History of Children's Literature

  • The Snowy Day

    Ezra Jack Keats
  • A Wrinkle in Time

    Madeleine L' Engle
  • The Book of Three

    Lloyd Alexander
  • Where the Wild Things Are

    Maurice Sendak
  • Zeely

    Virginia Hamilton
    Illustrated by Symeon Shinin
  • Wizard of Earthsea

    Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Corduroy

    Don Freeman
  • Stevie

    John Steptoe
  • Summer of the Swans

    Betsy Byars
  • Moja Means One: Swahili Counting Book

    Muriel Feelings
    Illustrated by Tom Feelings
  • Annie and the Old One

    Miska Miles
    Illustrated by Peter Parnall
  • Frog and Toad Together

    Arnold Lobel
  • The Dark is Rising

    Susan Cooper
  • M.C. Higgins the Great

    Virginia Hamilton
  • Dragonwings

    Laurence Yep
  • The Hundred Penny Box

    Sharon Mathis
  • Tuck Everlasting

    Natalie Babbitt
  • Strega Nona

    Tomie Depaola
  • Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry

    Mildred Taylor
  • Hawk, I'm Your Brother

    Byrd Baylor
    Illustrated by Peter Parnall
  • What's the Big Idea, Ben Franklin?

    Jean Fritz
    Illustrated by Margot Tomes
  • One at a Time

    David McCord
  • Bridge to Terabithia

    Katherine Paterson
  • The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses

    Paul Goble
  • Jar of Dreams

    Yoshiko Uchida
  • Hiroshima No Pika

    Toshi Maruki
  • The Polar Express

    Chris Van Allsburg
  • Sarah, Plain and Tall

    Patricia Maclachlan
  • Going Home

    NIcholasa Mohr
  • Owl Moon

    Jane Yolen
    Illustrated by John Schoenherr
  • Murafo's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale

    John Steptoe
  • Lincoln: A Photobiography

    Russell Freedman
  • Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave

    Virginia Hamilton
  • Nathaniel Talking

    Eloise Greenfield
    Illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist
  • Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices

    Paul Fleischman
    Illustrated by Eric Beddows
  • Lon Po Po: A Red Riding Hood Story from China

    Ed Young
  • Rainbow People

    Laurence Yep
  • The True Story of the Three Little Pigs

    Jon Scieszka
  • The Talking Eggs

    Robert D. San Souci
    Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney
  • Number the Stars

    Lois Lowry
  • Tar Beach

    Faith Ringgold
  • Man from the Other Side

    Uri Orlev
  • Seven Blind Mice

    Ed Young
  • Street Rhymes around the World

    Jane Yolen
  • Neighborhood Odes: Poems

    Gary Soto
    Illustrated by David Diaz
  • Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti

    Frances Temple
  • Thirtenn Moons on Turtle's Back: A Native American Year of Moons

    Joseph Bruchac
  • Grandfather's Journey

    Allen Say
  • The Giver

    Lois Lowry
  • Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom

    Virginia Hamilton
    Illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon
  • Smoky Night

    Eve Bunting
    Illustrated by David Diaz
  • Pink and Say

    Patricia Polacco
  • John Henry

    Julius Lester
    Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney
  • Officer Buckle and Gloria

    Peggy Rathmann
  • Been to Yesterdays: Poems of a Life

    Lee Bennett Hopkins
  • The Middle Passage: White Ships Black Cargo

    Tom Feelings
  • Navajo: Visions and Voices Across the Mesa

    Shonto Begay
  • Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida

    Victor Martinez
  • A View from Saturday

    E. L. Konigsburg
  • Harlm

    Walter Dean Myers
    Illustrated by Christopher Myers
  • Out of the Dust

    Karen Hesse
  • Holes

    Louis Sachar
  • Monster

    Walter Dean Myers
  • Bud, Not Buddy

    Christopher Paul Curtis
  • Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and the Endurance

    Jennifer Armstrong
  • The Amber Spyglass

    Philip Pullman
  • Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado

    Marc Aronson
  • The Voice thtat Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights

    Russell Freedman
  • The Red Book

    Barbara Lehman
  • The Book Thief

    Markus Zusak
  • American Born Chinese

    Gene Luen Yang
  • Flotsam

    David Wiesner
  • The Arrival

    Shaun Tan
  • The Invention of Hugo Cabret

    Brian Selznick
  • Wabi Sabi

    Mark Reibstein
    Illustrations by Ed Young
  • The Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night

    Joyce Sidman
    Illustrations by Rick Allen
  • Okay for Now

    Gary Schmidt