The three books reviewed in this article represent the continuous effort to make visible the significant bridge between theory and practice in the fields of literacy and children's literature. While the authors maintain distinct purposes for their creations, the texts each speak to a strong theoretical support for the practices they describe. The purpose of "Aesthetic Approaches to Children's Literature" by Maria Nikolajeva is to demonstrate ways to read and discuss children's books with useful tools from literary theory. In "Powerful Magic: Learning from Children's Responses to Fantasy Literature," Nina Mikkelsen draws from significant literary theorists to describe readers' ways of approaching and engaging with texts that point to fantasy as a critical genre for young readers to explore naturally, from a child's perspective. Joy Moss, in "Literature, Literacy, and Comprehension Strategies in the Elementary School," provides insightful examples of literary discussions in which theoretical concepts about learning and thinking are used through strategies that invite readers to think extensively, intensively, and across multiple texts and experiences. Each resource reviewed in this article works to not only bridge the theory-to-practice gap, but to create a structure that upholds the work of scholars at both ends of the bridge as well as on the many journeys across.