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Edward Lewis (nonsense)

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Book of Nonsense

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Lyman Frank Baum

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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)

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William Normis

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The Well at the World’s End (not a dream or a foreign land anymore, but a fantasy world))

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William Blake’s

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– Songs of Innocence (1789)

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George MacDonald’s

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At the Back of the North Wind (1871) + influenced Tolkien & C.S. Lewis

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Charles Kingsley

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The Water Babies (1862)

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Lewis Carroll

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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865

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Ruskin

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The King of the Golden River (1851)

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Edward Lear

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Book of Nonsense (1846)

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Richard F. Outcault

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The Yellow Kid (1895) – first comic strip

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Roald Dahl

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Witches, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, Big Friendly Giant

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Maurice Sendak

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Where the Wild Things Are

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Dr. Seuss

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The Cat in the Hat, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Fox in Socks,

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Neil Gaiman

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Good Omens, The Sandman, Coraline, The Graveyard Book, Stardust

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Sir Terry Pratchett

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Discworld

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Phillip Pullman

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His Dark Materials (trilogy consisting of Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass)

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Jerome David Sallinger

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Catcher in the Rye (YA)

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William Golding

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The Lord of the Flies (YA)

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Roland Barthes

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The Death of the Author (essay)

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Daniel Handler (pseudonym Lemony Snicket)

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A Series of Unfortunate Events (13 novels)

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Elwyn Brooks White

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– Charlotte’s Web, Stuart Little (her first children’s book)

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Clive Staples Lewis

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– The Chronicles of Narnia

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Mary Norton

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– The Borrowers

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Enid Blyton

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– The Famous Five

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Pamela Lyndon Travers

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– Mary Poppins

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Laura Ingalls Wilder

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Little House on the Prairie (series, 1932 – 1943)

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Mark Twain(Samuel Langhorne Clemens)

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

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The Hobbit, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King

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Rudyard Kipling

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The Jungle Book

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Kenneth Grahame

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The Wind in the Willows
,

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Beatrix Potter

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The Tale of Peter Rabbit

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Hellen Bannerman

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, The Story of Little Black Sambo
,

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Frances Hodgson Burnett

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Little Lord Fauntleroy, A Little Princess, The Secret Garden

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Lucy Maud Montgomery

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, Anne of Green Gables (1908)

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Eleanor H. Porter

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Pollyanna (1913)

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William Wordsworth

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(18-19th c.) – Ode: Intimations of Immortality (child is the father of man, child is the wisest, children’s imagination is idealized, rational world of adults vs. irrational of children)

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Oscar Wilde

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(19th c.) – The Happy Prince

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Hans Christian Andersen

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(19th c.) - “The Emperor’s New Clothes”, “The Little Mermaid”, “The Nightingale”, “The Steadfast Tin Soldier”, “The Red Shoes”, “The Princess and the Pea”, “The Snow Queen”, “The Ugly Duckling”, “The Little Match Girl”, and “Thumbelina”.

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Thomas Day

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(18th c.) - The History of Sandford and Merton

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Mary Martha Sherwood

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(18-19th c.) - The History of Little Henry and his Bearer (1814), The
(1822–1837), and The History of the Fairchild Family (1818–
1847).

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Sarah Trimmer

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(18th c.) – The Guardian of Education (defined children’s lit), Fabulous Histories

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Jane & Ann Taylor

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– Rhymes For the Nursery (twinkle, twinkle little star)

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William Blake

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(18-19th c.) – Songs of Innocence, the Tyger (Romanticism)

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Charles Dickens

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(19th c.) - Oliver Twist (VICTORIAN/ Realist)

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Jean-Jack Rousseau

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(18th c.) - Emile, or On Education

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John Bunyan

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(17th c.) – Pilgrim’s Progress (Puritan lit.)

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John Newbery

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(18th c. „Father of children’s lit“) - A Little Pretty Pocket-Book

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Brothers Grimm

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  • (19th c. Romanticism) > Children’s and Household Tales, Popular Stories (1823)
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Charles Perrault

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Donkey Skin, Stories or Tales from Past Times (Neoclassicism technically)

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Nonsense writing

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Book of Nonsense, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

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Authors of FANTASY- general knowledge

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Edward Lear
Ruskin
Lewis Carroll
Charles Kingsley
George MacDonald’s
William Blake’s – Songs of Innocence (1789)
William Normis
Lyman Frank Baum

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Authors of Postmodernism

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Daniel Handler (pseudonym Lemony Snicket)
Roland Barthes
William Golding
Jerome David Sallinger
Phillip Pullman
Sir Terry Pratchett
Neil Gaiman
Dr. Seuss
Maurice Sendak
Roald Dahl
Richard F. Outcault

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Authors of Modernism

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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
Mark Twain(Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Pamela Lyndon Travers
Enid Blyton
Mary Norton
Clive Staples Lewis
Elwyn Brooks White

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Authors of the Turn of the century

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Eleanor H. Porter
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Hellen Bannerman
Beatrix Potter
Kenneth Grahame
Rudyard Kipling

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Authors of the Victorian era

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Lewis Carroll(Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)

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Authors of Romanticism

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Charles Perrault
Brothers Grimm
John Newbery
John Bunyan
Jean-Jack Rousseau
Charles Dickens (19th c.) - Oliver Twist (VICTORIAN/ Realist)
William Wordswort
William Blake
Jane & Ann Taylor
Sarah Trimmer
Mary Martha Sherwood
Thomas Day
Hans Christian Andersen
Oscar Wilde

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