Children's Timeline

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RC Children’s Classics Timeline

1719

Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe

1726

Jonathan Swift – Gulliver’s Travels

1823

Grimm’s Fairy Tales

1846

Hans Christian Anderson’s Fairy Tales translated into English

1851

Herman Melville – Moby Dick

1865

Lewis Carroll - Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

1868

Louisa Alcott – Little Women

1872

Susan Coolridge – What Katy Did

1877

Anna Sewell – Black Beauty

1880

Johanna Spyri - Heidi

1881

Robert Louis Stevenson – Treasure Island

1884

Mark Twain – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

1886

R.L. Stevenson – Kidnapped

1894

Rudyard Kipling – The Jungle Book

1900

L Frank Baum – The Wizard of Oz

1902

Beatrix Potter – The Tale of Peter Rabbit

1903

Jack London – The Call of the Wild

1905

Frances Hodgson Burnett - A Little Princess

1906

Jack London – White Fang

E. Nesbit – The Railway Children

1908

L.M. Montgomery – Anne of Green Gables

Kenneth Grahame – The Wind in the Willows

1911

Frances Hodgson-Burnett – The Secret Garden

J.M. Barrie – Peter Pan

1920

Hugh Lofting – Dr Dolittle

1926

A.A. Milne – Winnie the Pooh

1930

Arthur Ransome – Swallows and Amazons

1936

Noel Streatford – Ballet Shoes

1937

J.R.R. Tolkien – The Hobbit

1942

Enid Blyton – The Famous Five: Five on Treasure Island

1950

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

1952

Anne Frank’s Diary of a Young Girl published for the first time

E.B. White – Charlotte’s Web

1961

Roald Dahl – James and the Giant Peach

1964

Roald Dahl – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

1967

S.E. Hinton – The Outsiders

K.M. Peyton – Flambards Series

1972

Richard Adams – Watership Down

1981

Michelle Magorian – Goodnight Mr Tom

1982

Michael Morpurgo – War Horse

1995-2000

Philip Pullman – Dark Materials Trilogy

1997

J.K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone

1998

David Almond – Skellig

2001

Malorie Blackman – Noughts and Crosses

Geraldine McCaughrean – The Kite Rider

Louis Sacher – Holes

2003

Mark Haddon – The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time

Michael Morpurgo – Private Peaceful

2006

John Boyne – The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

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