List of children's literature authors

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

• 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 Wizard of Oz
• 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 Bunford[?] - The Incredible Journey[?]
• John Bunyan, (1628-1688), Pilgrim's Progress
• Frances Hodgeson 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)
• Beverly Cleary - Ramona Quimby[?] series
• Carlo "Collodi" Lorenzini - The Adventures of Pinocchio
• John Amos Comenus[?] - Orbis Sesualim Pictis Picture Book[?]
• Richmal Compton[?] - 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.
• Franklin W. Dixon[?] - The Hardy Boys[?] series
• Mary Mapes Dodge[?] - Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates
• William Pere du Bous[?] - 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[?]
• 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[?]
• Marguirite 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

• 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
• Rudyard Kipling, (1865-1936), Just So Stories[?]
• 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[?]
• 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[?]
• Lois Lowry - The Giver

M

• Ann Martin[?] - Baby-sitters Club series
• J.P. Martin, (1880-1966), Uncle series
• 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 - a MUST listen.

N

• Edith Nesbit, (1858-1924), The Railway Children, Five Children and It
• John Newbery[?] - A Little Pretty Pocket Book Intended for the Instruction and Amusement of Little Master Tommy and Pretty Miss Molly[?]

O

• Robert C. O'Brien[?] - Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH[?]
• Scott O'Dell[?] - Island of the Blue Dolphin[?]
• Mary Pope Osbourne - Magic Treehouse series

P

• Ethel Pedley[?] - Dot and the Kangaroo[?]
• 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
• 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?[?]
• 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
• 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[?]