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After extensive reading into the world of Children's Literature I was amazed to find such a vast array of brilliant author's that I had forgotten about over time.








To help those interested in findout more about famous children's literature authors please have a look a the Wikipedia list to get a better understanding of how many wonderful and talented people have contributed to the area.


A
Verna Aardema (1911-2001) - Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears
Joan Abelove (born 1945) - Go and Come Back
Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series
Richard Adams (born 1920) - Watership Down
C. S. Adler (born 1932) - Magic of the Glits, Ghost Brother
Aesop (6th century BC) - Fables
Joan Aiken (1924-2004) - The Wolves of Willoughby Chase series, Arabel and Mortimer series
Vivien Alcock (1924-2003) - The Haunting of Cassie Palmer
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) - Little Women
Lloyd Alexander (1924-2007) - The Chronicles of Prydain, Westmark series
Joseph Alexander Altsheler (1862-1919) - The Young Trailers series, the Civil War series
David Almond - Skellig, Heaven Eyes, Kit's Wilderness
Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) - The Snow Queen, The Little Mermaid, The Ugly Duckling, The Emperor's New Clothes, The Princess and the Pea, Thumbelina
K. A. Applegate - Animorphs, Remnants, Everworld series
Victor Appleton - Tom Swift
Philip Ardagh - Eddie Dickens series, Unlikely Exploits series
Edward Ardizzone (1900-1979) - Tim All Alone, Tim and the Brave Sea Captain
Laura Adams Armer (1874-1963) - Waterless Mountain
William H. Armstrong (1914-1999) - Sounder
Frank Asch (born 1946) - I Can Blink, Happy Birthday Moon
Martin Auer (born 1951) - Now, Now, Markus, The Blue Boy
Harold Avery (1869-1943) - The Triple Alliance, Play the Game
Avi (born 1937) - Crispin: The Cross of Lead, The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Christopher Awdry (born 1940) - The Railway Series Nos. 27-40 Thomas the Tank Engine stories
Wilbert Awdry (1911-1997) - The Railway Series Nos. 1-26 Thomas the Tank Engine stories


B
Natalie Babbitt (born 1932) - Tuck Everlasting, Knee-Knock Rise, The Search for Delicious
Enid Bagnold (1889-1981) - National Velvet
Bob Balaban - McGrowl series
R. M. Ballantyne (1825-1894) - The Coral Island
Blue Balliett (born 1955) - Chasing Vermeer, The Wright 3, The Calder Game
Lynne Reid Banks (born 1929) - The Indian in the Cupboard series
Helen Bannerman (1862-1946) - Little Black Sambo
Clive Barker (born 1952) - The Thief of Always
Jill Barklem (born 1951) - Brambly Hedge
Steve Barlow - Outernet series
J. M. Barrie (1860-1937) - Peter Pan
T. A. Barron (born 1952) - The Lost Years of Merlin series
Dave Barry - Peter and the Starcatchers 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
Hans Baumann (1914-1988) - Sons of the Steppe, I Marched with Hannibal
Nina Bawden (born 1925) - Carrie's War
"BB" (D. J. Watkins-Pitchford) (1905-1990) - The Little Grey Men, Down The Bright Stream
Jerome Beatty Jr (1916-2002) - The Matthew Looney space series
Frank Beddor - The Looking Glass Wars series
John Bellairs (1938-1991) - The House with a Clock in Its Walls
Derek Benz - Grey Griffins
Berechiah ha-Nakdan (12th-13th century) - Mishle Shualim, Fables of a Jewish Aesop
Stan and Jan Berenstain - The Berenstain Bears series
Elisabeth Beresford - The Wombles
Paul Berna (1908-1994) - A Hundred Million Francs, The Street Musician, Flood Warning
Luc Besson - Arthur and the Minimoys series
John Bibee - The Spirit Flyer series
Holly Black - The Spiderwick Chronicles, Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles, Tithe, Valiant
Malorie Blackman (born 1962) - The Noughts & Crosses series
Judy Blume (born 1938) - Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret, Fudge series
Enid Blyton (1897-1968) - The Noddy books, The Famous Five series, The Secret Seven series, The Magic Faraway Tree series
Angela Sommer-Bodenburg - The Little Vampire series
Michael Bond - The Paddington Bear series
Nancy Bond - A String in the Harp
Ruskin Bond - The Room on the Roof, The Blue Umbrella
Lucy M. Boston - The Green Knowe series
Chris Bradford (born 1974) - The Young Samurai series
Tony Bradman (born 1954) - The Dilly the Dinosaur series
Gillian Bradshaw (born 1956) - The Dragon and the Thief, The Land of Gold, Beyond the North Wind
Christianna Brand - The Nurse Matilda series (adapted as Nanny McPhee)
Ann Brashares - The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series
Jan Brett (born 1949) - Trouble with Trolls
Thomas Brezina (born 1963) - The Knickerbocker Gang
Hesba Fay Brinsmead (1922-2003) - Pastures of the Blue Crane, Longtime Dreaming
Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić (1874-1938) - The Marvellous Adventures and Misadventures of Hlapić the Apprentice, Tales of Long Ago
Lauren Brooke - Heartland series, Chestnut Hill series
Walter R. Brooks - The Freddy the Pig series
Frances Browne (1816-1879) - Granny's Wonderful Chair
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) - The Pan Kleks series, & many poems for children
Anthony Buckeridge - The 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
Thornton Burgess (1874–1965) - The Adventures of Danny Meadow Mouse, Old Mother West Wind
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 (1909-1968) - The Little House, Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
A. J. Butcher - The Spy High series
Betsy Byars - Summer of the Swans, Cracker Jackson
Georgia Byng - Molly Moon series


