MA Reading List for Children’s & Young Adult Literature
Reading List for Part 1 of the Exam
Fairy Tales
Hans Christian Andersen, “The Little Mermaid”
Charles Perrault, “Cinderella”
Grimm Brothers, “Little Red Cap”
Poems
Isaac Watts, Divine Songs Attempted in Easy Language for the Use of Children
Anna Latecia Barbauld, Hymns in Prose for Children
Edward Lear, “The Owl and the Pussycat,” *selected Limericks
Roald Dahl, Revolting Rhymes
Shel Silverstein, selected poems from Where the Sidewalk Ends
Early Children’s Literature
John Newbery, A Little Pretty Pocket-Book, intended for the Amusement of Little Master Tommy and Pretty Miss Polly with Two Letters from Jack the Giant Killer
Sarah Trimmer, Fabulous Histories and excerpts from The Guardian of Education
Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There
A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit & The Tale of Mr. Tod
Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House on the Prairie
Astrid Lindgren, Pippi Longstocking
E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web
Young Adult Novels
Walter Dean Myers, Monster or Fallen Angels
Judy Blume, Forever
Gene Luen Yang, American Born Chinese
Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give
Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian
Benjamin Alire Saenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Lois Lowry, The Giver
Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X
Picturebooks
Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are
Mo Williems, Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus
Emily Gravett, Again! OR Little Mouse’s Big Book of Fears
Drew Daywalt and Oliver Jeffers, The Day the Crayons Quit
Shaun Tan, The Red Tree
Dr. Seuss, Horton Hears a Who and The Lorax,
John Steptoe, Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale
Francesca Sanna, The Journey
Patricia McKissack & Jerry Pinkney, Mirandy and Brother Wind
Justin Richardson & Peter Parnell, And Tango Makes Three
Exam Part 2
The next time the MA Exam is given in Children’s Literature, the text used for Part 2 will be The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian.