List of children's classic books
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This is a list of children's classic books published at least 20 years ago and still available in the English language.[1][2][3]
Books specifically for children existed by the 17th century. Before that, books were written mainly for adults – although some later became popular with children. Most printed works were hard to come by due to their cost and were mostly available for purchase only by upper class society. Scholarship on children's literature includes professional organizations, dedicated publications, and university courses.
Contents
Before 18th century
Title | Author | Year published | References and Brief Introduction |
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Panchatantra | Vishnu Sharma | c. 800 BC | Ancient Indian inter-related collection of animal fables in verse and prose, in a frame story format. Similar stories are found in later works including Aesop's Fables and the Sindbad tales in Arabian Nights.[4] |
Aesop's Fables | Aesop | c. 600 BC | [5][6] |
Kathasaritsagara | Somadeva | 11th Century AD | Collection of Indian legends, fairy tales and folk tales as retold by a Saivite Brahmin named Somadeva. Generally believed to derive from Gunadhya's Brhat-katha, written in Paisachi dialect from the south of India.[citation needed] |
Arabian Nights | unknown | before 8th century AD | [7][8] |
Orbis Pictus | John Amos Comenius | 1658 | Earliest picture book specifically for children.[9][10] |
A Token for Children. Being An Exact Account of the Conversion, Holy and Exemplary Lives, and Joyful Deaths of several Young Children | James Janeway | 1672 | One of the first books specifically written for children which shaped much eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century writing for children.[citation needed][11] |
18th century
Title | Author | Year published | References |
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Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe | 1719 | [1][3][12] |
Gulliver's Travels | Jonathan Swift | 1726 | [1][13] |
Tales of Mother Goose | Charles Perrault | 1729 (English) | [3][2][14] |
Little Pretty Pocket-book | John Newbery | 1744 | [15] |
Little Goody Two Shoes | Oliver Goldsmith | 1765 | [16] |
Lessons for Children | Anna Laetitia Barbauld | 1778-9 | The first series of age-adapted reading primers for children printed with large text and wide margins; in print for over a century.[17] |
The History of Sandford and Merton | Thomas Day | 1783-9 | A bestseller for over a century, it embodied Rousseau's educational ideals.[18] |
19th century
20th century
See also
- Children's literature
- Fairy tale
- List of American children's books
- List of children's literature authors
- List of children's stories
- List of fairy tales
References
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 1.19 1.20 1.21 1.22 1.23 1.24 1.25 1.26 1.27 1.28 1.29 1.30 1.31 1.32 1.33 1.34 1.35 1.36 1.37 1.38 1.39 1.40 1.41 1.42 1.43 1.44 1.45 1.46 1.47 1.48 1.49 1.50 1.51 1.52 1.53 1.54 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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- ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14 3.15 3.16 3.17 3.18 3.19 3.20 3.21 3.22 3.23 3.24 3.25 3.26 3.27 3.28 3.29 3.30 3.31 3.32 3.33 3.34 3.35 3.36 3.37 3.38 Hunt 2001, p. xvi–xxii
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- ↑ Pickering, Samuel F., Jr. John Locke and Children's Books in Eighteenth-Century England. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1981. ISBN 0-87049-290-X.
- ↑ Darton, F. J. Harvey. Children's Books in England: Five Centuries of Social Life. 3rd ed. Rev. Brian Alderson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1982), 146.
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- ↑ Journal of American Folklore, Vol.34, p. 143; by J. Alden Mason & Aurelio M. Espinosa, ed.; 1921 Retrieved 2013-05-31.
- ↑ Hunt 2001, p. 361
- ↑ Hunt 2001, pp. 569–570
- ↑ Hunt 2001, pp. 406–407
- ↑ Hunt 2001, p. 97
- ↑ Silvey 1995, p. 350
- ↑ Introducing Children's Literature: From Romanticism to Postmodernism by Deborah Cogan Thacker, Routledge, 2002, page 123
- ↑ 100 Best Books for Children by Anita Silvey, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, page 131
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Further reading
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