C
Meg Cabot - The Princess Diaries
Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879-1958) - Understood Betsy
William Cardell (1780-1828) - The Story of Jack Halyard, the Sailor Boy and other works
Eric Carle - The Very Hungry Caterpillar, The Very Busy Spider
Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass
Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1343-1400) - Chanticleer and the Fox (from The Canterbury Tales)
John Christopher (born 1922) - The Prince in Waiting series, The Tripods trilogy
Matt Christopher (1917-1997) - Wild Pitch, The Kid Who Only Hit Homers, Tough to Tackle
Pauline Clarke - The Twelve and the Genii
Beverly Cleary - Ramona Quimby series
Andrew Clements - Frindle, A Week in the Woods
Eoin Colfer - Artemis Fowl series
Suzanne Collins - The Underland Chronicles
Carlo Collodi (1826-1890) - The Adventures of Pinocchio
John Amos Comenius (1592-1670) - Orbis Sesualim Pictis Picture Book
Harriet Theresa Comstock (1860-1925) - Molly the Drummer Boy, Janet of the Dunes
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) - The Lost World
Jane Leslie Conly - Rats of NIMH series
Susan Coolidge (1835-1905) - What Katy Did series
Barbara Cooney (1917-2000) - Chanticleer and the Fox, Miss Rumphius
Susan Cooper - The Dark Is Rising series, The Boggart
Zizou Corder - Lionboy series
Rachel Cosgrove - The Hidden Valley of Oz
John Cotton (1585-1652) - Milk for Babes catechism
Bruce Coville - Space Brat, My Teacher is an Alien, Aliens Ate My Homework, The Unicorn Chronicles, Magic Shop series
Joy Cowley - The Silent One, Bow Down Shadrach
Palmer Cox (1840-1924) - The Brownies series
John Coy - Night Driving, Crackback
Joe Craig - The Jimmy Coates series
Sharon Creech - Walk Two Moons, Heartbeat
Helen Cresswell (1934-2005) - The Bagthorpe Saga
Richmal Crompton (1890-1969) - Just William
Michael Cronin - Against The Day series
Kevin Crossley-Holland - Storm, The Seeing Stone
Gabriella Csire - Turpi series
Stephen Caleb - The Adventures Of Tricky series


D
Debbie Dadey - The Adventures of the Bailey School Kids
Roald Dahl (1916-1990) - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, The Witches, The BFG
Annie Dalton - Agent Angel series, Afterdark series
Lucy Daniels - Animal Ark, Dolphin Diaries
Paula Danziger (1944-2004) - The Cat Ate My Gymsuit, Amber Brown series
James Dashner - The 13th Reality series
Alan Davidson - The Annabel books, Light, The Bewitching of Alison Allbright
Stephen Mark Davies - The Sophie series
Lavinia R. Davis (1909-1961) - The Wild Birthday Cake
Edmondo De Amicis (1846-1908) - Heart (Cuore)
Marguerite de Angeli (1889-1987) - The Door in the Wall, Black Fox of Lorne, Bright April
Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) - The Three Mulla Mulgars, Songs of Childhood, Peacock Pie
Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) - Robinson Crusoe
Kate DiCamillo - Because of Winn Dixie, The Tale of Despereaux, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) - A Christmas Carol
Peter Dickinson - The Changes trilogy, Tulku, City of Gold
Anne Digby - Trebizon series
Thomas M. Disch (1940-2008) - The Brave Little Toaster, The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars
Tony DiTerlizzi - The Spiderwick Chronicles, Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles
Franklin W. Dixon - The Hardy Boys series
Chris D'Lacey - The Fire Within series
Lynley Dodd - Hairy Maclary, Slinky Malinki
Mary Mapes Dodge (1831-1905) - Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates
Debra Doyle - School of Wizardry, Knight's Wyrd
Crescent Dragonwagon - Always, Always, Home Place, Half a Moon and One Whole Star
Diane Duane - So You Want to Be a Wizard
Tessa Duder - The Alex series
William Pène du Bois (1916-1993) - The Twenty-One Balloons
Lois Duncan - I Know What You Did Last Summer, A Gift of Magic
Jeanne DuPrau - The Books of Ember series
Stephen Caleb - The Adventures Of Tricky series


