History of Children's Literature

  • John Newbery

    opened bookstore in St. Paul's Churchyard, London
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne

    A Wonder Book for Boys and Girls, first American book written specifically for children
  • Lewis Carroll

    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland reprinted in English speaking countries all over the world
  • Johanna Spyri

    Heidi
  • Carlo Collodi

    Pinocchio originally published, from Italy
  • Beatrix Potter

    The Tale of Peter Rabbit
  • Child Labor Laws

    Children were free to go to school
  • Kenneth Grahame

    The Wind in the Willows
  • James B. Barrie

    Peter Pan
  • Macmillan Publishing House

    launched a department devoted entirely to children's books
  • Modern Picture Books

    began to develop
  • Newbery Award

    Established by the American Library Association
  • Helen Dean Fish and May Massee

    First children's books editors, each at different company
  • Margery Williams

    The Velveteen Rabbit
  • A. A. Milne

    When We Were Very Young
  • P.L. Travers

    Mary Poppins
  • Edward Ardizzone

    Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain
  • Randolph Caldecott Award

    Established
  • Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

    The Yearling
  • Ludwig Bemelmans

    Madeline
  • Eric Knight

    Lassie, Come Home
  • H.A. Rey

    Curious George
  • Esther Forbes

    Johnny Tremain
  • C.S. Lewis

    The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
  • E.B. White

    Charlotte's Web
  • J.R.R. Tolkien

    The Fellowship of the Ring
  • Philippa Pearce

    Tom's Midnight Garden
  • Madeleine L'Engle

    A Wrinkle in Time
  • Maurice Sendak

    Where the Wild Things Are
  • Louise Fitzhugh

    Harriet the Spy
  • S. E. Hinton

    The Outsiders
  • Ursula Le Guin

    A Wizard of Earthsea
  • Virginia Hamilton

    The Planet of Junior Brown
  • Robert Cormier

    The Chocolate War
  • Harriet Rohmer

    Established Children's Book Press, devoted to the publication of bilingual picturebooks that reflected a diversity of cultural experiences
  • Mildred Taylor

    Roll of Thunder, Hear Me Cry
  • Katherine Paterson

    Bridge to Terabithia
  • Anthony Browne

    Gorilla
  • Paul Fleischman

    Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices
  • Lois Lowry

    The Giver
  • Louis Sachar

    Holes
  • Walter Dean Myers

    Monster
  • Philip Pullman

    The Amber Spyglass
  • Marilyn Nelson

    Carver: A Life in Poems
  • Russell Freedman

    The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights
  • Lynne Rae Perkins

    Criss Cross
  • Markus Zusak

    The Book Thief
  • Shaun Tan

    The Arrival
  • Suzanne Collins

    The Hunger Games
  • Rebecca Stead

    When You Reach Me
  • Joyce Sidman

    Dark Emperor & Other Poems of the Night
  • Herve Tullet

    Press Here