List of children's literature writers

A

• Verna Aardema – Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears
• Rafael Ábalos – Grimpow
• Tony Abbott – The Secrets of Droon, Danger Guys
• Joan Abelove – Go and Come Back
• Chris van Abkoude – Pietje Bell series, Little Crumb
• Socorro Acioli – The Ghost Dancer
• Richard Adams – Watership Down
• Jean Adamson – Topsy and Tim
• C. S. Adler – Magic of the Glits, Ghost Brother
• David A. Adler – Cam Jansen series, The Babe and I
• Aesop – Fables
• Joan Aiken – The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, Arabel and Mortimer series, A Necklace of Raindrops
• Vivien Alcock – The Haunting of Cassie Palmer
• Louisa May Alcott – Little Women, The Brownie and the Princess
• Kwame Alexander – The Crossover
• Lloyd Alexander – The Chronicles of Prydain series, Westmark trilogy
• Sue Alexander – Nadia the Willful
• Horatio Alger, Jr. – Ragged Dick
• Mabel Esther Allan – Over the Sea to School, Ballet for Drina, The Ballet Family
• David Almond – Skellig, Heaven Eyes, Kit's Wilderness
• Joseph Alexander Altsheler – The Young Trailers series, The Civil War series
• Julia Alvarez – Tia Lola series
• Hans Christian Andersen – "The Snow Queen", "The Little Mermaid", "The Ugly Duckling", "The Emperor's New Clothes", "The Princess and the Pea", "Thumbelina"
• Lena Anderson – Tea for Ten, Tick-Tock
• Sam Angus – Soldier Dog, The House on Hummingbird Island
• Charlotte Anley – Influence: A Moral Tale for Young People
• K. A. Applegate – Animorphs, Remnants, Everworld series
• Victor Appleton – Tom Swift series
• Philip Ardagh – Eddie Dickens series, Unlikely Exploits series
• Edward Ardizzone – Tim All Alone, Tim and the Brave Sea Captain
• Laura Adams Armer – Waterless Mountain
• William H. Armstrong – Sounder
• Elizabeth Arnold – The Parsley Parcel
• Tedd Arnold – No Jumping on the Bed!, Parts
• Frank Asch – I Can Blink
• Bernard Ashley – The Trouble with Donovan Croft, Dodgem, Little Soldier
• M. E. Atkinson – August Adventure, Smugglers' Gap, Mystery Manor
• Margaret Atwood – Up in the Tree, Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut
• Cécile Aubry – Belle et Sébastien
• Martin Auer – Now, Now, Markus, The Blue Boy
• Steve Augarde – The Various, Celandine
• Jonathan Auxier – The Night Gardener, Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster
• Esther Averill – The Cat Club, The Fire Cat
• Gillian Avery – The Warden's Niece, The Elephant War, A Likely Lad
• Harold Avery – The Triple Alliance, Play the Game
• Avi – , The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
• Christopher Awdry – The Railway Series #27–40
• Wilbert Awdry – The Railway Series #1–26

  B

• Natalie Babbitt – Tuck Everlasting, Knee-Knock Rise, The Search for Delicious
• Maria Baciu – Ghetuţele copilăriei
• Enid Bagnold – National Velvet
• Bob Balaban – McGrowl series
• R. M. Ballantyne – The Coral Island
• Blue Balliett – Chasing Vermeer, The Wright 3, The Calder Game
• Lynne Reid Banks – The Indian in the Cupboard series
• Helen Bannerman – Little Black Sambo
• Shirley Barber – The Tale of Martha B. Rabbit, A Wedding in Fairyland
• Clive Barker – The Thief of Always
• Joyce Barkhouse – Pit Pony
• Jill Barklem – Brambly Hedge
• Steve Barlow and Steve Skidmore – Outernet series
• Kitty Barne – She Shall Have Music, Family Footlights, Visitors from London, Rosina Copper
• Kelly Barnhill – The Girl Who Drank the Moon
• J. M. Barrie – Peter Pan
• T. A. Barron – The Lost Years of Merlin
• Dave Barry – Peter and the Starcatchers series
• Margaret Stuart Barry – Simon and the Witch
• Graeme Base – Animalia
• L. Frank Baum – The Wonderful Wizard of Oz series
• Hans Baumann – Sons of the Steppe, I Marched with Hannibal
• Nina Bawden – Carrie's War, The Witch's Daughter, The Peppermint Pig
• "BB" – The Little Grey Men, Down the Bright Stream, Bill Badger and the Pirates
• S. G. Hulme Beaman – Toytown stories
• Jerome Beatty Jr – Matthew Looney space series
• Aaron Becker – Journey, Quest, Return
• Thea Beckman – Crusade in Jeans, Children of Mother Earth series
• Frank Beddor – The Looking Glass Wars series
• John Bellairs – The House with a Clock in Its Walls
• Hilaire Belloc – Cautionary Tales for Children, The Bad Child's Book of Beasts, More Beasts for Worse Children
• Ludwig Bemelmans – Madeline
• Derek Benz – Grey Griffins
• Berechiah ha-Nakdan – Mishle Shualim, Fables of a Jewish Aesop
• Stan and Jan Berenstain – The Berenstain Bears series
• Elisabeth Beresford – The Wombles
• Leila Berg – Nippers series
• Paul Berna – A Hundred Million Francs, The Street Musician, Flood Warning
• Luc Besson – Arthur and the Minimoys series
• Vitaly Bianki – Whose Nose is Better?
• David Biedrzycki – Ace Lacewing: Bug Detective, Me and My Dragon, Santa Retires
• Paul Biegel – The King of the Copper Mountains, The Little Captain, The Elephant Party
• Margaret Biggs – Melling School series
• Franny Billingsley – Well Wished, Big Bad Bunny
• Claire Huchet Bishop – The Five Chinese Brothers, All Alone, The Big Loop
• Christina Björk – Linnea in Monet's Garden
• Holly Black – The Spiderwick Chronicles, , Tithe, Valiant
• Malorie Blackman – Noughts & Crosses, Pig Heart Boy, Cloud Busting
• Clair Blank – Beverly Gray mystery series
• Judy Blume – Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret, Fudge series
• Enid Blyton – Noddy series, The Famous Five series, The Secret Seven series, The Magic Faraway Tree series, Sunny Stories magazine
• Michael Bond – Paddington Bear series
• Nancy Bond – A String in the Harp
• Ruskin Bond – The Room on the Roof, The Blue Umbrella, Angry River
• Veronica Bonilla – The Platanario series, Magic Dream
• Lucy M. Boston – Green Knowe series
• J. Allan Bosworth – White Water, Still Water, All the Dark Places
• Chris Bradford – Young Samurai series
• Tony Bradman – Dilly the Dinosaur series
• Gillian Bradshaw – The Dragon and the Thief, The Land of Gold, Beyond the North Wind
• Christianna Brand – Nurse Matilda series
• Ann Brashares – The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series
• Angela Brazil – The Nicest Girl in the School, For the Sake of the School, The Jolliest Term on Record
• Elinor Brent-Dyer – Chalet School series
• Jan Brett – Trouble with Trolls
• Thomas Brezina – The Knickerbocker Gang, Tom Turbo
• Rae Bridgman – The MiddleGate Books: The Serpent's Spell, Amber Ambrosia, Fish & Sphinx
• Katharine Mary Briggs – Hobberdy Dick, Kate Crackernuts
• Robert Bright – Georgie
• Carol Ryrie Brink – Caddie Woodlawn, Baby Island
• Hesba Fay Brinsmead – Pastures of the Blue Crane, Longtime Dreaming
• Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić – The Marvelous Adventures and Misadventures of Hlapić the Apprentice, Tales of Long Ago
• Frances Freeling Broderip – Funny Fables for Little Folks
• Lauren Brooke – Heartland series, Chestnut Hill series
• Walter R. Brooks – Freddy the Pig series
• Marc Brown – Arthur series
• Marcia Brown – Puss in Boots
• Margaret Wise Brown – Goodnight Moon, The Runaway Bunny
• Pamela Brown – The Swish of the Curtain
• Frances Browne – Granny's Wonderful Chair
• Jean de Brunhoff – Babar the Elephant series
• Jan Brzechwa – Pan Kleks series, and many poems for children
• Anthony Buckeridge – Jennings school stories
• Maria Elizabeth Budden – Always Happy!!: Or, Anecdotes of Felix and his Sister Serena. A Tale
• Eve Bunting – Smoky Night
• John Bunyan – Pilgrim's Progress
• Robert J. Burch – Queenie Peavy, Ida Early Comes Over the Mountain
• Della Burford – Journey to Dodoland, Magical Earth Secrets, Miracle Galaxy
• Anthony Burgess – A Long Trip to Tea Time, The Land Where the Ice Cream Grows
• Gelett Burgess – Goops series, and many poems for children including "Purple Cow"
• Thornton Burgess – The Adventures of Danny Meadow Mouse, Old Mother West Wind
• Doris Burn – Andrew Henry's Meadow, The Summerfolk
• Sheila Burnford – The Incredible Journey
• Alice Hale Burnett – The Merryvale Boys
• Frances Hodgson Burnett – A Little Princess, Little Lord Fauntleroy, The Secret Garden
• Hester Burton – Time of Trial
• Virginia Lee Burton – The Little House, Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
• A. J. Butcher – Spy High series
• Betsy Byars – Summer of the Swans, Tornado
• Georgia Byng – Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism, Molly Moon Stops the World

