Carpenter, Humphrey, and Mari Prichard. The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature. New York: Oxford University Press, 1984. Contains a brief overview of the Cleavers' major writings.

De Montreville, Doris, and Elizabeth D. Crawford, eds. The Fourth Book of Junior Authors and Illustrators. New York: H. W. Wilson, 1978. Contains a helpful autobiographical sketch and a biographical sketch with a short bibliography of articles about the Cleavers.

Estes, Glenn E., ed. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 52, American Writers for Children Since 1960: Fiction. Detroit: Gale Research, 1986. Includes a thorough critical analysis of the Cleavers' writings.

Kirkpatrick, D. L., ed. Twentieth-Century Children's Writers. New York: St.

Martin's, 1978. Includes a short discussion of the Cleavers' fiction and the prevailing themes, character types, settings, and tone of their works through 1977.

Senick, Gerald J., ed. Children's Literature Review. Vol. 6. Detroit: Gale Research, 1984. A thorough compilation of biographical facts on both Cleavers.