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- 1872 Christina Rossetti's Sing-Song
- 1873 Foundation of St. Nicholas Magazine, with
Mary Mapes Dodge as the first editor. This
American magazine for young people, published
until 1943, included stories by such leading
writers as Frances Hodgson Burnett, Mark
Twain, Frank Stockton, and Louisa May Alcott.
- 1874 First comic paper, Funny Folks, debuts in
England
- 1878 Randolph Caldecott's first "Toy Books"
- 1879 Kate Greenaway's Under the Window sets
new fashions for children • Thomas Edison
invents the electric lightbulb.
- 1880 Joel Chandler Harris's Uncle Remus, His
Songs and Sayings, the Folk-lore of the Old
Plantation, the first collection of fables of black
Americans
- 1881 Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island
- 1884 Mark Twain's The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn • Flora Annie Steele's Wide-
Awake Stories, a collection of retold Indian tales
• National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Children founded in England by Angela
Burdett-Coutts
- 1885 Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden
of Verses
- ca. 1888 First comic sold in the United States:
Impossible Adventures, originally published by
Jean-Charles Pellerin in Epinal, France
- 1891 Free elementary education mandated
throughout the United States
- 1892 First U.S. comic strip, "Little Bears and
Tykes," San Francisco Examiner
- 1894-95 Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book
- 1895 First appearance of the Golliwogg in
Florence and Bertha Upton's The Adventures of
Two Dutch Dolls and a Golliwogg • H. G.
Wells's The Time Machine
- 1897 W.H.D. Rouse's The Giant Crab, a
collection and retelling of Indian Jataka-stories
of the previous births of the Buddha. In 1899
Rouse published a second collection, The
Talking Thrush • Louise Mack's Teens: A Story
of Australian Schoolgirls
- 1898 Ernest Thompson Seton's Wild Animals I
Have Known
- 1899 Helen Bannerman's Little Black Sambo
- 1900 L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz
- 1901 Seymour Hicks's Bluebell in Fairyland, one
of the first commercial theatrical productions
for children, opens in London • Australia
becomes an independent country
- 1902 Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Peter Rabbit •
Ernest Thompson Seton sets up first Woodcraft
Tribe in Wyndygoul, New York
- 1903 Howard Pyle's The Story of King Arthur and
His Knights. Three more Arthurian collections
followed (1905-10) • Foundation of the
Children's Educational Theatre at the
Educational Alliance in New York City
- 1904 J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan, or The Boy Who
Wouldn't Grow Up premiers in London and is
produced with great success the following year
in New York
- 1905 Frances Hodgson Burnett's A Little Princess
- 1906 Richard F. Outcault's Hairbreadth Harry,
first U.S. serial comic strip
- 1907 Robert Baden-Powell runs first
experimental scout camp for boys on Brownsea
Island in England
- 1908 L. M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables
• Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows
- 1910 Tom Swift and His Motor-Cycle, the first
Tom Swift novel (by Howard R. Garis, writing as
Victor Appleton), one of many novels published
by Edward Stratemeyer, a pioneer in syndicated
series for boys and girls • Foundation of the
Drama League of America, which fostered
productions of plays for children
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