One Hundred Books Famous In Children's Literature - The List

CHRONOLOGICAL BOOK LIST

2014

1A.      Orbis Sensualium Pictus (1658), Comenius, Johann Amos                       (Morgan)

                      [Jan Komenský]                                                                

1B.      Orbis Sensualium Pictus (1659), Comenius, Johann Amos                   (Michelson)                                     

2.         A Token for Children (1671), Janeway, James, and                                        (AAS)

                      [Mather, Cotton] (later Divine Emblems)

3.         A Book for Boys and Girls: or, Country Rhimes for Children                   (Harvard)   

                      (1686) [Bunyan, John]

4.        The New-England Primer. To which is added, Milk for Babes                       (AAS)    

                      (1727) [Anon.]

5A.      Histoire ou Contes du Temps Passé (1697) [Perrault, Charles]                   (Cotsen)

5B.      Histories, or Tales of past Times (1729), [Perrault, Charles]                     (Harvard)

6.         Divine Songs (1715), Watts, Isaac                                                              (Morgan)

7A.      Robinson Crusoe (1719), [Defoe, Daniel]                                                       (Lilly)

7B.      Robinson Crusoe (1920), Defoe, Daniel                                                    (Osborne)                                                

         

8.         Aesop’s Fables (1722), [Croxall, Samuel]                                          (Anonymous)     

9A.      Gulliver’s Travels (1726) [Swift, Jonathan]                                                    (Lilly)

9B.      Gulliver’s Travels (1772) [Swift, Jonathan]                                                 (Cotsen)  

10.       Gigantick History of the Two Famous Giants (1740)                            (Michelson)                                          

 11A.    Little Pretty Pocket-Book (1744), Printed by J. Newbery                              (Lilly)      

11B.     Little Pretty Pocket-Book (1787), Printed by Isaiah Thomas                    (Morgan)       

12.       Tommy Thumb’s Pretty Song Book (1744), Printed by G. Bickham           (Cotsen)                        

13.       The Governess (1749), [Fielding, Sarah]                                                     (Cotsen)

14.       Magasin des enfans (1756), (Le Prince de Beaumont, Jeanne-Marie)         (Miami)

15.       Goody Two-Shoes (1765), Printed by J. Newbery                                       (Cotsen)

16.       Hymns in Prose (1781), [Barbauld, Anna Laetitia]                                    (Morgan)

17.       Hieroglyphick Bible (1783), [Anon.]                                                           (Cotsen)

18.       Mother Goose’s Melody (1784), Printed by T. Carnan                                (Cotsen)

19.       Songs of Innocence (1789), Blake, William                                               (Morgan)

20.       The Parent’s Assistant (1796), [Edgeworth, Maria]                                    (UCLA)

21.       Old Mother Hubbard (1805), [Martin, Sarah Catherine]                           (Morgan)

22.       Rhymes for the Nursery (1806), [Taylor, Ann and Jane]                                (Lilly)

23.       Butterfly’s Ball (1807), Roscoe, William                                               (Michelson)

24.       Tales from Shakespear (1807), [Lamb, Charles and Mary]                            (Lilly)

25A.    Kinder-und Hausmarchen (Grimms Fairy Tales) (1812-1815),                  (Cotsen)

                      Grimm, Jacob and Wilhem

25B.    German Popular Stories (Grimms Fairy Tales) (1826),                              (Cotsen)

                      Grimm, Jacob and Wilhem / George Cruikshank

26.       ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas (1823), [Moore, Clement]                 (Beinecke)

27.       Tales of Peter Parley, About America (1827) Goodrich, Samuel          (Michelson)

28A.    Eventyr (“Fairy Tales”) (1835), Hans Christian Andersen                         (Morgan)

28B.    Wonderful Stories for Children (1846), [Hans Christian Andersen]            (Cotsen)

29.       McGuffey’s Eclectic First Reader (1836), McGuffey, William                   (Miami)

30.       Holiday House (1839), Sinclair, Catherine                                                (Morgan)

31A.    Struwwelpeter (1845), [Hoffman, Heinrich]                                              (Morgan)

31B.    Struwwelpeter (1848), Hoffman, Heinrich                                             (Michelson)

32.       Book of Nonsense (1846), [Lear, Edward]                                             (Michelson)

33.       Children of the New Forest (1847), Marryat, Frederick                     (MacEachron)

34.       The Water Babies (1863), Kingsley, Charles                                                  (Lilly)

35.       Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), [Dodgson, Charles]         (Anonymous)

