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This is a list of classic children's books published no later than 2008 and still available in the English language. [1] [2] [3] Books specifically for children existed by the 17th century. Before that, books were written mainly for adults – although some later became popular with children.
Collected Stories for Children is a collection of 17 fantasy stories or original fairy tales by Walter de la Mare, first published by Faber in 1947 with illustrations by Irene Hawkins. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] De la Mare won the annual Carnegie Medal recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject. [ 4 ]
A 1945 book reviewer wrote, "Mr. White has a tendency to write amusing scenes instead of telling a story. To say that Stuart Little is one of the best children’s books published this year is very modest praise for a writer of his talent." [6] The book has become a children's classic, and is widely read by children and used by teachers. [7]
The Story of a Short Life, Juliana Horatia Ewing (1885) Kidnapped, Robert Louis Stevenson (1886) A World of Girls, L. T. Meade (1886) The Happy Prince and Other Stories, Oscar Wilde (1888) Friday's Child (1889) Andrew Lang's Fairy Books, Andrew Lang (from 1889) Catriona, Robert Louis Stevenson (1893) The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling (1894)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (also known as Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 English children's novel by Lewis Carroll, a mathematics don at the University of Oxford.It details the story of a girl named Alice who falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropomorphic creatures.
The Happy Prince and Other Tales (or Stories) is a collection of bedtime stories for children by Oscar Wilde, first published in May 1888.It contains five stories that are highly popular among children and frequently read in schools: "The Happy Prince," "The Nightingale and the Rose," "The Selfish Giant," "The Devoted Friend," and "The Remarkable Rocket."