Children's Literature History Timeline By Gloriava Period: 1865 to 1865 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll Period: 1902 to 1902 Songs of Childhood by Walter de la Mare Period: 1902 to 1902 Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling Period: 1908 to 1908 The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame Period: 1908 to 1908 Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery Period: 1911 to 1911 Peter Pan by James M. Barrie Period: 1922 to 1922 The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams Period: 1924 to 1924 When We Were Very Young by A.A. Milne Period: 1933 to 1933 The Story of Babar by Jean de Brunhoff Period: 1933 to 1933 Mary Poppins by P. L. Travers Period: 1936 to 1936 Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain by Edward Ardizzone Period: 1938 to 1938 The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Period: 1939 to 1939 Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Elliot Period: 1939 to 1939 Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans Period: 1940 to 1940 Betsy-Tacy by Maud Hart Lovelace Period: 1940 to 1940 Lassie Come-Home by Eric Knight Period: 1941 to 1941 Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey Period: 1941 to 1941 Curious George by H. A. Rey Period: 1943 to 1943 Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes Period: 1950 to 1950 The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. LewIs Period: 1952 to 1952 The Borrowers by Mary Norton Period: 1952 to 1952 Charlotte's Web by E. B. White Period: 1954 to 1954 The Children of Green Knowe by Lucy M. Boston Period: 1954 to 1954 The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff Period: 1958 to 1958 Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce Period: 1962 to 1962 The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats Period: 1962 to 1962 A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle Period: 1963 to 1963 Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak Period: 1964 to 1964 The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander Period: 1964 to 1964 Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh Period: 1967 to 1967 Zeely by Virginia Hamilton Period: 1967 to 1967 The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton Period: 1968 to 1968 A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin Period: 1968 to 1968 The Pigman by Paul Zindel Period: 1971 to 1971 The Planet of Junior Brown by Virgina Hamilton Period: 1971 to 1971 Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIHM by Robert C. O'Brien Period: 1974 to 1974 The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier Period: 1976 to 1976 Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by MIldred Taylor Period: 1977 to 1977 Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson Period: 1983 to 1983 Gorilla by Anthony Browne Period: 1988 to 1988 Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman Period: 1993 to 1993 The Giver by Lois Lowry Period: 1997 to 1997 Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse Period: 1998 to 1998 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling Period: 1998 to 1998 Holes by Louis Sachar Period: 1999 to 1999 Monster by Walter Dean Myers Period: 2000 to 2000 The Amber Spyglass by Phillip Pullman Period: 2001 to 2001 Carver: A Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson Period: 2001 to 2001 The Three Pigs by David Wiesner Period: 2003 to 2003 The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread by Kate DiCamillo Period: 2004 to 2004 The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights by Russell Freedman Period: 2005 to 2005 Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins Period: 2005 to 2005 Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson Period: 2006 to 2006 American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang Period: 2006 to 2006 The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Period: 2007 to 2007 The Absolutely True DIary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie Period: 2007 to 2007 The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick Period: 2007 to 2007 The Arrival by Shaun Tan Period: 2008 to 2008 The Underneath by Kathi Appelt Period: 2008 to 2008 WabiSabi by Mark Reibstein Period: 2008 to 2008 The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins Period: 2009 to 2009 When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead Period: 2010 to 2010 Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot by Sy Montgomery Period: 2010 to 2010 Ling & Ting: Not Exactly the Same by Grace Lin Period: 2010 to 2010 Dark Emperor & Other Poems of the Night by Joyce Sidman Period: 2011 to 2011 Press Here by Herve Tullet Period: 2011 to 2011 Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans by Kadir Nelson