E
Edward Eager (1911-1964) - Half Magic, Magic by the Lake, Knight's Castle, The Time Garden, The Well-Wishers, Magic or Not, Seven-Day Magic
Martin Ebbertz - Little Mr. Jaromir
Dorothy Edwards (1914-1982) - The Magician Who Kept A Pub and other stories, My Naughty Little Sister
Julie Andrews Edwards - The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) - Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
Michael Ende (1929-1995) - The Neverending Story, Momo, Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver
Elizabeth Enright (1909-1968) - The Melendy series, Thimble Summer, Gone-Away Lake
Eleanor Estes (1908-1988) - The Moffats, Rufus M., The Hundred Dresses, Ginger Pye
Juliana Horatia Ewing (1841-1885) - A Flat Iron for a Farthing, The Story of a Short Life
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John Meade Falkner (1858-1932) - Moonfleet
Walter Farley (1915-1989) - The Black Stallion series
Eleanor Farjeon (1881-1965) - Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard, The Little Bookroom
Nancy Farmer - The House of the Scorpion, The Ear, the Eye and the Arm, A Girl Named Disaster
Penelope Farmer - Charlotte Sometimes, The Summer Birds, A Castle of Bone
G. E. Farrow (1866?-1920?) - The Wallypug of Why series, The Little Panjandrum's Dodo
Eugene Field (1850-1895) - Wynken, Blynken, and Nod
Anne Fine - The Tulip Touch, Madame Doubtfire, Flour Babies
Catherine Fisher - The Snow-Walker, The Book of the Crow, The Oracle, Corbenic
John D. Fitzgerald (1906-1988) - The Great Brain series
Louise Fitzhugh (1928-1974) - Harriet the Spy, Nobody's Family is Going to Change
Marjorie Flack (1897-1958) - The Story of Ping, Angus and the Ducks
John Flanagan - Ranger's Apprentice series
Sid Fleischman - The Whipping Boy, By The Great Horn Spoon!
Ian Fleming (1908-1964) - Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Esther Forbes (1891-1967) - Johnny Tremain
Antonia Forest (1915-2003) - Autumn Term, Falconer's Lure & others in the Marlow Family series
Helen Fox - Eager series
Anne Frank (1929-1945) - The Diary of a Young Girl
Barbara C. Freeman - Two-thumb Thomas, Timi, the Tale of a Griffin
Frieda Friedman - Dot for Short, Pat and Her Policeman, Carol from the Country, et al.
Cornelia Funke - The Thief Lord, Inkworld trilogy
Fynn - Mister God, This Is Anna


G
Jostein Gaarder - Sophie's World, The Christmas Mystery
Arkady Gaidar (1904-1941) - Timur and His Squad
Neil Gaiman - Coraline, The Graveyard Book
Paul Gallico (1997-1976) - The Snow Goose; Jennie
Sally Gardner - The Countess's Calamity, I, Coriander, The Red Necklace
Alan Garner - The Owl Service, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, The Moon of Gomrath, Elidor, Red Shift, The Stone Book Quartet
Eve Garnett (1900-1991) - The Family from One End Street
Doris Gates (1901-1987) - Blue Willow
Anna Genover-Mas - The Grumpy Gardener
Jean Craighead George - My Side of the Mountain, Julie of the Wolves
Charles Ghigna (born 1946) Father Goose
Fred Gipson (1908-1973) - Old Yeller
Rumer Godden (1907-1998) - The Doll's House, The Mousewife, The Diddakoi
Glenda Goertzen (born 1967) - The Prairie Dogs, City Dogs
Julia Golding - The Diamond of Drury Lane, Secret of the Sirens
Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774) - The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes
Elizabeth Goudge (1900-1984) - The Little White Horse, Linnets and Valerians
Harry Graham (1874-1936) - Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes
Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932) - The Wind in the Willows
Hardie Gramatky (1907-1979) - Little Toot
John Grant - Little Nose stories
Nicholas Stuart Gray (1922-1981) - Grimbold's Other World, The Seventh Swan
Kate Greenaway (1846-1901) - Under the Window
Stacy Gregg - Pony Club Secrets series
Kristiana Gregory - Earthquake at Dawn, The Stowaway, Jenny of the Tetons
Jacob (1785–1863) and Wilhelm (1786–1859) Grimm - Grimm's Fairy Tales
Maria Gripe (1923-2007) - Hugo and Josephine, In the Time of the Bells, Elvis and his Secret
Johnny Gruelle (1880-1938) - Raggedy Ann series


H
Margaret Peterson Haddix - Shadow Children sequence
Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Agent Z series
Virginia Hamilton (1936-2002) - M. C. Higgins the Great
Leif Hamre (1914-2007) - Otter Three Two Calling, Contact Lost, Blue Two...Bale Out
Roger Hargreaves (1935-1988) - The Mr. Men and Little Miss series
Cynthia Harnett (1893-1981) - The Wool-Pack, The Load of Unicorn
Joel Chandler Harris (1845-1908) - Uncle Remus
Peter Härtling (born 1933) - Oma, Ben liebt Anna, Krücke
Juanita Havill - The Jamaica series, Eyes Like Willy's
Charles Hawes - (1889-1923) The Dark Frigate, The Great Quest
Marguerite Henry (1902-1997) - King of the Wind, Misty of Chincoteague
Zenna Henderson (1917-1983) - Ingathering: The Complete People Stories
James Herriot (1916-1995) - All Creatures Great and Small
Karen Hesse (born 1952) - Out of the Dust, The Music of Dolphins
Carl Hiaasen - Hoot
E.W. Hildick (1925-2001) - Jack McGurk mysteries, Jim Starling series
S.E. Hinton - The Outsiders, That Was Then, This Is Now, Rumble Fish
Russell Hoban - The Mouse and His Child
Michael Hoeye - Hermux Tantamoq series
Mary Hoffman - Stravaganza series, Amazing Grace
Christophe Honoré - Tout contre Léo
Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler - Judge Ooka Tadasuke/Seikei samurai mystery series, "The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn"
Anthony Horowitz - Alex Rider series, The Diamond Brothers series, The Gatekeepers series
Hasan Hourani - Hassan Everywhere
Ted Hughes (1938-1998) - The Iron Man
Thomas Hughes (1822-1896) - Tom Brown's School Days
John Hulme - The Seems series
Irene Hunt (1907-2001) - Up a Road Slowly, The Lottery Rose
Erin Hunter - The Warriors series, the Seekers series
Norman Hunter (1899-1995) - The Professor Branestawm series


I
Eva Ibbotson - Which Witch?, The Secret of Platform 13, Journey to the River Sea
Jean Ingelow (1820-1897) - Mopsa the Fairy
Koji Ishikawa - The Colorful Animals Hide And Seek series
Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957) - The Little House series


J
Joseph Jacobs (1854-1916) - English Fairy Tales, Celtic Fairy Tales, European Folk and Fairy Tales
Grace James - The John and Mary series, Green Willow and Other Japanese Fairy Tales
James Janeway (1636-1674) - A Token For Children
Brian Jacques - The Redwall series, Castaways of the Flying Dutchman
Éva Janikovszky (1926-2003) – If I Were a Grown-Up, Who Does This Kid Take After?
Tove Jansson (1914-2001) - The Moomin books
Paul Jennings - Unreal!, Undone!, Unbelievable!, The Paw Thing, The Gizmo, Wicked!
W. E. Johns (1893-1968) - The Biggles series
Marcia Thornton Jones - The Adventures of the Bailey School Kids, Ghostville Elementary series
Diana Wynne Jones (born 1934) - The Chrestomanci series, Howl's Moving Castle, Dogsbody
Norton Juster - The Phantom Tollbooth, The Hello, Goodbye Window


K
Ulrich Karger (born 1957) - The Scary Sleepover
Jan Karon (born 1937) - Miss Fannie's Hat
Erich Kästner (1899-1974) - Emil and the Detectives, Lottie and Lisa, The Flying Classroom
Elizabeth Kay - The Divide trilogy
Ezra Jack Keats (1916-1983) - The Snowy Day, Whistle for Willie, Goggles!
Carolyn Keene - The Nancy Drew mystery series
Charles Keeping - Charley, Charlotte and the Golden Canary
Harold Keith (1903-1998) - Rifles for Watie
Eric P. Kelly (1884-1960) - The Trumpeter of Krakow
Louise Andrews Kent (1886-1969) - The "He went with..." series of historical novels
Judith Kerr - When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, The Tiger Who Came To Tea
P. B. Kerr - Children of the Lamp series
Clive King - Stig of the Dump
Dick King-Smith - The Sheep-Pig, The Queen's Nose
Charles Kingsley (1819-1875) - 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, The View from Saturday
Conor Kostick - Epic, Saga
Erik P. Kraft - Chocolatina, Lenny and Mel series, Miracle Wimp
Uma Krishnaswami Naming Maya, Monsoon
Joseph Krumgold (1908-1980) - ...And Now Miguel, Onion John


L
Selma Lagerlöf (1858-1940) - The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
Andrew Lang (1844-1912) - The Blue Fairy Book, The Red Fairy Book and others
Noel Langley (1911-1980) - The Land of Green Ginger
Katherine Langrish - Troll Fell, Troll Mill, Troll Blood
Jane Langton - The Hall Family Chronicles series
Kirby Larson - The Magic Kerchief, Hattie Big Sky
Kathryn Lasky - Guardians of Ga'hoole series, The Night Journey
Caroline Lawrence - The Roman Mysteries
Michael Lawrence - The Jiggy McCue series, Young Dracula, The Aldous Lexicon
Robert Lawson (1892-1957) - Rabbit Hill, Ben and Me, They Were Strong and Good
Ervin Lázár (1936-2006) – "The Seven Headed Fairy", "The Little Boy and the Lions", "The Square Round Wood"
Munro Leaf (1905-1976) - 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, Gifts, Very Far Away From Anywhere Else
Madeleine L'Engle (1918-2007) - A Wrinkle in Time, Meet the Austins
Helen Lester (born 1936) - Tacky the Penguin
Gail Carson Levine - Ella Enchanted, The Two Princesses of Bamarre
Ted Lewin - Peppe the Lamplighter
C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) - The Chronicles of Narnia
Hilda Lewis (1896-1974) - The Ship That Flew
J. Patrick Lewis (born 1942) - A Hippopotamusn't, Swan Song, The House
J. S. Lewis - Grey Griffins
Suzanne Lieurance - Shoelaces (with Patrick Girouard)
Astrid Lindgren (1907-2002) - Pippi Longstocking, Ronia the Robber's Daughter
Eric Linklater (1899-1974) - The Wind on the Moon, The Pirates in the Deep Green Sea
Penelope Lively - The Ghost of Thomas Kempe, A Stitch in Time
Hugh Lofting (1886-1947) - Doctor Dolittle series
Jack London (1876-1916) - The Call of the Wild, White Fang
Lois Lowry - Number the Stars, The Giver, Anastasia series
Patricia Lynch (1898-1972) - The Turf-Cutter's Donkey, the Brogeen series


M
Betty MacDonald (1908-1958) - The Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle series
George Macdonald (1824-1905) - At the Back of the North Wind, The Princess and the Goblin
Reginald James MacGregor- The Young Detectives
D. J. MacHale - The Pendragon Adventure
Sandra Magsamen - The Gift
Margaret Mahy - The Haunting, The Changeover, Maddigan's Fantasia
Hector Malot (1830-1907) - Nobody's Boy (Sans Famille)
Ruth Manning-Sanders (1888-1988) - A Book of Dragons, and other anthologies of fairy tales from around the world
Frederick Marryat (1792-1848) - The Children of the New Forest
John Marsden - The Tomorrow series
James (1942-1992) & Edward Marshall - Fox in Love, Fox and His Friends, Fox on Wheels
Ann M. Martin - The Baby-sitters Club series
J. P. Martin (1880-1966) - The Uncle series
Cotton Mather (1663-1728) - A Token for the Children of New England
André Maurois (1885-1967) - Fattypuffs and Thinifers (Patapoufs et Filifers)
Mercer Mayer - The Little Critter and Little Monster series
William Mayne - A Swarm in May, A Grass Rope, Earthfasts, Low Tide
Geraldine McCaughrean - Peter Pan in Scarlet, A Pack of Lies
Robert McCloskey (1914-2003) - Make Way for Ducklings, Time of Wonder, Blueberries for Sal
Eloise McGraw (1915-2000) - The Golden Goblet, The Moorchild, The Rundelstone of Oz
Lauren Lynn McGraw - Merry Go Round in Oz
Sophie McKenzie - Girl, Missing
Robin McKinley - The Hero and the Crown, The Blue Sword, Spindle's End
Colin McNaughton - Captain Abdul's Pirate School
Geoffrey McSkimming - The Cairo Jim series
Milton Meltzer - The Black Americans, The American Revolutionaries, Mark Twain Himself
Richard Michelson - Animals That Ought to Be: Poems about Imaginary Pets, Across the Alley
A. A. Milne (1882-1956) - Winnie-the-Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner, When We Were Very Young
Olive Beaupre Miller (1883-1968) - My Book House series
Elyne Mitchell (1913-2002) - The Silver Brumby series
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
John A. Moroso (1874-1957) - Nobody's Buddy
Michael Morpurgo - Why the Whales Came, The Wreck of the Zanzibar, Private Peaceful
Brandon Mull - Fablehaven series
Caryl Cude Mullin - A Riddle of Roses
Robert Munsch - Love You Forever, The Paper Bag Princess
Jill Murphy - The Worst Witch, The Last Noo-Noo
Andrew Murray - Ghost Rescue
Susan Musgrave - Gullband, Dreams Are More Real Than Bathtubs


N
Beverley Naidoo: Journey to Jo'berg, The Other Side of Truth
Violet Needham (1876-1967) - The Black Riders, The Stormy Petrel, The Woods of Windri
John R. Neill - The Wonder City of Oz, The Scalawagons of Oz, Lucky Bucky in Oz
Božena Němcová (1820-1862) - Slovak Fairy Tales and Legends (Slovenské pohádky a pověsti)
Edith Nesbit (1858-1924) - The Railway Children, Five Children and It, The Phoenix and the Carpet, The Story of the Amulet
John Newbery (1713-1767) - A Little Pretty Pocket-Book Intended for the Instruction and Amusement of Little Master Tommy and Pretty Miss Molly
Jenny Nimmo - The Snow Spider, the Children of the Red King series
Garth Nix - The Old Kingdom series, The Keys to the Kingdom series, The Seventh Tower series
Joan Lowery Nixon (1927-2003) - The Colonial Williamsburg series, the Orphan Train series
Andrew Norriss - Aquila, The Unluckiest Boy in the World
Jessica Nelson North (1891-1888) - The Giant Shoe
Sterling North (1906-1974) - Rascal, The Wolfing
Mary Norton (1903-1992) - The Borrowers series, Bedknob and Broomstick


O
Graham Oakley - The Church Mice series, Magical Changes
Robert C. O'Brien (1918-1973) - Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, Z for Zachariah
Jane O'Connor - Fancy Nancy and its series
Scott O'Dell (1898-1989) - Island of the Blue Dolphins, The King's Fifth, The Black Pearl
Charles Ogden - Edgar and Ellen series
Jenny Oldfield - My Magical Pony, the Home Farm Twins, the Horses of Half-Moon Ranch series
Kenneth Oppel - The Silverwing Saga, Airborn
Pat O'Shea (1931-2007) - The Hounds of the Morrigan
Uri Orlev - The Island on Bird Street
Mary Pope Osborne - The Magic Treehouse series, Tales from the Odyssey
Elsie J. Oxenham (1880-1960) - The Abbey Series


P
Christopher Paolini - Inheritance cycle
Barbara Park – Skinnybones, Junie B. Jones series
Peter Parnall – Winter Barn, Apple Tree, Woodpile
Katherine Paterson - Bridge to Terabithia, Jacob Have I Loved
James Patterson - The Maximum Ride series, The Dangerous Days of Daniel X
Gary Paulsen - The Hatchet, The Time Hackers
Michelle Paver - Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series
Philippa Pearce (1920-2006) - Tom's Midnight Garden
Ridley Pearson - Peter and the Starcatchers' series, The Kingdom Keepers series
Howard Pease (1894-1974) – Secret Cargo, Highroad to Adventure, Bound for Singapore
Dale Peck - Drift House series
Ethel Pedley (1859-1898) – Dot and the Kangaroo
Bill Peet (1915-2002) – The Wump World, Hubert's Hair-Raising Adventure
Daniel Pennac – Eye of the Wolf (L'œil du Loup)
Lynne Rae Perkins (born 1956) - Criss Cross, All Alone in the Universe
Charles Perrault (1628-1703) - Tales of Mother Goose
Rodman Philbrick (born 1951) - Freak The Mighty, Max the Mighty, The Last Book in the Universe
Joan Phipson (1912-2003) - The Boundary Riders, The Family Conspiracy, Polly's Tiger
Tanwir Phool (born 1948) - Chirya, Titli, Phool (Sparrow, Butterfly, Flowers) (Poetry for children)
Tamora Pierce (born 1954) - The Tortall series, Circle of Magic series
Christopher Pike - The Spooksville series
Dav Pilkey - The Captain Underpants series
Daniel Pinkwater – The Big Orange Splot, The Hoboken Chicken Emergency
Kin Platt (1911-2003) - The Big Max series, The Blue Man
Peter Pohl (born 1940) – Johnny, My Friend
Eleanor H. Porter (1868-1920) - Pollyanna
Tracey Porter – Billy Creekmore
Beatrix Potter (1866-1943) - The Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Tailor of Gloucester
Ellen Potter – The Olivia Kidney series
Terry Pratchett - The Bromeliad, Johnny Maxwell series, The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents, Tiffany Aching series
Otfried Preussler (born 1923) - The Robber Hotzenplotz, The Curse of the Darkling Mill
Guillaume Prevost - The Book of Time trilogy
Willard Price (1887-1983) - Amazon Adventure and others in the Adventure series
Josephine, Diana and Christine Pullein-Thompson - Six Ponies, I Wanted a Pony, We Rode to the Sea & many other pony books
Philip Pullman (born 1946) - His Dark Materials trilogy


