Children's literature

• Contents

• cknowledgements

• hronology

• ntroduction

• bout Children''s Literature and this Book

• atters of Selection

• atters of ''Theory'' and Definition

• atters of History

• onstructing History

• one and address

• ontent

• ender, Politics and Ideology

• ethinking History

• ow to Use This Book

• ote on the Bibliographies

• uthors

• anet Ahlberg (1944-1997) and Allan Ahlberg (1938-)

• ouisa May Alcott (1832-88)

• dward Ardizzone (1900-1979)

• uentin Blake (1932-)

• udy Blume (1938-)

• nid [Mary] Blyton (1897-1968)

• ary Grant Bruce (1878-1958)

• rances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924)

• ewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) (1832-98)

• obert Cormier (1925-)

• ichmal Crompton [Lamburn] (1890-1969)

• oald Dahl (1916-1990)

• r. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel, 1904-1991)

• nne Fine (1947-)

• lan Garner (1934-)

• irginia [Esther] Hamilton (1936-)

• [eorge] A[lfred] Henty (1832-1902)

• ussell [Conwell] Hoban (1925-)

• ed Hughes (1930-1998)

• Joseph] Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

• [laine] L[obl] Konigsburg (1930-)

• atricia MacLachlan (1938-)

• argaret Many (1936-)

• an [Janet Marjorie] Mark (1943-)

• illiam Mayne (1928-)

• [lan] A[lexander] Milne (1882-1956)

• [dith] Nesbit (1858-1924)

• Helen] Beatrix Potter (1866-1943)

• erry Pratchett (1948-)

• hilip Pullman (1946-)

• rthur Ransome (1884-1967)

• ichael Rosen (1946-)

• [oanne] K. Rowling

• aurice [Bernard] Sendak (1928-)

• ary Martha [Butt] Sherwood (1775-1851)

• obert Louis Stevenson (1850-94)

• osemary Sutcliff (1920-1992)

• atricia Wrightson (1921-)

• ey Texts

• [ucy] M[aud] Montgomery (1874-1942)

• Anne of Green Gables (1908)

• ichard Jefferies (1848-87)

• Wood Magic (1881) and Bevis (1882)

• nna Sewell (1820-78)

• Black Beauty (1877)

• ary Norton (1903-1992)

• The Borrowers (1952)

• The Borrowers Afield (1955)

• The Borrowers Afloat (1959)

• The Borrowers Aloft (1961)

• The Borrowers Avenged (1982)

• [lwyn] B[rooks] White (1899-1985)

• Charlotte''s Web (1952)

• usan [Mary] Cooper (1935),The Dark is Rising sequence: Over Sea

• Under Stone (1965)

• The Dark is Rising (1973)

• Greenwitch (1974)

• The Grey King (1975)

• Silver on the Tree (1977)

• saac Watts (1674-1748)

• Divine Songs Attempted in Easy Language for the Use of Young Children (1715)

• rsula K[roeber]

• Le Guin (1929-)

• The ''Earthsea'' Quartet'': A Wizard of Earthsea (1968)

• The Tombs of Atuan (1972)

• The Farthest Shore (1973)

• Tehanu (1990)

• ouise Fitzhugh (1928-74)

• Harriet the Spy (1964)

• [ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien (1892-1973)

• The Hobbit

• or There and Back Again (1937)

• mported Classics

• aura Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957)

• The ''Little House'' series: Little House in the Big Woods (USA 1932/UK 1956)

• Farmer Boy (1933/1965)

• Little House on the Prairie (1935/1957)

• On the Banks of Plum Creek (1937/1958)

• By the Shores of Silver Lake (1939/1961)

• The Long Winter (1940/1962)

• These Happy Golden Years (1943/1964)

• The First Four Years (1971/1973)

• ohn Newbery (1713-67)

• A Little Pretty Pocket Book (1744)

• ouisa May Alcott (1832-88)

• Little Women (1868) and Good Wives (1869)

• orman Lindsay (1879-1969)

• The Magic Pudding (1918)

• [amela] L[yndon] Travers (1906-1996)

• Mary Poppins (1934)

• [live] S[taples] Lewis (1898-1963): Narnia'' Series

• The Lion

• the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950)

• Prince Caspian (1951)

• The Voyage of the ''Dawn Treader'' (1952)

• The Silver Chair (1953)

• The Horse and his Boy (1954)

• The Magician''s Nephew (1955) and The Last Battle (1956)

• [ames] M[atthew] Barrie (1860-1937) ''Peter Pan'' (1904...)

• leanor H[odgman] Porter (1868-1920)

• Pollyanna (1913)

• rancis Hodgson Burnett

• The Secret Garden (1911)

• thel S[ybil] Turner (1872-1958) Seven Little Australians (1894)

• lan Garner (1934-)

• The ''Stone Book'' Quartet

• The Stone Book (1976)

• Granny Reardun (1977)

• The Aimer Gate (1978)

• Tom Fobble''s Day (1977)

• lizabeth Enright (1909-68)

• The Thimble Summer (1938)

• homas Hughes (1822-96)

• Tom Brown''s Schooldays

• by an Old Boy (1857)

• hilippa Pearce (1920-)

• Tom''s Midnight Garden (1958)

• Mark Twain'' (Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910))

• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876)

• obert Louis Stevenson (1850-94)

• Treasure Island (1883)

• atalie Babbitt (1932-)

• Tuck Everlasting (1975)

• harl