Timeline of the History of Children's Literature

  • Tom's Midnight Garden

    Tom is sent to stay with an uncle and aunt. While his brother recovers from the measles. He learns accidentally that he can escape his surroundings by slipping out at midnight into a victorian garden with a little girl named Hatty
  • Period: to

    Books From 1958-1968

  • Libraries were Created

  • The Snowy Day

    The little boy Peter celebrates the snow draped city. With a day of adventures, he experiments with his footprints in the snow. He also goes through different ways of being able to view snow in other locations. His big goal is to save the snow till the next day.
  • A Wrinkle in Time

    Meg's scientist father disappears and three peculiar beings send meg, her brother, and her friend to space in order to find him. This focuses on the power of love and the value of individuality.
  • Where the Wild Things Are

    Max, a young boy is sent to his room without eating dinner. He is sent to his room and begins to use his imagination to create a magical land filled with wild things.
  • The Outsiders

    Following a fourteen year old boy named Ponyboy. He is apart of a group called "the Greasers" and they have a rival gang called "the Socs". The main idea of the book is to focus on the struggles of life and how each deals with these struggles.