  C

• Meg Cabot – The Princess Diaries, Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls
• Eleanor Cameron – The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet, The Court of the Stone Children
• Joanna Campbell – Thoroughbred series
• Dorothy Canfield Fisher – Understood Betsy
• Cao Wenxuan – Bronze and Sunflower
• William Cardell – The Story of Jack Halyard, the Sailor Boy
• Rosa Nouchette Carey – Not Like Other Girls, Heriot's Choice
• Eric Carle – The Very Hungry Caterpillar, The Very Busy Spider
• Natalie Savage Carlson – The Happy Orpheline, The Family Under the Bridge, The Empty Schoolhouse
• Isobelle Carmody – The Legend of Little Fur, Magic Night, Obernewtyn Chronicles
• Lewis Carroll – Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass
• Anne Laurel Carter – The Shepherd's Granddaughter, Under a Prairie Sky
• Peter Carter – The Sentinels, Children of the Book, Borderlands
• Neelam Saxena Chandra – Five Tales, Tales from Sundervan, Pankhudiyaan, Chanda
• Scott Chantler – Two Generals, Three Thieves, NorthWest Passage
• Charles, Prince of Wales – The Old Man of Lochnagar
• Geoffrey Chaucer – Chanticleer and the Fox
• Nan Chauncy – They Found a Cave, Tiger in the Bush, Devils' Hill, Tangara
• Simon Cheshire – Saxby Smart: Private Detective, Pants on Fire, Operation Sting
• Ruth Chew – The Wednesday Witch, What the Witch Left, The Trouble with Magic
• Lauren Child – Charlie and Lola series, Clarice Bean series
• Irma Chilton – Take Away the Flowers
• John Christopher – The Prince in Waiting series, The Tripods trilogy
• Matt Christopher – Wild Pitch, The Kid Who Only Hit Homers, Tough to Tackle
• Korney Chukovsky – Moydodyr
• Mrs. Henry Clarke – Miss Merivale's Mistake, Put to the Proof
• Pauline Clarke – The Twelve and the Genii
• Beverly Cleary – Ramona Quimby series
• Andrew Clements – Frindle, A Week in the Woods
• Eleanor Clymer – The Trolley Car Family
• Joanna Cole – The Magic School Bus series
• Eoin Colfer – Artemis Fowl series
• Sneed B. Collard III – Hangman's Gold, The Governor's Dog is Missing!, Dog 4491
• Suzanne Collins – The Underland Chronicles, The Hunger Games trilogy
• Carlo Collodi – The Adventures of Pinocchio
• Padraic Colum – The King of Ireland's Son
• John Amos Comenius – Orbis Sesualim Pictis
• Ying Chang Compestine – Secrets of the Terra-Cotta Soldier, The Chinese Emperor's New Clothes
• Harriet Theresa Comstock – Molly the Drummer Boy, Janet of the Dunes
• Jane Leslie Conly – Racso and the Rats of NIMH, R-T, Margaret, and the Rats of NIMH, Crazy Lady!
• Susan Coolidge – What Katy Did series
• Barbara Cooney – Chanticleer and the Fox, Miss Rumphius
• Susan Cooper – The Dark Is Rising series, The Boggart
• Esther Copley – Early Friendships
• Zizou Corder – Lionboy series
• William Corlett – The Magician's House series
• Rachel Cosgrove – The Hidden Valley of Oz
• John Cotton – 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 – The Brownies series
• John Coy – Night Driving, Crackback
• Joe Craig – Jimmy Coates series
• Ion Creangă – Childhood Memories, The Goat and Her Three Kids, Harap Alb, Ivan Turbincă, Dănilă Prepeleac
• Sharon Creech – Walk Two Moons, Ruby Holler, Heartbeat
• Helen Cresswell – The Bagthorpe Saga
• Richmal Crompton – Just William
• Michael Cronin – Against the Day series
• Gillian Cross – Wolf, The Great Elephant Chase, The Demon Headmaster series
• Sarah Crossan – The Weight of Water, Apple and Rain, One
• Kevin Crossley-Holland – Storm, The Seeing Stone
• Catherine Crowe – Pippie's Warning; or, Mind Your Temper
• Gabriella Csire – Turpi series
• John Cunliffe – Postman Pat series; Rosie & Jim series
• Jane Louise Curry – Abaloc series, Poor Tom's Ghost, The Egyptian Box, The Black Canary

  D

• Debbie Dadey – The Adventures of the Bailey School Kids
• Roald Dahl – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, The BFG, James and the Giant Peach, The Witches, Fantastic Mr Fox
• Alice Dalgliesh – The Bears on Hemlock Mountain, The Courage of Sarah Noble, The Silver Pencil
• Annie Dalton – Angels Unlimited series, Afterdark series
• David Scott Daniell – Young English, Mission for Oliver, The Dragon and the Rose, By Jiminy
• Lucy Daniels – Animal Ark, Dolphin Diaries
• Paula Danziger – The Cat Ate My Gymsuit, Amber Brown series
• James Dashner – The 13th Reality series
• Alan Davidson – Annabel series, Light, The Bewitching of Alison Allbright
• Stephen Mark Davies – Sophie series, Hacking Timbuktu, Outlaw
• Lavinia R. Davis – The Wild Birthday Cake, Buttonwood Island, Donkey Detectives
• Jean D'Costa – Escape to Last Man Peak
• Edmondo De Amicis – Heart
• Marguerite de Angeli – The Door in the Wall, Black Fox of Lorne, Bright April
• Jeanne de Cavally – Pouê-pouê, le petit cabri
• Walter de la Mare – The Three Mulla Mulgars, Songs of Childhood, Peacock Pie, Collected Stories for Children
• Silvana De Mari – The Last Dragon
• Terry Deary – The Fire Thief, Master Crook's Crime Academy series
• Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe
• Meindert DeJong – The Wheel on the School, The House of Sixty Fathers
• Lavinia Derwent – Tammy Troot, Sula
• Kate DiCamillo – Because of Winn Dixie, The Tale of Despereaux, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, '
• Charles Dickens – A Christmas Carol, The Magic Fishbone
• Peter Dickinson – The Changes trilogy, Tulku, City of Gold, Eva, The Kin
• Miep Diekmann – The Haunted Island, Just a Street, Slave Doctor
• Anne Digby – Trebizon series
• Thomas M. Disch – The Brave Little Toaster, The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars
• Tony DiTerlizzi – The Spiderwick Chronicles, '
• Franklin W. Dixon – The Hardy Boys series
• Rex Dixon – Pocomoto series
• Chris D'Lacey – The Fire Within series
• Lynley Dodd – Hairy Maclary, Slinky Malinki
• Mary Mapes Dodge – Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates
• Julia Donaldson – The Gruffalo, Monkey Puzzle, The Troll
• Amanda Minnie Douglas – A Little Girl series, Helen Grant series, A Modern Cinderella
• Siobhan Dowd – The London Eye Mystery, Bog Child
• Debra Doyle – School of Wizardry, Knight's Wyrd
• Roddy Doyle – Not Just for Christmas, Wilderness
• Tonke Dragt – The Letter for the King, The Secrets of the Wild Wood
• Crescent Dragonwagon – Always, Always, Home Place, Half a Moon and One Whole Star
• Anna Harriett Drury – The Three Half-Crowns: a story for boys, Richard Rowe's Parcel
• William Pène du Bois – The Twenty-One Balloons
• Diane Duane – So You Want to Be a Wizard
• Tessa Duder – Alex Archer series, Tiggie Tompson series
• Florence Dugdale – The Book of Baby Birds
• Lois Duncan – I Know What You Did Last Summer, A Gift of Magic
• Jeanne DuPrau – The Books of Ember series
• Christine Dzidrums – Cutters Don't Cry, Gabby Douglas: Golden Smile, Golden Triumph

  E

• Edward Eager – Half Magic, Magic by the Lake, Knight's Castle, The Time Garden, The Well-Wishers, Magic or Not, Seven-Day Magic
• Marion Eames – Sionyn a Siarli, Huw a'r Adar Aur, Y Tir Tywyll
• Martin Ebbertz – Little Mr. Jaromir
• Dorothy Edwards – My Naughty Little Sister, The Witches and the Grinnygog
• Julie Edwards – The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles
• Leo Edwards – Jerry Todd series, Poppy Ott series
• Monica Edwards – Punchbowl Farm series, Romney Marsh series
• Stephen Elboz – The Byzantium Bazaar
• T. S. Eliot – Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
• E. C. Eliott – Kemlo and Tas series
• David Elliott – Bull, Evangeline Mudd and the Great Mink Escapade, Knitty Kitty
• Janice Elliott – The Sword and the Dream
• Sarah Ellis – Pick-Up Sticks
• Jonathan Emmett – Bringing Down the Moon, Someone Bigger, The Princess and the Pig
• Michael Ende – The Neverending Story, Momo, Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver
• Margarita Engle –
• Elizabeth Enright – The Melendy series, Thimble Summer, Gone-Away Lake
• John R. Erickson – Hank the Cowdog
• Eleanor Estes – The Moffats, Rufus M., The Hundred Dresses, Ginger Pye
• Juliana Horatia Ewing – A Flat Iron for a Farthing, The Story of a Short Life

