Children's literature
The genre of children's literature has a long tradition within the overall field of literature.
In current publishing, the typical breakdown within the field is - pre-readers, early readers, chapter books, and young adults.
Many authors specialize in books for children, or have written books beloved by children. In some cases, books intended for adults, such as Swift's Gulliver's Travels have been edited (or bowdlerized) somewhat for the childrens versions.
Important Chidren's authors and their most famous works
A
- Aesop - Fables
- Louisa May Alcott - Little Women
- Hans Christian Anderson - Fairy Tales and Stories
- William H. Armstrong - Sounder
B
- Enid Bagnold - National Velvet
- Lynne Reid Banks
- Helen Bannerman - Little Black Sambo (published in 1899, no longer politically correct)
- James Barrie - Peter Pan
- Graham Base
- L. Frank Baum - The Wizard of Oz
- John Bellairs
- Jan and Stan Berenstain
- Judy Blume - Are You There God, It's Me Margaret
- Enid Blyton - Noddy series and Famous Five series
- Michael Bond - Paddington Bear series
- Lucy M. Boston
- Jean de Brunhoff - The Story of Babar
- Marcia Brown - Puss in Boots
- Sheila Bunford - The Incredible Journey
- John Bunyan - Pilgrim's Progress
- Frances Hodgeson Burnett - The Secret Garden
- Virginia Lee Burton - Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel
C
- Lewis Carroll- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass
- Geoffrey Chaucer - Chanticleer the Fox (extract from Canterbury Tales)
- Beverly Cleary - Ramona Quimby
- Carlo "Collodi" Lorenzini - The Adventures of Pinocchio
- John Amos Comenus - Orbis Sesualim Pictis Picture Book
- John Cotton - Milk for Babes
D
- Roald Dahl - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach
- Paula Danziger
- Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe
- Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol
- Franklin W. Dixon - The Hardy Boys series
- Mary Mapes Dodge - Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates
- William Pere du Bous - Twenty-One Balloons
F
- Eugene Field - Wynken, Blynken, and Nod
- Anne Fine - Goggle Eyes
- Ian Fleming - Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang
- Esther Forbes - Johny Tremain
- Anne Frank - The Diary of a Young Girl
G
- Alan Garner - The Owl Service
- Jean George - My Side of the Mountain
- Fred Gipson - Old Yeller
- Oliver Goldsmith - The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes
- Kenneth Grahame - The Wind in the Willows
- Hardie Gramatky - Little Toot
- Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm - Grimm's Fairy Tales
- Joel Chandler Harris - Uncle Remus
- Marguirite Henry - King of the Wild, Misty of Chincoteague
- James Herriot
- S.E. Hinton - The Outsiders
- Russel Hoban
- Joseph Jacobs - Blue Fairy Book (and other colors; no connection to the blue fairy in Pinocchio)
- Diana Wynne Jones
- Norton Juster -- The Phantom Tollbooth
K
- Jan Karon
- Carolyn Keene - The Nancy Drew mystery series
- Rudyard Kipling - Just So Stories
- E.L. Konigsburg - From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankwiler
L
- Robert Lawson - Rabbit Hill
- Munro Leaf - The Story of Ferdinand
- Edward Lear - A Book of Nonsense
- Dennis Lee - Alligator Pie
- Madeleine L'Engle - A Wrinkle in Time
- Ursula K. Le Guin - Earthsea
- C.S. Lewis - The Chronicles of Narnia
- Astrid Lindgren - Pippi Longstocking
- Hugh Lofting - The Voyage of Dr. Doolittle
- Lois Lowry - The Giver
M
- Ann Martin
- Robert McCloskey - Make Way for Ducklings
- A.A. Milne - Winnie the Pooh
- Lucy Montgomery - Anne of Green Gables
- Clement Moore - A Visit from St. Nicholas
- Robert Munsch - Love You Forever - full audio text read by author available at http://www.robertmunsch.com/storytime.cfm - a MUST listen.
N
- Edith Nesbit - The Railway Children
- John Newberry - A Little Pretty Pocket Book Intended for the Instruction and Amusement of Little Master Tommy and Pretty Miss Molly
O
P
R
- Marjorie Rawlings
- H.A. Rey and Margret Rey - Curious George
- J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter series
S
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery - The Little Prince
- Richard Scarry - (1919-1994) Busytown series
- Ouida Sebestyen - American, (1924- ) - Far From Home
- Maurice Sendak - Where the Wild Things Are
- Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel - The Cat in the Hat
- Anna Sewell - Black Beauty
- Shel Silverstein - The Giving Tree
- Zilpha Keatley Snyder
- Don Sobol - Encyclopedia Brown
- Johanna Spyri - Heidi
- Robert Louis Stevenson - A Child's Garden of Verse
- R. L. Stine - Goosebumps series
- Frank R. Stockton - The Lady or the Tiger?
- Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels
T
- Ann Jane Taylor - Twinkle,Twinkle,Little Star
- Kaye Thompson
- Pamela Travers - Mary Poppins
- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens - Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn
V
W
- E.B. White - Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little, The Trumpet of the Swan
- Kate Douglas Wiggin
- Laura Ingalls Wilder - Little House on the Prarie
- Margery Williams - The Velveteen Rabbit
Z
