Wikipedia: List of children's literature authors

List of children's literature authors
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List of important Children's literature authors and their most famous works.

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
Walter Moers
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