History of Childrens Literature

By ETHAN LAND

  • First Published Childrens Book

    Little Goody Two Shoes by John Newbery

  • "The Golden age" of Childrens literature has begun

    Lewis Carroll published Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

  • Mark Twain publishes in UK and US

    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

  • Just So Stories

    Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) created a collection of children’s animal fables. Fables with creative descriptions of how different animals acquired physical characteristics.

  • The Wind with the Willows

    This book was publiced by Kenneth Grahame did not intent this book to be for children.

  • First children's book department was established by Macmillan Company.

  • Period: to

    Personal favorite books

    Winnie the Pooh in 1926 and Bambi in 1924. When we were very young was also published by A. A Milne

  • Dr. Suess First book and more hits

    And to think that I saw it on Mulberry street, along with other stories like Hobbit, Of Mice and Men and The White Stag
  • Period: to

    Late 1930s and Early 40s

    "Madeline", by Ludwig Bemelmans and "Make Way for Ducklings,"Robert McCloskey along with "Johnny Tremain," Esther Forbes.

  • 1945 Childrens literature

    Animal Farm was published by George Orwell and pippi Longstockings was writen by astrid Lindgren.

  • Early 1950s fables

    Narnia Chronicles, by C.S Lewis and The Lion, the Witch and the wardrobe series was published from 1950-1956. Charlotte's Web by E.B. Web

  • Dr. Suess published Cat and The Hat

  • "Toms Midnight Garden" published in 1958

    writen by Ezra Keats

  • "Where the Wild Things Are"

    published by Maurice Sendak in 1963. The next year Lloyd Alexander published "The Book of Three"
  • Period: to

    "A wizard of Earthsea" series begins

    Ursula Guin began the series with A wizard of Earthsea (1968) and ended with Tales from Earthsea (2001)

  • 1990s childrens literature

    The next major release in children literature The Giver (1993) and not too long after the release of the "Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone" by J.K Rowling (1998)

  • The rewrite of the "three little pigs"

    by David Wiesner
  • Period: to

    2000's Childrens literature

    Kate DiCamillo wrote the Tale of Despereaux, in 2003. Eventually books like "the book theif" (2007) by Markus Zusak and "The Invention of Hugo Cabret" (2007) by Brian Selznick

  • "The Hunger games" release

    Suxanne Collins published in 2008. and Rebecca Stead released "When you Reach Me" (2009)