Milestones in Literature for Children and Adolescents

  • Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

  • Walter de la Mare, Songs of Childhood

    Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories
    E. Nesbit, Five Children and It
    Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit
  • Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

    L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
  • James M. Barrie, Peter Pan

  • Margary Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit

  • A. A. Milne, When We Were Very Young

  • Jean de Brunhoff, The Story of Babar

  • P. L. Travers, Mary Poppins

  • Edward Ardizzone, Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain

  • Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling

  • Ludwig Bemelmans, Madeline

  • T. S. Eliot, Old Possom's Book of Practical Cats

  • Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy-Tacy

  • Eric Knight, Lassie Come-Home

  • Robert McCloskey, Make Way for Ducklings

  • H. A. Rey, Curious George

  • Esther Forbes, Johnny Tremain

  • C. S. Lewis, The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe

  • 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. Tolkein, The Fellowship of the Ring