Chronology of English children's and youth literature

This chronology of English children's and youth literature is intended to provide an overview of important events in the history of children's and youth literature in England .

It primarily covers publications of important books for children and young people, ie books that have received a lot of attention either from the public, from book critics or from literary studies . The term “children's and young people's books” is understood to mean not only those works that were intended from the outset for young readers, but also “child” and “youth-friendly” adaptations of books that were originally written for other target groups.

Individual events from the overall environment of English children's and youth literature, such as B. the establishment of important children's book publishers or the foundation of literary prizes .

1700–1780: Classicism and Enlightenment

1715 - Isaac Watts : Divine Songs
1730 - Thomas Boreman : A Description of Three Hundred Animals
1730 - Thomas Boreman: The Gigantick History of the Two Famous Giants
1744 - John Newbery : A Little Pretty Pocket Book
1749 - Sarah Fielding : The Governess, or The Little Female Academy
1765 - Anonymous: The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes
1768 - Christopher Smart : The Parables of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ
1771 - Christopher Smart: Hymns for the Amusement of Children
1778-79 - Anna Laetitia Barbauld : Lessons for Children
1780 - Sarah Trimmer : An Easy Introduction to the Knowledge of Nature

1780–1837: Romanticism

1781 - Anna Laetitia Barbauld : Hymns in Prose for Children
1783 - Dorothy Kilner : The Life and Perambulation of a Mouse
1783 - Ellenor Fenn : Cobwebs to Catch Flies
1783-89 - Thomas Day : The History of Sandford and Merton
1784 - Dorothy Kilner: Anecdotes of a Boarding School
1784 - Ellenor Fenn: The Female Guardian
1786 - Sarah Trimmer: A Description of a Set of Prints of Scripture History
1786 - Sarah Trimmer: Fabulous Histories
1788 - Thomas Day: The History of Little Jack
1788 - Mary Wollstonecraft : Original Stories from Real Life
1794–98 - John Aikin , Anna Laetitia Barbauld: Evenings at Home
1796 - Maria Edgeworth : The Parent's Assistant
1798 - Edward Kendall : Keeper's Travels in Search of His Master
1799 - Dorothy Kilner: The Rational Brutes
1801 - Maria Edgeworth: Moral Tales for Young People
1814 - Mary Martha Sherwood : The History of Little Henry and his Bearer
1818, 1842, 1847 - Mary Martha Sherwood: The History of the Fairchild Family
1822–1837 - Mary Martha Sherwood: The History of Henry Milner
1836 - Frederick Marryat : Mr. Midshipman Easy

1837–1901: Victorian period

1841 - Frederick Marryat: Masterman Ready, or Wreck in the Pacific
1844 - Frederick Marryat: Settlers in Canada
1851 - John Ruskin : The King of the Golden River
1854 - Charlotte Mary Yonge : The Little Duke
1854 - William Makepeace Thackeray : The Rose and the Ring
1855 - Charlotte Mary Yonge: The Lances of Lynwood
1855 - Charles Kingsley : Westward Ho!
1856 - Charlotte Mary Yonge: The Daisy Chain
1857 - Thomas Hughes : Tom Brown's Schooldays
1858 - Frederic W. Farrar : Eric, or, little by little
1859 - William Henry Giles Kingston : The South Sea Whaler
1861 - Thomas Hughes: Tom Brown at Oxford
1862 - Charlotte Mary Yonge: Countess Kate
1862 - Frederic W. Farrar: St. Winifred's, or, The World of School
1862/1885 - Juliana Horatia Ewing: Melchior's Dream and Other Tales
1863 - Charles Kingsley: The Water Children ( The Water-Babies )
1865 - Lewis Carroll : Alice in Wonderland ( Alice's Adventures in Wonderland )
1865 - William HG Kingston: The Young Rajah
1866 - Charlotte Mary Yonge: The Prince and the Page
1869 - Juliana Horatia Ewing : Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances
1871 - George MacDonald : At the Back of the North Wind
1871 - Lewis Carroll: Alice Through the Looking Glass ( Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There )
1871 - Edward Lear : The Owl and the Pussycat
1872 - Juliana Horatia Ewing: A Flat Iron for a Farthing
1872 - George MacDonald: The Princess and the Goblin
1873 - William HG Kingston: The Three Midshipmen
1874 - Juliana Horatia Ewing: Praise lie-by-the-fire
1875 - Tom Hood : From Nowhere to the North Pole
1875 - Juliana Horatia Ewing: Six to Sixteen
1876 - Juliana Horatia Ewing: Jan of the Windmill
1876 - Lewis Carroll: The Hunting of the Snark
1877 - Juliana Horatia Ewing: A Great Emergency
1877 - Ennis Graham , Walter Crane : The Cuckoo Clock
1879 - Juliana Horatia Ewing: Jackanapes
1881 - Juliana Horatia Ewing: Daddy Darwin's Dovecoat
1881 - Talbot Baines Reed : The Fifth Form at St. Dominic’s
1883 - George MacDonald: The Princess and Curdie
1884 - George Alfred Henty : By Sheer Pluck, A Tale of the Ashanti War
1884 - Juliana Horatia Ewing: Mary's Meadow
1884 - GA Henty: With Clive in India
1885 - Juliana Horatia Ewing: The Story of a Short Life
1886 - LT Meade : A World of Girls
1888 - Oscar Wilde : The Happy Prince and Other Stories
1889 - Frances E. Crompton : Friday's Child
1889ff - Andrew Lang : Andrew Lang's Fairy Books
1894 - Rudyard Kipling : The Jungle Book ( The Jungle Book )
1894 - GA Henty: Through the Sikh War, A Tale of the Conquest of the Punjab
1895 - Rudyard Kipling: The Second Jungle Book
1897 - Rudyard Kipling: Captains Courageous
1898 - Edith Nesbit : The Story of the Treasure Seekers
1899 - Rudyard Kipling: Stalky & Co.
1899 - Edith Nesbit: The Wouldbegoods

1901–1914: Edwardian period

1902 - Edith Nesbit: Der Sandelf ( Five Children and It )
1902 - Rudyard Kipling: Stories for the dearest darling ( Just So Stories for Little Children )
1902 - Beatrix Potter : The Tale of Peter Rabbit
1903 - Beatrix Potter: The Tailor of Gloucester
1903 - Beatrix Potter: The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin
1904 - JM Barrie : Peter Pan , or The Boy Whou Wouldn't Grow Up
1904 - Edith Nesbit: The Phoenix and the Carpet
1905 - Edith Nesbit: The Railway Children
1905 - Beatrix Potter: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle
1905 - Beatrix Potter: The Tale of the Pie and the Patty-Pan
1906 - Edith Nesbit: The Story of the Amulet
1906 - JM Barrie: Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
1906 - Edith Nesbit: The Railway Children
1906 - Edith Nesbit: The Story of the Amulet
1907 - Edith Nesbit: The Enchanted Castle
1907 - Beatrix Potter: The Tale of Tom Kitten
1908 - Kenneth Grahame : The Wind in the Willows ( The Wind in the Willows )
1911 - JM Barrie: Peter and Wendy
1912 - Edith Nesbit: The Magic World

1914–1945: Modern

1920 - Angela Brazil : A Popular Schoolgirl
1920 Elsie J. Oxenham : The Abbey Girls
1921 - Dorita Fairlie Bruce : Dimsie Moves Up
1922 - Richmal Crompton : Just William
1925 - Dorita Fairlie Bruce: Dimsie Goes To School (originally The Senior Prefect (1921))
1925 - Elinor Brent-Dyer : The School at the Chalet
1926 - Alan Alexander Milne : Winnie the Pooh ( Winnie-the-Pooh )
1928 - Evadne Price : Just Jane
1928 - Alan Alexander Milne: The House at Pooh Corner
1930 - Arthur Ransome : Swallows and Amazons
1932 - WE Johns : The Camels are Coming
1935 - WE Johns: Biggles Flies East
1936 - Awarded the Carnegie Medal for the first time

1936 - Arthur Ransome: Pigeon Post

1937 - Eve Garnett : The Ruggles Family ( The Family from One End Street )

1937 - JRR Tolkien : Der Hobbit ( The Hobbit or There and Back Again )

1938 - Enid Blyton : The Daring Four Run Away ( The Secret Island )

1938 - Noel Streatfeild : The Circus is Coming

1939 - Eleanor Doorly : Madame Curie Who Found the Radium ( Radium Woman )

1940 - Kitty Barne : Visitors from London

1940 - Enid Blyton: Lissy wants her head through the wall ( The Naughtiest Girl in the School )

1944 - Enid Blyton: Hanni and Nanni are always against ( The Twins at St. Clare’s )

1941 - Mary Treadgold : We Couldn't Leave Dinah

1942 - Denys Watkins-Pitchford : The Imp Travel ( The Little Gray Men )

1942 - Enid Blyton: Five friends explore Treasure Island ( Five on a Treasure Island )

1942ff - Reverend W. Awdry : Thomas, the little locomotive ( The Railway Series )

1943 - Enid Blyton: secret to a nighttime fire ( The Mystery of the Burnt Cottage )

1944 - Eric Linklater : Wind in the Moon ( The Wind on the Moon )

1944 - Denys Watkins-Pitchford: Brendon Chase

1944 - Enid Blyton: Nim's Island ( The Iceland of Adventure )

1945-2000

1946 - Enid Blyton: Dolly is looking for a girlfriend ( First Term at Malory Towers )

1946 - Elizabeth Goudge : The Little White Horse ( The Little White Horse )

1947 - Walter de la Mare : Strange Stories ( Collected Stories for Children )

1947 - Frank Richards : Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School

1948 - Richard Armstrong : Sea Change

1949 - Agnes Allen : The Story of Your Home

1949 - Enid Blyton: Die Schwarze Sieben ( The Secret Seven )

1949 Enid Blyton: The Riddle of the Abandoned House ( The Rockingdown Mystery )

1950 - Elfrida Vipont : Kit on target ( The Lark on the Wing )

1951 - Cynthia Harnett : Nicolas and the Wool Smugglers ( The Woolpack )

1951 - CS Lewis: Prince Caspian of Narnia ( Prince Caspian )

1952 - Mary Norton : The Borg males ( The Borrowers )

1952 - CS Lewis: The Voyage of the Dawn ( The Voyage of the Dawn Treader )

1953 - Edward Osmond : A Valley Grows Up

1953 - CS Lewis: The Silver Chair ( The Silver Chair )

1954 - Ronald Welch : In the kingdom of the Crusaders ( Knight Crusader )

1954 - CS Lewis: The Ride to Narnia ( The Horse and His Boy )

1954 - JRR Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings ( The Lord of the Rings )

1955 - Eleanor Farjeon : Enchanted World ( The Little Bookroom )

1955 - CS Lewis: The Miracle of Narnia ( The Magician's Nephew )

1956 - First awarded the Kate Greenaway Medal for Illustration

1956 - Edward Ardizzone : Tim All Alone

1956 - CS Lewis: The Last Battle ( The Last Battle )

1957 - VH Drummond : Mrs Easter and the Storks

1957 - William Mayne : Das Wirtshaus zum Einhorn ( A Grass Rope )

1958 - Philippa Pearce : When the clock struck thirteen ( Tom's Midnight Garden )

1959 - William Stobbs : Kashtanka and A Bundle of Ballads

1959 - Rosemary Sutcliff : Dragon ships loom on the horizon ( The Lantern Bearers )

1960 - IW Cornwall : The Making of Man

1960 - Gerald Rose : Old Winkle and the Seagulls

1961 - Lucy M. Boston : A Stranger at Green Knowe

1961 - Roald Dahl : James and the Giant Peach ( James and the Giant Peach )

1961 - Philippa Pearce, Antony Maitland : Mrs. Cockle's Cat

1962 - Pauline Clarke : The Twelve from the attic ( The Twelve and the Genii )

1962 - Brian Wildsmith : ABC

1963 - Joan Aiken : wolves around the castle ( The Wolves of Willoughby Chase )

1963 - John Burningham : Borka: The Adventures of a Goose With No Feathers

1963 - Hester Burton : Time of Trial

1964 - Roald Dahl: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ( Charlie and the Chocolate Factory )

1964 - C. Walter Hodges : Shakespeare's Theater

1964 - Sheena Porter : The Girl with the German Shepherd ( Nordy Bank )

1965 - Victor Ambrus : The Three Poor Tailors

1965 - Philip Turner : The Grange at High Force

1966 - Raymond Briggs : Mother Goose Treasury

1966 - Leon Garfield : Devil-in-the-Fog

1967 - First presentation of the Guardian Award

1967 - Alan Garner : Owl Magic ( The Owl Service )

1967 - Charles Keeping : Charley, Charlotte and the Golden Canary

1967 - KM Peyton : Flambards

1968 - Joan Aiken: The Whispering Mountain

1968 - Rosemary Harris : Clouds Before the Moon ( The Moon in the Cloud )

1968 - Grant Uden , Pauline Baynes : Dictionary of Chivalry

1969 - Helen Oxenbury : The Quangle Wangle's hat and The Dragon of an Ordinary Family

1969 - Kathleen M. Peyton: Christina and the Bruchpilot ( The Edge of the Cloud )

1969 - Joan Aiken: Sweet dreams, little Meggie ( Night Fall )

1970 - John Burningham: Mr. Gumpy's Outing

1970 - John Christopher : The Guardian ( The Guardian )

