Portal:Children's literature/Selected anniversaries/January

• 4 January 1705 – Death of Madame d'Aulnoy (pictured), who invented the term contes de fée (fairy tale)
• 12 January – Japanese anime series The Story of Pollyanna, Girl of Love, based on Eleanor H. Porter's 1913 novel Pollyanna, begins airing on Fuji TV
• 14 January 1886 – Birth of Hugh Lofting, author of the Doctor Dolittle books
• 25 January 1885 – Birth of Hakushū Kitahara, a popular Japanese poet who collected nursery rhymes
• 30 January 1977 – The first episode of The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries airs on ABC, featuring teenage detectives Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys