Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Non Fantasy and Fantasy Kids

Other Classics worth considering
(and you might not know about)

The First Newbury Award Book Winners

Hendrik Willem van Loon
The Story of Mankind 1922 Winner

Charles Hawes
The Great Quest 1922 Honor

Bernard Marshall
Cedric the Forester 1922 Honor

William Bowen
The Old Tobacco Shop: A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure
1922 Honor

Padraic Colum
The Golden Fleece and The Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles 1922
Honor

Cornelia Meigs
The Windy Hill (1922) Honor

Non-Fantasy Kids
The Children of the Forest by Elsa Beskow (1847)
The Children of the New Forest By Frederick Marryat (1847)
Westward Ho! By Charles Kingsley (1855)
Eric, or, Little by Little by Frderic Farrar 1858)
Nobody's Boy by Hector Malot (1878)
The Fifth Form at St. Dominic's by Talbot Reed (1881)
Heart by Edmondo Amicis (1894)
Pigs is Pigs by Ellis Parker Butler ¬(1905) Short Story
The Fortunes of Philippa by Angela Brazil (1906)
Jock of the Bushveld by Sir James Percy Fitzpatrick (1907)
The Cave Boy of the Age of Stone by Margaret A. McIntyre (1907)
Miss Minerva and William Green Hill by Frances Boyd Calhoun (1909)
Greyfriars Bobby by Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson (1912)
The Young Visitors by Daisy Ashford (1919)
Ameliaranne and the Green Umbrella by Constance Heward (1920)
Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard by Eleano Farjeon (1921)

Fantasy
The Rose and the Ring by William Thackeray (1855)
7 Captain Fracasse by Theophile Gautier (1863)
Bevis by Richard Jefferies (1882)
Marigold Garden by Kate Greenway (1885)
Dot and the Kangaroo by Ethel C. Pedley (1899)
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils by Selma Lagerlof (1907)
The Wonderful Adventures of Tyltyl and Mytyl in Search of Happiness
by Maurice Maeterlinck (1914)
Tales of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie- by May Gibbs (1918)
The Magic Pudding by Norman Lindsey (1918)

Other Authors
Frank Richard Stockton (April 5, 1834 – April 20, 1902)
The Great War Syndicate (1889)
The Great Stone of Sardis (1897)
The Lady or the Tiger: And Other Stories (1886)
The Vizier of the Two-Horned Alexander (1899)
The Queen's Museum: And Other Fanciful Tales (1906)
The Science Fiction of Frank R. Stockton: An Anthology (1976)
Fairy Tales of Frank Stockton (1990)
The Lady or the Tiger and Other Stories, (Jul 2004)

Mrs. Molesworth(Mary Louisa Molesworth) (1839 - 1921)
The Cuckoo Clock (1877)
The Tapestry Room (1879) as Ennis Graham
Christmas Tree Land (1884)

Booth Tarkington (July 29, 1869 – May 19, 1946)
Penrod (1914).
Penrod and Sam (1916)
Penrod Jashber (1929)
Penrod: His Complete Story (1931) All Three Stories

Ada J. (Jane) Graves (14 April 1870 - 8 July 1918 )
The House by the Railway(1896) illustrated by Rosa C. Petherick
Four Little People and their Year at Silverhaven (1898) illustrated by Florence Meyerheim
The Little Brown House(1902).

Inez Haynes Irwin (March 2, 1873 – September 30, 1970)
Maida's Little Shop (1910)
Maida's Little House (1921)

Howard Roger Garis, (April 25, 1873 – November 6, 1962)
Uncle Wiggily's Adventures (1912) 79 books over 30 years

Jean Webster (July 24, 1876 – June 11, 1916)
When Patty Went to College (1903)
Wheat Princess (1905)
Jerry Junior (1907)
Four-Pools Mystery (1908)
Much Ado About Peter (1909)
Just Patty (1911)
Daddy-Long-Legs (1912)
Dear Enemy (1915)

Juvenile series books (1899–1929)

For Girls
Aunt Jane's Nieces (1906–1918)
Bobbsey Twins (1904–1979)
Camp Fire Girls (1912?–1936)
The Bluebird Books (1916–1924)
Betty Gordon (1920–1932)
Honey Bunch (1920–1955)

Lucy Fitch Perkins (1865-1937)
Twins series including
The Dutch Twins (1911)
The Irish Twins (1913)
The Eskimo Twins (1914)
The Mexican Twins (1916)
The Belgian Twins (1917).

For Boys
Rover Boys (1899–1926)
Boy Fortune Hunters (1906–1911)
Motor Boys (1906–1924)
Tom Swift (1910–1941)
Baseball Joe (1912–1928)
Radio Boys (1922–1930)

Jack Harkaway Series

Alice in Wonderland Clones

Imitations
Mopsa the Fairy (1869)
Davy and the Goblin (1884)
The Admiral's Caravan (1891)
Gladys in Grammarland (1896)
A New Wonderland (1898)
Rollo in Emblemland (1902)
Justnowland (1912)
Alice in Orchestralia (1925)

Parodies
The Westminster Alice (1902)
Clara in Blunderland (1902)
Lost in Blunderland (1903)
John Bull's Adventures in the Fiscal Wonderland (1904)
Alice in Blunderland: An Iridescent Dream (1904)

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