36.       Hans Brinker (1866), Dodge, Mary Elizabeth (Mapes)                         (Michelson)

37.       Jessica’s First Prayer (1867), [Smith, Sarah]                                           (Osborne)

38.       Little Women (1868), Alcott, Louisa May                                              (Michelson)

39.       At the Back of the North Wind (1871), MacDonald, George                       (Cotsen)

40.       Little Red Riding Hood (1875), illustrated by Walter Crane                     (Osborne)

41.       Tom Sawyer (1876), [Clemens, Samuel Langhorne]                                       (Lilly)

42.       Black Beauty (1877), Sewell, Anna                                                           (Morgan)

43.       The House that Jack Built (1878), Caldecott, Randolph                               (Harer)

44.       Heidi (1880), Spyri, Johanna Louise                                                      (Penn State)

45.       Uncle Remus (1881), Harris, Joel Chandler                                           (Michelson)

46.       Pinocchio (1883), [Lorenzini, Carlo]                                                           (Cotsen)

47.       Robin Hood (1883), Pyle, Howard                                                               (UCLA)

48.       Treasure Island (1883), Stevenson, Robert Louis                                 (Michelson)

49.       Child’s Garden of Verses (1885), Stevenson, Robert Louis                  (Michelson)

50.       A Apple Pie (1886), Greenaway, Kate                                                        (Hodges)

51.       The Blue Fairy Book (1889), Lang, Andrew                                                   (Lilly)

52.       The Jungle Book (1894), Kipling, Rudyard                                             (Beinecke)

53.       Little Black Sambo (1899), Bannerman, Helen                                      (Michelson)

54.       Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900), Baum, Lyman Frank                                  (Hanff)

55.       Peter Rabbit (1901), Potter, Beatrix                                                       (Michelson)

56.       Five Children and It (1902), Nesbit, Edith                                                      (Lilly)

57.       Just So Stories (1902), Kipling, Rudyard                                                 (Beinecke)

58.       Anne of Green Gables (1908), Montgomery, Lucy Maud                              (Rose)

59.       The Hole Book (1908), Newell, Peter                                                            (Harer)

60.       Scouting for Boys (1908), Baden-Powell                                                     (Cotsen)

61.      Wind in the Willows (1908), Grahame, Kenneth                                         (Hodges)

62.       Sleeping Beauty (1910), Quiller-Couch / Edmund Dulac                         (Osborne)

63.       Peter and Wendy (1911), Barrie, J. M.                                                   (Michelson)

64.       Secret Garden (1911), Burnett, Frances                                                 (Michelson)

65.       Pollyanna (1913), Porter, Eleanor                                                                (UCLA)

66.       East of the Sun, West of the Moon (1914), [Asbjornsen, Peter]             (Michelson)

67.       Magic Pudding (1918), Lindsay, Norman                                                     (Harer)

68.       Raggedy Ann (1918), Gruelle, Johnny                                                         (Cotsen)

69.       Cinderella (1919), Evans, Charles / Arthur Rackham                               (Osborne)

70.       Velveteen Rabbit (1922), Williams, Margery                                         (Michelson)

71.       Winnie-the-Pooh (1926), Milne, A. A.                                                   (Michelson)

72.       Millions of Cats (1928), Gag, Wanda                                                         (Lapides)

73.       Dick and Jane (1930), Elson, William Harris                                           (Osborne)

74.       Little Engine that Could (1930), [Munk, Arnold]                               (Anonymous)

75.       Secret of the Old Clock (1930), Stratemeyer, Edward]                                 (Hanff)

76.       Mickey Mouse (1931), Walt Disney Productions                                       (Lapides)

77.       Babar (1931), Brunhoff, Jean de                                                            (Michelson)

78.       Mary Poppins (1934), Travers, P. L.                                                          (Lapides)

79.       Little House on the Prairie (1935), Wilder, Laura Ingalls                              (Lilly)

80.       Ferdinand (1936), Leaf, Wilbur Munro                                                 (Michelson)

81.       The Hobbit (1937), Tolkien, J. R. R.                                                               (Lilly)

82.       Madeline (1939), Bemelmans, Ludwig                                                  (Michelson)

83.       Pat the Bunny (1940), Kunhardt, Dorothy                                                 (Lapides)

84.       Curious George (1941), Rey, H. A.                                                       (Michelson)

85.       Make Way for Ducklings (1941), McCluskey, John                              (Michelson)

86.       The Little House (1942), Burton, Virginia Lee                                      (Michelson)

87.       Poky Little Puppy (1942), Lowrey, Janette Sebring                               (Michelson)

88.       Le Petit Prince (1943), Saint-Exupery, Antione (1943)                             (Lapides)

89.       Goodnight Moon (1947), Brown, Margaret Wise                                  (Michelson)

90.       Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950), Lewis, C. S.                              (UCLA)