R
Janette Rallison (born 1966) - Fame, Glory, and Other Things on My To Do List
Arthur Ransome (1884-1967) - Swallows and Amazons series
Marjorie Rawlings (1896-1953) - The Yearling
W. Maxwell Reed (1871-1962) - The Earth for Sam, The Stars for Sam
Celia Rees - The Bailey Game, Witch Child, Pirates!
Gwyneth Rees - The Mum Hunt, Fairy Dust series, Mermaid Magic
H.A. (1898-1977) & Margret Rey (1906-1996) - Curious George series
Justin Richards - The Invisible Detective series
Chris Riddell - The Edge Chronicles, Barnaby Grimes
Rick Riordan - Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, The Maze of Bones in The 39 Clues series
Jamie Rix (born 1958) - Alistair Fury series, Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids series
Keith Robertson - Henry Reed series
Gianni Rodari (1920-1980) - Telephone Tales (Favole al telefono), Tales Told by a Machine (Novelle fatte a macchina)
Emily Rodda - The Fairy Realm series, the Rowan of Rin series, the Deltora Quest series
Don Roff (born 1966) – Scary Stories
Malcolm Rose - The Traces series, the Lawless and Tilley series
Simon Rose - The Alchemist's Portrait, The Sorcerer's Letterbox, The Clone Conspiracy, The Emerald Curse, The Heretic's Tomb
Michael Rosen (born 1946) - Sad Book, Fantastically Funny Stories, Quick, Let's Get Out of Here, We’re Going on a Bear Hunt
Diana Ross (1910-2000) - The Little Red Engine series
J. K. Rowling (born 1965) - The Harry Potter series
Salman Rushdie (born 1947) - Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Chris Ryan - The Alpha Force series
Pam Muñoz Ryan - Esperanza Rising, Becoming Naomi León


S
Louis Sachar - Sideways Stories From Wayside School series, Holes
Angie Sage - Septimus Heap series
Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944) - The Little Prince
Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) - Rootabaga Stories
Brandon Sanderson - Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians
Margaret Marshall Saunders (1861-1947) - Beautiful Joe
Malcolm Saville (1901-1982) - The Lone Pine Club series
Allen Say (born 1937) - Grandfather's Journey, The Ink-Keeper's Apprentice
Richard Scarry (1919-1994) – The Busytown series
Pam Scheunemann (born 1955) - Overdue Kangaroo, Ape Cape, The Crane Loves Grain
Michael Scott - The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series
Laura Vaccaro Seeger - First The Egg
George Selden (1929-1989) - The Cricket in Times Square series
Maurice Sendak (born 1928) - Where the Wild Things Are
Dr. Seuss (1904-1991) - The Cat in the Hat
Anna Sewell (1820-1878) - Black Beauty
Mark Shasha (born 1961) - Night of the Moonjellies
Mary Shelley (1797-1851) - Maurice, or the Fisher's Cot
Gary (born 1966) & Rhoda Shipman (born 1968) - Pakkins' Land
Mark Shulman (born 1962) - Mom and Dad are Palindromes, Secret Hiding Places
Yrsa Sigurðardóttir (born 1963)
Shel Silverstein (1930-1999) - The Giving Tree, Where the Sidewalk Ends
Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902-1991) - Stories for Children
Marilyn Singer (born 1948) - Turtle in July
Francesca Simon (born 1955) - Horrid Henry series
Steve Skidmore - Outernet series
Obert Skye - Leven Thumps series
William Sleator – Singularity, Rewind
Barbara Sleigh - The Carbonel series
Dodie Smith - 101 Dalmatians
Edward Wyke Smith (1871-1935) - The Marvellous Land of Snergs
Roland Smith - Thunder Cave, Zach's Lie, Jack's Run
Pat Smythe (1928-1996) - Three Jays Series, Adventure Series
Lemony Snicket - A Series of Unfortunate Events
Jack Snow (1907-1956) - The Magical Mimics in Oz, The Shaggy Man of Oz
Zilpha Keatley Snyder - The Egypt Game, The Headless Cupid, The Witches of Worm
Donald J. Sobol - Encyclopedia Brown series, Two-Minute Mysteries series
Ivan Southall (1921-2008) Josh, Ash Road, Hills End, To the Wild Sky, Bread and Honey, Fly West
Armstrong Sperry (1897-1976) - Call It Courage
Jerry Spinelli - Loser, Stargirl, Maniac Magee, Crash, Wringer
E.C. Spykman - A Lemon and a Star, The Wild Angel, Terrible Horrible Edie, Edie on the Warpath
Johanna Spyri (1827-1901) - Heidi
Andy Stanton - The Mr Gum series
Dugald Steer - Ologies series
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) - A Child's Garden of Verses, Treasure Island, Kidnapped
Jennifer J. Stewart - If That Breathes Fire, We're Toast!, Close Encounters of a Third World Kind
Paul Stewart - The Edge Chronicles, Fergus Crane, Muddle Earth, Barnaby Grimes
R. L. Stine (born 1943) - Goosebumps, Fear Street, The Nightmare Room series
Frank R. Stockton (1834-1902) - The Lady or the Tiger?
Margaret Storey - Timothy and the Two Witches, The Stone Sorcerer, Pauline
Walter Scott Story (1879-1955) - Skinny Harrison Adventurer
Todd Strasser - Help! I'm Trapped...
Edward Stratemeyer (1862-1930) - The Rover Boys series, The Stratemeyer Syndicate
Noel Streatfeild (1895-1986) - Ballet Shoes
Jonathan Stroud - The Bartimaeus Trilogy
Rosemary Sutcliff (1920-1992) - The Eagle of the Ninth, The Lantern Bearers
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) - Gulliver's Travels


