Diese Chronologie der englischen Kinder- und Jugendliteratur soll einen Überblick über wichtige Ereignisse in der Geschichte der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur Englands bieten.
Erfasst sind vor allem Veröffentlichungen wichtiger Kinder- und Jugendbücher, d. h. von Büchern, die entweder vom Publikum, von der Buchkritik oder von der Literaturwissenschaft stark beachtet worden sind. Unter der Bezeichnung „Kinder- und Jugendbücher“ werden dabei nicht nur solche Arbeiten verstanden, die von vornherein für junge Leser gedacht waren, sondern auch „kind-“ und „jugendgerechte“ Bearbeitungen von Büchern, die ursprünglich für andere Zielgruppen geschrieben worden sind.
Berücksichtigt sind daneben auch Einzelereignisse aus dem Gesamtumfeld der englischen Kinder- und Jugendliteratur wie z. B. die Gründung wichtiger Kinderbuchverlage oder die Stiftung von Literaturpreisen.
1700–1780: Klassizismus und Aufklärung 1715 – Isaac Watts: Divine Songs 1730 – Thomas Boreman: A Description of Three Hundred Animals 1730 – Thomas Boreman: The Gigantick History of the Two Famous Giants 1744 – John Newbery: A Little Pretty Pocket-Book 1749 – Sarah Fielding: The Governess, or The Little Female Academy 1765 – Anonym: The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes 1768 – Christopher Smart: The Parables of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ 1771 – Christopher Smart: Hymns for the Amusement of Children 1778–79 – Anna Laetitia Barbauld: Lessons for Children 1780 – Sarah Trimmer: An Easy Introduction to the Knowledge of Nature
1780–1837: Romantik 1781 – Anna Laetitia Barbauld: Hymns in Prose for Children 1783 – Dorothy Kilner: The Life and Perambulation of a Mouse 1783 – Ellenor Fenn: Cobwebs to Catch Flies 1783–89 – Thomas Day: The History of Sandford and Merton 1784 – Dorothy Kilner: Anecdotes of a Boarding School 1784 – Ellenor Fenn: The Female Guardian 1786 – Sarah Trimmer: A Description of a Set of Prints of Scripture History 1786 – Sarah Trimmer: Fabulous Histories 1788 – Thomas Day: The History of Little Jack 1788 – Mary Wollstonecraft: Original Stories from Real Life 1794–98 – John Aikin, Anna Laetitia Barbauld: Evenings at Home 1796 – Maria Edgeworth: The Parent's Assistant 1798 – Edward Kendall: Keeper’s Travels in Search of His Master 1799 – Dorothy Kilner: The Rational Brutes 1801 – Maria Edgeworth: Moral Tales for Young People 1814 – Mary Martha Sherwood: The History of Little Henry and his Bearer 1818, 1842, 1847 – Mary Martha Sherwood: The History of the Fairchild Family 1822–1837 – Mary Martha Sherwood: The History of Henry Milner 1836 – Frederick Marryat: Mr Midshipman Easy
1837–1901: Viktorianische Zeit 1841 – Frederick Marryat: Masterman Ready, or Wreck in the Pacific 1844 – Frederick Marryat: Settlers in Canada 1851 – John Ruskin: The King of the Golden River 1854 – Charlotte Mary Yonge: The Little Duke 1854 – William Makepeace Thackeray: The Rose and the Ring 1855 – Charlotte Mary Yonge: The Lances of Lynwood 1855 – Charles Kingsley: Westward Ho! 1856 – Charlotte Mary Yonge: The Daisy Chain 1857 – Thomas Hughes: Tom Brown's Schooldays 1858 – Frederic W. Farrar: Eric, or, little by little 1859 – William Henry Giles Kingston: The South Sea Whaler 1861 – Thomas Hughes: Tom Brown at Oxford 1862 – Charlotte Mary Yonge: Countess Kate 1862 – Frederic W. Farrar: St. Winifred's, or, The World of School 1862/1885 – Juliana Horatia Ewing: Melchior's Dream and Other Tales 1863 – Charles Kingsley: Die Wasserkinder (The Water-Babies) 1865 – Lewis Carroll: Alice im Wunderland (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) 1865 – William H. G. Kingston: The Young Rajah 1866 – Charlotte Mary Yonge: The Prince and the Page 1869 – Juliana Horatia Ewing: Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances 1871 – George MacDonald: At the Back of the North Wind 1871 – Lewis Carroll: Alice hinter den Spiegeln (Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There) 1871 – Edward Lear: The Owl and the Pussycat 1872 – Juliana Horatia Ewing: A Flat Iron for a Farthing 1872 – George MacDonald: The Princess and the Goblin 1873 – William H. G. Kingston: The Three Midshipmen 1874 – Juliana Horatia Ewing: Lob Lie-by-the-fire 1875 – Tom Hood: From Nowhere to the North Pole 1875 – Juliana Horatia Ewing: Six to Sixteen 1876 – Juliana Horatia Ewing: Jan of the Windmill 1876 – Lewis Carroll: The Hunting of the Snark 1877 – Juliana Horatia Ewing: A Great Emergency 1877 – Ennis Graham, Walter Crane: The Cuckoo Clock 1879 – Juliana Horatia Ewing: Jackanapes 1881 – Juliana Horatia Ewing: Daddy Darwin's Dovecoat 1881 – Talbot Baines Reed: The Fifth Form at St. Dominic’s 1883 – George MacDonald: The Princess and Curdie 1884 – George Alfred Henty: By Sheer Pluck, A Tale of the Ashanti War 1884 – Juliana Horatia Ewing: Mary's Meadow 1884 – G. A. Henty: With Clive in India 1885 – Juliana Horatia Ewing: The Story of a Short Life 1886 – L. T. Meade: A World of Girls 1888 – Oscar Wilde: The Happy Prince and Other Stories 1889 – Frances E. Crompton: Friday's Child 1889ff – Andrew Lang: Andrew Lang's Fairy Books 1894 – Rudyard Kipling: Das Dschungelbuch (The Jungle Book) 1894 – G. A. Henty: Through the Sikh War, A Tale of the Conquest of the Punjab 1895 – Rudyard Kipling: The Second Jungle Book 1897 – Rudyard Kipling: Captains Courageous 1898 – Edith Nesbit: The Story of the Treasure Seekers 1899 – Rudyard Kipling: Stalky & Co. 1899 – Edith Nesbit: The Wouldbegoods
1901–1914: Edwardianische Zeit 1902 – Edith Nesbit: Der Sandelf (Five Children and It) 1902 – Rudyard Kipling: Geschichten für den allerliebsten Liebling (Just So Stories for Little Children) 1902 – Beatrix Potter: The Tale of Peter Rabbit 1903 – Beatrix Potter: The Tailor of Gloucester 1903 – Beatrix Potter: The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin 1904 – J. M. Barrie: Peter Pan, or The Boy Whou Wouldn’t Grow Up 1904 – Edith Nesbit: The Phoenix and the Carpet 1905 – Edith Nesbit: The Railway Children 1905 – Beatrix Potter: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle 1905 – Beatrix Potter: The Tale of the Pie and the Patty-Pan 1906 – Edith Nesbit: The Story of the Amulet 1906 – J. M. Barrie: Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens 1906 – Edith Nesbit: The Railway Children 1906 – Edith Nesbit: The Story of the Amulet 1907 – Edith Nesbit: The Enchanted Castle 1907 – Beatrix Potter: The Tale of Tom Kitten 1908 – Kenneth Grahame: Der Wind in den Weiden (The Wind in the Willows) 1911 – J. M. Barrie: Peter and Wendy 1912 – Edith Nesbit: The Magic World
1914–1945: Moderne 1920 – Angela Brazil: A Popular Schoolgirl 1920 – Elsie J. Oxenham: The Abbey Girls 1921 – Dorita Fairlie Bruce: Dimsie Moves Up 1922 – Richmal Crompton: Just William 1925 – Dorita Fairlie Bruce: Dimsie Goes To School (originally The Senior Prefect (1921)) 1925 – Elinor Brent-Dyer: The School at the Chalet 1926 – Alan Alexander Milne: Pu der Bär (Winnie-the-Pooh) 1928 – Evadne Price: Just Jane 1928 – Alan Alexander Milne: The House at Pooh Corner 1930 – Arthur Ransome: Swallows and Amazons 1932 – W. E. Johns: The Camels are Coming 1935 – W. E. Johns: Biggles Flies East 1936 – Erstmalige Verleihung der Carnegie Medal 1936 – Arthur Ransome: Pigeon Post 1937 – Eve Garnett: Abenteuer der Familie Ruggles (The Family from One End Street) 1937 – J.R.R. Tolkien: Der Hobbit (The Hobbit or There and Back Again) 1938 – Enid Blyton: Die verwegenen Vier reißen aus (The Secret Island) 1938 – Noel Streatfeild: The Circus is Coming 1939 – Eleanor Doorly: Madame Curie, die das Radium fand (Radium Woman) 1940 – Kitty Barne: Visitors from London 1940 – Enid Blyton: Lissy will mit dem Kopf durch die Wand (The Naughtiest Girl in the School) 1944 – Enid Blyton: Hanni und Nanni sind immer dagegen (The Twins at St. Clare’s) 1941 – Mary Treadgold: We Couldn't Leave Dinah 1942 – Denys Watkins-Pitchford: Die Wichtelreise (The Little Grey Men) 1942 – Enid Blyton: Fünf Freunde erforschen die Schatzinsel (Five on a Treasure Island) 1942ff – Reverend W. Awdry: Thomas, die kleine Lokomotive (The Railway Series) 1943 – Enid Blyton: Geheimnis um einen nächtlichen Brand (The Mystery of the Burnt Cottage) 1944 – Eric Linklater: Wind im Mond (The Wind on the Moon) 1944 – Denys Watkins-Pitchford: Brendon Chase 1944 – Enid Blyton: Die Insel der Abenteuer (The Island of Adventure)
1945–2000 Flam1946 – Enid Blyton: Dolly sucht eine Freundin (First Term at Malory Towers) 1946 – Elizabeth Goudge: Das kleine weiße Pferd (The Little White Horse) 1947 – Walter de la Mare: Seltsame Geschichten (Collected Stories for Children) 1947 – Frank Richards: Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School 1948 – Richard Armstrong: Sea Change 1949 – Agnes Allen: The Story of Your Home 1949 – Enid Blyton: Die Schwarze Sieben (The Secret Seven) 1949 – Enid Blyton: Rätsel um das verlassene Haus (The Rockingdown Mystery) 1950 – Elfrida Vipont: Kit am Ziel (The Lark on the Wing) 1951 – Cynthia Harnett: Nicolas und die Wollschmuggler (The Woolpack) 1951 – C. S. Lewis: Prinz Kaspian von Narnia (Prince Caspian) 1952 – Mary Norton: Die Borgmännchen (The Borrowers) 1952 – C. S. Lewis: Die Reise auf der Morgenröte (The Voyage of the Dawn Treader) 1953 – Edward Osmond: A Valley Grows Up 1953 – C. S. Lewis: Der silberne Sessel (The Silver Chair) 1954 – Ronald Welch: Im Reiche der Kreuzritter (Knight Crusader) 1954 – C. S. Lewis: Der Ritt nach Narnia (The Horse and His Boy) 1954 – J.R.R. Tolkien: Der Herr der Ringe (The Lord of the Rings) 1955 – Eleanor Farjeon: Verzauberte Welt (The Little Bookroom) 1955 – C. S. Lewis: Das Wunder von Narnia (The Magician's Nephew) 1956 – Erstmalige Verleihung der Kate Greenaway Medal für Illustration 1956 – Edward Ardizzone: Tim All Alone 1956 – C. S. Lewis: Der letzte Kampf (The Last Battle) 1957 – V. H. Drummond: Mrs Easter and the Storks 1957 – William Mayne: Das Wirtshaus zum Einhorn (A Grass Rope) 1958 – Philippa Pearce: Als die Uhr dreizehn schlug (Tom's Midnight Garden) 1959 – William Stobbs: Kashtanka and A Bundle of Ballads 1959 – Rosemary Sutcliff: Drachenschiffe drohen am Horizont (The Lantern Bearers) 1960 – I. W. Cornwall: The Making of Man 1960 – Gerald Rose: Old Winkle and the Seagulls 1961 – Lucy M. Boston: A Stranger at Green Knowe 1961 – Roald Dahl: James und der Riesenpfirsich (James and the Giant Peach) 1961 – Philippa Pearce, Antony Maitland: Mrs. Cockle's Cat 1962 – Pauline Clarke: Die Zwölf vom Dachboden (The Twelve and the Genii) 1962 – Brian Wildsmith: A.B.C 1963 – Joan Aiken: Wölfe ums Schloss (The Wolves of Willoughby Chase) 1963 – John Burningham: Borka: The Adventures of a Goose With No Feathers 1963 – Hester Burton: Time of Trial 1964 – Roald Dahl: Charlie und die Schokoladenfabrik (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) 1964 – C. Walter Hodges: Shakespeare's Theatre 1964 – Sheena Porter: Das Mädchen mit dem Schäferhund (Nordy Bank) 1965 – Victor Ambrus: The Three Poor Tailors 1965 – Philip Turner: The Grange at High Force 1966 – Raymond Briggs: Mother Goose Treasury 1966 – Leon Garfield: Devil-in-the-Fog 1967 – Erstmalige Verleihung des Guardian Award 1967 – Alan Garner: Eulenzauber (The Owl Service) 1967 – Charles Keeping: Charley, Charlotte and the Golden Canary 1967 – K. M. Peyton: Christinas Pferdesommer (Flambards) 1968 – Joan Aiken: The Whispering Mountain 1968 – Rosemary Harris: Wolken vor dem Mond (The Moon in the Cloud) 1968 – Grant Uden, Pauline Baynes: Dictionary of Chivalry 1969 – Helen Oxenbury: The Quangle Wangle's hat and The Dragon of an Ordinary Family 1969 – K. M. Peyton: Christina und der Bruchpilot (The Edge of the Cloud) 1969 – Joan Aiken: Träume süß, kleine Meggie (Night Fall) 1970 – John Burningham: Die Kahnfahrt (Mr Gumpy's Outing) 1970 – John Christopher: Die Wächter (The Guardians) 1970 – Leon Garfield, Edward Blishen: The God Beneath the Sea 1971 – Joan Aiken, Jan Pienkowski: The Kingdom under the Sea 1971 – Gillian Avery: A Likely Lad