  F

• John Meade Falkner – Moonfleet
• Eleanor Farjeon – Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard, The Little Bookroom
• Walter Farley – The Black Stallion series
• 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 – The Wallypug of Why, The Little Panjandrum's Dodo
• Gertrude Minnie Faulding – Old Man's Beard and Other Tales
• Tim Federle – Better Nate Than Ever, The Great American Whatever
• Eliza Fenwick – Mary and Her Cat, Visits to the Junior Library
• Ruby Ferguson – Jill's Gymkhana, A Stable for Jill, Jill's Pony Trek
• Chitra Fernando – Glass Bangles, The Adventures of Senerat Bandara, Bempi Appu
• Eugene Field – Wynken, Blynken, and Nod
• Sarah Fielding – The Governess, or The Little Female Academy
• Anne Fine – The Tulip Touch, Madame Doubtfire, Flour Babies
• Martha Finley – Elsie Dinsmore series, Mildred Keith series
• Aileen Fisher – We Alcotts, I Heard a Bluebird Sing
• Catherine Fisher – The Snow-Walker, The Book of the Crow, The Oracle, Corbenic
• John D. Fitzgerald – The Great Brain series
• Louise Fitzhugh – Harriet the Spy, Nobody's Family Is Going to Change
• Marjorie Flack – The Story of Ping, Angus and the Ducks
• John Flanagan – Ranger's Apprentice series
• Paul Fleischman – Bull Run,
• Sid Fleischman – The Whipping Boy, By The Great Horn Spoon!
• Ian Fleming – Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
• Esther Forbes – Johnny Tremain
• Antonia Forest – Autumn Term, Falconer's Lure and other Marlow Family books
• Elena Fortún – Celia, lo que dice, Celia en el colegio
• Helen Fox – Eager series
• Anne Frank – The Diary of a Young Girl
• Barbara C. Freeman – Two-Thumb Thomas, Timi, the Tale of a Griffin
• Pamela Freeman – The Willow Tree's Daughter, The Black Dress, Cherryblossom and the Golden Bear
• Jackie French – Hitler's Daughter, Diary of a Wombat, Pete the Sheep, School for Heroes
• Frieda Friedman – Dot for Short, Pat and Her Policeman, Carol from the Country
• Cornelia Funke – The Thief Lord, Inkheart trilogy
• Sandy Fussell – Samurai Kids series, Polar Boy
• Rose Fyleman – Fairies and Chimneys, The Fairy Green, The Dolls' House
• Fynn – Mister God, This Is Anna

  G

• Jostein Gaarder – Sophie's World, The Christmas Mystery
• Arkady Gaidar – Timur and His Squad
• Neil Gaiman – Coraline, The Graveyard Book
• Paul Gallico – ', Manxmouse, Jennie, The Day the Guinea-Pig Talked
• Sally Gardner – The Countess's Calamity, I, Coriander, The Red Necklace
• Leon Garfield – Devil-in-the-Fog, Smith, The God Beneath the Sea, John Diamond
• Howard R. Garis – Uncle Wiggily Longears series
• Alan Garner – The Owl Service, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, The Moon of Gomrath, Elidor, Red Shift, The Stone Book Quartet
• Eve Garnett – The Family from One End Street
• Doris Gates – Blue Willow
• Margaret Gatty – Parables from Nature, Aunt Judy's Tales
• Jamila Gavin – Coram Boy, Grandpa Chatterji
• Béatrice Lalinon Gbado – Beautiful Debo, Bovi series, Kaïvi series
• Anna Genover-Mas – The Grumpy Gardener
• Jean Craighead George – My Side of the Mountain, Julie of the Wolves
• Jessica Day George – Princess of the Midnight Ball, Dragon Slippers
• Adèle Geras – Apricots at Midnight, The Girls in the Velvet Frame, The Fabulous Fantoras
• Charles "Father Goose" Ghigna – Mice Are Nice, Riddle Rhymes, A Fury of Motion: Poems for Boys
• Patricia Reilly Giff – The Polk Street School series, Lily's Crossing, Pictures of Hollis Woods, Eleven, Storyteller
• Fred Gipson – Old Yeller
• Debi Gliori – Pure Dead series, Mr Bear series, Witch Baby series, The Tobermory Cat, What's the Time, Mr Wolf?
• Rumer Godden – The Doll's House, The Mousewife, The Diddakoi
• Glenda Goertzen – The Prairie Dogs, City Dogs
• John Henry Goldfrap – The Ocean Wireless Boys, The Boy Aviators, The Dreadnought Boys
• Julia Golding – The Diamond of Drury Lane, Secret of the Sirens
• Oliver Goldsmith – The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes
• Elizabeth Goudge – The Little White Horse, Linnets and Valerians
• Candy Gourlay – Tall Story, Shine, Bone Talk
• Harry Graham – Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes
• Kenneth Grahame – The Wind in the Willows
• Hardie Gramatky – Little Toot
• Mary Grannan – Just Mary, Maggie Muggins
• John Grant – Little Nose stories
• Nicholas Stuart Gray – Grimbold's Other World, The Seventh Swan
• John Green – Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines, Paper Towns, The Fault in Our Stars, Will Grayson, Will Grayson, Let It Snow
• Roger Lancelyn Green – King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table, The Luck of Troy
• Kate Greenaway – Under the Window
• Graham Greene – The Little Train, The Little Fire Engine, The Little Horse Bus, The Little Steamroller
• James Greenwood – The True History of a Little Ragamuffin
• Kristiana Gregory – Earthquake at Dawn, The Stowaway, Jenny of the Tetons
• Andy Griffiths – The Bad Book, Just Tricking, The 13-Storey Treehouse, Treasure Fever!
• Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm – Grimm's Fairy Tales
• Maria Gripe – Hugo and Josephine, In the Time of the Bells, Elvis and His Secret
• John Grisham – ' series
• Annie Groovie – Léon series
• Johnny Gruelle – Raggedy Ann series
• Dan Gutman – The Million Dollar Shot, Baseball Card Adventures, My Weird School series
• Bethan Gwanas – Llinyn Trôns, Sgôr

