Children’s literature
Folk-tales and fairy stories
= Charles Perrault — Histoires, ou contes du tomps passé, avee des Moralite7, 1697
(Histories, or Tales of Past Times, 1729)
the brothers Grimm — Kinder- und Hausmdirchen, 1812 (German Popular Stories. 1823)
Hans Christian Andersen - Eventyr fortalte for Born, 1835 (Wonderful Stories for
Children, 1846)
Oscar Wilde - The Happy Prince and Other Tales (The Happy Prince, The Nightingale
‘and the Rose, The Selfish Giant, The Devoted Friend, The Remarkable
Rocket), 1888
~ A House of Pomegranates (The Young King, The Birthday of the Infanta,
‘The Fisherman and His Soul, The Star-Child), 1891
_ GRR. Tolkien - Tales from the Perilous Realm (a collection, 1997)
: ‘On Fairy Stories", 1938
LEB. Singer (Jewish Am.) —Zlateh the Goat and other stories, 1966
Jane Yolen (Am)- The Girl Who Cried Flowers and Other Tales, 1974
Joan Aiken - A Necklace of Raindrops, 1968
~ Terry Jones - Fairy Tales, 1981; Fantastic Tales, 1992
Fantastic stories
George MacDonald ~The Princess and the Goblin (1872)
Edith Nesbit - Five Children and It, 1902 (the Psammead series)
- The House of Arden, 1908
~ The Story of the Amulet, 1966
Catherine Storr - Clever Polly, 1955-90; Marianne Dreams, 1958
~ PLL. Travers - Marry Poppins, 1934-1988
- Terence Blacker - Ms
1988; Transfer, 1998
Roald Dabl - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, 1964
James and the Giant Peach, 1968
Fantastic Mr Fox, 1970
The Twits, 1980
Revolting Rhymes, 1982
The Witches, 1983
Matylda, 1988.
= Eoin Colfer - Artemis Fowl, (2001-05)
= Jacqueline Wilson - Connie and the Water Babies, 1994
The Monster Story-Teller, 1997
‘The Lottie Project, 1997; Double Act, 1995...
= Anne Fine - Bad Dreams, 200)+ Ted Hughes - The Iron Man, 1968; The Iron Woman, 1993
~ The journeys to the Other World:
Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1865
Through the Looking Glass, 1872
Charles Kingsley - The Water Babies, 1863
L.Frank Baum (Am.) - The Wizard of Oz, 1900
IM. Barrie - Peter Pan, 1904
Gerald Durrell - The Talking Parcel, 1974.
CS. Lewis - The Chronicles of Narnia, 1950-88
Philip Pullman - His Dark Moterials (Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spy
Glass), 1995-2000
Eva Ibbotson - The Secret of Platform 13,1994, Which Witch
Laura C. Stevenson (Am.) - Al! the King’s Horses, 2001
Jenny Nimmo - The Snow Spider, 1986
Midnight for Charlie Bone, 2001
Time Twister, 2003
J.K. Rowling - the Harry Porter series (HP and the Philosopher's Stone, HP and the
Chamber of Secrets, HP and the Prisoner of Azkaban, HP and the Goblet of
Fire, HP and the Order of Phoenix), 1997-2004
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ichael Gerber - Barry Trotter and the Shameless Parody, BT and the Unnecessary Sequel)
-Time travel
Alison Uttley ~ 4 Traveller in Time, 1939
Hilda Lewis ~ The Ship that Flew, 1939
Luey M. Boston = The Children of Green Knowe, 1954
Philippa Pearce - Tom's Midnight Garden, 1958
Ursula Le Guin - Beginning Place, 1980
Ruth Park (Austt:) - Playing Beatie Bow, 1980
Diana Wynne Jones — 4 Tale of Time City, 1987
Paul Stewart - The Weather Witch, 1989; The Bdge ChroniclesPenelope Lively - The Whispering Knights, 1971
The Driftway, 1972; The Ghost of Thomas Kempe, \973
The House in Norham Gardens, 1974
Michael Molloy ~ The Witch Trade, 2001; Time Witches, 200%; Wild West Witches, 2003
