Children's Literature History Timeline

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne, A Wonder Book for Boys and Girls

  • Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

  • Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

  • Johanna Spyri, Heidi

  • Carlo Collodi, Pinocchio

  • Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit

  • Walter de la Mare, Songs of Childhood

  • E. Nesbit, Five Children and It

  • Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories

  • Selma Lagerlof, The Wonderful Adventures of Nils

  • Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

  • L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

  • 1911 James M. Barrie, Petter Pan

  • Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit

  • A. A. Milne, When We Were Very Young

  • Jean de Brunhoff, The Story of Babar

  • P. L. Travers, Mary Poppins

  • Edward Ardizzone, Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain

  • Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling

  • Ludwig Bemelmans, Madeline

  • Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy-Tacy

  • Eric Knight, Lassie Come-Home