  H

• Maria Hack – Winter Evenings, Harry Beaufoy, or, The Pupil of Nature
• Margaret Peterson Haddix – Shadow Children series
• Mark Haddon – The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Agent Z series
• Virginia Hamilton – M. C. Higgins the Great
• Leif Hamre – Otter Three Two Calling, Contact Lost, Blue Two ... Bale Out
• H. Irving Hancock – High School Boys series, West Point series, Young Engineers series
• Joyce Hansen – The Gift-Giver, The Captive, I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly
• Frances Hardinge – Fly by Night, The Lie Tree
• Roger Hargreaves – Mr. Men series, Little Miss series
• Cynthia Harnett – The Wool-Pack, The Load of Unicorn, The Writing on the Hearth
• Amanda Bartlett Harris – author and literary critic
• Joel Chandler Harris – Uncle Remus
• Rosemary Harris – The Moon in the Cloud, A Quest for Orion, Zed
• Edith Ogden Harrison – Prince Silverwings, The Star Fairies
• Lisi Harrison – The Clique series, Alpha series, Monster High books
• Peter Härtling – Oma, ', '
• Sonya Hartnett – The Silver Donkey, The Children of the King
• Juanita Havill – Jamaica series, Eyes Like Willy's
• Charles Hawes – The Dark Frigate, The Great Quest
• Barbara Haworth-Attard – TruthSinger, To Stand on My Own, A Trail of Broken Dreams
• Carolyn Haywood – Betsy series, Eddie series
• Helen Haywood – Peter Tiggywig series
• Carol Hedges – Jigsaw, Spy Girl series
• Florence Parry Heide – The Shrinking of Treehorn
• Robert A. Heinlein – Rocket Ship Galileo, Have Space Suit—Will Travel
• Racey Helps – Barnaby Littlemouse series
• Zenna Henderson – '
• Marguerite Henry – King of the Wind, Misty of Chincoteague
• G. A. Henty – Out on the Pampas, The Young Buglers, The Cat of Bubastes, With Lee in Virginia, Beric the Briton
• James Herriot – All Creatures Great and Small, James Herriot's Treasury for Children
• Karen Hesse – Out of the Dust, The Music of Dolphins
• Carl Hiaasen – Hoot
• Clifford B. Hicks – First Boy on the Moon, The Marvelous Inventions of Alvin Fernald
• E. W. Hildick – Jack McGurk mysteries, Jim Starling series
• Lorna Hill – A Dream of Sadler's Wells
• Nigel Hinton – Buddy, Beaver Towers
• S. E. Hinton – The Outsiders, That Was Then, This Is Now, Rumble Fish
• Russell Hoban – The Mouse and His Child
• Will Hobbs – Bearstone, Beardream, Ghost Canoe, Go Big or Go Home
• Michael Hoeye – Hermux Tantamoq series
• E. T. A. Hoffmann – The Nutcracker and the Mouse King
• Mary Hoffman – Stravaganza series, Amazing Grace
• Barbara Hofland – The Son of a Genius, The Blind Farmer and His Children, The Young Crusoe
• Christophe Honoré – Tout contre Léo
• Laura Lee Hope – Bobbsey Twins series
• Anthony Horowitz – Alex Rider series, The Diamond Brothers series, The Gatekeepers series
• Hasan Hourani – Hassan Everywhere
• Janni Howker – The Nature of the Beast, Badger on the Barge
• Carol Hughes – Jack Black and the Ship of Thieves, Dirty Magic, The Princess and the Unicorn
• Ted Hughes – The Iron Man
• Thomas Hughes – Tom Brown's School Days
• John Hulme – The Seems series
• Robert Humphrey – The Christmas Poodle series
• Irene Hunt – Up a Road Slowly, The Lottery Rose
• Erin Hunter – 'Warriors series, Seekers series
• Norman Hunter – Professor Branestawm series
• Emily Huws – Cyfres Corryn: Chwannen, Lol neu Lwc?

  I

• Eva Ibbotson – Which Witch?, The Secret of Platform 13, Journey to the River Sea
• Theodor Illek – The Golden Key
• Jean Ingelow – Mopsa the Fairy
• Mick Inkpen – Kipper the Dog series, Wibbly Pig series
• Washington Irving – The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle
• Koji Ishikawa – Colorful Animals Hide and Seek series
• Petre Ispirescu – Romanian Legends or Fairy Tales, Greuceanu

  J

• Joseph Jacobs – English Fairy Tales, Celtic Fairy Tales, European Folk and Fairy Tales
• Brian Jacques – Redwall series, Castaways of the Flying Dutchman
• Grace James – John and Mary series, Green Willow and Other Japanese Fairy Tales
• James Janeway – A Token for Children
• Éva Janikovszky – If I Were a Grown-Up, Who Does This Kid Take After?
• Tove Jansson – Moomin series
• Richard Jefferies – Wood Magic, Bevis
• Paul Jennings – Unreal!, Undone!, Unbelievable!, The Paw Thing, The Gizmo, Wicked series
• W. E. Johns – Biggles series
• Annie Fellows Johnston – The Little Colonel, Miss Santa Claus of the Pullman
• Diana Wynne Jones – Chrestomanci series, Howl's Moving Castle, Dogsbody
• Lara Jones – Poppy Cat series
• Marcia Thornton Jones – The Adventures of the Bailey School Kids series, Ghostville Elementary series
• T. Llew Jones – Trysor Plas y wernen, Anturiaethau Twm Siôn Cati: Y Ffordd Beryglus
• Terry Jones – Fairy Tales, The Saga of Erik the Viking, Squire series
• Jacqueline Jules – Zapato Power series, Unite or Die: How Thirteen States Became a Nation
• Norton Juster – The Phantom Tollbooth, The Hello, Goodbye Window
• May Justus – Gabby Gaffer, Luck for Little Lihu, New Boy in School

