2. "The more that you read,
the more things you will know.
The more you learn,
the more places you'll go."
— Dr. Seuss, I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!
"I have always imagined that paradise
will be a kind of library."
— Jorge Luis Borges
3. Late 15th century – 17th century
1484 William Caxton
prints Subtyl Historyes and
Fables of Esop
1485 Sir Thomas Malory Le
Morte D’arthur
1563 John Foxe Actes and
Monumentes, popularly known as
the Book of Martyrs. Used for
over three centuries as a source in
many books for Protestant
children, including the New-
England Primer.
1601 John Weever An Agnus
Dei (A Lamb of God), an abridged
New Testament in rhymed
couplets; a very early example of
the miniature books known as
Thumb Bibles.
4. Late 15th century – 17th century
1659 Visible World, the first
English translation of Johann
Amos Comenius's Orbis
Sensualium Pictus, an educational
compendium with a pictorial
alphabet arranged according to
sounds.
1660 Thomas White A Little Book
for Little Children. Set out
Puritan ideals for children;
published as part of his Manual
for Parents.
1668 Jean de La
Fontaine's Fables choisies, mises
en vers (Selected Fables, Set in
Verse); first translated into
English in 1734.
Original and
Modern versions
of the collection
5. Late 15th century – 17th century
1678 John Bunyan The Pilgrim's
Progress
1697 Charles Perrault Histoires
ou contes du temps passé (Stories
or Tales of Past Times). Often
considered the first major
collection of fairy tales for
children. The book was first
published in English in 1729;
many of the tales were separately
published as chapbooks and later
as picture books for children. The
collection was sometimes given
the title "Tales of Mother Goose."
6. 18th century
1719 Daniel Defoe Robinson
Crusoe
1726 Jonathan Swift Gulliver's
Travels
1744 John Newbery A Little
Pretty Pocket-Book
1749 Sarah Fielding The
Governess; or, The Little Female
Academy. One of the first books
published specifically for girls; it
contains two didactic fairy tales.
7. 19th century (1800-1849)
1805 William Godwin Fables
Ancient and Modern, an
adaptation for young children.
1819 Washington Irving "Rip Van
Winkle" and "The Legend of
Sleepy Hollow“
1823 Edgar Taylor German
Popular Stories, a translation of
selected tales from Jacob and
Wilhelm Grimm's Kinder- und
Hausmärchen (1812-
15, Children's and Household
Tales)
8. 19th century (1800-1849)
1823 “A Visit from St. Nicholas”
aka “The Night Before
Christmas” was published
anonymously; authorship later
attributed to Clement Clarke
Moore.
1843 Charles Dickens A
Christmas Carol
1846 Mary Howitt's translation
of Wonderful Stories for
Children by Hans Christian
Andersen; one of the first English
translations of Andersen's fairy
tales, which began appearing in
Danish in 1835.
9. 19th century (1850-1899)
1863 Jules Verne Cinq semaines
en ballon, voyage de découvertes
en Afrique (Five Weeks in a
Balloon), the first major science
fiction novel.
1865 Lewis Carroll Alice's
Adventures in Wonderland
1868 Louisa May Alcott Little
Women
1877 Anna Sewell Black Beauty
1881 Robert Louis
Stevenson Treasure Island
10. 19th century (1850-1899)
1884 Mark Twain The Adventures
of Huckleberry Finn
1892 First U.S. comic
strip, "Little Bears and
Tykes," San Francisco Examiner
1894-95 Rudyard Kipling The
Jungle Book
11. 20th century (1900-1910)
1900 L. Frank Baum The Wizard
of Oz
1902 Beatrix Potter The Tale of
Peter Rabbit
1903 Jack London The Call of the
Wild; Howard Pyle's The Story of
King Arthur and His Knights.
1904 J. M. Barrie Peter Pan, or
The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow
Up premiers in London
(1929 First definitive publication
of J. M. Barrie's play Peter Pan;
or The Boy Who Would Not Grow
Up)
12. 20th century (1900-1910)
1905 Frances Hodgson Burnett A
Little Princess
1906 Jack London White Fang
1908 L. M. Montgomery's Anne
of Green Gables
1908 Kenneth Grahame The Wind
in the Willows
13. 20th century (1911-1920)
1911 Frances Hodgson
Burnett The Secret Garden
1922 Margery Williams The
Velveteen Rabbit
1926 A. A. Milne Winnie-the-
Pooh
14. 20th century (1921-1940)
1930 Carolyn Keene Nancy Drew
Mystery Stories (Original series
published between 1930-2003)
Carolyn Keene is a pseudonym
for the various ghostwriters used
to create the series.
