18th Century
| Title | Author | Year published | References |
|---|---|---|---|
| Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe | 1719 | |
| Gulliver's Travels | Jonathan Swift | 1726 | |
| Tales of Mother Goose | Charles Perrault | 1729 (English) | |
| Little Pretty Pocket-book | John Newbery | 1744 | |
| Little Goody Two Shoes | Oliver Goldsmith | 1765 | |
| Lessons for Children | Anna Laetitia Barbauld | 1778-9 | The first series of age-adapted reading primers for children printed with large text and wide margins; in print for over a century. |
| The History of Sandford and Merton | Thomas Day | 1783-9 | A bestseller for over a century, it embodied Rousseau's educational ideals. |
Read more about this topic: List Of Children's Classic Books
Famous quotes containing the word century:
“man’s life is thought,
And he, despite his terror, cannot cease
Ravening through century after century,
Ravening, raging, and uprooting that he may come
Into the desolation of reality....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)