  K

• Cynthia Kadohata – Kira-Kira, Weedflower, The Thing About Luck
• Eiko Kadono – Kiki's Delivery Service
• Joan Kahn – Ladies and Gentlemen, said the Ringmaster, Seesaw, You Can't Catch Me
• Maira Kalman – Fireboat, Max Stravinsky: Poet-Dog series
• Ulrich Karger – The Scary Sleepover
• Jan Karon – Miss Fannie's Hat
• Erich Kästner – Emil and the Detectives, Lottie and Lisa, The Flying Classroom
• Elizabeth Kay – The Divide trilogy
• Annie Keary – Heroes of Asgard
• Ezra Jack Keats – The Snowy Day, Whistle for Willie, Goggles!
• Carolyn Keene – Nancy Drew mystery series
• Charles Keeping – Charley, Charlotte and the Golden Canary
• Harold Keith – Rifles for Watie
• Eric P. Kelly – The Trumpeter of Krakow
• Gene Kemp – The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler, The Pride of Tamworth Pig
• Louise Andrews Kent – He Went with Marco Polo, He Went with Hannibal, Two Children of Tyre
• Judith Kerr – When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, The Tiger Who Came To Tea
• P. B. Kerr – Children of the Lamp series
• Alexander Key – Escape to Witch Mountain, The Forgotten Door, The Case of the Vanishing Boy
• Dorothy Kilner – The Life and Perambulation of a Mouse
• Garry Kilworth – The Welkin Weasels series, Knights of Liöfwende series, Attica
• Clive King – Stig of the Dump
• Dick King-Smith – The Sheep-Pig, The Queen's Nose
• Charles Kingsley – The Water Babies, The Heroes
• Jeff Kinney – Diary of a Wimpy Kid series
• Rudyard Kipling – Just So Stories, The Jungle Book, Puck of Pook's Hill
• Jim Kjelgaard – Kalak of the Ice, Fire-Hunter, The Spell of the White Sturgeon, Wolf Brother
• Jon Klassen – This Is Not My Hat
• Annette Curtis Klause – Blood and Chocolate
• Anne Knight – School-Room Lyrics, Mary Gray
• E. L. Konigsburg – From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, The Second Mrs. Giaconda, The View from Saturday
• Robin Koontz – In a Cabin in a Wood, Leaps and Creeps: How Animals Move to Survive
• Janusz Korczak – King Matt the First, Kaytek the Wizard
• Conor Kostick – Epic, Saga, Edda, Move, The Book of Curses, The Book of Wishes
• Erik P. Kraft – Chocolatina, Lenny and Mel series, Miracle Wimp
• Ruth Krauss – The Carrot Seed
• Adrienne Kress – Alex and the Ironic Gentleman, Timothy and the Dragon's Gate
• Uma Krishnaswami – Naming Maya, Monsoon
• Kristín Helga Gunnarsdóttir – Fiasol series
• Joseph Krumgold – ...And Now Miguel, Onion John
• Jane Kurtz – River Friendly River Wild, Water Hole Waiting

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• Selma Lagerlöf – The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
• Elizabeth Laird – The Garbage King, Crusade
• Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb – Tales from Shakespeare
• Derek Landy – Skulduggery Pleasant series
• Andrew Lang – The Blue Fairy Book, The Red Fairy Book, The Red Romance Book
• Noel Langley – The Land of Green Ginger
• Katherine Langrish – Troll Fell, Troll Mill, Troll Blood
• Jane Langton – The Hall Family Chronicles series
• Jennifer Lanthier – The Mystery of the Martello Tower, The Stamp Collector
• Kirby Larson – The Magic Kerchief, Hattie Big Sky
• Kathryn Lasky – Guardians of Ga'hoole series, The Night Journey
• Dorothy P. Lathrop – The Fairy Circus, The Dog in the Tapestry Garden
• Caroline Lawrence – The Roman Mysteries
• Michael Lawrence – The Snottle and other Jiggy McCue books, Young Dracula, The Aldous Lexicon
• Robert Lawson – Rabbit Hill, Ben and Me, They Were Strong and Good
• Ervin Lázár – The Seven Headed Fairy, The Little Boy and the Lions, The Square Round Wood
• Ursula K. Le Guin – Earthsea series, Very Far Away from Anywhere Else, Catwings series, Annals of the Western Shore series
• Munro Leaf – The Story of Ferdinand
• Edward Lear – "The Owl and the Pussycat", :s:A Book of Nonsense|A Book of Nonsense
• Dennis Lee – Alligator Pie
• Harper Lee – To Kill a Mockingbird
• Robert Leeson – The Third Class Genie, It's My Life
• Madeleine L'Engle – A Wrinkle in Time, Meet the Austins
• Lois Gladys Leppard – Mandie series
• Peter Lerangis – Seven Wonders series, The Sword Thief and The Viper's Nest in The 39 Clues collaborative series, Spy X series, Abracadabra series
• Helen Lester – Tacky the Penguin
• Gail Carson Levine – Ella Enchanted, The Two Princesses of Bamarre, Fairest, Dave at Night, The Wish
• Ted Lewin – Peppe the Lamplighter
• C. S. Lewis – The Chronicles of Narnia series
• Hilda Lewis – The Ship That Flew, The Gentle Falcon
• J. Patrick Lewis – A Hippopotamusn't, Swan Song, The House
• J. S. Lewis – Grey Griffins
• Naomi Lewis – English translations of the works of Hans Christian Andersen
• Grace Lin – Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, The Year of the Dog
• Anne Lindbergh – The People of Pineapple Place, The Worry Week, Nick of Time
• Astrid Lindgren – Pippi Longstocking, Ronia the Robber's Daughter
• Eva Lindström – The Cat Hat, Olli och Mo, My Dog Mouse
• Eric Linklater – The Wind on the Moon, The Pirates in the Deep Green Sea
• Leo Lionni – Inch by Inch, Swimmy, Frederick, Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse
• Jean Little – Mine for Keeps, From Anna, Orphan at My Door
• Penelope Lively – The Ghost of Thomas Kempe, A Stitch in Time
• Monteiro Lobato – Sítio do Picapau Amarelo series
• Mira Lobe – The Snowman Who Went for a Walk, Little I Am Me
• Hugh Lofting – Doctor Dolittle series
• Jack London – The Call of the Wild, White Fang
• Lois Lowry – Number the Stars, The Giver, Anastasia Krupnik series
• Nina Lugovskaya – The Diary of a Soviet Schoolgirl, 1932–1937
• Janet Lunn – The Root Cellar, The Hollow Tree
• Patricia Lynch – The Turf-Cutter's Donkey, Brogeen series
• Elinor Lyon – The House in Hiding, Carver's Journey, Run Away Home

