Literature Timeline By Alfonso Martin Jr. 1744 John Newberry opened first book store that sold children book. Book store was in St. Paul Churchyard in London 1851 First American Book store was opened by Nathaniel Hawthorne 1865 Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 1883 Carlo Collodi, Pinocchio 1902 Walter de la Mare, Songs of Childhood 1902 Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories 1902 E. Nesbit, Five Children and It 1902 Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit 1907 Labor Law passed for children to attend school 1908 Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows 1911 James M. Barrie, Peter Pan 1919 Macmillan launched department devoted to childrens books 1922 Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit 1922 First children's book female editors 1924 A.A. Milne, When We Were Very Young 1933 Jean de Brunhoff, The Story of Babar 1933 P.L. Travers, Mary Poppins 1936 Edward Ardizzone, Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain 1938 Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling 1938 T.S. Eliot, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats 1939 Ludwig Bemelmans, Madeline 1940 Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy-Tacy 1940 Eric Knight, Lassie Come-Home 1941 Robert McCloskey, Make Way for Ducklings 1941 H.A. Rey, Curious George 1943 Esther Forbes, Jonny Tremain 1950 C.S. Lewis, The Lion the Witch, and the Wardrobe 1952 Mary Norton, The Borrowers 1952 E.B. White, Charlottes Web 1954 Lucy M. Boston, The Children of Green Knowe 1954 Rosemary Sutcliff, The Eagle of the Ninth 1954 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring 1958 Philippa Pearce, Tom's Midnight Garden 1962 Ezra Jack Keats, The Snowy Day 1962 Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time 1963 Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are 1964 Lloyd Alexander, The Book of Three 1964 Louise Fitzhugh, Harriet the Spy 1967 Virginia Hamilton, Zeely 1967 S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders 1968 Ursula Le Gutin, A Wizard of Earthsea 1968 Paul Zindel, The Pigman 1971 Virginia Hamilton, The Planet of Junior Brown 1971 RobertC. O'Brien, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1974 Robert Cormier, The Chocolate War 1975 Harriet Rohmer, children book press devoted to bilingual picture books that reflect diversity in cultures. 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 1993 Lois Lowry, The Giver 1997 Karen Hesse, Out of the Dust 1998 Lois Sachar, Holes 1998 J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1999 Walter Dean Myers, Monster 2000 Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass 2001 Marilyn Nelson, Carver: A Life in Poems 2001 Kate Wiesner, The Three Pigs 2003 Kate DiCamillo, The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool 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 Jaqueline Woodson, Show Way 2006 Gene Leun Yang, American Born Chinese 2006 Markus Zusak, The Book Thief 2007 Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007 Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007 Shaun Tan, The Arrival 2008 Kathi Appelt, The Underneath 2008 Mark Reibstein, WabiSabi 2008 Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games 2009 Rebecca Stead, When You Reach Me 2010 Sy Montgomery, Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot 2010 Grace Lin, Ling & Ting: Not Exactly the Same 2010 Joyce Sidman, Dark Emperor & Other Poems of the Night 2011 Herve Tullet, Press Here 2011 Kadir Nelson, Heart and Soul: The Story of American and African Americans