de Bodt and Jeroen Kapelle [incl. editing] ; with the coop. of Theo Gielen ... [et al. ; final editing. Roman Koot ... et al.]. - Amsterdam [etc.] : Ludion, cop. 2003. - 276 pp. : ill. ; 30 cm. - ISBN 90-76588-58-9. Art historical description of the ideology and illustration of the picture book between 1890 and 1950, with special attention for training programmes, publishing houses and typography.

• Getekend, Hans Christian Andersen : zijn geïllustreerde sprookjes in de Lage Landen / Saskia de Bodt. - Warnsveld : Terra ; The Hague :National Library of the Netherlands, cop. 2005. - 95 pp. : ill. ; 21×21 cm. - ISBN 90-5897-354-9 hardb The book sketches the evolution of the art of illustration, based on a century and a half of illustrations of Anderson’s fairy tales.