You will learn about famous British children's writers (Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift,Lewis Carrol, Robert Lewis Stevenson, James Barrie, Radyard Kipling, Beatrix Potter, AA Milne, CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien, Roald Dahl, Michael Bond, JK Rowling)

1. Great British Writers
for Children

2. Daniel Defoe (1660-1731)
• the founder of the realistic
novel (роман)
• he started as a political
writer but finished his
political career after he was
sent to prison ( тюрьма)
• began writing fiction
(художественная
литература)
• his best novel – “Robinson
Crusoe”

3. Jonathan Swift ( 1667- 1745)
• a great English satirist
(сатирик)
• was born in Dublin
• best remembered for his
book Gulliver's Travels
(Приключения Гулливера)
(1726)

4. Lewis Carrol (1832-1898)
• real name -Charles L. Dodgson
• an English fiction writer who
wrote and created games as a
child
• his most famous books
include Alice's Adventures in
Wonderland (Приключения
Алисы в Стране Чудес)
(1865) and Through the
Looking-Glass ( Алиса в
Зазеркалье)(1871)

5. Robert Lewis Stevenson ( 1850-1894)
• a Scottish novelist (романист),
poet and travel writer
• had poor health
• spent the last years of his life in
Samoa, Indonesia
• best known for writing Treasure
Island (Остров
Сокровищ)(1881), Strange
Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
(Странная история Доктора
Джекилла и Мистера Хайда)
(1886)

6. James Barrie (1860-1937)
• a Scottish dramatist
(драматург)
• best known for writing Peter
Pan in 1904, or The Boy
Who Would Never Grow Up
(Мальчик, который не
хотел взрослеть)
• based on Barrie's characters,
Disney created the
cartoon, Peter Pan, in 1953

7. Radyard Kipling (1865- 1936)
• born in India in 1865 and
educated in England but
returned to India in 1882
• he wrote The Jungle Book
(Книга джунглей) (1894)
• received (получил) the
1907 Nobel Prize
(Нобелевская премия)
in Literature

8. Bearix Potter (1866-1943)
• spent a lonely childhood with
long holidays in the country
• loved to draw animals and
later created stories about
them
• published The Tale of Peter
Rabbit ( Повесть о кролике
Питере) in 1902
• wrote more than 20 other
books for children

9. AA Milne ( 1882-1956)
• began a successful career as a
novelist, poet and playwright
(драматург) in the 1920s
• best-known works are his two
collections of children's
poetry, When We Were Young
(Когда мы были
маленькими) and Now We
Are Six (Теперь нам шесть),
and his two books of stories
about the bear Winnie-the-
Pooh and his animal friends

10. CS Lewis (1898- 1963)
• taught at Oxford University
and became a famous
Christian (христианский)
writer
• known as the author of The
Chronicles of Narnia
(Хроники Нарнии) (1960s)

11. JRR Tolkien (1892- 1973)
• an English fantasy
(фантастика) author and
academic
• while teaching at Oxford
University, he published the
popular fantasy novels The
Hobbit and The Lord of the
Rings (Властелин
колец) trilogy
• adapted (адоптировны) into
blockbuster films

12. Roald Dahl (1916-1990)
• a British author who wrote 19
children's books
• published the best-selling
story collection Someone Like
You (Кто-то вроде вас) in
1953
• published the popular
book James and the Giant
Peach (Джеймс и
гигантский персик) in 1961
• wrote another highly
successful work, Charlie and
the Chocolate Factory (Чарли
и шоколадная фабрика) in
1964, which was later
adapted for two films

13. Michael Bond ( 1926-2017)
• best known for a series of
fictional stories for children,
about Paddington Bear
• more than 35 million
Paddington books have
been sold around the
world, and the characters
have also been featured in
film and on television
• his first book was published
in 1958 and his last in 2017,
a span (врменной
отрезок) of 59 years

14. JK Rowling (1965- )
• a British author and
screenwriter
(сценарист) best
known for her seven-
book Harry
Potter children's book
series
• the series has sold
more than 500 million
copies and was
adapted into
blockbuster films