ENGLISH LITERATURE

FOR CHILDREN

Ring-a-ring o' roses,A pocket full of posies,A-tishoo! A-tishoo!We all fall down.

first published in England by John Newbury in 1791

New England Primer (1687-1690)

"The Childe's New Plaything" (1742)

A Apple-Pye.B bit it.C cut it.D divided it.E eat it.F fought for it.G got it.H had it.I it'd it.J join’d for’t.K kept it.L long’d for’t.M mourn’d for’t.N nodded at it.

O open’d it.P peep’d in’t.Q quarter’d it.R run for’t.S snatch’d it.T turn’d it.U use'd it.V view’d it.W what'd it.X excite'd it.Y you'd it.Z zone it.& I wish I had a Piece of it now in my Hand.

- philosophical and satirical allegories for adults- John Bunyan "The Pilgrim's Progress" (1678), - Daniel Defoe "The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe" (1719)- Jonathan Swift "Gulliver's Travels" (1726).

- collections for children

- John Newberry "A Little Pretty Pocket Book" (1744)

- adaptations of classical books for adults:- Charles and Mary Lamb "Tales from

Shakespeare" (1807)

- translations of folk tales and ballads:- Charles Perrot, - the Grimm brothers (1823),

- Hans Christian Andersen

Mary Sherwood "History of the Fairchild Family" (1818-1847)

  lymerics

There was an Old Man of Aôsta,  Who possessed a large Cow, but he lost her;  But they said, 'Don't you see,  she has rushed up a tree?  You invidious Old Man of Aôsta!'

Edward Lear "Book of Nonsense" (1846)

- author's, or literary fairy-tale:- William Thackeray "The Rose and the Ring" (1855)

- Charles Kinsley "Water-Babies" (1863)- Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson) "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" (1865)

JabberwockyTwas bryllyg, and ye slythy tovesDid gyre and gymble in ye wabe:All mimsy were ye borogoves;And ye mome raths outgrabe.

- adapted folktales and ballads:- Andrew Lang 12 "colour" books starting with "The Blue Fairy Book" (1889)- Joseph Jacobs (1854-1916) "English Fairy Tales" (1890), "Celtic Fairy Tales" (1892)- Howard Pyle narratives about Robin Hood (1883), King Arthur (1903)

"Boys [should be] inured from childhood to trifling risks and slight dangers of every possible description, such as tumbling into ponds and off of trees, etc., in order to strengthen their nervous system.... They ought to practise leaping off heights into deep water. They ought never to hesitate to cross a stream over a narrow unsafe plank for fear of a ducking. They ought never to decline to climb up a tree, to pull fruit merely because there is a possibility of their falling off and breaking their necks. I firmly believe that boys were intended to encounter all kinds of risks, in order to prepare them to meet and grapple with risks and dangers incident to man's career with cool, cautious self-possession... -R.M. Ballantyne, The Gorilla Hunters

- children's adventure and mystery story for boys

-Robert Lewis Stevenson "Treasure Island" (1883)

- Arthur Conan Doyle: Sherlock Holmes mysteries

- children's sentimental novels for girls:- Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823-1901) a girl's magazine "The Monthly Packet"- Susan Coolidge "What Katy Did" (1872) - Eleanor H. Porter "Pollyanna" (1913)- Edith Nesbit "The Railway Children" (1906)

- books for adults:- Mark Twain "Adventures of Tom Sawyer"- Harriet Beecher Stowe "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (1852)- Fenimore Cooper "The Last of the Mohicans" (1826)- Louisa M. Alcott "Little Women" (1868)- Frances Hodgson Burnett "Little Lord Fauntleroy" (1885)

- fantasy founders:- George Macdonald "At the Back of the North Wind" (1871), "The Princess and the Goblin" (1872)- Oscar Wilde "The Happy Prince and Other Stories" (1888)- Lord Dunsany "The King of Elfland's Daughter" (1924)

Edith Nesbit"Five Children and It" (1902);"The Railway Children" (1906), "The Story of the Amulet" 1906)

Frank L. Baum "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" (started 1900) Dorothy, Goodwin

- plays for children- John Barrie (1850-1937)

"Peter Pan"

-Pamela L. Travers "Mary Poppins" (1934)

- Eleanor Farjeon

- Beatrix Potter (1866-1943) "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" (1900), "The Tale of Squirrel

Nutkin" (1903), "The Tale of Jeremy Fisher" (1906)

The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home. First with brooms, then with dusters; then on ladders and steps and chairs, with a brush and a pail of whitewash; till he had dust in his throat and eyes, and splashes of whitewash all over his black fur, and an aching back and weary arms. … It was small wonder, then, that he suddenly flung down his brush on the floor, said 'Bother!' and 'O blow!' and also 'Hang spring-cleaning!' and bolted out of the house without even waiting to put on his coat. …

Kenneth Graham"The Wind in the Willows" (1908) Mole, Rat, Toad

'Hold up!' said an elderly rabbit at the gap. 'Sixpence for the privilege of passing by the private road!' He was bowled over in an instant by the impatient and contemptuous Mole, who trotted along the side of the hedge chaffing the other rabbits as they peeped hurriedly from their holes to see what the row was about. 'Onion-sauce! Onion-sauce!' he remarked jeeringly, and was gone before they could think of a thoroughly satisfactory reply. Then they all started grumbling at each other. 'How STUPID you are! Why didn't you tell him——' 'Well, why didn't YOU say——' 'You might have reminded him——' and so on, in the usual way; but, of course, it was then much too late, as is always the case.

