History of Children's Literature

2010-2011

2010 BCE

2010-Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strongest Parrot by Sy Montgomery, Ling & Ting; Not Exactly the Same, & Dark Emperor & Other Poems of the Night
2011-Press Here by Herve Tullet & heart & Soul: The Story of America and African Americans by Kadir Nelson

2006-2009

2006 BCE

2006-American born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang & The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
2007-The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick, & The Arrival by Shaun Tan
2008-The Underneath by Kathi Appelt, WabiSabi by mark Reibstein, & The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
2009-When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

2000-2005

2000 BCE

2000-The Amber Spyglass by Phillip Pullman
2001-Carver: A Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson and The Three Pigs by David Weisner
2003-The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread
2004-The Voice That Challenged a Nation by Russell Freeman

2005-Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins and Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson

1990's

1990 BCE

1993-The Giver by Lois Lowry
1997-Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
1998-Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling & Holes by Louis Sachar
1999-Monster by Walter Dean Myers

1980's

1980 BCE

1983-Gorilla by Anthony Browne
1988-Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices

1970's

1970 BCE

1971-The Planet of Junior Brown by Virginia Hamilton & Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
1974-The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
1976-Roll of Thunder, Hear Me Cry by Mildred Taylor
1977-Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

1960's

1960 BCE

1962-The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats and A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
1963-Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
1964- The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander & Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
1967-Zeely by Virginia Hamilton & The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
1968-A Wizard of Earth Sea by Ursula Le Guin & The Pigman by Paul Zindek

The 1950's

1950 BCE

1950- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
1952- The Borrowers by Mary Norton & Charlotte's Web E.B. White
1954- The Children of Green Knowe by Lucy M. Boston & The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff and The Fellowship of the Ring b y J.R.R Tolkein
1958- Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce

1943

1943 BCE

Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes

1941

1941 BCE

Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey & Curious George by H.A. Rey

1940

1940 BCE

Betsy-Tacy by Maud Hart Lovelace and Lassie Come-Home by Eric Knight

1939

1939 BCE

Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans and Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Elliot

1938

1938 BCE

The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

1936

1936 BCE

Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain by Edward Ardizzone

1933

1933 BCE

The Story of the Babar by Jean de Brunhoff and Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers

1922

1922 BCE

The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams

1924

1922 BCE

When We Were Young by A.A. Milne

1911

1911 BCE

Peter Pan by James M. Barrie

1908

1908 BCE

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame and Anne of Green Gables by L.M.Montgomery

1865

1865 BCE

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

John Newbery Bookstore

Period: 1774 BCE to 1800 BCE

John Newbery (1713-1767) opened a bookstore in St. Paul's Churchyard, London. The children's books that were sold here were meant to teach children proper behavior, but did not threaten them.

Before the Early Years

Period: 1700 BCE to 1700 BCE

Chapbooks, battledores, and horn books were given to children to instruct them. Most threatened children with fire and brimstone if they did not behave as instructed by these books.

1902

Feb 5, 1902

Songs of Childhood by Walter de la Mare, Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling, Five Children and It by E. Nesbit, & The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter