The Children's Hour

The Children's Hour may refer to:

Literature

• The Children's Hour (play), a 1934 stage play by Lillian Hellman
• "The Children's Hour" (poem), a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, published in The Atlantic Monthly in September 1860
• The Children's Hour, a 16-volume set of books containing stories appropriate for children and youths, published in 1953 and edited by Marjorie Barrows
• The Children's Hour, a novelette by Jerry Pournelle and S.M. Stirling, part of the Man-Kzin Wars series
• The Children's Hour, a novel, part of the Man-Kzin Wars series, an expansion of the novelette
• The Children's Hour (Australian magazine), published by S.A. Education Department
• The Children's Hour (magazine), a children's magazine published by T. S. Arthur & Son, Philadelphia in the 1870s.
• Arthur Mee's Children's Hour (1928), an anthology of poems, stories and pictures by Arthur Mee

Film and television

• The Children's Hour (film) (1961), an adaptation of the Hellman play with Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, and James Garner
• These Three (1936), an earlier adaptation of the Hellman play starring Miriam Hopkins, Merle Oberon, and Joel McCrea
• The Children's Hour (TV program), a long-running American children's television program that aired in Dallas, Texas from 1970 to 1992, hosted by Bill Kelley

Radio

• The Children's Hour (later known as just Children's Hour), a BBC radio programme for children, broadcast from 1922 until 1964
• The Children's Hour (Australian radio), an ABC program incorporating The Argonauts' Club
• The Children's Hour (radio comedy), a BBC Radio 4 comedy programme
• The Horn and Hardart Children's Hour (later known as just The Children's Hour), a radio and, later, a television program of the 1920s-1950s

Music

• "The Children's Hour", a song for voice & piano, S. 227 (K. 6B38) by Charles Ives