1970 - Leon Garfield, Edward Blishen : The God Beneath the Sea

1971 - Joan Aiken, Jan Pienkowski : The Kingdom under the Sea

1971 - Gillian Avery : A Likely Lad

1972 - Richard Adams : Watership Down ( Watership Down )

1972 - Krystyna Turska : The Woodcutter's Duck

1973 - Raymond Briggs: Father Christmas

1973 Penelope Lively : Damn it, who's haunted? ( The Ghost of Thomas Kempe )

1973 - Barbara Willard : The Iron Lily

1974 - Winifred Cawley : Gran at Coalgate

1974 - Roald Dahl : The Upsidedown Mice

1974 - Pat Hutchins : The Wind Blew

1975 - Victor Ambrus : Horses in Battle and Mishka

1975 - Roald Dahl: Danny or Die Fasanenjagd ( Danny the Champion of the World )

1975 - Robert Westall : The enemy ( The Machine Gunners )

1976 - Peter Dickinson : The Blue Hawk

1976 - Gail E. Haley : The Post Office Cat

1976 - Jan Mark : Thunder and Lightnings

1977 - Nina Bawden : The Peppermint Pig ( The Peppermint Pig )

1977 - Shirley Hughes : Dogger

1977 - Gene Kemp : Man, Theo! ( The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler )

1977 Diana Wynne Jones : Nine Lives for the Wizard ( Charmed Life )

1978 - Allan Ahlberg , Janet Ahlberg : Each Peach Pear Plum

1978 - Andrew Davies : Conrad's War

1978 - David Rees : The Exeter Blitz

1979 - First presentation of the Mother Goose Award for picture books

1979 - Peter Dickinson: The Demons of Dong Pe ( Tulku )

1979 - Jan Pienkowski: The Haunted House

1979 - Ann Schlee : The Vandal

1980 - Quentin Blake : Mr. Magnolia

1980 - Peter Carter : The Sentinels

1980 - Roald Dahl: The Zwicks are upside down ( The Twits )

1980 - Peter Dickinson: City of Gold , Gollancz

1981 - First award of the Red House Children's Book Award for children's literature

1981 - Charles Keeping : The Highwayman

1981 - Michelle Magorian : Goodnight Mr. Tom

1981 - Robert Westall : The Scarecrow ( The Scarecrow )

1982 - Roald Dahl: Sophiechen and the Giant ( The BFG )

1982 - Michael Foreman : Long Neck and Thunder Foot and Sleeping Beauty and Other Favorite Fairy Tales

1983 - Anthony Browne : Gorilla

1983 - Roald Dahl: Hexen witches ( The Witches )

1983 - Dick King-Smith : pig had ( The Sheep-Pig )

1983 - Jan Mark : Handles

1984 - Ted Hughes : What is the Truth

1984 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , Errol Le Cain : Hiawatha's Childhood

1985 - First award of the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize for children's literature

1985 - Kevin Crossley-Holland : Storm

1985 - Selina Hastings , Juan Wijngaard : Sir Gawain and the Loathly Lady

1985 - Ann Pilling : Henry's Leg

1986 - Berlie Doherty : Dove in Summer Light ( Granny was a Buffer Girl )

1986 - Fiona French : Snow White in New York

1986 - Martin Handford : Where's Walter? ( Where's Wally? )

1987 - First-time award of the Lancashire Children's Book of the Year

1987 - Mwenye Hadithi , Adrienne Kennaway : Crafty Chameleon

1987ff - Brian Jacques : Redwall series

1987 - Susan Price : The Ghost Drum

1987 - Ruth Thomas : The Runaways

1988 - Roald Dahl: Matilda ( Matilda )

1988 - Geraldine McCaughrean : Lauter lies ( A Pack of Lies )

1988 - Martin Waddell , Barbara Firth : Can't You Sleep Little Bear?

1989 - Anne Fine : The New One ( Goggle-eyes )

1989 - Michael Foreman : War Boy: a Country Childhood

1990 - First British Children's Author of the Year award

1990 - Gillian Cross : Daughter of the Wolf ( Wolf )

1990 - Dyan Sheldon , Gary Blythe : The Whales' Song

1990 - Robert Westall : The Kingdom by the Sea

1991 - First award of the British Illustrated Children's Book of the Year

1991 - Janet Ahlberg : The Jolly Christmas Postman

1991 - Rachel Anderson : Paper Faces

1991 - Berlie Doherty: Dear Nobody ( Dear Nobody )

1991 Hilary McKay : Four Mad Sisters ( The Exiles )

1992 - Anthony Browne : Zoo

1992 - Anne Fine: The Baby Project ( Flour Babies )

