List of children's literature authors
List of important Children's literature authors and their most famous works.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
A
- Aesop - Fables
- Louisa May Alcott, (1832-1888), Little Women
- Hans Christian Andersen, (1805-1875), Fairy Tales and Stories
- Victor Appleton, Jr - Tom Swift
- William H. Armstrong - Sounder
B
- Berechiah ha-Nakdan - Mishle Shualim, Fables of a Jewish Aesop
- 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.
- John Bellairs, (1938-1991)
- Jan and Stan Berenstain - The Berenstain Bears series
- 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
- Lucy M. Boston - Green Knowe series
- Thomas Brezina, (born 1968)
- 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 - The Secret Garden
- Virginia Lee Burton - Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel
C
- Lewis Carroll, (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 - The Prince in Waiting series, The Tripods series
- Beverly Cleary - Ramona Quimby series
- Carlo "Collodi" Lorenzini - The Adventures of Pinocchio
- John Amos Comenus - Orbis Sesualim Pictis Picture Book
- Richmal Crompton - Just William
- John Cotton - Milk for Babes
D
- Roald Dahl, (1916-1990), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, The Witches
- Paula Danziger
- 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
F
- Eugene Field - Wynken, Blynken, and Nod
- Anne Fine - Goggle Eyes
- Ian Fleming, (1908-1964), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
- Esther Forbes - Johny Tremain
- Anne Frank, (1929-1945), The Diary of a Young Girl
G
- 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
- Kenneth Grahame, (1859-1932), The Wind in the Willows
- Hardie Gramatky - Little Toot
- Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm - Grimm's Fairy Tales
H
- Daniel Handler - pen name Lemony Snicket - A Series of Unfortunate Events
- Joel Chandler Harris, (1848-1908), Uncle Remus
- Marguerite Henry - King of the Wild, Misty of Chincoteague
- James Herriot, (1916-1995)
- Karen Hesse, (born 1952)
- S.E. Hinton - The Outsiders
- Russell Hoban - The Mouse and His Child
J
- 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
K
- Jan Karon, (born 1937)
- Carolyn Keene - The Nancy Drew mystery series
- Charles Kingsley - The Water Babies
- Rudyard Kipling, (1865-1936), Just So Stories, The Jungle Book, Puck of Pook's Hill''
- E.L. Konigsburg - From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankwiler
L
- Andrew Lang, (1844-1912), Blue Fairy Book (and other colors; no connection to the blue fairy in Pinocchio)
- 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 - A Wrinkle in Time
- 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
M
- John Marsden - the Tomorrow series
- Ann Martin - 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
- A.A. Milne - Winnie the Pooh
- Lucy Maud Montgomery, (1874-1942), Anne of Green Gables
- Keith Moreau, (born 1951), ABC Fun Things Book
- Clement Moore - A Visit from St. Nicholas
- Robert Munsch - Love You Forever - full audio text read by author available at http://www.robertmunsch.com/storytime.cfm.
N
- 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
- Mary Norton - The Borrowers books
O
- Robert C. O'Brien - Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, Z for Zachariah
- Scott O'Dell - \Island of the Blue Dolphin
- Mary Pope Osbourne - Magic Treehouse series
P
- Ethel Pedley - Dot and the Kangaroo
- Bill Peet, (1915-2002), Hubert's Hair-Raising Adventure
- Charles Perrault, (1628-1703), Tales of Mother Goose
- Dav Pilkey - Captain Underpants series
- Beatrix Potter, (1866-1943), The Tale of Peter Rabbit
R
- 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
S
- Louis Sachar -- Wayside School is Falling Down series
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery, (1900-1944), The Little Prince
- Richard Scarry - (1919-1994) Busytown series
- Ouida Sebestyen - American, (1924- ) - Far From Home
- Maurice Sendak - Where the Wild Things Are
- Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel - The Cat in the Hat
- Anna Sewell, (1820-1878), Black Beauty
- 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
- 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 - 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)
- Jonathan Swift, (1667-1745), Gulliver's Travels
T
- Ann Jane Taylor - Twinkle,Twinkle,Little Star
- Kaye Thompson - Eloise
- James Thurber - The Thirteen Clocks, The Wonderful "O"
- 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
V
- Jules Verne, (1828-1905), A Journey to the Center of the Earth
- Judith Viorst - Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
W
- E.B. White - 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
Y
- Jane Yolen -- the Commander Toad series, the Dragon's Blood series
- Ed Young -- Lon Po Po, Seven Blind Mice
Z
- Charlotte Zolotow