Literature Timeline

By Alfonso Martin Jr.

  • John Newberry opened first book store that sold children book.

    Book store was in St. Paul Churchyard in London

  • First American Book store was opened by Nathaniel Hawthorne

  • Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

  • Carlo Collodi, Pinocchio

  • 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

  • Labor Law passed for children to attend school

  • Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

  • James M. Barrie, Peter Pan

  • Macmillan launched department devoted to childrens books

  • Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit

  • First children's book female editors

  • A.A. Milne, When We Were Very Young

  • Jean de Brunhoff, The Story of Babar

  • P.L. Travers, Mary Poppins

  • Edward Ardizzone, Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain

  • Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling

  • T.S. Eliot, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

  • Ludwig Bemelmans, Madeline

  • Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy-Tacy

  • Eric Knight, Lassie Come-Home

  • Robert McCloskey, Make Way for Ducklings

  • H.A. Rey, Curious George

  • Esther Forbes, Jonny Tremain

  • C.S. Lewis, The Lion the Witch, and the Wardrobe

  • Mary Norton, The Borrowers

  • E.B. White, Charlottes Web

  • Lucy M. Boston, The Children of Green Knowe

  • Rosemary Sutcliff, The Eagle of the Ninth

  • J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • Philippa Pearce, Tom's Midnight Garden

  • Ezra Jack Keats, The Snowy Day

  • Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

  • Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are

  • Lloyd Alexander, The Book of Three

  • Louise Fitzhugh, Harriet the Spy

  • Virginia Hamilton, Zeely

  • S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

  • Ursula Le Gutin, A Wizard of Earthsea

  • Paul Zindel, The Pigman

  • Virginia Hamilton, The Planet of Junior Brown

  • RobertC. O'Brien, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

  • Robert Cormier, The Chocolate War

  • Harriet Rohmer, children book press devoted to bilingual picture books that reflect diversity in cultures.

  • Mildred Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

  • Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia

  • Anthony Browne, Gorilla

  • Paul Fleischman, Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices

  • Lois Lowry, The Giver

  • Karen Hesse, Out of the Dust

  • Lois Sachar, Holes

  • J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • Walter Dean Myers, Monster

  • Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

  • Marilyn Nelson, Carver: A Life in Poems

  • Kate 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

  • Russell Freedman, The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal RIghts

  • Lynne Rae Perkins, Criss Cross

  • Jaqueline Woodson, Show Way

  • Gene Leun Yang, American Born Chinese

  • Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • 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

  • 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

  • Herve Tullet, Press Here

  • Kadir Nelson, Heart and Soul: The Story of American and African Americans