List of children's literature authors

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.

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A

Verna Aardema (B. 1911) - Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears and others
Richard Adams (born 1920) - Watership Down
C. S. Adler
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
V. C. Andrews (1918-1986) - Flowers in the Attic et sequels
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

B

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)
J. M. Barrie (1860-1937) - Peter Pan
Margaret Stuart Barry - Simon and the Witch
Graham Base - Animalia
L. Frank Baum (1856-1919) - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz et seq
Nina Bawden - Carrie's War
"BB" (D. J. Watkins-Pitchford) - Little Grey Men, Down The Bright Stream etc.
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
Angela Sommer-Bodenburg Little Vampire Series
Michael Bond - Paddington Bear series
Frank Bonham (1914-1988)
Lucy M. Boston - Green Knowe series
Jan Brett (1949-) - Trouble with Trolls
Thomas Brezina (born 1963) - The Knickerbocker Gang
Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić (1874-1938)
Walter R. Brooks - the Freddy the Pig series
Marcia Brown - Puss in Boots
Margaret Wise Brown (1910-1952) - Goodnight Moon, The Runaway Bunny
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
John Bunyan (1628-1688) - Pilgrim's Progress
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, The Summer of the Swans

C

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) - (Psedonym of Samuel Youd) - The Prince in Waiting series, The Tripods series
Beverly Cleary - Ramona Quimby series
Eoin 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

D

Roald Dahl (1916-1990) - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, The Witches
Paula Danziger
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.
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
Crescent Dragonwagon
Diane Duane - So You Want to be a Wizard
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)
Martin Ebbertz - Little Mr. Jaromir
Dorothy Edwards - The Magician Who Kept A Pub and other stories
Julie Andrews Edwards - The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles
Michael Ende - The Neverending Story, Momo
Juliana Horatia Ewing - A Flat Iron for a Farthing, The Story of a Short Life

F

Walter Farley-The Black Stallion series
Eleanor Farjeon
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
Ian Fleming (1908-1964) - Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Esther Forbes - Johny Tremain
Antonia Forest - Marlow series
Anne Frank (1929-1945) - The Diary of a Young Girl
Fynn - Mr. God, This is Anna

G

Arkady Gaidar - Timur and His Squad
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 (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
Kate Greenaway
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)
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)
Annie Helm (born 1938)
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
Anthony Horowitz - Alex Rider series
Irene Hunt - Up a Pond Slowly (1967 Newbery Medal)
Norman Hunter - Professor Branestawm series

I

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

J

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

K

Ulrich Karger (born 1957)
Jan Karon (born 1937)
Erich Kästner - Emil and the Detectives, Lisa and Lottie (filmed as The Parent Trap)
Ezra Jack Keats - The Snowy Day (1963 Caldecott Medal)
Carolyn Keene - The Nancy Drew mystery series
Charles Keping
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
Noor Inyat Khan
Clive King - Stig of the Dump
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)

L

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
Ursula K. Le Guin (born 1929) - A Wizard of Earthsea
Madeleine L'Engle (born 1918) - A Wrinkle in Time
Gail Carson Levine - Ella Enchanted
C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) - The Chronicles of Narnia
Suzanne Lieurance - Shoelaces (with Patrick Girouard)
Astrid Lindgren (1907-2002) - Pippi Longstocking
Hugh Lofting (1886-1947) - The Voyage of Dr. Doolittle etc.
Lois Lowry - The Giver

M

Betty MacDonald - the Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle series
Margaret Mahy - The Changeover
Hector Malot - Nobody's Boy (Sans Famille)
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 Martin - The Baby-Sitters Club series
J.P. Martin (1880-1966) - Uncle series
André Maurois - Fattypuffs and Thinifers (Patapoufs et Filifers)
Julian May
William Mayne
Robert McCloskey - Make Way for Ducklings, Blueberries for Sal
Robin McKinley - The Hero and the Crown, The Blue Sword
Milton Meltzer history book author
A. A. Milne (1882-1956) - Winnie-the-Pooh
Walter Moers
Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942) - Anne of Green Gables
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
Robert Munsch - Love You Forever
Jill Murphy - The Worst Witch
Susan Musgrave

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
Garth Nix - Sabriel and sequels
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 books

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
Timothy Olsen - The Teenage Investor
Pat O'Shea - The Hounds of the Morrigan
Uri Orlev
Mary Pope Osbourne - Magic Treehouse series

P

Barbara Park
Korky Paul
Ethel Pedley - Dot and the Kangaroo
Bill Peet (1915-2002) - Hubert's Hair-Raising Adventure
Daniel Pennac
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
Peter Pohl (1940-)
Tracey Porter
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
Philip Pullman (b. 1946) - His Dark Materials trilogy

R

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

S

Louis Sachar - Wayside School is Falling Down series, Holes
Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944) - The Little Prince
Margaret Marshall Saunders (1861-1947) - Beautiful Joe
Malcolm Saville - Lone Pine Club series
Richard Scarry (1919-1994) - Busytown series
Ouida Sebestyen (born 1924) - Far From Home
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
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)
Barbara Sleigh - Carbonel trilogy
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
Rosemary Sutcliff (1920-1992)
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) - Gulliver's Travels

T

Ann Jane Taylor - Twinkle,Twinkle,Little Star
Kaye Thompson - Eloise
Ruth Plumly Thompson (1891-1976)
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
Julian Tuwim (1894-1953) - one of the two most famous authors of Polish poems for children
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) - Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn

V

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

W

Robert Westall - The Machine Gunners, Fathom Five, The Scarecrows
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
Jacqueline Wilson - Double Act, The Ilustrated Mum
Patricia Wrede - The Enchanted Forest Chronicles
Dare Wright - The Lonely Doll

Y

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

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