History of Children's Literature

By melanie.gillespie

  • The Snowy Day

    Ezra Jack Keats

  • A Wrinkle in Time

    Madeleine L' Engle

  • The Book of Three

    Lloyd Alexander

  • Where the Wild Things Are

    Maurice Sendak

  • Zeely

    Virginia Hamilton
    Illustrated by Symeon Shinin

  • Wizard of Earthsea

    Ursula K. Le Guin

  • Corduroy

    Don Freeman

  • Stevie

    John Steptoe

  • Summer of the Swans

    Betsy Byars

  • Moja Means One: Swahili Counting Book

    Muriel Feelings
    Illustrated by Tom Feelings

  • Annie and the Old One

    Miska Miles
    Illustrated by Peter Parnall

  • Frog and Toad Together

    Arnold Lobel

  • The Dark is Rising

    Susan Cooper

  • M.C. Higgins the Great

    Virginia Hamilton

  • Dragonwings

    Laurence Yep

  • The Hundred Penny Box

    Sharon Mathis

  • Tuck Everlasting

    Natalie Babbitt

  • Strega Nona

    Tomie Depaola

  • Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry

    Mildred Taylor

  • Hawk, I'm Your Brother

    Byrd Baylor
    Illustrated by Peter Parnall

  • What's the Big Idea, Ben Franklin?

    Jean Fritz
    Illustrated by Margot Tomes

  • One at a Time

    David McCord

  • Bridge to Terabithia

    Katherine Paterson

  • The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses

    Paul Goble

  • Jar of Dreams

    Yoshiko Uchida

  • Hiroshima No Pika

    Toshi Maruki

  • The Polar Express

    Chris Van Allsburg

  • Sarah, Plain and Tall

    Patricia Maclachlan

  • Going Home

    NIcholasa Mohr

  • Owl Moon

    Jane Yolen
    Illustrated by John Schoenherr

  • Murafo's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale

    John Steptoe

  • Lincoln: A Photobiography

    Russell Freedman

  • Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave

    Virginia Hamilton

  • Nathaniel Talking

    Eloise Greenfield
    Illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist

  • Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices

    Paul Fleischman
    Illustrated by Eric Beddows

  • Lon Po Po: A Red Riding Hood Story from China

    Ed Young

  • Rainbow People

    Laurence Yep

  • The True Story of the Three Little Pigs

    Jon Scieszka

  • The Talking Eggs

    Robert D. San Souci
    Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney

  • Number the Stars

    Lois Lowry

  • Tar Beach

    Faith Ringgold

  • Man from the Other Side

    Uri Orlev

  • Seven Blind Mice

    Ed Young

  • Street Rhymes around the World

    Jane Yolen

  • Neighborhood Odes: Poems

    Gary Soto
    Illustrated by David Diaz

  • Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti

    Frances Temple

  • Thirtenn Moons on Turtle's Back: A Native American Year of Moons

    Joseph Bruchac

  • Grandfather's Journey

    Allen Say

  • The Giver

    Lois Lowry

  • Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom

    Virginia Hamilton
    Illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon

  • Smoky Night

    Eve Bunting
    Illustrated by David Diaz

  • Pink and Say

    Patricia Polacco

  • John Henry

    Julius Lester
    Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney

  • Officer Buckle and Gloria

    Peggy Rathmann

  • Been to Yesterdays: Poems of a Life

    Lee Bennett Hopkins

  • The Middle Passage: White Ships Black Cargo

    Tom Feelings

  • Navajo: Visions and Voices Across the Mesa

    Shonto Begay

  • Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida

    Victor Martinez

  • A View from Saturday

    E. L. Konigsburg

  • Harlm

    Walter Dean Myers
    Illustrated by Christopher Myers

  • Out of the Dust

    Karen Hesse

  • Holes

    Louis Sachar

  • Monster

    Walter Dean Myers

  • Bud, Not Buddy

    Christopher Paul Curtis

  • Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and the Endurance

    Jennifer Armstrong

  • The Amber Spyglass

    Philip Pullman

  • Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado

    Marc Aronson

  • The Voice thtat Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights

    Russell Freedman

  • The Red Book

    Barbara Lehman

  • The Book Thief

    Markus Zusak

  • American Born Chinese

    Gene Luen Yang

  • Flotsam

    David Wiesner

  • The Arrival

    Shaun Tan

  • The Invention of Hugo Cabret

    Brian Selznick

  • Wabi Sabi

    Mark Reibstein
    Illustrations by Ed Young

  • The Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night

    Joyce Sidman
    Illustrations by Rick Allen

  • Okay for Now

    Gary Schmidt