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Children's Literature History Timeline

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    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

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    Songs of Childhood by Walter de la Mare

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    Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling

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    The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

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    Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

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    Peter Pan by James M. Barrie

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    The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams

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    When We Were Very Young by A.A. Milne

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    The Story of Babar by Jean de Brunhoff

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    Mary Poppins by P. L. Travers

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    Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain by Edward Ardizzone

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    The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

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    Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Elliot

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    Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans

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    Betsy-Tacy by Maud Hart Lovelace

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    Lassie Come-Home by Eric Knight

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    Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey

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    Curious George by H. A. Rey

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    Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes

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    The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. LewIs

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    The Borrowers by Mary Norton

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    Charlotte's Web by E. B. White

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    The Children of Green Knowe by Lucy M. Boston

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    The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff

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    Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce

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    The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats

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    A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

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    Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

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    The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander

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    Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh

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    Zeely by Virginia Hamilton

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    The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton

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    A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin

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    The Pigman by Paul Zindel

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    The Planet of Junior Brown by Virgina Hamilton

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    Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIHM by Robert C. O'Brien

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    The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier

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    Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by MIldred Taylor

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    Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

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    Gorilla by Anthony Browne

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    Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman

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    The Giver by Lois Lowry

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    Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse

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

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    Holes by Louis Sachar

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    Monster by Walter Dean Myers

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    The Amber Spyglass by Phillip Pullman

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    Carver: A Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson

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    The Three Pigs by David Wiesner

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

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

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    Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins

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    Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson

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    American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang

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    The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

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    The Absolutely True DIary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

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    The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick

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    The Arrival by Shaun Tan

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    The Underneath by Kathi Appelt

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    WabiSabi by Mark Reibstein

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    The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

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    When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

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

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    Ling & Ting: Not Exactly the Same by Grace Lin

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    Dark Emperor & Other Poems of the Night by Joyce Sidman

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    Press Here by Herve Tullet

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    Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans by Kadir Nelson