-
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
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