LIST OF CHILDREN'S LITERATURE AUTHORS

This is a 'list of important children's literature authors' and their most famous works. For a discussion of the criteria used to define something as a work of children's literature, see children's literature.
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Contents

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See also

A

★ Verna Aardema (born 1911-2001) - ''Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears'' and others

★ Joan Abelove (born 1945)

★ Richard Adams (born 1920) - ''Watership Down''

★ C. S. Adler(born 1932) - ''Magic of the Glits,'' ''Ghost Brother'', and others

★ Aesop - ''Fables''

★ Joan Aiken (1924-2004) - ''Nightbirds on Nantucket'', ''The Wolves of Willoughby Chase''

★ Vivien Alcock (1924-2003) - ''The Haunting of Cassie Palmer''

★ Louisa May Alcott - (1832-1888), ''Little Women''

★ Lloyd Alexander (born 1924) - ''The Black Cauldron'', ''The High King'' (1969 Newbery Medal)

★ Joseph Alexander Altsheler(1862-1919) - ''The Young Trailers Series'', ''The Civil War Series''

★ David Almond - ''Skellig'', ''Kit's Wilderness''

★ Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) - ''Fairy Tales and Stories''

★ K.A. Applegate - ''Animorphs; Remnants; Everworld'' series

★ Victor Appleton - ''Tom Swift''

★ Edward Ardizzone (1900-1979) - ''Tim All Alone'', ''Tim and the Brave Sea Captain'', etc.

★ Laura Adams Armer (1874-1963) - ''Waterless Mountain'' (1932 Newbery Medal)

★ William H. Armstrong (1914-1999) - ''Sounder''

★ Frank Asch (Born 1946) - I Can Blink "Happy Birthday Moon" and others.

★ Harold Avery (1869-1943) - ''The Triple Alliance'' and others.

★ Christopher Awdry (born 1940) - ''The Railway Series No's 27-40'' Thomas the tank engine stories

★ Wilbert Awdry (1911-1997) - ''The Railway Series No's 1-26'' Thomas the tank engine stories

B

★ Natalie Babbitt (born 1932) - ''Tuck Everlasting'', ''The Search for Delicious'', ''The Devil's Storybook''

★ Enid Bagnold (1889-1981) - ''National Velvet''

★ R.M. Ballantyne (1825-1894) - ''The Coral Island''

★ Blue Balliett - ''Chasing Vermeer'',''The Wright 3''

★ Lynne Reid Banks (born 1929) - ''Indian in the Cupboard'' series

★ Helen Bannerman (1862-1946) - ''Little Black Sambo'' (published in 1899)

★ Jill Barklem (born 1951) - ''Brambly Hedge''

★ J. M. Barrie (1860-1937) - ''Peter Pan''

★ T.A. Barron (born 1952) - ''Lost Years of Merlin series''

★ Margaret Stuart Barry (born 1958) - ''Simon and the Witch''

★ Graeme Base (born 1958) - ''Animalia''

★ L. Frank Baum (1856-1919) - ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'' series

★ Nina Bawden (born 1925) - ''Carrie's War''

★ "BB" (D. J. Watkins-Pitchford) (1905-1990) - ''Little Grey Men'', ''Down The Bright Stream''

★ Jerome Beatty Jr - (1916-2002) ''Matthew Looney's Voyage to the Earth''

★ John Bellairs (1938-1991) - ''The House with a Clock in Its Walls''

★ Berechiah ha-Nakdan - ''Mishle Shualim'', ''Fables of a Jewish Aesop''

★ Stan and Jan Berenstain - ''The Berenstain Bears'' series

★ Elisabeth Beresford - ''The Wombles''

★ John Bibee - ''The Spirit Flyer Series

★ Donald Bisset - Talks With A Tiger, Tiger Wants More, 'Oh dear', said Tiger series

★ Holly Black - ''The Spiderwick Chronicles'', ''Tithe'', ''Valiant''

★ Malorie Blackman (born 1962) - ''Noughts & Crosses series''

★ Judy Blume (born 1938) - ''Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret''

★ Enid Blyton (1897-1968) - ''The Noddy books, The Famous Five series, The Secret Seven series, The Magic Faraway Tree series'' etc etc

★ Angela Sommer-Bodenburg ''Little Vampire series''

