Timeline of Children S Literature

Timeline of Children S Literature

TIMELINE OF CHILDREN’S LITERATURE

Greeks / 500 / The IliadThe Odyssey -Homer Aesop’s Fables
400
Romans / 300 / Aeneid- Virgil
Metamorphoses– Ovid
200
BCE 100
0
CE 100
200
300
400
Middle Ages
Biblical stories
Local legends / 500 / Beowulf (King Arthur probably also lived about this time)
Arthurian Romances popular
Tales of the Romans (moral fables)
600
700
800
900
1000
1100 / 1291 End of the Crusades
1455 printing press invented
1492 Columbus – America
1520 Beginning or Reformation
1200
1300
European Renaissance / 1400 / 1483 the fables of Aesop published (first popular illustrated book printed in England
1563 John Foxe’s Book of Martyrs
1500
Puritanism (especially in America)
Horn Books
Chap books / 1600 / 1659 Orbis Pictus translated into English (Earliest children’s picture book)
1678 A Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan(UK)
1690-1886 The New England Primer(US)
1693Thoughts Concerning Education – John Locke (tabula rasa – intellectual education) / Puritans placed a high value on education, especially for spiritual purposes.
1636 Puritans establish Harvard
1700 / 1719 Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe(UK)
1726 Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift(UK)
1729 Tales of Mother Goose – Charles Perrault (published in English)
1744 A Little Pretty Pocket Book John Newberry (UK) First book for enjoyment
1762 Emile – Joan Jacques Rousseau (moral education) / Rousseau – “Man is essentially good, but corrupted by society.”
Victorian Age
Comic strips
Dime novels
Children’s magazines
Youth’s companion
(1827-1929)
St. Nicholas (1873-1940) / 1800 / 1815 Grimm’s Fairy Tales – The Brothers Grimm (Germany)
1838 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens (UK)
1848 Struwwelpeter – Heinrich Hoffmann (Germany)
1865 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (UK)
1868 Little Women – Louisa may Alcott (US)
1876 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain (US)
1877 Black Beauty – Anna Sewell (UK)
1881 Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson (UK)
1883 The Adventures of Pinocchio – Carlo Collodi (Italy)
1884 The Adventures of HuckleberryFinn – Mark Twain (US)
1885 A Children’s Garden of Verses – Robert Louis Stevenson (UK)
1894 The Jungle Book – Rudyard Kipling (UK) / Queen Victoria (1819-1901)
She reigned from 1837-1901)
Though not highly intelligent, she was of high moral character and extremely conscientious.
-Industrialization
-Imperialism
Stronger family units
Developing technology
Rise of the status of women
Widespread education
Growth of middle class
The 20th Century / 1900 / 1901 The Tale of Peter Rabbit – Beatrix Potter (UK)
1904 Peter Pan – J. M. Barrie (UK)
1907 The Wonderful Adventuresof Nils – Selma Lagerlof (Sweden)
1908 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame (UK)
1908 Anne of Green Gables – Lucy Maud Montegomery (Canada)
1909 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz – L. Frank Baum (US)
1911 The SecretGarden – Francis Hodgson Burnett (UK) / 1919 First children’s division in a publishing company (Macmillan Company in the US)
Between the Wars / 1920 / 1920 The Story of Doctor Dolittle – Hugh Lofting (US)
1922 Newberry Medal established (Best children’s book in US)
1923 Bambi – Felix Salten (Germany)
1926 Winnie-the-Pooh A. A. Milne(UK)
1928 Millions of Cats – Wanda Gag (US)
1930 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome(UK)
1931 The Story of Babar; The Little Elephant – Jean de Brunhoff (France)
1932 Little House in the Big Woods – Laura Ingalls Wilder (US)
1934 Marry Poppins - P. L. Travers(UK)
1936 The Story of Ferdinand – Munro Leaf (US)
1937 The Hobbit – J. R. R. Tolkein (UK)
1937 And to Think I Saw it on Mulberry Street – Dr. Seuss (US)
1937 Carnegie Medal established (Best children’s book published in UK)
1938 Caldecott Medal established (Best illustrated picture book in US)
1939 Madeleine – Ludwig Bemalmens (US) / 1914-1918 WWI
Children are valued as consumers
Quality of children’s books become important. Establishment of prizes for excellence.
After WWII / 1940 / 1943 The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupery (France)
1945 Pippi Longstocking – Astrid Lingren (Sweden)
1950 The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – C. S. Lewis(UK)
1951 The Catcher in the Rye – J. D. Sallinger (US)
1952 The Borrowers – Mary Norton(UK)
1952 Charlotte’s Web – E. B. White (US)
1965 The Book of Three – Lloyd Alexander(UK)
1956 Kate Greenaway Medal (Best illustrated picture book in UK)
1964 Harriet the Spy – Louise Fitzhugh
1967 A Wizard of Earthsea – Ursula Le Guin (US)
1975 Tuck Everlasting – Natalie Babbit (US) / 1939-1945 WWII
1960’s New Realism – “too real for many adults”
1970’s multicultural content
visual literacy
2000 Child as global citizen