Scinee fiction
Arthur Clarke - the Space Odyssey series
DIN, Adams - The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, 1978
John Campbell (Am.)- Twilight", 1934
Isaac Asimov (Am) - 1, Robot, 1950
Ray Bradbury (Am.) - Dark They Were With Golden Eyes, 1959
Daniel Keyes (Am.)- Flowers for Algernon; 1959
= Ghost stories
Oscar Wilde - The Canterville Ghost, 1891
Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859-1927) - Ghost Stories
Eva Ibbotson - The Great Ghost Rescue, 1975; The Haunting of Hiram, 87; Dial a Ghost, 96
RL. Stine - the Mostly Ghostly series; the Goosebumps series, the Hear Street Sagas, 2000-04
Michael Morpurgo - My Friend Walter, 1988
From Hereabout Hill, 1982-85
Richard Peck (Am.) - The Ghost Belonged to Me, 2003
Christopher Pike (Am.)- Remember Me, 1989
Meg Cahot (Am.) ~ the Mediator series, 2001-03
“The fantasy lands
URR. Tolkien - The Hobbit, 1937
The Lord of the Rings, 1954-55
(Henry N'Beard Douglas - Bored of the Rings; Adam Roberts - The Soddit)
Diana Wynne Jones, - Dark Lord of Derkholn, 1998, Year of the Griffin, 2000Terry Pratchett - Trnckers, 1989; Diggers, 1990; Wings, 1990
the Discworld series, 1983-2004
Lloyd Alexander (Am,) - The Chronicies of Prydain, 1964-79
Ursula Le Guin (Am) ~ The Barthea Quarter, 1968-1990
Adventure
Captain Marryat - The Children of the New Forest, 1847
RM. Ballantyne = The Coral Island, 1857
(Cf. William Golding, Lord of the Flies, 1954
RIL, Stevenson - Treasure Island, 1883
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 1886
poems (A Child’s Garden of Verses)
Rudyard Kipling - The Jungle Book, 1894; The Second Jungle Book, 1895
(All. the Mowgli Stories)
E.T. Seton (Can., 1860-1946) ~ founded the “Woodcraft Indians”
~ the “boy Scouts”
Louisa May Aleott (Am.) - Little Women, 1868 (a domestic novel)
Frances Hodgson Burnett - Little Lord Fauntleroy, 1886
A Little Princess, 1905
The Secret Garden, 1911
Enid Blyton (1897-1968) - The Famous Five series, The Secret Seven series...
Arthur Ransome (1884-1967) - the Swallows and Amazons series ...
Robert Cormier (Am.)- The Chocolate War, 1975
Sue Townsend - The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, 1982
‘Lemony Snicket - A Series of Unfortunate Events (The Bad Beginning, The Austere
Academy...)
Stories about animals
Fables: Aesop (the 6" cent, BC), La Fontaine (the 17" cent.), LA. Krylov (1769-1844)
J.C. Harris (Am.} - the Uncle Remus stories (Negro fables), 1880
Rudyard Kipling - Just So Stories, 1902Anna Sewell - Black Beauty, 1871
Kenneth Grahame - The Wind in the Willows, 1908
Beatrix Potter (1866-1943) - Peter Rabbit, Benjamin Bunny
The Tale of Tom Kitten, 1907
A.AMlilne - Winnie-the-Pooh, 1926; The House at Pooh Corner, 1928
Michael Bond ~ 4 Bear Called Paddington, 1958
Richard Adams - Watership Down, 1972
Barry Hines - Kes (A Kesirel for a Knave); 1968
Dick King-Smith - Sophie's Tom, 1991
The Invisible Dog, 1995
Picture books
Mother Goose
Wanda Gag— Millions of Cats, 1928
Maurice Sendak (Am.) - Where the Wild Things Are, 1963
Anthony Browne - Gorilla, 1983
Dr. Seuss (Am.) - the Begginer Books, 1957
Janet and Allan Ahlberg - the Jolly Postman seties (The Jolly Christmas Postman, 91)
Antonia Barber ~ The Mousehole Cat, 1990
Nonsense
Edward Lear - Book of Nonsense, 1846 (limeticks)
Jon Seieszka - The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales, 1992