★ Nancy Bond - Newbery Medal winner, ''A String in the Harp''

★ Michael Bond - ''Paddington Bear'' series

★ Lucy M. Boston - ''Green Knowe'' series

★ James Bow - ''The Unwritten Girl''

★ Gillian Bradshaw (1956-) - historical fiction

★ Christianna Brand - author of ''Nurse Matilda'' series (adapted as ''Nanny McPhee'')

★ Ann Brashares - ''The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Series''

★ Jan Brett (1949-) - ''Trouble with Trolls''

★ Thomas Brezina (born 1963) - ''The Knickerbocker Gang''

★ Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić (1874-1938)

★ Lauren Brooke - author of the Heartland and Chestnut Hill series

★ Walter R. Brooks - the ''Freddy the Pig'' series

★ Marcia Brown - ''Puss in Boots''

★ Margaret Wise Brown (1910-1952) - ''Goodnight Moon'', ''The Runaway Bunny''

★ Susan Taylor Brown - ''Can I Pray With My Eyes Open?'', ''Oliver's Must-Do List'', ''Hugging the Rock''

★ Jean de Brunhoff - ''The Story of Babar''

★ Jan Brzechwa (1900-1966) - one of the two most famous authors of Polish poems for children

★ Anthony Buckeridge - ''Jennings'' school stories

★ Eve Bunting (born 1928) - ''Smoky Night''

★ John Bunyan (1628-1688) - ''Pilgrim's Progress''

★ Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) - ''A Long Trip to Tea Time'', ''The Land Where the Ice Cream Grows''

★ Doris Burn - ''Andrew Henry's Meadow'', ''The Summerfolk''

★ Sheila Burnford - ''The Incredible Journey''

★ Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) - ''A Little Princess'', ''Little Lord Fauntleroy'', ''The Secret Garden''

★ Virginia Lee Burton - ''The Little House'', ''Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel''

★ Betsy Byars - ''Cracker Jackson'', ''Summer of the Swans''

C

★ Meg Cabot - ''The Princess Diaries''

★ Wendy Campbell - ''Doodles the Dodo''

★ Dorothy Canfield Fisher - ''Understood Betsy''

★ Eric Carle - ''The Very Hungry Caterpillar'', ''The Very Busy Spider''

★ Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) (1832-1898) - ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'', ''Through the Looking Glass''

★ Geoffrey Chaucer (ca.1343-1400) - ''Chanticleer the Fox'' (extract from ''Canterbury Tales'')

★ John Christopher (born 1922) - (Pseudonym of Samuel Youd) - ''The Prince in Waiting series, The Tripods trilogy''

★ Matt Christopher (born 1917) - ''Return of the Homerun Kid''

★ Beverly Cleary - ''Ramona Quimby'' series

★ Eoin Colfer - ''Artemis Fowl'' series

★ Carlo "Collodi" Lorenzini - ''The Adventures of Pinocchio''

★ John Amos Comenius - ''Orbis Sesualim Pictis Picture Book''

★ Harriet Theresa Comstock (b. 1860-d. ? ) American.

★ Arthur Conan Doyle - ''The Lost World (Arthur Conan Doyle) Professor Challenger stories''

★ Susan Coolidge - ''What Katie Did books''

★ Barbara Cooney - ''Chanticleer and the Fox'', ''Miss Rumphius''

★ Susan Cooper - ''The Dark Is Rising'' series

★ Zizou Corder - ''Lionboy Series''

★ Emily Costello - ''Animal Emergency'' series

★ John Cotton - ''Milk for Babes''

★ Bruce Coville - ''Space Brat'', My Teacher is an Alien

★ Joy Cowley - ''The Silent One''

★ Palmer Cox - ''The Brownies'' series

★ Joe Craig - The ''Jimmy Coates'' series

★ Sharon Creech - ''Walk Two Moons''

★ Helen Cresswell - ''The Bagthorpe Saga''

★ Richmal Crompton - Just William

★ Michael Cronin - ''Against The Day'' (1998) series

★ István Csukás (born 1936) – ''"Bowl Hat and Potato Nose"'', ''"Dopey the Dragon"'', ''"Tales of Pom Pom"''

D

★ Debbie Dadey - ''the Adventures of the Bailey School Kids series''

★ Roald Dahl (1916-1990) - ''Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'', ''James and the Giant Peach'', ''Matilda'', ''The Witches''

★ Lucy Daniels - ''Animal Ark''

★ Paula Danziger

★ Alan Davidson - The ''Annabel'' books, ''Light''

★ Lavinia Riker Davis {1909-1961} ''The Wild Birthday Cake''

★ Edmondo De Amicis - ''Cuore'' (''Heart'')

★ Walter de la Mare

★ Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) - ''Robinson Crusoe''

★ Charles Dickens (1812-1870) - ''A Christmas Carol''

★ Peter Dickinson - ''The Changes'' trilogy.

★ Anne Digby - ''Trebizon'' series

★ Thomas M. Disch - ''The Brave Little Toaster'', ''The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars''

★ Kate DiCamillo - ''Because of Winn Dixie'', ''The Tale of Despereaux'', ''The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane''

★ Franklin W. Dixon - ''The Hardy Boys'' series

★ Lynley Dodd - ''Hairy Maclary''

★ Mary Mapes Dodge - ''Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates''

★ V. H. Drummond - ''The Flying Postman''

★ Crescent Dragonwagon

★ Diane Duane - ''So You Want to Be a Wizard''

★ Tessa Duder - ''Alex Series''

★ Joseph Duval - ''Blaze the Adventure Greyhound''

★ William Pène du Bois - ''The Twenty-One Balloons''

★ Lois Duncan - ''I Know What You Did Last Summer''; ''A Gift of Magic''

E

★ Edward Eager - ''Half Magic''; ''Magic by the Lake''; ''Knight's Castle''; ''The Time Garden''; ''The Well-Wishers''; ''Magic or Not''; ''Seven-Day Magic'' (in suggested reading order, not publication date order)

★ Edward Wyke Smith - ''The Marvelous Land Of Snergs''

★ Martin Ebbertz - ''Little Mr. Jaromir''

★ Dorothy Edwards - ''The Magician Who Kept A Pub and other stories''

★ T.S. Elliot - ''Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats''

★ Julie Andrews Edwards - ''The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles''

★ Michael Ende - ''The Neverending Story'', ''Momo''

★ Eleanor Estes- ''The Middle Moffat'', ''Rufus M.'', ''The Hundred Dresses'', ''Ginger Pye''

★ Juliana Horatia Ewing - ''A Flat Iron for a Farthing'', ''The Story of a Short Life''

F

★ John Meade Falkner - ''Moonfleet''

★ Walter Farley-''The Black Stallion'' series

★ Eleanor Farjeon - Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard

★ Penelope Farmer - ''Charlotte Sometimes''

★ Eugene Field - ''Wynken, Blynken, and Nod''

★ Anne Fine - ''Goggle Eyes'', ''Madame Doubtfire'', ''The Flour Babies''

★ John D. Fitzgerald - ''The Great Brain'' series

★ Louise Fitzhugh - ''Harriet the Spy''

★ Marjorie Flack (1897-1958) - ''The Story of Ping'', ''Angus and the Ducks''

★ Sid Fleischman - ''The Whipping Boy''

★ Ian Fleming (1908-1964) - ''Chitty Chitty Bang Bang''

★ Esther Forbes - ''Johnny Tremain''

★ Antonia Forest - ''Autumn Term'', and others in the Marlow Family series

★ Anne Frank (1929-1945) - ''The Diary of a Young Girl''

★ Fynn - ''Mr. God, This is Anna''

★ Cornelia Funke - ''The Thief Lord'' and ''inkheart'' seiries and other children's books

G

★ Arkady Gaidar - ''Timur and His Squad''

★ Neil Gaiman - ''Coraline''

★ Paul Gallico - ''The Snow Goose; Jenny''

★ Cathrine Garnell - ''Basil the Bionic Cat'' series

★ Alan Garner - ''The Owl Service'', ''The Weirdstone of Brisingamen'', ''The Moon of Gomrath'', ''Elidor'', ''Red Shift'' etc.

★ Jean Craighead George - ''My Side of the Mountain''

★ Fred Gipson - ''Old Yeller''

★ Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774) - ''The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes'' (see also Goody)

★ Elizabeth Goudge - ''The Little White Horse''

★ Harry Graham (1874-1936) - ''Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes''

★ Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932) - ''The Wind in the Willows''

★ Hardie Gramatky - ''Little Toot''

★ John Grant - ''Little Nose'' stories

★ Kate Greenaway - ''Under the Window''

★ Kristiana Gregory - ''Earthquake at Dawn'', ''The Stowaway''

★ Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm - ''Grimm's Fairy Tales''

★ Maria Gripe

★ Johnny Gruelle - ''Raggedy Ann'' series

H

★ Mark Haddon - ''The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time'' (2003 Whitbread Awards)

★ Virginia Hamilton - ''M. C. Higgins the Great'' (1975 Newbery Medal)

★ Leif Hamre (b. 1914), Norwegian. (See ).

★ Daniel Handler - pen name ''Lemony Snicket'' - ''A Series of Unfortunate Events''

★ Roger Hargreaves (1935-1988) - the ''Mr. Men'' and ''Little Miss'' series

★ Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908) - ''Uncle Remus''

★ Juanita Havill - The ''Jamaica'' books, ''Eyes Like Willy's''

★ Charles Hawes - ''The Dark Frigate'' (1924 Newbery Medal)

★ Annie Helm (born 1938)

★ Marguerite Henry - ''King of the Wind'' (1949 Newbery Medal), ''Misty of Chincoteague''

★ Zenna Henderson - Stories of "The People"

★ James Herriot (1916-1995) - ''All Creatures Great and Small''

★ Karen Hesse (born 1952) - ''Out of the Dust'' (1998 Newbery Medal)

★ E.W. Hildick - McGurk Mysteries

★ S.E. Hinton - ''The Outsiders''

★ Russell Hoban - ''The Mouse and His Child''

★ Mary Hoffman - ''Stravaganza'' series

★ Christophe Honoré - Tout contre Léo

★ Anthony Horowitz - ''Alex Rider series; The Diamond Brothers Series''

★ Ted Hughes - ''The Iron Man (filmed as 'The Iron Giant')''

★ Thomas Hughes - ''Tom Brown's School Days''

★ Irene Hunt - ''Up a Road Slowly'' (1967 Newbery Medal)

★ Norman Hunter - Professor Branestawm series

I

★ Eva Ibbotson - ''Which Witch?; The Secret of Platform 13''

★ Laura Ingalls Wilder - ''Little House on the Prairie'' series

J

★ Joseph Jacobs - ''English Fairy Tales'', ''Favorite Celtic Fairy Tales''

★ Grace James - the ''John and Mary'' series

★ Farhat Jamshed - ''Little Tatu'' & ''Tatu's World''

★ James Janeway - ''A Token For Children''

★ Brian Jacques - The ''Redwall'' series

★ Éva Janikovszky (born 1926) – ''If I Were a Grown-Up'', ''Who Does This Kid Take After?'' [1]

★ Tove Jansson - The Moomin books

★ Paul Jennings - ''The 'Un' series of books eg Undone!, Unbelievable! etc''

★ W. E. Johns - ''Biggles series''

★ Marcia Thornton Jones - ''the Adventures of the Bailey School Kids series''

★ Diana Wynne Jones (born 1934) - ''the Chrestomanci series; Howl's Moving Castle''

★ Jacqueline Jules -- The Ziz series: ''The Hardest Word'', ''Noah and the Ziz,'' ''The Ziz and the Hanukkah Miracle''

★ Norton Juster - ''The Phantom Tollbooth''

K

★ Ulrich Karger (born 1957) - ''The Scary Sleepover''

★ Jan Karon (born 1937) - ''Miss Fannie's Hat''

★ Erich Kästner - ''Emil and the Detectives'', ''Lottie and Lisa'' (filmed as ''The Parent Trap'')

★ Elizabeth Kay - ''The Divide trilogy''

★ Ezra Jack Keats - ''The Snowy Day'' (1963 Caldecott Medal)

★ Carolyn Keene - The Nancy Drew mystery series

★ Charles Keeping - ''Charley, Charlotte and the Golden Canary''

★ Harold Keith - ''Rifles for Watie'' (1958 Newbery Medal)

★ Eric P. Kelly - ''The Trumpeter of Krakow'' (1929 Newbery Medal)

★ Judith Kerr - ''When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit''

★ Clive King - ''Stig of the Dump''

★ Dick King-Smith - ''The Sheep-Pig'' a.k.a. ''Babe, the Gallant Pig''

★ Charles Kingsley - ''The Water Babies''

★ Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) - ''Just So Stories'', ''The Jungle Book'', ''Puck of Pook's Hill''

★ Annette Curtis Klause - ''Blood and Chocolate''

★ E. L. Konigsburg - ''From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler'' (1968 Newbery Medal), ''The View from Saturday'' (1997 Newbery Medal)

★ Erik P. Kraft - ''Chocolatina, Lenny and Mel'' series, ''Miracle Wimp''

★ Joseph Krumgold - ''...And Now Miguel'' (1954 Newbery Medal), ''Onion John'' (1960 Newbery Medal)

L

★ Selma Lagerlöf (1858-1940) - ''The Wonderful Adventures of Nils''

★ Andrew Lang (1844-1912) - ''The Blue Fairy Book''

★ Kirby Larson - ''The Magic Kerchief''

★ Kathryn Lasky - ''Guardians of Ga'hoole'' series

★ Caroline Lawrence - ''The Roman Mysteries''

★ Robert Lawson - ''Rabbit Hill'', ''Ben and Me''

★ Ervin Lázár (born 1936) – ''"The Seven Headed Fairy"'', ''"The Little Boy and the Lions"'', ''"The Square Round Wood"''

★ Munro Leaf - ''The Story of Ferdinand''

★ Edward Lear (1812-1888) - "The Owl and the Pussycat", ''A Book of Nonsense''

★ Dennis Lee - ''Alligator Pie''

★ Ursula K. Le Guin (born 1929) - ''A Wizard of Earthsea'', ''Catwings'', ''Very Far Away From Anyplace Else'', ''Gifts''

★ Madeleine L'Engle (born 1918) - ''A Wrinkle in Time''

★ Gail Carson Levine - ''Ella Enchanted''

★ Ted Lewin - ''Peppe the Lamplighter''

★ C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) - ''The Chronicles of Narnia''

★ Suzanne Lieurance - ''Shoelaces'' (with Patrick Girouard)

★ Astrid Lindgren (1907-2002) - ''Pippi Longstocking''

★ Penelope Lively - ''The Ghost of Thomas Kempe''

★ Hugh Lofting (1886-1947) - ''The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle''

★ Jack London - ''The Call of the Wild; White Fang''

★ Lois Lowry - ''The Giver''

★ Mary Beth Lundgren - ''Love, Sara; Seven Scary Monsters''

M

★ Betty MacDonald - the ''Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle'' series

★ George Macdonald - ''At the Back of the North Wind'', '' The Princess and the Goblin''

★ Reginald James MacGregor- ''The Young Detectives''

★ D.J. MacHale - ''The Pendragon Adventures''

★ Sandra Magsamen - ''The Gift''

★ Margaret Mahy - ''The Changeover ;Maddigans Fantasia''

★ Hector Malot - ''Nobody's Boy'' (''Sans Famille'')

★ Ruth Manning-Sanders - numerous anthologies of fairy tales from around the world

★ Frederick Marryat - ''The Children of the New Forest''

★ John Marsden - ''The Tomorrow series''

★ Edward Marshall - ''Fox'' series (''Fox in Love'', ''Fox and His Friends'', etc.)

★ James Marshall - ''Fox'' series (''Fox in Love'', ''Fox and His Friends'', etc.)

★ Ann M. Martin - ''The Baby-sitters Club'' series

★ Robert Martin - ''Joey'' series [''Joey and the River Pirates'']

★ J.P. Martin (1880-1966) - ''Uncle'' series

★ Cotton Mather - ''A Token for the Children of New England''

★ André Maurois - ''Fattypuffs and Thinifers'' (Patapoufs et Filifers)

★ Julian May

★ Mercer Mayer

★ William Mayne - ''A Swarm in May, A Grass Rope, Earthfasts, Low Tide''

★ Robert McCloskey - ''Make Way for Ducklings'', ''Blueberries for Sal''

★ Patricia McCord (formerly Pat Mauser) - ''Pictures in the Dark''

★ Sophie McKenzie - ''Girl, Missing''

★ Robin McKinley - ''The Hero and the Crown'', ''The Blue Sword''

★ Geoffrey McSkimming - ''Cairo Jim'' series

★ Milton Meltzer history book author

★ A. A. Milne (1882-1956) - ''Winnie-the-Pooh'', ''The House at Pooh Corner''

★ Olive Beaupre Miller (1883 - 1968) - ''My Book House'' series and publisher The Bookhouse for Children

★ Walter Moers - ''The Thirteen and a Half Lives of Captain Bluebear''

★ Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942) - ''Anne of Green Gables'', ''Emily of New Moon''

★ Clement Clarke Moore (1779-1863) - ''A Visit From St. Nicholas''

★ Keith Moreau (born 1951) - ''ABC Fun Things Book''

★ John A. Moroso (1874-1957) - ''Nobody's Buddy''

★ Michael Morpurgo (1943-) ''Why the Whales Came''

★ Caryl Cude Mullin - ''A Riddle of Roses''

★ Robert Munsch - ''Love You Forever''

★ Jill Murphy - ''The Worst Witch''

★ Andrew Murray - ''Ghost Rescue''

★ Susan Musgrave - ''Gullband, Dreams Are More Real Than Bathtubs''

★ Julie Muszynski - ''Henley: A New York Tail''

N

★ Božena Němcová (1820 - 1862), a famous Czech writer

★ Edith Nesbit (1858-1924) - ''The Railway Children'', ''Five Children and It'', ''The Phoenix and the Carpet'', ''The Story of the Amulet''

★ John Newbery - ''A Little Pretty Pocket-Book Intended for the Instruction and Amusement of Little Master Tommy and Pretty Miss Molly''

★ Garth Nix - ''Sabriel'' and sequels; ''The Keys to the Kingdom series''

★ Joan Lowery Nixon - many mystery stories; the ''Orphan Train'' series

★ Jessica Nelson North MacDonald - ''The Giant Shoe'', and others

★ Sterling North - ''Rascal'', ''The Wolfing'', and many other

★ Mary Norton - ''The Borrowers series''

O

★ Graham Oakley - ''Church Mice'' series, ''Magical Changes''

★ Robert C. O'Brien - ''Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH'', ''Z for Zachariah''

★ Scott O'Dell - ''Island of the Blue Dolphins''

★ Sally Odgers - ''Candle Iron''

★ Timothy Olsen - ''The Teenage Investor''

★ Kenneth Oppel -''Airborn''

★ Pat O'Shea - ''The Hounds of the Morrigan''

★ Uri Orlev

★ Mary Pope Osborne - ''Magic Treehouse series''

★ Elsie J. Oxenham - the ''Abbey Girls'' series and many others

★ Daniel Patrick O'Reilly

P

★ Christopher Paolini - ''Inheritance Trilogy''

★ Barbara Park

★ Peter Parnall (1936-)

★ Katherine Paterson - ''Bridge to Terabithia''

★ Korky Paul

★ Michelle Paver - ''Chronicles of Ancient Darkness Series''

★ Philippa Pearce (1920-2006) - ''Tom's Midnight Garden'' and other children's books.

★ Ethel Pedley - ''Dot and the Kangaroo''

★ Bill Peet (1915-2002) - ''Hubert's Hair-Raising Adventure''

★ Daniel Pennac

★ Lynne Rae Perkins (1956-) - ''Criss Cross (2006 Newbery Medal)

★ Charles Perrault (1628-1703) - ''Tales of Mother Goose''

★ Ela Peroci (1922 - 2001), one of the best-loved children's authors of Slovenia

★ George E. Peterson, Jr. (born 1965) - Wonderful Stories From Skog Forest (series)

★ Rodman Philbrick (1951-) ''Freak The Mighty''

★ Tamora Pierce (born 1954) - ''Tortall books, Circle of Magic books''

★ Christopher Pike - ''Spooksville series''

★ Dav Pilkey - ''Captain Underpants'' series

★ Daniel Pinkwater

★ Peter Pohl (1940-)

★ Eleanor H. Porter - ''Pollyanna''

★ Tracey Porter

★ Beatrix Potter (1866-1943) - ''The Tale of Peter Rabbit''

★ Ellen Potter - ''Olivia Kidney''

★ Terry Pratchett - ''The Bromeliad'', the ''Johnny Maxwell'' series, ''The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents'', the ''Tiffany Aching'' series

★ Otfried Preussler (1923-) - ''The Robber Hotzenplotz''

★ Willard Price - ''The Adventure Series''

★ Philip Pullman (b. 1946) - ''His Dark Materials'' trilogy

R

★ Janette Rallison (born 1966)

★ Arthur Ransome (1884-1967) - ''Swallows and Amazons series''

★ Marjorie Rawlings - ''The Yearling''

★ W. Maxwell Reed (1871-1962) - ''The Earth for Sam'', ''The Stars for Sam'', etc.

★ H.A. Rey (1898-1977) - (with Margret Rey) ''Curious George'' series

★ Jamie Rix (born 1958) - ''Alistair Fury'' and ''Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids'' series

★ Emily Rodda aka Jennifer Rowe - ''Deltora Quest Series''

★ Michael Rosen (1946-) poet

★ Diana Ross (1910-2000) - The Little Red Engine series

★ J. K. Rowling (born 1965) - ''Harry Potter'' series

★ Salman Rushdie (born 1947) - ''Haroon and the Sea of Stories''

★ Paul Ryan - ''The Alpha Force Books''

★ Pam Muñoz Ryan - ''Esperanza Rising''

S

★ Louis Sachar - ''Sideways Stories From Wayside School'' series, ''Holes''

★ Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944) - ''The Little Prince''

★ Margaret Marshall Saunders (1861-1947) - ''Beautiful Joe''

★ Malcolm Saville - ''Lone Pine Club'' series

★ Allen Say (1937- ) - ''Grandfather's Journey'' (1994 Caldecott Medal winner), ''The Ink-keeper's Apprentice''

★ Richard Scarry (1919-1994) - ''Busytown'' series

★ George Selden - ''The Cricket in Times Square'' series

★ Maurice Sendak (born 1928) - ''Where the Wild Things Are''

★ Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel) - ''The Cat in the Hat''

★ Anna Sewell (1820-1878) - ''Black Beauty''

★ Mary Shelley (1797-1851) - ''Maurice, or the Fisher's Cot''

★ Gary Shipman (born 1966) - ''Pakkins' Land''

★ Rhoda Shipman (born 1968) - ''Pakkins' Land''

★ Mark Shulman (born 1962) - ''Mom and Dad are Palindromes'', ''Secret Hiding Places''

★ Shel Silverstein (1930-1999) - ''The Giving Tree'', ''Where the Sidewalk Ends''

★ Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902-1991) - ''Stories for Children''

★ Marilyn Singer (1948-) - ''Turtle in July'' [2]

★ Francesca Simon (born 1955) - ''Horrid Henry'' series

★ William Sleator - science fiction stories (see also list of science fiction authors)

★ Barbara Sleigh - ''Carbonel series''

★ Dodie Smith - ''101 Dalmatians''

★ Lemony Snicket (pen name of Daniel Handler) - ''A Series of Unfortunate Events''

★ Zilpha Keatley Snyder - ''The Egypt Game''

★ Donald J. Sobol - ''Encyclopedia Brown'' series

★ Johanna Spyri (1827-1901) - ''Heidi''

★ Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) - ''A Child's Garden of Verses'', ''Treasure Island'', ''Kidnapped (book)''

★ Jennifer J. Stewart - ''If That Breathes Fire We're Toast'', ''The Bean King's Daughter'', ''Close Encounters of a Third World Kind''

★ Paul Stewart (writer) - ''The Edge Chronicles''

★ R. L. Stine (born 1943) - ''Goosebumps; The Nightmare Room; Fear Street'' series

★ Frank R. Stockton (1834-1902) - The Lady or the Tiger?

★ Walter Scott Story (1879-1955) - ''Skinny Harrison Adventurer''

★ Todd Strasser (author) - ''Help! I'm Trapped...''

★ Edward Stratemeyer - (see Victor Appleton, Carolyn Keene, Franklin W. Dixon)

★ Noel Streatfeild - ''Ballet Shoes''

★ Jonathan Stroud - ''The Bartimaeus Trilogy''

★ Rosemary Sutcliff (1920-1992) - historical fiction

★ Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) - ''Gulliver's Travels''

T

★ Kate Thompson - ''The New Policeman''

★ Ruth Plumly Thompson (1891-1976)

★ James Thurber (1894-1961) - ''The Thirteen Clocks'', ''The Wonderful "O"'', ''Many Moons''

★ Annette Tison/Talus Taylor - the ''Barbapapa'' books

★ H. E. Todd - ''Bobby Brewster'' novels, plus others

★ Barbara Euphan Todd (1890-1976) ''Worzel Gummidge'' and nine other Worzel Gummidge books.