1932 Laura Ingalls Wilder Little
House in the Big Woods
1933 Marjorie Flack The Story
about Ping
15. 20th century (1921-1940)
1936 Munro Leaf and Robert
Lawson The Story of Ferdinand
1937 J.R.R. Tolkien The Hobbit
1939 Ludwig Bemelmans
Madeline
1939 Robert L. May
Rudolph the
Red-Nosed
Reindeer
16. 20th century (1941-1950)
1941 H.A. Rey Curious George
1942 Margaret Wise
Brown Runaway Bunny
1947 Margaret Wise
Brown Goodnight Moon
1950 C. S. Lewis The Lion, the
Witch, and the Wardrobe, the first
of the seven Narnia chronicles
(1950-56)
17. 20th century (1951-1960)
1951 J. D. Salinger The Catcher
in the Rye
1952 Anne Frank Diary of a
Young Girl
1952 E. B. White Charlotte's Web
1955 Beverly Cleary Beezus and
Ramona (the Ramona Quimby
series continued until the final
installment, Ramona’s World was
published in 1999)
18. 20th century (1951-1960)
1955 Kay Thompson Eloise
1957 Dr. Seuss The Cat in the Hat
1960 Scott O’Dell Island of the
Blue Dolphins
1960 P.D. Eastman Are You My
Mother?
19. 20th century (1961-1970)
1961 Roald Dahl James and the
Giant Peach
1961 P.D. Eastman Go Dog Go
1963 Madeleine L'Engle A
Wrinkle in Time
1963 Maurice Sendak Where the
Wild Things Are
1964 Shel Silverstein The Giving
Tree
1964 Ronald Dahl Charlie and
the Chocolate Factory
20. 20th century (1961-1970)
1967 Bill Martin Brown
Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You
See?
1967 S.E. Hinton The Outsiders
1968 Eric Carle The Very Hungry
Caterpillar
1968 Don Freeman Corduroy
1970 Judy Blume Are You
There, God? It's Me, Margaret
21. 20th century (1971-1980)
1972 Judith Viorst Alexander and
the Terrible, Horrible, No
Good, Very Bad Day
1974 Shel Silverstein Where the
Sidewalk Ends
1975 Natalie Babbitt Tuck
Everlasting
1977 Katherine Paterson Bridge
to Terabithia
1978 Judi Barrett Cloudy With a
Chance of Meatballs
22. 20th century (1981-1990)
1981 Chris Van Allsburg Jumanji
1981 Shel Silverstein A Light in the
Attic
1983 Francine Pascal Sweet Valley
High series
1985 Chris Van Allsburg The Polar
Express
1985 Laura Numeroff If You Give A
Mouse A Cookie
1986 Graeme Base Animalia
1986 Robert Munsch Love You Forever
1989 Jon Scieszka The True Story of
the Three Little Pigs
24. 20th century (1991-1999)
1992 Jon Scieszka The Stinky
Cheese Man
1992 Marc Pfister The Rainbow
Fish
1993 Janell Cannon Stellaluna
1993 Lois Lowry's The Giver
1994 Sam McBratney Guess How
Much I Love You
1995-2000 Philip Pullman His
Dark Materials trilogy
1997 J. K. Rowling Harry Potter
and the Philosopher's Stone (U.S.
title: Harry Potter and the
Sorcerer's Stone)
25. 21st century (2000-2013)
2000 Ian Falconer Olivia
2000 Doreen Cronin
Click, Clack, Moo Cows That
Type
2003 Kate DiCamillo The Tale of
Desperaux
2005 Stephenie Meyer Twilight
2005 Rick Riordan The Lightning
Thief (Percy Jackson and the
Olympians)
2005 Jane O’Connor Fancy
Nancy
2007 Jeff Kinney Diary of a
Wimpy Kid
26. 21st century (2000-2013)
2008 Suzanne Collins The
Hunger Games
2009 Grace Lin Where the
Mountain Meets the Moon
2010 Clare Vanderpool Moon
Over Manifest
2011 Jack Gantos Dead End in
Norvelt
2012 K.A. Applegate The One
and Only Ivan
2013 Susan Cooper Ghost
Hawk
27. References
American Library Association. (2013). Newberry medal and honor books,
1922 to present. Retrieved from
http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/newberymedal/newb
eryhonors/newberymedal
Children's Book Guide. (2013). Top 100 children's books of all time.
Retrieved from http://childrensbooksguide.com/top-100
The norton anthology of children's literature timeline index. (2005).
Retrieved from
http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nacl/index.html
Note: My most important references cannot be named individually. They
are all the teachers I had through the years who took the time to either
read the majority of these books to me in class or to provide me with class
time to read them myself. Thank you! Please READ to your children
and to your students. It makes a difference
28. THANK YOU FOR YOUR
ATTENTION!
"Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words!"
— A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, 1943
"Once you learn to read,
you will be forever free."
— Frederick Douglass
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