Children's Literature History Timeline

By Saikaly1

  • Joseph Bruchac, Pocahontas

  • Charles Perrault, The Little Glass Slipper

  • Charles Perrault, Little Red Riding Hood

  • Charles Perrault, Cinderella

  • Antoine Galland, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp

  • Period: to

    The Early Years

  • Benjamin Tabart, Jack and the Beanstalk

  • Gabrielle Suzanne de Villeneuve, Beauty and the Beast

  • The Brothers Grimm, Snow White

  • The Brothers Grimm, Sleeping Beauty

  • Hans Christian Andersen, The Princess and the Pea

  • Robert Southey, Goldilocks and the Three Bears

  • 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

  • L. Frank Baum, The Wizard of Oz

  • Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit

  • Period: to

    The Twentieth Century

  • 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

  • James Matthew Barrie, Peter Pan in Kensington

  • Selma Lagerlof, The Wonderful Adventures of Nils

  • Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

  • L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

  • Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

  • 1911 James M. Barrie, Petter Pan

  • L. Frank Baum, The Magic of Oz

  • Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit

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

  • A. A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh

  • Jean de Brunhoff, The Story of Babar

  • P. L. Travers, Mary Poppins

  • Munro Leaf, The Story of Ferdinand

  • Edward Ardizzone, Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain

  • John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, The Hobbit

  • Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling

  • Ludwig Bemelmans, Madeline

  • Dr. Seuss, Horton Hatches the Egg

  • Esphyr Slobodkina, Caps for Sale

  • Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy-Tacy

  • Eric Knight, Lassie Come-Home

  • H. A. Rey, Curious George

  • Robert McCloskey, Make Way for Ducklings

  • Virginia Lee Burton, The Little House

  • Esther Forbes, Johnny Tremain

  • Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince

  • C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

  • E. B. White, Charlotte's Web

  • Mary Norton, The Borrowers

  • Rosemary Sutcliff, The Eagle of the Ninth

  • Lucky M. Boston, The Children of Green Know

  • J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • Crockett Johnson, Harold and the Purple Crayon

  • Dr. Seuss, The Cat in the Hat

  • Philippa Pearce, Tom's Midnight Garden

  • Dr. Seuss, Green Eggs and Ham

  • Ezra Jack Keats, The Snowy Day

  • Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

  • Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are

  • Louise Fitzhugh, Harriet the Spy

  • Shel Silverstein, The Giving Tree

  • Lloyd Alexander, The Book of Three

  • S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders

  • Virginia Hamilton, Zeely

  • Ursula Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

  • Eric Carle, The Very Hungry Caterpillar

  • Virginia Hamilton, The Planet of Junior Brown

  • Robert C. O'Brien, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh

  • Robert Cormier, The Chocolate War

  • Mildred Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

  • Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia

  • Anthony Browne, Gorilla

  • Paul Fleischman, Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices

  • Bill Martin Jr and John Archambault, Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

  • Michael Teitelbaum, The Little Mermaid

  • Marcus Pfister, The Rainbow Fish

  • Lois Lowry, The Giver

  • Karen Hesse, Out of the Dust

  • Louis Sachar, Holes

  • J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • David Shannon, No, David!

  • Walter Dean Myers, Monster

  • Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

  • David Wiesner, The Three Pigs

  • Marilyn Nelson, Carver: A Life in Poems

  • Period: to

    Twenty-First Century

  • Kate DiCamillo, The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spoon of Thread

  • Russell Freedman, The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights

  • Lynne Rae Perkins, Criss Cross

  • Jacqueline Woodson, Show Way

  • Gene Luen Yang, American Born Chinese

  • Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret

  • Shaun Tan, The Arrival

  • Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

  • Mark Reibstein, WabiSabi

  • Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

  • Eric Litwin & James Dean, Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes

  • Kathi Appelt, The Underneath

  • Rebecca Stead, When You Reach Me

  • Sy Montgomery, Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot

  • Joyce Sidman, Dark Emperor & Other Poems of the Night

  • Grace Lin, Ling & Ting: Not Exactly the Same

  • Herve Tullet, Press Here

  • Kadir Nelson, Heart and Soul: The Story of American and African Americans

  • Victoria Saxon, Frozen