ENGLISH LITERATURE

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• ENGLISH LITERATURE
• FOR CHILDREN

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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
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New England Primer (1687-1690)
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"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 joind fort. K kept it. L longd fort. M mournd fort. N nodded at it. O opend it. P peepd int. Q quarterd it. R run fort. S snatchd it. T turnd it. U use'd it. V viewd 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.
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- 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).
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- collections for children - John Newberry "A
Little Pretty Pocket Book" (1744)
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- adaptations of classical books for adults -
Charles and Mary Lamb "Tales from Shakespeare"
(1807)
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- translations of folk tales and ballads -
Charles Perrot, - the Grimm brothers (1823), -
Hans Christian Andersen
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Mary Sherwood "History of the Fairchild Family"
(1818-1847)
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  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)
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- author's, or literary fairy-tale - William
Thackeray "The Rose and the Ring" (1855)
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- Charles Kinsley "Water-Babies" (1863) - Lewis
Carroll (Charles Dodgson) "Alice's Adventures in
Wonderland" (1865)
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Jabberwocky Twas bryllyg, and ye slythy tovesDid
gyre and gymble in ye wabeAll mimsy were ye
borogovesAnd ye mome raths outgrabe.
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- 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)
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"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
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• Robert Lewis Stevenson "Treasure Island" (1883)
• - Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes mysteries

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- 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)
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- 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)
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- 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)
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Edith Nesbit "Five Children and It" (1902) "The
Railway Children" (1906), "The Story of the
Amulet" 1906)
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Frank L. Baum "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"
(started 1900) Dorothy, Goodwin
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- plays for children - John Barrie (1850-1937)
"Peter Pan"
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• Pamela L. Travers "Mary Poppins" (1934)
• - Eleanor Farjeon

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- Beatrix Potter (1866-1943) "The Tale of Peter
Rabbit" (1900), "The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin"
(1903), "The Tale of Jeremy Fisher" (1906)
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Kenneth Graham "The Wind in the Willows" (1908)
Mole, Rat, Toad
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.
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'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.
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- Rudyard Kipling "Jungle Books" (1894, 1895)
Mowgli "Just So Stories" (1902) - Ted Hughes
"How the Whale Became and Other Stories" (1963)
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• Alan Alexander Milne "Winnie-the-Pooh" (1926),
  "The House at Pooh Corner" (1928) Ashdown Forest
• - Michael Bond Paddington Bear
• - Donald Bisset

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- Hugh Lofting "The Story of Dr. Dolittle"
(1922) - Dr. Seuss Cat in the Hat series - Elvyn
Brooks White "Charlotte's Web"
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- Carl Sandburg "Rootabaga Stories"
How They Broke Away to Go to the Rootabaga
Country Gimme 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.
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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 downstairseverything
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, Whos who? How much? And whats 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 backsend us far as
the railroad rails go and then forty ways farther
yet, was the reply of Gimme the Ax.
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- escapist fiction - Enyd Blyton (1897-1968)
"Famous Five"
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- 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"
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A Elbereth GilthonielO Elbereth
Starkindler,silivren penna mírielwhite-glitterin
g, 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!
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• Clive Staples Lewis
• 7-volume Narnia chronicles (1950-1956), including
  "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" (1950)

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- Alan Garner (b. 1934) Alderly Edge trilogy,
"The Weirdstone of Brisingamen" (1960), "The Moon
of Gomrath" (1963), "Elidor" (1965), "The Owl
Service" (1967)
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• Ursula Le Guin
• "A Wizard of Earthsea" (1968), "The Tombs of
  Atuan" (1971), "The Farthest Shore" (1972)

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- 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)
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• 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"

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- Joan K. Rowling Harry 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)
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- Philip Pullman (b. 1946) trilogy "His Dark
Materials" (1995-1999), including "The Golden
Compass," "The Subtle Knife," "The Amber
Spyglass" Lyra Belaqua, Pantalaimon
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- Neil Gaiman (b. 1960) "Neverwhere," "Stardust."
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- 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
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- 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
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The Missing Sock I found my sock beneath the
bed. 'Where have you been all week?' I
said. 'Hiding away,' the sock replied. Another
day on your foot and I would have died!'
- 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
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