91.       The Borrowers (1952), Norton, Mary                                                        (Osborne)

92.       Charlotte’s Web (1952), White, E. B.                                                    (Michelson)

93.       How Columbus Discovered America (1954), [Kubasta, Vojtech]       (Anonymous)

94.       Eloise (1955), Thompson, Kay                                                               (Michelson)

95.       The Cat in the Hat (1957), Seuss, Dr.                                                    (Michelson)

96.       The Snowy Day (1962), Keats, Ezra Jack                                               (Michelson)

97.       Where the Wild Things Are (1963), Sendak, Maurice                            (Michelson)

98.       Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964), Dahl, Roald                       (Michelson)

99.       Very Hungry Caterpillar (1969), Carle, Eric                           (Eric Carle Museum)

100.     Harry Potter (1997), Rowling, J. K.                                                            (Cotsen)

One of Hutton's Glass Screen Angels in Hampshire

The garden seen through one of Hutton's Coventry Angels

Part of the great west window at Coventry Cathedral, a translucent lace-like pattern of saints and angels. This line of saints St Alfred the Great; St Margaret, Queen of Scotland and St Bede. 

The West Window and the nave of Coventry Cathedral seen through the West Window etched with saints and angels..

I have been fortunate enough to be given a replica of one of the angels in John Hutton's magnificent glass screen that forms the great west window of Coventry Cathedral. It now stands on a table in the loggia where the light from the garden can illuminate the etched form. With thanks to dear June Gracey, who's parents received the window after donating the Frink Lectern to the Cathedral.

Fracking - A Real and Present Danger

I have been concerned about fracking ever since talking to a geologist and a oil and gas finance specialist last year. They are both extremely knowledgeable and have been involved in many oil and gas deals around the world. However, they are thoughtfully opposed to almost all fracking in our small and crowded island.

OS Map of Stockbridge. Each division of the map is a square kilometre 

Then later in 2014 I attended a well-reasoned and unsensational talk in our town hall which drew attention to the environmental and health risks of the practice. But at that time I didn't know that the Stockbridge / Winchester area along the A3049 in fact lies above a layer of Kimmeridge Clay,  the kind that is a particularly valuable source of oil. And what is more, the map below shows the oil field in that area currently being drilled by iGAS Ltd.

The Department of Energy map of the area between Stockbridge and Winchester showing the four wells currently being worked for oil - but the whole area could fracked for gas or even improved oil flow.

The Danger

The area from Stockbridge to Winchester is an oolite field.  The oil field currently being worked as shown above has 80 million barrels STOIP (Stop Tank Oil in Place) but the recovery from primary means (ie. pumping) is low - only 12% of the oil in place.  Total recovery to date has been 8.5 mmbbls: remaining reserves 1.5.  There are only 22 wells in total, some twinned and some water injectors over an area of about 30 km2 (ie 22 wells over 7500 acres).

Fracking can improve the recovery as it opens up fractures in the oolithe (good porosity, but very low permeability) and gets the oil to flow easier.  Maybe another 5% or 4 mmbbls can be extracted in this way.

The oolite is overlain by Kimmeridgian Clay (which is really a shale) and is the richest source rock for oil as it has up to 20% of organic matter as the prime shale oil target. This could be what iGAS intends to frack, though as yet, no licence for fracking there has been granted or sought.

However, this article in the Guardian warns that Osborne has apparently written to his government colleagues urging them to fast-track fracking in their areas.

The current iGAS fields approved by Hampshire County Council and test valley are shown here 

What is the difference between a oil well and a fracking site? 

There is an enormous difference between a well drilled for oil and a well being fracked. Drilling for oil is comparatively easy on land and although some heavy equipment is used, it doesn't take long and afterwards the well-head is small and unobtrusive - usually it's left with just a quiet 'nodding donkey' to mark its presence. Oil will be taken away by pipeline laid under the fields to a tank where lorries can collect it easily, and there is little in the way of regular heavy traffic.

By contrast. a well being fracked is a hub of an enormous amount of activity, well described in the website Frac Focus which shows this photograph of a well being fracked in the US.