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• Amy MacDonald – Little Beaver and the Echo, Rachel Fister's Blister
• Betty MacDonald – Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle series
• George MacDonald – At the Back of the North Wind, The Princess and the Goblin
• Ellen MacGregor – Miss Pickerell series
• 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, Memory
• Hector Malot – Nobody's Boy
• Clare Mallory – Merry Begins, Juliet Overseas, The League of the Smallest
• Ruth Manning-Sanders – A Book of Dragons and other anthologies of fairy tales from around the world
• Alicia Catherine Mant, children's writer
• Emilia Marryat – Amongst the Maoris
• Frederick Marryat – The Children of the New Forest
• John Marsden – Tomorrow series
• Katherine Marsh – The Night Tourist, Jepp, Who Defied the Stars
• James Edward Marshall, as James Marshall and/or Edward Marshall – Fox in Love, Fox and His Friends, Fox on Wheels
• Ann M. Martin – The Babysitters Club series
• Emily Winfield Martin – Dream Animals, Oddfellow's Orphanage
• J. P. Martin – Uncle series
• Cissy van Marxveldt – Joop ter Heul series
• John Masefield – The Midnight Folk, The Box of Delights
• Cotton Mather – A Token for the Children of New England
• André Maurois – Fattypuffs and Thinifers
• Mercer Mayer – Little Critter series, Little Monster series
• James Mayhew – Miranda the Explorer, Ella Bella Ballerina, The Knight Who Took All Day
• William Mayne – A Swarm in May, A Grass Rope, Earthfasts, Low Tide
• Geraldine McCaughrean – Peter Pan in Scarlet, A Pack of Lies
• Robert McCloskey – Make Way for Ducklings, Time of Wonder, Blueberries for Sal
• Eloise McGraw – The Golden Goblet, The Moorchild, The Rundelstone of Oz
• Lauren Lynn McGraw – Merry Go Round in Oz
• Sharon E. McKay – Charlie Wilcox, Our Canadian Girl: Penelope series
• David McKee – Toucan Two Can
• Robin McKinley – The Hero and the Crown, The Blue Sword, Spindle's End
• Patricia McKissack – Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters, Never Forgotten
• Colin McNaughton – Captain Abdul's Pirate School
• Janet McNeill – My Friend Specs McCann, The Battle of St. George Without
• Karen McQuestion – Celia and the Fairies, Edgewood
• Geoffrey McSkimming – Cairo Jim series
• L. T. Meade – A World of Girls
• Stephen W. Meader – Boy with a Pack
• Milton Meltzer – The Black Americans, The American Revolutionaries, Mark Twain Himself
• Jean Merrill – The Pushcart War
• Laurence Meynell – The Old Gang
• Richard Michelson – Animals That Ought to Be: Poems about Imaginary Pets, Across the Alley
• Katherine Milhous – The Egg Tree
• Olive Beaupre Miller – My Book House' series
• A. A. Milne – Winnie-the-Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner, When We Were Very Young
• Elyne Mitchell – Silver Brumby series
• Ingvar Moe – Dei må ikkje skyta Garm
• Walter Moers – The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear
• John Mole – "Variations on an old Rhyme"
• Chris Monroe – Monkey with a Tool Belt, Sneaky Sheep
• Lucy Maud Montgomery – Anne of Green Gables series, Emily of New Moon
• Susanna Moodie – The Little Quaker, The Sailor Brother
• Clement Clarke Moore – "A Visit From St. Nicholas"
• Pat Mora – Pablo's Tree, A Library for Juana, Confetti, Doña Flor, A Birthday Basket for Tia
• Yuyi Morales – Niño Wrestles the World, Viva Frida, Little Night
• Lorin Morgan-Richards – A Boy Born from Mold and Other Delectable Morsels, The Goodbye Family
• John A. Moroso – Nobody's Buddy
• Michael Morpurgo – Why the Whales Came, The Wreck of the Zanzibar, Private Peaceful
• Farley Mowat – Lost in the Barrens, Owls in the Family
• Robert Muchamore – CHERUB series, Henderson's Boys series
• Brandon Mull – Fablehaven series
• 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''

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• Beverley Naidoo – Journey to Jo'berg, The Other Side of Truth
• Violet Needham – 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
• Marilyn Nelson – A Wreath for Emmett Till, Snook Alone, Ostrich and Lark
• Božena Němcová – Slovak Fairy Tales and Legends, The Grandmother
• Edith Nesbit – The Story of the Treasure Seekers, The Railway Children, Five Children and It, The Phoenix and the Carpet, The Story of the Amulet
• Patrick Ness – Chaos Walking trilogy, A Monster Calls, More Than This
• John Newbery – A Little Pretty Pocket-Book, intended for the Amusement of Little Master Tommy and Pretty Miss Polly with Two Letters from Jack the Giant Killer
• Sally Nicholls – Ways to Live Forever, Season of Secrets, Things a Bright Girl Can Do
• Jenny Nimmo – The Snow Spider trilogy, 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 – Colonial Williamsburg series, Orphan Train series
• Andrew Norriss – Aquila, The Unluckiest Boy in the World
• Grace May North – Bobs, a Girl Detective, Meg of Mystery Mountain, Sisters, the Adele Doring series
• Jessica Nelson North – The Giant Shoe
• Sterling North – Rascal, The Wolfing
• Carol Norton – pen name under which certain works of Grace May North were reprinted
• Mary Norton – The Borrowers series, Bedknob and Broomstick
• Nikolay Nosov – The Adventures of Dunno and his Friends
• Christine Nöstlinger – Fly Away Home
• Alfred Noyes – The Secret of Pooduck Island, Daddy Fell into the Pond and Other Poems for Children
• Sevinj Nurugizi – Kite

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• Graham Oakley – The Church Mice series, Magical Changes
• Robert C. O'Brien – Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, Z for Zachariah
• Jane O'Connor – Fancy Nancy series
• Scott O'Dell – Island of the Blue Dolphins, The King's Fifth, The Black Pearl
• Charles Ogden – Edgar & Ellen series
• Ian Ogilvy – Measle and the Wrathmonk, Measle and the Dragodon
• Jenny Oldfield – My Magical Pony, Home Farm Twins, Horses of Half-Moon Ranch series
• Sibylle von Olfers – The Root Children, Little Princess in the Wood
• Carola Oman – Ferry the Fearless
• Kenneth Oppel – Silverwing series, Airborn
• Uri Orlev – The Island on Bird Street
• Mary Pope Osborne – Magic Tree House series
• Pat O'Shea – The Hounds of the Morrigan
• Elsie J. Oxenham – Abbey series