★ J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) - ''The Hobbit''

★ Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1883–1945) - ''The Adventures of Buratino or The Golden Key'',

★ Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) - ''Classic Tales and Fables for Children''

★ Nigel Tranter (1909-2000) - wrote 12 adventure stories aimed at 8/10 year olds

★ Pamela Travers - ''Mary Poppins''

★ Geoffrey Trease (1909-1998) - ''Cue for Treason'' and other historical fiction

★ Henry Treece (1911-1966) - ''Horned Helmet'', ''The Road to Miklagard'' many other books for children.

★ Ethel Turner - ''Seven Little Australians''

★ Julian Tuwim (1894-1953) - one of the two most famous authors of Polish poems for children

★ Mark Twain - ''The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn''

V

★ Rachel Vail - ''Wonder'' and ''Do-Over''

★ Chris Van Allsburg - ''Jumanji; The Polar Express''

★ Hendrik Willem van Loon - ''The Story of Mankind''

★ Wendelin Van Draanen - ''Sammy Keyes'' series and ''Flipped''

★ Shreekumar Varma

★ Jules Verne (1828-1905) - ''Journey to the Center of the Earth; Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea''

★ Heiki Vilep (1960) - ''The Sounds of Silence'', ''The Monsters of the Closet Door''

★ Rene Villanueva (1954) - ''Ang Unang Baboy Sa Langit'' (''The First Pig In Heaven'')

★ Judith Viorst - ''Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day''

★ John Vornholt - The ''Troll King'' books

W

★ Lea Wait: ''Stopping to Home'', ''Wintering Well''; a series of historical novels set in Maine.

★ Judy Waite: ''Mouse Look Out''

★ Vivian Walsh - ''Olive, The Other Reindeer'', "Gluey", "Penguin Dreams", "Going to the Getty", "the Mr. Lunch series"

★ Jennifer Ward - ''Way Out in the Desert'' and other Southwestern picture books

★ Robert Westall - ''The Machine Gunners'', ''Fathom Five'', ''The Scarecrows''

★ Scott Westerfeld - ''Midnighters'' trilogy, ''Peeps'', ''The Last Days'', ''Uglies'' trilogy

★ John F.C. Westerman (1901-?), English

★ Percy F. Westerman (1876-1959), English

★ E.B. White (1899-1985) - ''Charlotte's Web'', ''Stuart Little'', ''The Trumpet of the Swan''

★ Kate Douglas Wiggin (1856-1923) - ''Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm''

★ Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) - ''The Selfish Giant'', ''The Happy Prince and Other Stories''

★ Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957) - ''Little House on the Prairie''

★ Margery Williams - ''The Velveteen Rabbit'', ''Poor Cecco''

★ Ursula Moray Williams - ''The Little Wooden Horse'', ''Gobbolino the Witch's Cat''

★ Henry Williamson - (1895-1977) ''Tarka the Otter''

★ Frank Wilson - ''Gleda and the Sparkling-Cloth''

★ Henry Winkler - Hank Zipzer Series

★ Jacqueline Wilson - ''Girls In Love'', ''Double Act'', ''The Story of Tracy Beaker''

★ Patricia Wrede - ''The Enchanted Forest Chronicles''

★ Dare Wright - ''The Lonely Doll''

★ Patricia Wrightson - ''The Nargun and The Stars''

Y

★ Laurence Yep - Golden Mountain Chronicles series, ''Ribbons''

★ Jane Yolen - the Commander Toad series, the Dragon's Blood series

★ Ed Young - ''Lon Po Po'', ''Seven Blind Mice''

Z

★ Paul Zindel - ''Pardon Me, You're Stepping on My Eyeball''

★ Charlotte Zolotow

See also

★ Lists of writers

★ List of children's non-fiction writers

★ Children's literature

★ Children's literature canon

★ Children's literature timeline

★ List of children's classic books

★ Fairytale

★ List of fairy tales

★ Young adult literature

★ List of young adult authors

★ List of children's book illustrators

★ Caldecott Medal

★ Carnegie Medal

★ Newbery Medal
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