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John Newberry
John Newberry opens bookstore in St. Paul's Churchyard, London -
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne A Wonderbook for Boys and Girls concidered the author of the first American book written specifically for chldren 1851/1893 -
Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland1865/1977 -
1865
Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. -
Lewis Car
Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass 1871/1977 -
Johanna Spyri
Johanna Spyri's Heidi, published in 1879-1880 -
Carlo Collodi
Carlo Collod Pinocchio, first published in 1883 -
1902
Walter de la Mare, Songs of Childhood
Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories
E. Nesbit, Five Chidren and It
Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit -
Selma Lagerlof
Selma Lagerlof's The Wonderful Adventures of Nils published 1906-1907 -
First child labor laws
First child labor laws passed in 1907 freed children to go to school -
1908
Kenneth Graharne, The Wind in the Willows -
1911
James M. Barrie, Peter Pan -
Macmillin
U S publishing house Macmillan Launched a department devoted entirely to children's books -
Modern Picturebooks 1920's and 1930's
Modern Picturebooks are developed in the 1920's and 1930's -
Louise Bechtel Seaman
Louise Bechtel Seaman appointed department head of Macmillian publishing house -
John Newberry Award
John Newberry Award established by the American Library Association -
Helen Dean Fish
One of Two of the first women Children's book editors -
May Massee
One of Two of the first women to become a Children's book editor -
The Horn Book Magazine pulblished
Pubished by the Bookshop for Boys and Girls in Boston under the guidance of Bertha Mahony and Elinor Whitney -
1922
A. A. Milne, When We Were Very Young -
May Massee
May Massee moves to open a children's book department at Viking -
1933
Jean de Brunhoff, The Story of Babar
P.L. Travers, Mary Poppins -
1936
Edward Ardizzone, Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain -
Randolph Caldecott Award
Randolph Caldecott Award established by the American Library Association -
1938
Mstjotir Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling -
1939
Ludwig Bemelmans, Madeline
T.S. Eliot, Olf Possums Book of Practical Cats -
Children's and Young Adult's books popularized 1940's01960's
The importance of Children's and Young Adult's books become an important part of libraries,homes, schools and publishing houses in the 1940's through 1960's. -
1940
Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy-Tacy
Eric Knight, Lassie Come-Home -
1941
Robert McClosleu, Make Way for Ducklings
H.A. Rey, Curious George -
1943
Esther Forbes, Johnny Tremain -
1950
C.S. Lewis, The Lion,the Witch, and the Wardrope -
1952
Mary Norton, The Borrowers
E.B. White, Charlotte's Web -
1954
Lucy M. Boston,The Children of Green Knowe
Rosemary Sutcliff, The Eagle of the Ninth
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring -
1958
Philippa Pearce, Tom's Midnight Garden -
1962
Ezra Jack Keats, The Snowy Day
Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time -
1963
Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are -
1964
Lloyd Alexander, The Book of Three
Louise Fitzhugh, Harriet the Spy -
1967
Virginia Hamilton, Zeely
S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders -
1968
Ursula Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea
Paul Zindel, The Pigman -
1971
Virginia Hamilton, The Planet of Junior Brown
Robert C O'Brien, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH -
1974
Robert Cormier, The Chocolate War -
Harriet Rohmer
Harriet Rohmer establishes Children's Book Press -
1976
Mildred Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry -
1977
Katgerube Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia -
1983
Anthony Browne, Gorilla -
Just Us Books
Just Us Books founded -
1988
Paul Fleischman, Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices -
1993
Lois Lowry, The Giver -
1997
Karen Hesse, Out of the Dust -
1998
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Louis Sachar, Holes -
1999
Walter Dean Myers, Monster -
2000
Marilyn Nelson, The Amber Spyglass -
2001
Marilyn Nelson, Carver: A Life in Poems
David Wiesner, The Three Pigs -
2003
Kate DiCamilllo, The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread -
2004
Russell Freedman, The Voice That Challanged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights -
2005
Lynne Rae Perkins, Criss Cross
Jacqueline Woodson, Show Way -
2006
Gene Luen Yang, American Born Chinese
Markus Zusak, The Book Thief -
2007
Sheman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Shaun Tan, The Arrival -
Leonard Marcus
Leonard Marcus traces the history of children's literature in U.S. in Minders of Make-Believe: Idealists, Entrepreneurs, and the Saping of American Children's Literature -
2008
Kathi Appelt, The Underneath
Mark Reibstein, WabiSabi
Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games -
2009
Sy Montgomery, Kakapo Rescue:
Saving the World's Strangest Parrot
Grace Lin, Ling & Ting: Not Exactly the Same
Joyce Sidman, Dark Emperor & Other Poems of the Night -
2011
Herve Tullet, Press Here
Kadir Nelson, Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans