I need a work of children's literature that was a contemporary novel but through the passage of time can now be considered historical fiction.
2007-10-09 03:29:55 · 7 answers · asked by moira77 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
American--Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Canadian--Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
English--The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Kim by Rudyard Kipling
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
Swiss--Heidi by Johanna Spyri
French--Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
These came to mind first--many are considered classics of literature. Almost all were pre-1900.
2007-10-09 04:18:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery, c1908
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew by Margaret Sidney, c1880
What Katy Did by Susan Coolidge, c1872
All were contemporary when written and are now considered historical fiction.
2007-10-09 23:51:07 · answer #2 · answered by The Skin Horse (formerly ll2) 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gulliver's Travels by Swift
The Little Prince by St. Exupery
Transcendental Wild Oats by Louisa May Alcott
2007-10-09 11:58:25 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Little Women by Louisa May Alcottt
2007-10-09 11:08:05 · answer #4 · answered by autimom 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Peter Pan
2007-10-09 10:49:55 · answer #5 · answered by Magick Kitty 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Did you ask at the library?
2007-10-09 10:36:50 · answer #6 · answered by Mama K 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
oliver twist
2007-10-09 10:37:33 · answer #7 · answered by dwalkercpa 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