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John Newberry opens bookstore in St. Paul's Churchyard, London
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Nathaniel Hawthorne A Wonderbook for Boys and Girls concidered the author of the first American book written specifically for chldren 1851/1893
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Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland1865/1977
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Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
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Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass 1871/1977
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Johanna Spyri's Heidi, published in 1879-1880
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Carlo Collod Pinocchio, first published in 1883
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Walter de la Mare, Songs of Childhood
Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories
E. Nesbit, Five Chidren and It
Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit -
Selma Lagerlof's The Wonderful Adventures of Nils published 1906-1907
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First child labor laws passed in 1907 freed children to go to school
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Kenneth Graharne, The Wind in the Willows
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James M. Barrie, Peter Pan
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U S publishing house Macmillan Launched a department devoted entirely to children's books
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Modern Picturebooks are developed in the 1920's and 1930's
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Louise Bechtel Seaman appointed department head of Macmillian publishing house
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John Newberry Award established by the American Library Association
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One of Two of the first women Children's book editors
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One of Two of the first women to become a Children's book editor
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Pubished by the Bookshop for Boys and Girls in Boston under the guidance of Bertha Mahony and Elinor Whitney
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A. A. Milne, When We Were Very Young
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May Massee moves to open a children's book department at Viking
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Jean de Brunhoff, The Story of Babar
P.L. Travers, Mary Poppins -
Edward Ardizzone, Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain
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Randolph Caldecott Award established by the American Library Association
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Mstjotir Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling
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Ludwig Bemelmans, Madeline
T.S. Eliot, Olf Possums Book of Practical Cats -
The importance of Children's and Young Adult's books become an important part of libraries,homes, schools and publishing houses in the 1940's through 1960's.
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Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy-Tacy
Eric Knight, Lassie Come-Home -
Robert McClosleu, Make Way for Ducklings
H.A. Rey, Curious George -
Esther Forbes, Johnny Tremain
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C.S. Lewis, The Lion,the Witch, and the Wardrope
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Mary Norton, The Borrowers
E.B. White, Charlotte's 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
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Ezra Jack Keats, The Snowy Day
Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time -
Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are
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Lloyd Alexander, The Book of Three
Louise Fitzhugh, Harriet the Spy -
Virginia Hamilton, Zeely
S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders -
Ursula Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea
Paul Zindel, The Pigman -
Virginia Hamilton, The Planet of Junior Brown
Robert C O'Brien, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH -
Robert Cormier, The Chocolate War
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Harriet Rohmer establishes Children's Book Press
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Mildred Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
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Katgerube Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia
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Anthony Browne, Gorilla
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Just Us Books founded
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Paul Fleischman, Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices
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Lois Lowry, The Giver
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Karen Hesse, Out of the Dust
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J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Louis Sachar, Holes -
Walter Dean Myers, Monster
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Marilyn Nelson, The Amber Spyglass
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Marilyn Nelson, Carver: A Life in Poems
David Wiesner, The Three Pigs -
Kate DiCamilllo, The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread
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Russell Freedman, The Voice That Challanged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights
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Lynne Rae Perkins, Criss Cross
Jacqueline Woodson, Show Way -
Gene Luen Yang, American Born Chinese
Markus Zusak, The Book Thief -
Sheman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Shaun Tan, The Arrival -
Leonard Marcus traces the history of children's literature in U.S. in Minders of Make-Believe: Idealists, Entrepreneurs, and the Saping of American Children's Literature
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Kathi Appelt, The Underneath
Mark Reibstein, WabiSabi
Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games -
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 America and African Americans