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
• Eric Carle - The Very Hungry Caterpillar
• 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

E

• Martin Ebbertz - Little Mr. Jaromir

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)
• Ezra Jack Keats - The Snowy Day
• 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

• Betty MacDonald - the Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle series
• 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
• Tamora Pierce, (born 1954) Tortall books, Circle of Magic books
• 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, Holes
• Antoine de Saint-Exupery, (1900-1944), The Little Prince
• Richard Scarry - (1919-1994) Busytown series
• Ouida Sebestyen - American, (born 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
• William Sleator, science fiction stories (see also list of science fiction authors)
• 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

See also: Lists of authors

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