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- 1953 IBBY (International Board on Books for
Young People) founded by Jella Lepman in
Zurich, Switzerland. There are now more than
sixty-five chapters throughout the world.
- 1954 Frederic Wertham's Seduction of the
Innocent, an attack on "horror comics" • Brown
v. Board of Education, U.S. Supreme Court
decision declaring segregated schools
unconstitutional
- 1955-91 Captain Kangaroo, television program
for children hosted by Robert (Bob) Keesham
- 1957 Dr. Seuss's The Cat in the Hat
- 1959 Ruth Handler creates the Barbie doll,
named for her daughter; the Ken doll, named
for her son, would debut in 1961; Christie, an
African American doll, in 1968
- 1961 Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach
- 1962 Cuban missile crisis
- 1963 Ezra Jack Keats's The Snowy Day •
Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time, a blend
of science fantasy and religious themes •
Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are •
Martin Luther King Jr. leads the March on
Washington and delivers his "I Have a Dream"
speech
- 1964 Louise Fitzhugh's Harriet the Spy • Lloyd
Alexander's The Book of Three
- 1965-73 Vietnam War
- 1967-2001 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, created
and hosted by Fred Rogers; the longest-running
program on PBS
- 1968 Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar •
Ursula Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea, the first
in the Earthsea series (1968-2001)
- 1969 Sesame Street, featuring Jim Henson's
muppets, begins its telecast on PBS • First
landing of humans on the moon
- 1970 Judy Blume's Are You There, God? It's Me,
Margaret, a young adult novel that depicts
teenage life candidly and realistically • Signal:
Approaches to Children's Books founded by
Nancy Chambers and Aidan Chambers
- 1971 Foundation of the International Research
Society for Children's Literature in Europe.
Klaus Doderer is elected first president.
- 1972 Foundation of the Children's Literature Association by Anne Devereaux Jordan at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo. The journal Children's Literature founded the same year by Francelia Butler. The journal and the association were linked in 1973.
- 1974 Robert Cormier's The Chocolate War, the
first of his dark and compelling young adult
novels
- 1975 Natalie Babbitt's Tuck Everlasting •
Mitsumasa Anno's Alphabet
- 1976 Leo and Diane Dillon's Ashanti to Zulu •
Mildred D. Taylor's Roll of Thunder, Hear My
Cry
- 1977 Katherine Paterson's Bridge to Terabithia •
Robert Crowther's The Most Amazing Hide-and-
Seek Alphabet Book, a movable picture book
- 1978 Raymond Briggs's The Snowman, a wordless
picture book in comic-strip form
- 1979 Leonard Clark's Tales from the
Panchatantra, ancient Indian fables, many of
which have passed into European folklore
- 1980 Toshi Maruki's Hiroshima no Pika, a
depiction of the bombing of Hiroshima • Isaac
Bashevis Singer's The Power of Light: Eight
Stories for Hanukkah, stories about Jewish life
and traditions • Robert Munsch's The Paper Bag
Princess, a feminist picture book
- 1982 David McKee's I Hate My Teddy Bear, a
surreal tale
- 1985 Virginia Hamilton's The People May Fly:
African Black Folktales
- 1988 David Macaulay's The Way Things Work
- 1989 The Simpsons, animated prime-time
television show created by Matt Groening,
begins • David Macaulay's Black and White, a
nonlinear picture story • Successful production
of The Little Mermaid brings about the
resurgence of Disney’s animated fairy-tale films
such as Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and
Mulan • Fall of the Berlin Wall •
Demonstration and massacre at Beijing’s
Tienenman Square
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