1992 - William Mayne : Low Tide

1993 - Rosemary Sutcliff, Alan Lee : Black Ships Before Troy

1993 - Robert Swindells : Eiskalt ( Stone Cold )

1993 - Sylvia Waugh : The Mennyms

1994 - Libby Hathorn , Gregory Rogers : Way Home

1994 - Lesley Howarth : MapHead

1995 - Alison Prince : The Sherwood Hero

1995 - Philip Pullman : The Golden Compass ( His Dark Materials : Book 1 Northern Lights )

1995 - Susan Wojciechowski , PJ Lynch : The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey

1996 - First-time award of the British Children's Book of the Year

1996 - First award of the Marsh Award for Children's Literature in Translation (translation award )

1996 Melvin Burgess : Junk ( Junk )

1996 - Helen Cooper : The Baby Who Wouldn't Go To Bed

1997 - First-time Stockton Children's Book of the Year award for paperback editions of children's literature

1997 - Tim Bowler : River Boy ( River Boy )

1997 - Amy Hest , PJ Lynch: When Jessie Came Across the Sea

1997 - Joanne K. Rowling : Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone ( Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone )

1998 - David Almond : Time of the Moon ( Skellig )

1998 - Henrietta Branford : Fire, Bed and Bone

1998 - Helen Cooper : Pumpkin Soup

1998 - Susan Price : The Sterkarm Handshake

1998 - Joanne K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ( Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets )

1999 - First presentation of the Booktrust Early Years Award for picture books

1999 - First award of the Children's Laureate

1999 - Lewis Carroll, Helen Oxenbury: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

1999 - Aidan Chambers : Message from No Man's Land ( Postcards From No Man's Land )

1999 - Joanne K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban ( Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban )

1999 - Jacqueline Wilson : The Illustrated Mum

2000 - First award of the Blue Peter Book Award for children's literature

2000 - First presentation of the Branford Boase Award for fictional youth literature

2000 - The Henrietta Branford Writing Competition was held for the first time

2000 - Lauren Child : I Will Not Ever Never Eat a Tomato - Charlie and Lola

2000 - Kevin Crossley-Holland : Artus - Der magische Spiegel ( The Seeing Stone )

2000ff - Alex Rider : Alex Rider series

2000 - Beverley Naidoo : The other truth ( The Other Side of Truth )

2000 - Joanne K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire ( Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire )

present

2001 - Richard Platt , Chris Riddell : Pirate Diary
2001 - Terry Pratchett : Maurice, der Kater ( The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents )
2001 - Foundation of the international literature festival berlin with an extensive program for children and young people, to this day one of the most important forums in Germany for English-language authors of books for children and young people
2002 - Bob Graham : Jethro Byrde, Fairy Child
2003 - First award of the Booktrust Teenage Prize for literature for young adults
2003 - First Hampshire Book Award for paperback editions of children's literature
2003 - Mark Haddon : The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time ( The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time )
2003 - Shirley Hughes : Ella's Big Chance
2003 - Joanne K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix ( Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix )
2003 - Jonathan Stroud : Bartimaeus series
2004 - First Hampshire Illustrated Book Award
2004 - Frank Cottrell Boyce : Millions ( Millions )
2004 - Martin Jenkins , Chris Riddell: Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver"
2004 - Robert Muchamore : Top Secret Series
2004 - Meg Rosoff : How I Live Now
2005 - First presentation of the Bolton Children's Book Award for paperback editions of children's literature
2005 - Emily Gravett : Wolves
2005 - Mal Peet : Tamar
2005 - Joanne K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince ( Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince )
2005 - Kate Thompson : Between the Times ( The New Policeman )
2006 - First Manchester Book Award for children's literature
2005 - First award of the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize for children's literature
2006 - Philip Reeve : A Darkling Plain
2006 - Meg Rosoff: Gwyna - in the service of the magician ( Just in Case )
2007 - Mini Gray : The Adventures of the Dish and the Spoon
2007 - Philip Reeve: Here Reads Arthur
2007 - Joanne K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows ( Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows )
2007 - Meg Rosoff: What If ( Just in Case )
2007 - Jenny Valentine : Finding Violet Park
2008 - Emily Gravett: Little Mouse's Big Book of Fears
2008 - Patrick Ness : The Knife of Never Letting Go
2008 - Joanne K. Rowling: The Tales of Beedle the Bard ( The Tales of Beedle the Bard )
2014 - David Almond: A Song for Ella Gray
2018 - Connie Glynn : Princess Undercover - Secrets ( Undercover Princess )