 The photo above shows the typical layout of a site that has been prepared for hydraulic fracturing.  The surface facilities and layout typically involve a number of pieces of mobile equipment including fracture fluid storage tanks, sand storage units, chemical trucks, blending equipment and pumping equipment.  All facets of the hydraulic fracturing job from the blending and pumping of the fracture fluids and proppants - solid material, usually sand, that is pumped into fractures to hold them open - to the way the rock formation responds to the fracturing, are managed from a single truck often referred to as the Data Monitoring Van. 
How many lorries a day do you think attend this one site?

Drilling for shale gas normally needs between 40 - 25 acre spacing of pads ie per km2 (250 acres) - 4 to 10 pads.  Each pad has 6 wells. Consequently this is what an area that has been drilled for shale gas looks like.

  

What can go wrong in the fracking process?

This paper summaries the risks as analysed by the EU and the UN Environment Programme here

A full listing of the dangers and disruption that can be caused by fracking appears here.
The major risks and hazards are:
Water Pollution
Air Contamination
Health hazards
Waste disposal
Blowouts, spills and explosions
Earthquakes
Hugely increased transport and heavy transport requirements

The West Virginia Surface Owners' Rights Organisation website has some very clear photographs and diagrams detailing what can go wrong in the fracking process including the risks of ground-water pollution.

Is it really wise to use explosives and huge quantities of water and chemicals to fracture the rocks beneath our precious countryside to extract still more fossil fuel, particularly when the risk and the possible environmental degradation is so potentially severe?

One telling question is why don't the local oil major such as Shell and BP get involved with fracking?*
One reason must be that the companies involved with fracking are have little capital and still less public reputation to lose. iGas for instance has a market capitalisation of £89m and debt of £80m. If things go wrong, companies like this could walk away from the problem in a way that the majors could not.

This does not inspire confidence in a practice that governments such as Wales and Scotland are now putting the brakes on - but not England, where the government seems to be hell-bent on pressing ahead despite growing public disquiet.

* This is how it works. Small companies do some exploration, if proof of gas or oil is found the small company sells out to a large multi-national and the CEO(s) of the small company retire on a white-sanded beach somewhere. Shale gas wells give most of their gas in a mere 3 years, so after that period the big company usually sells off wells to a smaller company that specialises in eeking out the last bits of gas. 

Then that company sells to another, smaller company that attempts to get the dregs. These companies don't have any financial resilience, so when they go under their wells are abandoned. This story has played out across the U.S for decades. Now the country is coated in leaking 'orphaned' wells that are poisoning the soil, water and environment with no-one either responsible or capable of plugging them fast enough to prevent this harm. 

More on 'orphaned' wells here: http://frack-off.org.uk/mounting-evidence-the-harm-caused…/…

Media: http://imarketreports.com/how-orphan-wells-leave-states-hol…

All UK applications and licences: httpa//frack-off.org.uk/…/frack-off.org…/extreme-energy-fullscreen/
See all UK community groups here: httpa//frack-off.org.uk/…/frack-off.or…/local-group-specific-pages/
New UK fracking licensing threat http://frack-off.org.uk/frackers-close-to-getting-their-hands-on-60-of-uk/
See also "An Objectors' Guide to Fracking' by Leigh, Day & Co
Traffic movements 

Finally, in 2019, the government halted all fracking, but left loopholes for it to be attempted in the South-East 

Favourite Recipes - Dark Chunky Marmalade

The finished marmalade cooling outside. The small jars are for those who ask for some!

I love marmalade - the darker and richer the better - and eat it every day for breakfast with soughdough toast. But I have never tried to make it myself until this year. However this January, finding Seville oranges in my local greengrocer, Beccy's, I bought three pounds and posted my intentions on Facebook, looking to my friends for their best recipes. I received several, including one that required a pressure cooker and others that sounded pretty complicated.

In fact, I was given a jar of my sister-in-law's marmalade and thought it the best that I had tasted, and so in the end, decided to follow her recipe which she had from Delia Smith and which involves slow cooking over two days. This is it:

