History of Children's Literature

By mgutierrez13

  • John Newberry opened bookstore in St Paul's Churchyard

  • A Wonder Book for Boys and Girls

  • Alices Adventures in Wonderland

  • Alice's Through the Looking Glass

  • Heidi

  • Pinocchio

  • Songs of Childhood

  • Just So Stories

  • Five Children and It

  • The Tale of Peter Rabbit

  • The Wonderful Adventures of Nils

  • The Wind in the Willows

  • Anne of Green Gables

  • Peter Pan

  • US publishing house Macmillan launch a department for children's books

  • Modern picture books began to develop

  • John Newberry Award was established

  • Helen Dean Fish first children's book editor

  • The Velveteen Rabbit

  • May Massse first children's book editor

  • Horn Book Magazine was published

    by the bookshop for Boys and Girls in Boston

  • When We Were Very Young

  • May Massee opened a children's book department in Viking

  • The Story of Babar

  • Mary Poppins

  • Little Tim and the Brown Sea Captain

  • Randolph Caldecott Award was established

  • The Yearling

  • Old Possums Book of Practical Cats

  • Madeline

  • Children's and young adults books became an increasingly important part of libraries, schools, homes, and publishing houses

  • Betsy-Taco

  • Lassie Come-Home

  • Make Way for Ducklings

  • Curious George

  • Jhonny Tremain

  • The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

  • Charlottes Web

  • The Borrowers

  • The Fellowship of the Ring

  • The Children of Green Knowe

  • The Eagle of the Ninth

  • Toms Midnight Garden

  • A Wrinkle in Time

  • The Snowy Day

  • Where the Wild Things Are

  • The Book of Three

  • Harriet the Spy

  • Zeely

  • The Outsiders

  • A Wizard of Earths

  • The Pigman

  • Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

  • The Planet of Junior Brown

  • The Chocolate War

  • lack of picture books that reflected diversity

  • Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

  • Bridge to Terabithia

  • Gorilla

  • Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices

  • Just Us Books founded

  • The Giver

  • Out of the Dust

  • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • Holes

  • Monster

  • The Amber Spyglass

  • Carver: A Life in Poems

  • The Three Pigs

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

  • The Voice that Channeled a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights

  • Criss Cross

  • Show Way

  • American Born Chinese

  • The Book Thief

  • The Absolutely True Dairy of a Part -Time Indian

  • The invention of Hugo Cabinet

  • The Arrival

  • The Hunger Games

  • The Underneath

  • WabiSabi

  • When You Reach Me

  • Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot

  • Ling and Ting: Not Exactly the Same

  • Dark Emperor & Other Poems of the Night

  • Press Here

  • Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans

  • Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans

    won the Coretta Scott King Author award