History of Children's Literature

  • Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

    Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
  • Walter de la Mare, Songs of Childhood Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories E. Nesbit, Five Children and It Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit

    Walter de la Mare, Songs of Childhood Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories E. Nesbit, Five Children and It Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit
  • Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

    Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
  • James M. Barrie, Peter Pan

    James M. Barrie, Peter Pan
  • Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit

    Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit
  • A. A. Milne, When We Were Very Young

    A. A. Milne, When We Were Very Young
  • Jean de Brunhoff, The Story of Babar P. L. Travers, Mary Poppins

    Jean de Brunhoff, The Story of Babar P. L. Travers, Mary Poppins
  • Edward Ardizzone, Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain

    Edward Ardizzone, Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain
  • Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling

    Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling
  • Ludwig Bemelmans, Madeline T. S. Eliot, Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats

    Ludwig Bemelmans, Madeline T. S. Eliot, Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats
  • Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy-Tacy Eric Knight, Lassie Come-Home

    Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy-Tacy Eric Knight, Lassie Come-Home
  • Robert McCloskey, Make Way for Ducklings

    Robert McCloskey, Make Way for Ducklings
  • Esther Forbes, Johnny Tremain

    Esther Forbes, Johnny Tremain
  • C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

    C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
  • Mary Norton, The Borrowers E. B. White, Charlotte’s Web

    Mary Norton, The Borrowers E. B. White, Charlotte’s Web
  • Lucy M. Boston, The Children of Green Knowe

    Lucy M. Boston, The Children of Green Knowe
  • Philippa Pearce, Tom’s Midnight Garden

    Philippa Pearce, Tom’s Midnight Garden
  • Ezra Jack Keats, The Snowy Day Madeleine L’Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

    Ezra Jack Keats, The Snowy Day Madeleine L’Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
  • Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are

    Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are
  • Lloyd Alexander, The Book of Three Louise Fitzhugh, Harriet the Spy

    Lloyd Alexander, The Book of Three Louise Fitzhugh, Harriet the Spy
  • Virginia Hamilton, Zeely S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders

    Virginia Hamilton, Zeely S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders
  • Ursula Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea Paul Zindel, The Pigman

    Ursula Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea Paul Zindel, The Pigman
  • Virginia Hamilton, The Planet of Junior Brown Robert C. O’Brien, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

    Virginia Hamilton, The Planet of Junior Brown Robert C. O’Brien, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
  • Robert Cormier, The Chocolate War

    Robert Cormier, The Chocolate War
  • Mildred Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

    Mildred Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
  • Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia

    Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia
  • Anthony Browne, Gorilla

    Anthony Browne, Gorilla
  • Paul Fleischman, Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices

    Paul Fleischman, Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices
  • Lois Lowry, The Giver

    Lois Lowry, The Giver
  • Karen Hesse, Out of the Dust

    Karen Hesse, Out of the Dust
  • J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

    J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
  • Walter Dean Myers, Monster

    Walter Dean Myers, Monster
  • Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

    Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass
  • Marilyn Nelson, Carver: A Life in Poems David Wiesner, The Three Pigs

    Marilyn Nelson, Carver: A Life in Poems David Wiesner, The Three Pigs
  • Kate DiCamillo, The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread

    Kate DiCamillo, The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread
  • Russell Freedman, The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights

    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

    Lynne Rae Perkins, Criss Cross Jacqueline Woodson, Show Way
  • Gene Luen Yang, American Born Chinese

    Gene Luen Yang, American Born Chinese
  • Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret Shaun Tan, The Arrival

    Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret Shaun Tan, The Arrival
  • Kathi Appelt, The Underneath Mark Reibstein, WabiSabi Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

    Kathi Appelt, The Underneath Mark Reibstein, WabiSabi Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
  • Rebecca Stead, When You Reach Me

    Rebecca Stead, When You Reach Me
  • Sy Montgomery, Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World’s Strangest Parrot Grace Lin, Ling & Ting: Not Exactly the Same Joyce Sidman, Dark Emperor & Other Poems of the Night

    Sy Montgomery, Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World’s Strangest Parrot Grace Lin, Ling & Ting: Not Exactly the Same Joyce Sidman, Dark Emperor & Other Poems of the Night
  • Herve Tullet, Press Here Kadir Nelson, Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans

    Herve Tullet, Press Here Kadir Nelson, Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans