List of children's literature authors

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List of important Children's literature authors and their most famous works. For a discussion of the criteria used to define something a work of children's literature, see Children's literature.

Contents: Top - 0–9 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

[edit] A

Verna Aardema (born 1911) - Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears and others
Joan Abelove
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)
Joseph Alexander Altsheler - 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 (series) (1996)
Victor Appleton - 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
Frank Asch (Born 1946) - I Can Blink "Happy Birthday Moon" and others.
Harold Avery (1869-1943) - The Triple Alliance and others.
Christopher Awdry - 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

[edit] B

Natalie Babbitt - Tuck Everlasting, The Search for Delicious, The Devil's Storybook
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
T.A. Barron - Lost Years of Merlin series
Margaret Stuart Barry - Simon and the Witch
Graeme 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.
Jerome Beatty Jr - (1918- ?) 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
Judy Blume (born 1938) - Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret
Enid Blyton (1897-1968) - Noddy, Secret Seven and Famous Five series
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
Christianna Brand - author of Nurse Matilda series (adapted as Nanny McPhee)
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
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
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

[edit] 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) - (Pseudonym of Samuel Youd) - The Prince in Waiting series, The Tripods series
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.
Susan Cooper - The Dark is Rising series
Emily Costello - Animal Emergency series
John Cotton - Milk for Babes
Bruce Coville - Space Brat, My Teacher is an Alien
Palmer Cox - The Brownies series
Joe Craig - The Jimmy Coates series
Sharon Creech - Walk Two Moons
Richmal Crompton - Just William
Michael Cronin - Against The Day (1998) series
István Csukás (born 1936) – "Bowler Hat and Bulbous Nose"

[edit] D

Roald Dahl (1916-1990) - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, The Witches
Paula Danziger
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.
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
V. H. Drummond - The Flying Postman
Crescent Dragonwagon
Diane Duane - So You Want to Be a Wizard
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

[edit] 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
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

[edit] 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 - 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

[edit] G

Arkady Gaidar - Timur and His Squad
Neil Gaiman - Coraline
Paul Gallico - 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
Rhyk Gilbar - Shmerkli & the Boogerpicker,'Night of the Hippo-fly-tamus
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

[edit] 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 no:Leif Hamre).
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
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
Christophe Honoré
Anthony Horowitz - Alex Rider series
Irene Hunt - Up a Road Slowly (1967 Newbery Medal)
Norman Hunter - Professor Branestawm series

[edit] I

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

[edit] J

Joseph Jacobs - English Fairy Tales, Favorite Celtic Fairy Tales
Grace James - the John and Mary series
Brian Jacques - The Redwall series
Éva Janikovszky (born 1926) – If I Were a Grown-up
Tove Jansson - The Moomin books
Diana Wynne Jones (born 1934) - the Chrestomanci Novels
Jacqueline Jules -- The Ziz series: The Hardest Word, Noah and the Ziz, The Ziz and the Hanukkah Miracle
Norton Juster - The Phantom Tollbooth

[edit] 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 Keeping
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)
Erik P. Kraft - Chocolatina, Lenny and Mel series, Miracle Wimp
Joseph Krumgold - ...And Now Miguel (1954 Newbery Medal), Onion John (1960 Newbery Medal)

[edit] L

Andrew Lang, (1844-1912), fairy tale collections
Kirby Larson
Kathyrn Lasky - Guardians of Ga'hoole series
Robert Lawson - Rabbit Hill, Ben and Me
Ervin Lázár (born 1936) – "The Seven-headed Fairy", "The Little Boy and the Lions", "The Four-cornered Round Forest"
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 Voyages of Doctor Dolittle etc.
Lois Lowry - The Giver

[edit] M

Betty MacDonald - the Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle series
D.J. Machale - the Pendragon series
Sandra Magsamen - The Gift
Margaret Mahy - The Changeover
Hector Malot - Nobody's Boy (Sans Famille)
Ruth Manning-Sanders - numerous anthologies of fairy tales from around the world
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
J.P. Martin (1880-1966) - Uncle series
André Maurois - Fattypuffs and Thinifers (Patapoufs et Filifers)
Julian May
Mercer Mayer
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, The House at Pooh Corner
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
Michael Morpurgo (1943-)
Caryl Cude Mullin - A Riddle of Roses
Robert Munsch - Love You Forever
Jill Murphy - The Worst Witch
Andrew Murray - Ghost Rescue
Susan Musgrave
Julie Muszynski - Henley: A New York Tail

[edit] 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

[edit] 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
Pat O'Shea - The Hounds of the Morrigan
Uri Orlev
Mary Pope Osborne - Magic Treehouse series

[edit] P

Barbara Park
Korky Paul
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

Rodman Philbrick (1951-) "Freak The Mighty"

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

[edit] 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
Willo Davis Roberts - Mystery Writer
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
Pam Muñoz Ryan - Esperanza Rising

[edit] 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
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
Mark Shulman (born 1962) - Mom and Dad are Palindromes, Secret Hiding Places
Shel Silverstein (1930-1999) - The Giving Tree, Where the Sidewalk Ends
Charlie May Simon (1897-1977) - Robin on the Mountain and 25+ others
Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902-1991) - Stories for Children
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
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)
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) - Gulliver's Travels

[edit] T

Nikki Tate (1962-) - Tarragon Island novels, Jo's Triumph, and many other children's books
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", Many Moons
Annette Tison/Talus Taylor - the Barbapapa 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
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