- Rudyard Kipling "Jungle Books" (1894, 1895) Mowgli;

"Just So Stories" (1902)

- Ted Hughes "How the Whale Became and Other Stories"

(1963)

-Alan Alexander Milne "Winnie-the-Pooh" (1926), "The House at Pooh Corner" (1928) Ashdown Forest - Michael Bond “Paddington Bear”- Donald Bisset

- Hugh Lofting "The Story of Dr. Dolittle" (1922)- Dr. Seuss Cat in the Hat series- Elvyn Brooks White "Charlotte's Web"

How They Broke Away to Go to the Rootabaga CountryGimme the Ax lived in a house where everything is the same as it always was.“The chimney sits on top of the house and lets the smoke out,” said Gimme the

Ax. “The doorknobs open the doors. The windows are always either open or shut. We are always either upstairs or downstairs in this house. Everything is the same as it always was.”

So he decided to let his children name themselves.“The first words they speak as soon as they learn to make words shall be their

names,” he said. “They shall name themselves.” When the first boy came to the house of Gimme the Ax, he was named Please Gimme. When the first girl came she was named Ax Me No Questions.

And both of the children had the shadows of valleys by night in their eyes and the lights of early morning, when the sun is coming up, on their foreheads. …

- Carl Sandburg "Rootabaga Stories"

Please Gimme grew up and his ears got longer. Ax Me No Questions grew up and her ears got longer. And they kept on living in the house where everything is the same as it always was. They learned to say just as their father said, “The chimney sits on top of the house and lets the smoke out, the doorknobs open the doors, the windows are always either open or shut, we are always either upstairs or downstairs—everything is the same as it always was.”

After a while they began asking each other in the cool of the evening after they had eggs for breakfast in the morning, “Who’s who? How much? And what’s the answer?”

“It is too much to be too long anywhere,” said the tough old man, Gimme the Ax. …

So they sold everything they had, pigs, pastures, 6 pepper pickers, pitchforks, everything except their ragbags and a few extras.

When their neighbors saw them selling everything they had, the different neighbors said, “They are going to Kansas, to Kokomo, to Canada, to Kankakee, to Kalamazoo, to Kamchatka, to the Chattahoochee.” …

The ticket agent was sitting at the window selling railroad tickets the same as always. …

“Do you wish a ticket to go away and come back or do you wish a ticket to go away and never come back?” the ticket agent asked wiping sleep out of his eyes.

“We wish a ticket to ride where the railroad tracks run off into the sky and never come back—send us far as the railroad rails go and then forty ways farther yet,” was the reply of Gimme the Ax.

- escapist fiction:- Enyd Blyton (1897-1968) "Famous Five"

- John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973) "The Hobbit, or There And Back Again" (1937) quest, Bilbo Baggins, hobbit; "The Lord of the Rings" (1954-1955) "The Silmarillion"

A Elbereth GilthonielO Elbereth Starkindler,silivren penna mírielwhite-glittering, slanting down sparkling like a jewel,o menel aglar elenath!the glory of the starry host!Na-chaered palan-dírielHaving gazed far awayo galadhremmin ennorath,from the tree-woven lands of Middle-earth,Fanuilos, le linnathonto thee, Everwhite, I will sing,nef aear, sí nef aearon!on this side of the Sea, here on this side of the Ocean!

-Clive Staples Lewis 7-volume Narnia chronicles (1950-1956), including "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" (1950)

- Alan Garner (b. 1934) Alderly Edge trilogy, "The Weirdstone of Brisingamen" (1960), "The Moon of Gomrath" (1963), "Elidor" (1965), "The Owl Service" (1967)

-Ursula Le Guin -"A Wizard of Earthsea" (1968), "The Tombs of Atuan" (1971), "The Farthest Shore" (1972)

- children's historical novel - Terence H. White (1906-1964) "The King of the Past and the Future" (1958)- Mary Steward "The Hollow Hills"- Rosemary Sutcliff (1920-1992) "The Eagle of the Ninth" (1954), "The Light Beyond the Forest" (1979)

-Roald Dahl (1916-1990) -"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" "James and the Giant Peach"-Jeremy Strong -"The Invasion of Christmas Puddings," "My Brother's Famous Bottom"

- Joan K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (1998) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (1999) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2000) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2003) Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2005) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2007)

- Philip Pullman (b. 1946) trilogy "His Dark Materials" (1995-1999), including "The Golden Compass," "The Subtle Knife," "The Amber Spyglass" Lyra Belaqua, Pantalaimon

- Neil Gaiman (b. 1960) "Neverwhere," "Stardust."

- books based on TV series:- Rev. W. Audry "Thomas and Friends"- "Shaun the Sheep"- "Bob the Builder"- "Pat the Postman"

- collectible serial books:- Roger Hansgrove Little Men and Little Miss

- J. Tenniel, Carroll's illustrator; - E.H. Shephard, Milne's illustrator; - Quentin Blake, Roald Dahl's illustrator; - Tony Ross "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," "Dr. Xargle's Book of Earth Tiggers"; - Mike Inkpen Wibbly Pig series

- Robert Louis Stevenson "A Child's Garden of Verses" (1885)- Walter De La Mare "Peacock Pie" (1913), "Come Here" (1923), "Poems for Children"- Alan Alexander Milne "When We Were Very Young" (1924), "Now We Are Six" (1927)- Spike Milligan "Silly Verse for Kids" - "Another Day on Your Foot and I Would Have Died" collection: John Agard, Wendy Cope, Roger McGough, Adrian Mitchell, and Brian Patten

The Missing SockI found my sockbeneath the bed.'Where have you beenall week?' I said.

'Hiding away,'the sock replied.Another day on your footand I would have died!'

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