Children's Literature History Timeline By Saikaly1 1607 Joseph Bruchac, Pocahontas 1697 Charles Perrault, The Little Glass Slipper 1697 Charles Perrault, Little Red Riding Hood 1697 Charles Perrault, Cinderella 1704 Antoine Galland, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp Period: 1713 to 1767 The Early Years 1734 Benjamin Tabart, Jack and the Beanstalk 1756 Gabrielle Suzanne de Villeneuve, Beauty and the Beast 1812 The Brothers Grimm, Snow White 1812 The Brothers Grimm, Sleeping Beauty 1835 Hans Christian Andersen, The Princess and the Pea 1837 Robert Southey, Goldilocks and the Three Bears 1851 Nathaniel Hawthorne, A Wonder Book for Boys and Girls 1865 Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 1871 Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass 1879 Johanna Spyri, Heidi 1883 Carlo Collodi, Pinocchio 1900 L. Frank Baum, The Wizard of Oz 1901 Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit Period: 1901 to 2000 The Twentieth Century 1902 Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit 1902 Walter de la Mare, Songs of Childhood 1902 E. Nesbit, Five Children and It 1902 Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories 1906 James Matthew Barrie, Peter Pan in Kensington 1906 Selma Lagerlof, The Wonderful Adventures of Nils 1908 Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows 1908 L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables 1911 Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden 1911 1911 James M. Barrie, Petter Pan 1919 L. Frank Baum, The Magic of Oz 1922 Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit 1924 A. A. Milne, When We Were Very Young 1926 A. A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh 1933 Jean de Brunhoff, The Story of Babar 1933 P. L. Travers, Mary Poppins 1936 Munro Leaf, The Story of Ferdinand 1936 Edward Ardizzone, Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain 1937 John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, The Hobbit 1938 Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling 1939 Ludwig Bemelmans, Madeline 1940 Dr. Seuss, Horton Hatches the Egg 1940 Esphyr Slobodkina, Caps for Sale 1940 Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy-Tacy 1940 Eric Knight, Lassie Come-Home 1941 H. A. Rey, Curious George 1941 Robert McCloskey, Make Way for Ducklings 1942 Virginia Lee Burton, The Little House 1943 Esther Forbes, Johnny Tremain 1943 Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince 1950 C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe 1952 E. B. White, Charlotte's Web 1952 Mary Norton, The Borrowers 1954 Rosemary Sutcliff, The Eagle of the Ninth 1954 Lucky M. Boston, The Children of Green Know 1954 J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring 1955 Crockett Johnson, Harold and the Purple Crayon 1957 Dr. Seuss, The Cat in the Hat 1958 Philippa Pearce, Tom's Midnight Garden 1960 Dr. Seuss, Green Eggs and Ham 1962 Ezra Jack Keats, The Snowy Day 1962 Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time 1963 Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are 1964 Louise Fitzhugh, Harriet the Spy 1964 Shel Silverstein, The Giving Tree 1964 Lloyd Alexander, The Book of Three 1967 S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders 1967 Virginia Hamilton, Zeely 1968 Ursula Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea 1969 Eric Carle, The Very Hungry Caterpillar 1971 Virginia Hamilton, The Planet of Junior Brown 1971 Robert C. O'Brien, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh 1974 Robert Cormier, The Chocolate War 1976 Mildred Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry 1977 Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia 1983 Anthony Browne, Gorilla 1988 Paul Fleischman, Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices 1989 Bill Martin Jr and John Archambault, Chicka Chicka Boom Boom 1989 Michael Teitelbaum, The Little Mermaid 1992 Marcus Pfister, The Rainbow Fish 1993 Lois Lowry, The Giver 1997 Karen Hesse, Out of the Dust 1998 Louis Sachar, Holes 1998 J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1998 David Shannon, No, David! 1999 Walter Dean Myers, Monster 2000 Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass 2001 David Wiesner, The Three Pigs 2001 Marilyn Nelson, Carver: A Life in Poems Period: 2001 to 2100 Twenty-First Century 2003 Kate DiCamillo, The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spoon of Thread 2004 Russell Freedman, The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2005 Lynne Rae Perkins, Criss Cross 2005 Jacqueline Woodson, Show Way 2006 Gene Luen Yang, American Born Chinese 2006 Markus Zusak, The Book Thief 2007 Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007 Shaun Tan, The Arrival 2007 Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2008 Mark Reibstein, WabiSabi 2008 Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games 2008 Eric Litwin & James Dean, Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes 2008 Kathi Appelt, The Underneath 2009 Rebecca Stead, When You Reach Me 2010 Sy Montgomery, Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot 2010 Joyce Sidman, Dark Emperor & Other Poems of the Night 2010 Grace Lin, Ling & Ting: Not Exactly the Same 2011 Herve Tullet, Press Here 2011 Kadir Nelson, Heart and Soul: The Story of American and African Americans 2013 Victoria Saxon, Frozen