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Children's literature portal; This category is for articles on historical novels and historical fantasy novels written for children and young adults; it may also include time travel novels where the focus is on a period in the past.
The War That Saved My Life, by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, [1] is a 2015 children’s historical novel published by Dial Books for Young Readers.In 2016, it was a Newbery Honor Book [2] and was named to the Bank Street Children's Book Committee's Best Books of the Year List with an "Outstanding Merit" distinction and won the Committee's Josette Frank Award for fiction.
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)
Dear America is a series of historical fiction novels for children published by Scholastic starting in 1996. By 1998, the series had 12 titles with 3.5 million copies in print. [1] The series was canceled in 2004 with its final release, Hear My Sorrow. However, it was relaunched in the fall of 2010.
Caddie Woodlawn is a children's historical fiction novel by Carol Ryrie Brink [1] that received the Newbery Medal in 1936 and a Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1958. The original 1935 edition was illustrated by Newbery-award-winning author and illustrator Kate Seredy. Macmillan released a later edition in 1973, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman. [2]
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.
The characters and some of the events described are fiction, but the story may have some basis in fact. A cargo of gold bullion, worth $9,000,000, arrived by the freighter Bomma in Baltimore on 28 June 1940. The ship's captain reported that the gold was smuggled past the Germans by Norwegian children on their sleds. [8]
Notably, the series is praised for transforming historical non-fiction into an enjoyable reading experience for young individuals, pioneering a new genre. [6] [37] [38] Jerome De Groot's Consuming History highlights Horrible Histories as a series that showcases the dynamic and flexible nature of historical narratives in children's literature ...
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