T
Colin Thiele Storm Boy, Blue Fin, Sun on the Stubble
Kate Thompson - The New Policeman
Ruth Plumly Thompson (1891-1976) – The Royal Book of Oz
James Thurber (1894-1961) - The Thirteen Clocks, The Wonderful O, Many Moons
H. E. Todd (died 1988) - The Bobby Brewster series
Barbara Euphan Todd (1890-1976) - The Worzel Gummidge series
J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) - The Hobbit
Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1883–1945) - The Golden Key, or the Adventures of Buratino
Nigel Tranter (1909-2000) - Spaniard's Isle, Nestor the Monster
P. L. Travers (1899-1986) - Mary Poppins
Mary Treadgold (1910-2005) - We Couldn't Leave Dinah
Geoffrey Trease (1909-1998) - Cue for Treason, The Hills of Varna
Henry Treece (1911-1966) - Horned Helmet, The Road to Miklagard, The Children's Crusade
Ethel Turner (1872-1958) - Seven Little Australians
Julian Tuwim (1894-1953) - The Locomotive & other poems for children
Mark Twain (1835-1910) - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn


U
Florence Kate Upton (1873-1922) - The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls and a Golliwogg
Anne Ursu - The Cronus Chronicles
Alison Uttley (1884-1976) - The Little Grey Rabbit series, A Traveller in Time


V
Rachel Vail - Wonder, Do-Over, The Friendship Ring series
Chris Van Allsburg - Jumanji, The Polar Express, The Garden of Abdul Gasazi
Hendrik Willem van Loon (1882-1944) - The Story of Mankind
Wendelin Van Draanen - The Sammy Keyes series, Flipped
Shreekumar Varma - The Royal Rebel
Jules Verne (1828-1905) - Journey to the Center of the Earth, 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
Heiki Vilep (1960) - The Sounds of Silence, The Monsters of the Closet Door
Rene Villanueva (1954-2007) - 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 series


W
Lea Wait - Stopping to Home, Wintering Well
Judy Waite - Mouse Look Out
Vivian Walsh - Olive, the Other Reindeer, Gluey, Penguin Dreams, the Mr. Lunch series
Ivy Wallace - The Pookie series, the Animal Shelf series
Jennifer Ward - Way Out in the Desert
Kathy-Jo Wargin (born 1964) - The Legend of Sleeping Bear, Legend Series, The Voyageur's Paddle
Ronald Welch (1909-1982) - The Gauntlet, Knight Crusader
H. G. Wells (1866-1946) - The Time Machine
Robert Westall (1929-1993) - The Machine Gunners, Fathom Five, The Scarecrows
Scott Westerfeld - The Midnighters Trilogy, Peeps, The Last Days, The Uglies series
John F.C. Westerman (1901-?) - John Wentley Takes Charge, The Invisible Plane
Percy F. Westerman (1876-1959) - All Hands to the Boats, Deeds of Pluck and Daring in the Great War
Michael Wexler - The Seems series
Suzanne Weyn (born 1955), The Bar Code Tattoo, Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium
E. B. White (1899-1985) - Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little, The Trumpet of the Swan
T. H. White (1906-1964) - The Sword in the Stone, Mistress Masham's Repose
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 (1881-1944) - The Velveteen Rabbit, Poor Cecco
Ursula Moray Williams (1911-2006) - Adventures of the Little Wooden Horse, Gobbolino the Witch's Cat
Henry Williamson (1895-1977) - Tarka the Otter
Henry Winkler - The Hank Zipzer series
Jacqueline Wilson - The Girls series, Double Act, The Story of Tracy Beaker, The Illustrated Mum
Elizabeth Winthrop - The Castle in the Attic series
Patricia Wrede - The Enchanted Forest Chronicles
Dare Wright (1914-2001) - The Lonely Doll
Patricia Wrightson - The Crooked Snake, The Nargun and The Stars


Y
Laurence Yep - The Golden Mountain Chronicles, the Dragon series, Ribbons
Jane Yolen - Owl Moon, the Commander Toad series, the Pit Dragon Trilogy, Wizard's Hall
Ed Young - Lon Po Po, Seven Blind Mice


Z
Paul Zindel (1936-2003) - The Pigman
Charlotte Zolotow - Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present


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