Films, records, and literature and technique books helpful in encouraging creativity and composition writing are listed and described under the following headings: Books on forms of poetry (4 items); Creative dramatics and puppetry (9); Masks and mask making (9); Oriental forms of poetry--Haiku (9), Tanka (2), and other Oriental verse patterns (5); Creating color imagery (5); Tone poems of color (1); Wishing as an imaginative theme (4); Developing imaginative thinking (1); Language sparkler ideas (3); Language facility (5); World literature and world poetry (5); Picture stories (1); Recordings to be used in composition writing--aural imagery (3), folk and fairy tales (18), humor (2), and mood music (2); Records available in book form (2); and creative writing books (12). A 21-item bibliography on "Educating the Imagination through Children's Literature" is appended. (LH)