CHILDREN’S LITERATURE TIMELINE Arianna M. Pomales.

CHILDREN’S LITERATURE

TIMELINE Arianna M. Pomales

INTRODUCTION

Children's literature can be define as a form of literature targeted for child audience. Children's literature has changed a lot throughout history and it will keep on changing as the interests of the generations to come change.

EARLY

45,000-35,000 B.C.E. – Carvings on mammoth teeth, ivory, bone, antlers and cave drawings.

3000-770 B.C.E. -Papyrus: laid strips of papyrus crisscross on a flat stone, treated it with a gum solution, pressed and pounded, polished, and added to a continuous scroll. Wrote with reed brushes. Hebrew and Arabic created first alphabet, Phoenicians didn't have vowels, borrowed from the Egyptians, Greeks took some sounds from the Phoenicians and developed the first language to represent all sounds with 24 letters. Wrote excellent myths, plays, stories, politics, science, philosophy, and literature. Hercules, Theseues, Olympians, etc.

105-868 C.E. -Romans: copied books, wrote on wood tablets that were covered with wax. Latin word liber is root word for library. Chinese invented wood block printing on textiles.

990- 1051 - Chinese invented ceramic movable type.

1300-1500 - Chinese movable type first wood then metal. Was tedious because it required thousands of characters to complete a book. Movable type and the press (probably adapted from a wine press) were used by Gutenberg to complete the first printed book with this method: Bible. First used wood blocks, later metal plates, used for religious stories, and playing cards.

1200-1800 1422-1491 - William Caxton was the first printer in England. Some titles printed were:Caxton's Book of Curtesye, Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye, The Boke of Histories of Hason, The Historye of Reynart the Foxe, and The Fables of Aesop'sHistory of printing in England and William Caxton is described in the children's historical fiction book Bendy's Quest.

1484 - Aesop's Fables - translated and printed in England by William Caxton

1500's- Chapbooks - Jack the Giant Killer

1657 - Moravian bishop and educator, John Amos Comenius (1592-1671) put into practice his belief in better education for children by preparing the world's first children's picture book, published at Nuremberg in 1657 as Orbis Sensualium Pictus, (The World Illustrated). A German/Latin textbook with pictures and descriptions of all chief things in the World. It was to entice witty children to it ... to stir up their attention... by sport, and a merry pastime. Translated to English in 1659 as A World of Things Obvious to the Senses.

1697 -In France Contes de Ma Mere l'oye or Histories of Long Ago or Tales of Long Ago with Morals, or more familiar Tales of Mother Goose. It is questionable if they were written for children or adults, but children love them:The Sleeping Beauty, Little Red Riding Hood, Blue Beard, The Master Cat or Puss in Boots, Diamond and Toads, Cinderella, Little Thumb, and Riquet with the Tuft. Pierre Perrault d'Armancour the elder son of Charles Perrault is thought to have collected them.

1712 -A Little Book for Little Children, by T. W.: first book to use an approach from the point of view of the child rather than the adult.

1796 -The Purple Jar, by Maria Edgeworth (1744-1817) Followed the ideas of Rousseau and told moral tales with dramatic realism, Her stories had real plots, sustained suspense and surprise endings that took some of the sting from the inevitable morals. However, the writing was so didactic that plots and characterization were weakened. Also wroteSimple Susan.

1200-1800

1800-1900

1823 -Grimm's Fairy Tales , translated into English by Edgar Taylor

1826 -Mary Had a Little Lamb, by Joseph Hales

1843 - A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens; (1812-1870)

1865 - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898) a mathematics professor at Oxford used the pen name Lewis Carroll

1883 -The Adventures of Pinocchio. Carlo Collodi (Italian writer) A memorable story with interesting symbolism. Many movies with interesting and sometimes frightening scenes.

1891(2) -Pinocchio, Translated C. Collodi penname for Carlo Lorenzini (1826-1890);

1894(1902) -The Jungle Book and Just So Stories, Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) later iKim a story of a boy growing up in British India. Considered the best of his pieces.

1800-1900

1900-2000 1900- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum. The George M. Hill Publishing Co.: Chicago. Born May 15, 1856 in Chittennango, NY died 1919. The film is better known than the book and many believe its visual imagery and powerful characterization make it superior to the book.

1903- Peter Pan or The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up, J. M. Barrie first written as a play and later as a story Peter and Wendy (1911) Barrie is credited with the invention of the name Wendy.

1911- The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett is a romantic piece rich in symbolism.

1918- First separate children's book department was established by Macmillan Company. Department was headed by Louise Seaman who published a wide variety of informational books. Other children's book departments were created from 1920-1940

1923- Bambi, Felis Salten (German writer)Disney Movie increased it's popularity

1926- Winnie the Pooh, A. A. Milne about Milne's own son. Written to interest young children and adults.

1934- Mary Poppins, P. L. Travers The 1964 Disney movie is much different.

1937- And to Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street,Dr. Seuss first of many more over the next fifty plus years.

1938- First Superman comic sold for 10 cents. Sold at auction for $1 000 000 on February 2, 2010.

1952- Charlotte's Web, E. B. White, Anne Frank Diary of a Young Girl.

1992- Just Grandma and Me: First Living Book ever produced was released March 31, 1992. Original book by Mercer Mayer was printed in 1983. The Learning Company, Inc.

1900-2000

2000 -2012

The Children's Online Privacy Act (COPPA) goes into effect and begins the regulation of the collection of personal information from children.

Harry Potter Books were on the best seller list for so long that a Children’s Literature best seller list was created.

2000 Ian Falconer Olivia

2003 Kate Di Camillo The Tale of Desperaux

2007 Books like Judy moody and Jeff Kinney’s Diary of a Wimpy Kid become very famous for being written as if the kid himself was writting it.

REFERENCES (2012). Children literature Timeline and Historical Information. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.homeofbob.com/literature/history/. [Last Accessed 21 October 2014].

Heysha Melendez (2013). Timeline of Children's Literature 1485-2013. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.slideshare.net/heyshamelendez/timeline-of-childrens-literature-14852013. [Last Accessed 21 October 2014].