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  • 1991 Collapse of the Soviet Union


  • 1992 Lane Smith and Jon Scieszka's The Stinky Cheese Man, a postmodern picture book


  • 1993 Lois Lowry's The Giver • Alma Flor Ada's My Name Is María Isabel


  • 1994 Zlata Filipovic's Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo • Eve Bunting's Smoky Night (illustrated by David Diaz), a picture-book response to the Los Angeles riots of 1992


  • 1995-2000 Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy


  • 1997-2004 Teletubbies, children's television program broadcast in Britain; developed by Anne Wood and Andrew Davenport


  • 1997 J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (U.S. title: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)


  • 1999 Jenni Overend and Julie Vivas's Hello Baby (Australia), an explicit depiction of natural childbirth


  • 2001 Shrek, digital film adaptation of William Steig's Shrek! (1990), followed by Shrek 2 in 2004, both intended to challenge the formulaic Disney fairy-tale films


  • 2003 Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, winner of the Whitbread award; a crossover book originally published for children


  • 2004 Film adaptation of Chris Van Allsburg's The Polar Express (1985)
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