Dark Chunky Marmalade The problem with modern marmalade-making is that today's hobs don't always oblige when it comes to getting large amounts of marmalade up to what old-fashioned cooks called a rolling boil, without which traditional marmalade stubbornly refuses to set. So when, in 1994, I tasted one of the best marmalades ever, I was thrilled to learn that the friend who had made it had cooked it long and slow – which solves the dilemma completely. Here is my version of Mary McDermot's original recipe, and it's the best I've ever tasted.
Makes seven 0.5 litre jars This recipe is taken from Delia Smith’s Winter Collection.	Ingredients  3 lb (1.35 kg) Seville oranges  2 lemons  6 lb (2.7 kg) granulated sugar Equipment You will also need a preserving pan, a 15 inch (38 cm) piece of muslin or double gauze, a nylon sieve, some foil, seven 0.5 litre jars, and some small flat plates to test for setting point.
Method So for stage 1: lightly scrub the fruit then place it in the preserving pan, add 5 pints (3 litres) of water and bring it all up to a gentle simmer. Now take a large piece of double foil, place it over the top of the pan and fold the edges firmly over the rim. What needs to happen is for the fruit to very gently poach without any of the liquid evaporating. This initial simmering will take 3 hours. After this, remove the preserving pan from the heat and allow everything to get cool enough to handle. Then place a large colander over a bowl and, using a draining spoon, lift the fruit out of the liquid and into this. Now cut the oranges in half and scoop out all the inside flesh and pips as well, straight into a medium-sized saucepan. Next do the same with the lemons but discard the peel. Now add 1 pint (570 ml) of the poaching liquid to the fruit pulp, then place the saucepan over a medium heat and simmer for 10 minutes. Have ready a large nylon sieve, lined with gauze, and place it over a bowl, then strain the contents of the saucepan through the sieve. Leave it all like this while it cools and drips through.While you are waiting for it to cool is a good time to deal with the orange peel. Cut the halves of peel into quarters then cut them into chunky strips – the thickness is up to you – according to how you like your marmalade. Add these back into the preserving pan. When the pulp is cool what you need to do next is gather up the corners of the muslin and twist it into a ball, then, using your hands, squeeze all of the pectin-rich juices into the preserving pan. Don't be faint-hearted here – squeeze like mad so that every last bit of stickiness is extracted and you're left only with the pithy membranes of the fruit, which you can now discard. When you have added the strained pectin, just leave all of this overnight, loosely covered with a clean teacloth. Stage 2: the following day, empty the sugar into a large roasting tin lined with foil then place it in a warm oven, gas mark 3, 325°F (170°C), and allow it to warm gently for 10 minutes. Then place the preserving pan and its contents over a gentle heat and as soon as it starts to warm through tip the warmed sugar into the pan to join the rest. Now, using a large wooden spoon, stir the marmalade, keeping the heat gentle, until all the sugar crystals have fully dissolved. What you must not do is let the marmalade boil until all the sugar is completely dissolved. Keep looking at the back of the wooden spoon as you stir and when you are sure there are no more crystals left turn up the heat and let the marmalade bubble away gently – it can take 3-4 hours for it to darken and develop its lovely rich flavour. When the marmalade has been cooking for 2½ hours place some small flat plates in the fridge. Then to test for a set, after 3 hours draw the pan from the heat and spoon a teaspoonful of marmalade on to a chilled plate. Allow it to cool for a minute back in the fridge, then push it with your little finger – if a crinkly skin forms, it has reached setting point. If not, continue cooking and do more testing at 15-minute intervals. When it has set, leave the marmalade to cool for 30 minutes before ladling through a funnel into jars that have been washed thoroughly in warm soapy water, rinsed and dried, then warmed in a medium oven. Seal the jars with waxed discs while they are still hot, then label the next day when cold. Then, as soon as possible, make Chunky Marmalade Bread and Butter Pudding. It's utterly divine!

Inequality - A Growing Problem

Much is true in this article; I have watched pay inequality growing exponentially since the 1980's.  I began work in the City in 1967 on a salary of £1000 a year, when at that time an average CEO's (then called a managing director) salary was only five times as much - £5000 a year. By the early1980's, although then a partner, I was still only earning £25,000 a year. The big changes began in 1986 when 'Big Bang' allowed American financial institutions to buy up the City - the banks, insurance companies and stockbrokers - and soon introduce bonuses.

Bonuses built into one's employment contract were an anathema to old-established businesses and were regarded as immoral - both in the giving of them, as they were liable to twist a person's performance in a particular unintended direction - and the receiving of them. We would have felt insulted to be offered a bonus when we already worked as hard as we could.  In those days exceptional work could be rewarded by some one-off gift - such as the trip on the QEII to New York given to one of my colleagues who had done enormously valuable work on the removal of the wreck of the 'old' Queen Elizabeth in Hong Kong harbour after a fire.  And this is the only example that I can recall. Even now, my old firm avoids bonuses but has has a modest profit-sharing scheme. Furthermore the most senior executives are not paid a disproportionate amount more than those at entry level (probably a multiple of 10), despite the firm being one of the most successful and respected in the City.    

2016: This is a continuing problem. I was glad to come across this article disputing the link between pay and performance https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/dec/27/negligible-link-between-executive-pay-and-firms-performance-says-study