List of children's literature authors: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

List of important Children's literature authors and their most famous works. For a discussion of the criteria for a children's book, see Children's literature. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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• Verna Aardema, (B. 1911) - Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears and others
• Richard Adams,(born 1920) - Watership Down
• Aesop - Fables
• Joan Aiken,(1924-2004) - Nightbirds on Nantucket, The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
• Louisa May Alcott - (1832-1888), Little Women
• Lloyd Alexander - The Black Cauldron, The High King (1969 Newbery Medal)
• David Almond - Skellig, Kit's Wilderness
• Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) Fairy Tales and Stories
• K.A. Applegate - Animorphs (series) (1996)
• Victor Appleton, Jr. - Tom Swift
• Edward Ardizzone - Tim All Alone, Tim and the Brave Sea Captain, etc.
• Laura Adams Armer - Waterless Mountain (1932 Newbery Medal)
• William H. Armstrong - Sounder

• Natalie Babbit - Tuck Everlasting, The Search for Delicious
• Enid Bagnold - National Velvet
• Lynne Reid Banks - Indian in the Cupboard series
• Helen Bannerman - Little Black Sambo (published in 1899, no longer politically correct)
• J. M. Barrie, (1860-1937), Peter Pan
• Graham Base - Animalia
• L. Frank Baum, (1856-1919), The Wonderful Wizard of Oz et seq
• "BB" (D. J. Watkins-Pitchford) Little Grey Men, Down The Bright Stream etc.
• Nina Bawden - Carrie's War
• John Bellairs, (1938-1991)
• Berechiah ha-Nakdan - Mishle Shualim, Fables of a Jewish Aesop
• Jan and Stan Berenstain - The Berenstain Bears series
• Elisabeth Beresford - The Wombles
• Carol Biberstein - Great Grandma's Rocking Chair
• Judy Blume, (born 1938), Are You There God, It's Me Margaret
• Enid Blyton, (1896-1968), Noddy, Secret Seven and Famous Five series
• Michael Bond - Paddington Bear series
• Frank Bonham, (1914-1988)
• Lucy M. Boston - Green Knowe series
• Thomas Brezina, (born 1968)
• Walter R. Brooks - the Freddy the Pig series
• Jean de Brunhoff - The Story of Babar
• Marcia Brown - Puss in Boots,
• Anthony Buckeridge - Jennings school stories
• Sheila Burnford - The Incredible Journey
• John Bunyan, (1628-1688), Pilgrim's Progress
• Frances Hodgson Burnett,(1849-1924) - A Little Princess, Little Lord Fauntleroy, The Secret Garden
• Virginia Lee Burton - Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel
• Betsy Byars - Cracker Jackson, The Summer of the Swans

• Dorothy Canfield Fisher - Understood Betsy
• Lewis Carroll, (1832-1898), Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass
• Eric Carle - The Very Hungry Caterpillar
• Geoffrey Chaucer, (ca.1343-1400), Chanticleer the Fox (extract from Canterbury Tales)
• John Christopher,(born 1922)(Psedonym of Samuel Youd) - The Prince in Waiting series, The Tripods series
• Beverly Cleary - Ramona Quimby series
• Eion Colfer - Artemis Fowl series
• Carlo "Collodi" Lorenzini - The Adventures of Pinocchio
• John Amos Comenus - Orbis Sesualim Pictis Picture Book
• Jane Leslie Conly - Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
• Susan Cooper - The Dark is Rising series
• John Cotton - Milk for Babes
• Bruce Coville - Space Brat
• Palmer Cox - The Brownies series
• Sharon Creech - Walk Two Moons
• Richmal Crompton - Just William

• Roald Dahl, (1916-1990), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, The Witches
• Paula Danziger
• Edmondo De Amicis, Cuore (Heart)
• Daniel Defoe, (1660-1731), Robinson Crusoe
• Charles Dickens, (1812-1870), A Christmas Carol
• Peter Dickinson, The Changes trilogy.
• Thomas M. Disch - The Brave Little Toaster, The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars
• Franklin W. Dixon - The Hardy Boys series
• Mary Mapes Dodge - Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates
• William Pène du Bois - The Twenty-One Balloons
• Diane Duane - So You Want to be a Wizard
• Lois Duncan - I Know what You Did Last Summer; A Gift of Magic

• Julie Andrews Edwards - The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles
• Edward Eager - Half Magic; Magic or Not
• Martin Ebbertz - Little Mr. Jaromir
• Michael Ende - The Neverending Story, Momo

• Walter Farley-The Black Stallion series
• Eugene Field - Wynken, Blynken, and Nod
• Anne Fine - Goggle Eyes
• John D. Fitzgerald - The Great Brain series
• Louise Fitzhugh - Harriet the Spy
• Ian Fleming, (1908-1964), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
• Esther Forbes - Johny Tremain
• Anne Frank, (1929-1945), The Diary of a Young Girl
• Fynn - Mr. God, This is Anna

• Neil Gaiman - Coraline
• Paul Gallico - Jenny
• Alan Garner - The Owl Service, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, The Moon of Gomrath, Elidor, Red Shift etc.
• Jean George - My Side of the Mountain
• Fred Gipson - Old Yeller
• Oliver Goldsmith, (1730-1774), The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes
• 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
• Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm - Grimm's Fairy Tales
• Johnny Gruelle - Raggedy Ann series
• Maria Gripe

• Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (2004 Whitbread Award)
• Virginia Hamilton, M. C. Higgins, the Great (1975 Newbery Medal)
• 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
• Charles Hawes, The Dark Frigate (1924 Newbery Medal)
• Marguerite Henry - King of the Wind (1949 Newbery Medal), Misty of Chincoteague
• James Herriot, (1916-1995), All Things Bright and Beautiful
• Karen Hesse, (born 1952) - Out of the Dust (1998 Newbery Medal)
• E.W. Hildick
• S.E. Hinton - The Outsiders
• Russell Hoban - The Mouse and His Child
• Irene Hunt, Up a Pond Slowly (1967 Newbery Medal)

• Eva Ibbotson - Which Witch?
• Laura Ingalls Wilder - Little House on the Prairie series

• Tove Jansson - The Moomin books
• Joseph Jacobs - English Fairy Tales, Favorite Celtic Fairy Tales
• Diana Wynne Jones, (born 1934), the Chrestomanci Novels
• Norton Juster -- The Phantom Tollbooth

• Jan Karon, (born 1937)
• Ulrich Karger, (born 1957)
• Erich Kästner - Emil and the Detectives, Lisa and Lottie (filmed as The Parent Trap)
• Ezra Jack Keats - The Snowy Day
• Harold Keith - Rifles for Watie (1958 Newbery Medal)
• Carolyn Keene - The Nancy Drew mystery series
• Eric P. Kelly - The Trumpeter of Krakow (1929 Newbery Medal)
• Noor Inyat Khan
• Charles Kingsley - The Water Babies
• Rudyard Kipling, (1865-1936), Just So Stories, The Jungle Book, Puck of Pook's Hill
• Annette Curtis Klause - Alien Secrets
• E. L. Konigsburg - From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (1968 Newbery Medal), The View from Saturday (1997 Newbery Medal)
• Joseph Krumgold - And Now Miguel (1954 Newbery Medal), Onion John (1960 Newbery Medal)

• Andrew Lang, (1844-1912), fairy tale collections
• Robert Lawson - Rabbit Hill, Ben and Me
• Munro Leaf - The Story of Ferdinand
• Edward Lear, (1812-1888), A Book of Nonsense
• Dennis Lee - Alligator Pie
• Madeleine L'Engle,(born 1918) - A Wrinkle in Time
• Gail Carson Levine - Ella Enchanted
• Suzanne Lieurance, Patrick Girouard - Shoelaces
• Ursula K. Le Guin, (born 1929), A Wizard of Earthsea
• C.S. Lewis, (1898-1963), The Chronicles of Narnia
• Astrid Lindgren, (1907-2002), Pippi Longstocking
• Hugh Lofting, (1886-1947), The Voyage of Dr. Doolittle etc.
• Lois Lowry - The Giver

• Betty MacDonald - the Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle series
• Margaret Mahy - The Changeover
• Hector Malot - Nobody's Boy (Sans Famille)
• John Marsden - the Tomorrow series
• Ann Martin - The Baby-Sitters Club series
• J.P. Martin, (1880-1966), Uncle series
• Andre Maurois - Fattypuffs and Thinifers (Patapoufs et Filifers)
• Julian May
• Robert McCloskey - Make Way for Ducklings, Blueberries for Sal
• Robin McKinley - The Hero and the Crown, The Blue Sword
• A.A. Milne,(1882-1956) - Winnie the Pooh
• Lucy Maud Montgomery, (1874-1942), Anne of Green Gables
• Walter Moers
• Keith Moreau, (born 1951), ABC Fun Things Book
• Clement Clarke Moore,(1779-1863) - A Visit From St. Nicholas
• Robert Munsch - Love You Forever - full audio text read by author available at http://www.robertmunsch.com/storytime.cfm.
• Jill Murphy - The Worst Witch

• 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
• Joan Lowery Nixon - many mystery stories; the Orphan Train series
• Mary Norton - The Borrowers books

• Robert C. O'Brien - Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, Z for Zachariah
• Scott O'Dell - Island of the Blue Dolphins
• Mary Pope Osbourne - Magic Treehouse series

• Barbara Park
• Korky Paul
• Ethel Pedley - Dot and the Kangaroo
• Bill Peet, (1915-2002), Hubert's Hair-Raising Adventure
• Charles Perrault, (1628-1703), Tales of Mother Goose
• Tamora Pierce, (born 1954) Tortall books, Circle of Magic books
• Dav Pilkey - Captain Underpants series
• Daniel Pinkwater
• Beatrix Potter, (1866-1943), The Tale of Peter Rabbit
• 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

• Arthur Ransome, (1884-1967), Swallows and Amazons series
• Marjorie Rawlings - The Yearling
• H. A. Rey, (1898-1977), and Margret Rey - Curious George
• J. K. Rowling, (born 1965), Harry Potter series
• Salman Rushdie,(born 1947) - Haroon and the Sea of Stories

• Louis Sachar -- Wayside School is Falling Down series, Holes
• Antoine de Saint-Exupery, (1900-1944), The Little Prince
• Richard Scarry - (1919-1994) Busytown series
• Ouida Sebestyen - American, (born 1924) - Far From Home
• George Selden -- The Cricket in Times Square series
• Maurice Sendak,(born 1928) - Where the Wild Things Are
• Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel - The Cat in the Hat
• Anna Sewell, (1820-1878), Black Beauty
• Gary Shipman, (born 1966), , Pakkins' Land
• Rhoda Shipman, (born 1968), , Pakkins' Land
• Shel Silverstein, (1930-1999), The Giving Tree, Where the Sidewalk Ends
• Charlie May Simon, (1897-1977), Robin on the Mountain and 25+ others
• Francesca Simon, (born 1955), Horrid Henry series
• William Sleator, science fiction stories (see also list of science fiction authors)
• Dodie Smith - 101 Dalmatians
• Lemony Snicket - (pen name of Daniel Handler) - A Series of Unfortunate Events
• Zilpha Keatley Snyder - The Egypt Game
• Don Sobol - Encyclopedia Brown series
• Johanna Spyri, (1827-1901), Heidi
• Robert Louis Stevenson, (1850-1894), A Child's Garden of Verses, Treasure Island
• R. L. Stine,(born 1943) - Goosebumps series
• Frank R. Stockton, (1834-1902), The Lady or the Tiger?
• Walter Scott Story, (1879-1955), Skinny Harrison Adventurer
• Edward L. Stratemeyer - (see Victor Appleton, Jr., Carolyn Keene, Franklin Dixon)
• Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes
• Jonathan Swift, (1667-1745), Gulliver's Travels

• Ann Jane Taylor - Twinkle,Twinkle,Little Star
• Kaye Thompson - Eloise
• James Thurber,(1894-1961) - The Thirteen Clocks, The Wonderful "O"
• Annette Tison/Talus Taylor, the Barbapapa books
• J.R.R. Tolkien, (1892-1973), The Hobbit
• Pamela Travers - Mary Poppins
• Ethel Turner - Seven Little Australians
• Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens - Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn

• Chris Van Allsburg
• Hendrik Willem van Loon, The Story of Mankind
• Jules Verne, (1828-1905), A Journey to the Center of the Earth
• Judith Viorst - Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

• E.B. White,(1899-1985) - Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little, The Trumpet of the Swan
• Kate Douglas Wiggin, (1856-1923), Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
• Laura Ingalls Wilder, (1867-1957), Little House on the Prairie
• Margery Williams - The Velveteen Rabbit
• Patricia Wrede - The Enchanted Forest Chronicles

• Jane Yolen -- the Commander Toad series, the Dragon's Blood series
• Ed Young -- Lon Po Po, Seven Blind Mice

• Paul Zindel - Pardon Me, You're Stepping on My Eyeball
• Charlotte Zolotow