Worlds of wonder celebrating the great classics of children's literature
"A beautifully illustrated journey through the most beloved classics of children's literature, spanning more than twenty countries and one hundred and fifty years. From Little Women to Harry Potter, children's literature is a treasure trove of literary magic. Written in multiple genres and featuring...
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The first golden age, 1837-1929. Hans Christian Andersen: The little mermaid, 1837 ; Lewis Carroll: Alice's adventures in Wonderland, 1865 ; Louisa May Alcott: Little women, 1868 ; Ouida: A dog of Flanders, 1872 ; Mark Twain: The adventures of Tom Sawyer, 1876 ; Anna Sewell: Black beauty, 1877 ; Hector Malot: Nobody's boy, 1878 ; Johanna Spyri: Heidi, 1880 ; Carlo Collodi: The adventures of Pinocchio, 1883 ; Robert Louis Stevenson: Treasure island, 1883 ; Ethel Turner: Seven little Australians, 1894 ; Rudyard Kipling: Jungle book,1894 ; L. Frank Baum: The wonderful wizard of Oz, 1900 ; E. Nesbit: Five children and it, 1902 ; Beatrix Potter: The tale of Peter Rabbit, 1902 ; Selma Lagerlöf: The wonderful adventures of Nils, 1906 ; Lucy Maud Montgomery: Anne of Green Gables, 1908 ; Kenneth Grahame: The wind in the willows, 1908 ; Frances Hodgson Burnett: The secret garden, 1911 ; J. M. Barrie: Peter and Wendy, 1911 ; A. A. Milne: Winnie-the-Pooh, 1926 ; Erich Kästner: Emil and the detectives, 1929
- 2. New horizons, 1930-1959. Andr{acute}e Maurois: Fattypuffs and thinifers, 1930 ; Kenji Miyazawa: Night on the galactic railroad, 1934 ; P. L. Travers: Mary Poppins, 1934 ; No{uml}el Streatfeild: Ballet shoes, 1936 ; J. R. R. Tolkien: The hobbit, 1937 ; T. H.White: The sword in the stone, 1938 ; Herg{acute}e: The adventures of Ttintin : the secret of the unicorn, 1942 ; Enid Blyton: The magic faraway tree, 1943 ; Antoine de Saint-Exupery: The little prince, 1943 ; Astrid Lindgren: Pippi Longstocking, 1945 ; Tove Jansson: The Moomins and the great flood ; C. S. Lewis: The lion, the witch, and the wardrobe, 1950 ; E. B. White: Charlotte's web, 1952 ; Ruskin Bond: The room on the roof, 1956 ; Dodie Smith: The hundred and one Dalmatians, 1956 ; Michael Bond: A bear called Paddington, 1958 ; James Vance Marshall: Walkabout, 1959
- 3. Modern narratives, 1960-1984. Ren{acute}e Goscinny & Albert Uderzo: Asterix the Gaul, 1961; Norton Juster: The phantom tollbooth, 1961 ; Madeleine L'Engle: A wrinkle in time, 1962 ; Tonke Dragt: The letter for the king, 1962 ; Gianni Rodari: Telephone tales, 1962 ; Clive King: Stig of the dump, 1963 ; Joan Aiken: The wolves of Willoughby Chase, 1963 ; Roald Dahl: Charlie and the chocolate factory, 1964 ; Russell Hoban: The mouse and his child, 1967 ; Marian Orlon: Detective Nosegoode and the music box mystery, 1967 ; Ursula K. Le Guin: A wizard Earthsea, 1968 ; Annie M.G. Schmidt: The cat who came in off the roof, 1970 ; Judy Blume: Are you there God? It's me, Margaret, 1970 ; Richard Adams: Watership down, 1972 ; Susan Cooper: The dark is rising, 1973 ; Margaret Mahy: The great piratical rumbustification, 1978 ; Maurice Gee: Under the mountain, 1979 ; Michael Ende: The neverending story, 1979 ; Michael Morpurgo: War horse, 1982 ; Dick King-Smith: The sheep-pig, 1983
- 4. Contemporary classics, 1985-present. Eiko Kadono: Kiki's delivery service, 1985 ; Diana Wynne Jones: Howl's moving castle, 1986 ; Witi Ihimaera: The whale rider, 1987 ; Salman Rushdie: Haroun and the sea of stories, 1990 ; Philip Pullman: The golden compass, 1995 ; Luis Sep{acute}ulveda: The story of a seagull and the cat who taught her to fly, 1996 ; J. K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone, 1997 ; Hans Magnus Enzensberger: The number devil, 1997 ; Malorie Blackman: Pig-heart boy, 1997 ; Lemony Snicket: The bad beginning, 1999 ; Andri Sn{aelig}r Magnason: The story of the blue planet, 2000 ; Philip Reeve: Mortal engines, 2001 ; Cornelia Funke: Inkheart, 2003 ; Morris Gleitzman: Once, 2003 ; Cao Wenxuan: Bronze and Sunflower, 2005 ; Markus Zusak: The book thief, 2005 ; Shaun Tan: The arrival, 2006 ; Juan Villoro: The wild book, 2008 ; Sachiko Kashiwaba: Temple Alley summer, 2011 ; Patrick Ness: A monster calls, 2011 ; R. J. Palacio: Wonder, 2012.
