Table 1. Main selected studies concerning pedagogic, didactic and therapeutic dimensions of children literature .
| Pedagogic Dimension | Didactic Dimension | Therapeutic Dimension |
| Lesnik-Oberstein, 199820 | Steadman & Palmer, 19971 | Bettelheim, 199157 |
| Ohler, 200622 | Moyer, 200038 | Cairney, 198458 |
| Hunt, 200023 | Banister & Ryan, 200139 | Storr, 198659 |
| Zeece PD, 200424 | Riecken & Miller, 199040 | Purves & Monson, 198460 |
| Zipes, 199625 | Batini & Giusti, 200841 | Freud & Strachey, 196461 |
| Boyd et al, 201126 | Williams, 200042 | Bernays, 197962 |
| Hunt, 200627 | Daniel, 201343 | Heath et al, 200563 |
| Winnicott, 196428 | Brice, 200444 | Wyatt, 200864 |
| Nikolajeva, 199529 | Brown, 200045 | Piotrow & De Fossard, 200365 |
| Zipes, 201330 | Isbell et al, 200446 | Albert, 201066 |
| Kilpatrick et al,199431 | Mokhtar et al, 201147 | Reynolds et al, 200067 |
| Guroian, 200232 | Forgan, 200248 | Lenkowsky, 198768 |
| Zipes, 200233 | Apol, 199849 | Hoagland, 197269 |
| Yenika-Agbaw, 199734 | Zabel, 199150 | Charon & Eric, 201770 |
| Zeece, 199735 | Ohler, 201351 | Rudnytsky & Charon, 200871 |
| Robin, 200836 | Chai et al, 201052 | Babarro Vélez & Lacalle Prieto, 20186 |
| Seligman, 200937 | Unsworth, 200553 | Rozalski et al, 20107 |
| Keehn et al, 200854 | ||
| Mallan, 199255 | ||
| Chard, 200056 | ||
| Johnson & Louis, 19875 |