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• Bernard Palmer – Danny Orlis series, Felicia Cartwright series
• Christopher Paolini – Inheritance Cycle
• Peggy Parish & Herman Parish – Amelia Bedelia series
• Barbara Park – Skinnybones, Junie B. Jones series
• Linda Sue Park – A Single Shard
• Peter Parnall – Winter Barn, Apple Tree, Woodpile
• Anne Parrish – The Dream Coach, Floating Island, The Story of Appleby Capple
• Katherine Paterson – The Master Puppeteer, Bridge to Terabithia, The Great Gilly Hopkins, Jacob Have I Loved
• Jill Paton Walsh – Gaffer Samson's Luck, The Emperor's Winding Sheet
• James Patterson – Maximum Ride series, The Dangerous Days of Daniel X
• Gary Paulsen – Hatchet, The Time Hackers
• Michelle Paver – Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series
• Philippa Pearce – Tom's Midnight Garden
• Kit Pearson – The Sky Is Falling, Awake and Dreaming
• Ridley Pearson – Peter and the Starcatchers series, The Kingdom Keepers series
• Howard Pease – Secret Cargo, Highroad to Adventure, Bound for Singapore
• Dale Peck – series
• Ethel Pedley – Dot and the Kangaroo
• Mary Louise Peebles, a.k.a. Lynde Palmer – The Magnet Stories
• Bill Peet – The Wump World, Hubert's Hair-Raising Adventure
• Daniel Pennac – The Eye of the Wolf
• Ethel Penrose – Clear as the Noon Day
• Lucy Fitch Perkins – Twins series
• Lynne Rae Perkins – Criss Cross, All Alone in the Universe
• Charles Perrault – Tales of Mother Goose, Little Red Riding Hood
• K. M. Peyton – Flambards, Fly-by-Night, Prove Yourself a Hero, Blind Beauty
• Rodman Philbrick – Freak The Mighty, Max the Mighty, The Last Book in the Universe, The Fire Pony
• Joan Phipson – The Boundary Riders, The Family Conspiracy, Polly's Tiger
• Tamora Pierce – Tortall series, Circle of Magic series
• Clara D. Pierson – "Among the People" series
• Christopher Pike – Spooksville series
• Dav Pilkey – Captain Underpants series
• Elizabeth Pinchard – The Blind Child, or, Anecdotes of the Wyndham Family, The Two Cousins
• Daniel Pinkwater – The Big Orange Splot, The Hoboken Chicken Emergency
• Saviour Pirotta – The Orchard Book of First Greek Myths
• Annabel Pitcher – My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece, Ketchup Clouds
• Sarah Pitt
• Kin Platt – Big Max series, The Blue Man
• Peter Pohl – Johnny, My Friend
• Josephine Pollard – The Brave Little Tailor, The Life of Washington, A Child's History of America: Told in One-Syllable Words, Bible Stories for Children
• Eleanor H. Porter – Pollyanna
• Tracey Porter – Billy Creekmore
• Beatrix Potter – The Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Tailor of Gloucester
• Ellen Potter – Olivia Kidney series
• Rhoda Power – Redcap Runs Away
• Terry Pratchett – The Nome Trilogy, Johnny Maxwell series, The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents, Tiffany Aching series
• Otfried Preussler – The Robber Hotzenplotz, The Curse of the Darkling Mill
• Willard Price – Amazon Adventure, Adventure series
• Elise Primavera – The Secret Order of the Gumm Street Girls
• Alison Prince – My Royal Story
• Christine Pullein-Thompson – We Rode to the Sea
• Diana Pullein-Thompson – I Wanted a Pony
• Josephine Pullein-Thompson – Six Ponies
• Philip Pullman – His Dark Materials trilogy, Clockwork, The Firework-Maker's Daughter
• Howard Pyle – Otto of the Silver Hand, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, Men of Iron

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• Gwynedd Rae – Mary Plain series
• Janette Rallison – Fame, Glory, and Other Things on My To Do List
• María Cristina Ramos – La luna lleva un silencio, El trasluz
• Arthur Ransome – Swallows and Amazons series
• Ellen Raskin – The Westing Game, Figgs & Phantoms
• Marjorie Rawlings – The Yearling, The Secret River
• Wilson Rawls – Where the Red Fern Grows, Summer of the Monkeys
• Sukumar Ray – HaJaBaRaLa, Abol Tabol, Pagla Dashu
• Talbot Baines Reed – The Fifth Form at St. Dominic's
• W. Maxwell Reed – The Earth for Sam, The Stars for Sam
• Celia Rees – The Bailey Game, Witch Child, Pirates!
• David Rees – The Exeter Blitz, The Flying Island
• Gwyneth Rees – The Mum Hunt, Fairy Dust series, Mermaid Magic
• Philip Reeve – Buster Bayliss, Mortal Engines, Larklight
• Meta Mayne Reid – Beyond the Wide World's End
• Thomas Mayne Reid – The Boy Hunters, The Young Voyageurs, The Boy Tar
• Kathryn Reiss – Time Windows, Paint by Magic, Sweet Miss Honeywell's Revenge
• Adam Rex – The True Meaning of Smekday, Cold Cereal, Fat Vampire, Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich
• H. A. Rey and Margret Rey – Curious George series, Pretzel
• Lou Rhodes – The Phlunk, The Phlunk's Worldwide Symphony
• Frank Richards – Greyfriars School stories featuring Billy Bunter
• Justin Richards – The Invisible Detective series
• Laura E. Richards – Captain January, Tirra Lirra, Eletelephony
• Chris Riddell – The Edge Chronicles, Barnaby Grimes
• E. V. Rieu – The Flattered Flying Fish and Other Poems
• Rick Riordan – Percy Jackson & the Olympians, The Heroes of Olympus, The Kane Chronicles, The Maze of Bones
• Jamie Rix – Alistair Fury series, Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids series
• Keith Robertson – Henry Reed series
• Hilary Robinson – Mixed Up Fairy Tales, The Princess's Secret Letters
• Joan G. Robinson – Teddy Robinson series, When Marnie Was There
• Gary D. Robson – Who Pooped? series
• Gianni Rodari – Telephone Tales , Tales Told by a Machine
• Emily Rodda – Fairy Realm series, Rowan of Rin series, Deltora Quest series
• Don Roff – Scary Stories
• Malcolm Rose – Traces series, 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 – Sad Book, Fantastically Funny Stories, Quick, Let's Get Out of Here, We're Going on a Bear Hunt
• Amy Krouse Rosenthal – Duck! Rabbit!
• Meg Rosoff – How I Live Now, Just In Case,There Is No Dog, Picture Me Gone
• Diana Ross – The Little Red Engine series
• Miriam Roth – A Tale of Five Balloons
• Veronica Roth – Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant
• J. K. Rowling – Harry Potter series
• Hemendra Kumar Roy – Bimal-Kumar series
• Ron Roy – A to Z Mysteries, Capital Mysteries
• Gillian Rubinstein – Space Demons, Galax-Arena
• Katherine Rundell – The Girl Savage, Rooftoppers
• Salman Rushdie – Haroun and the Sea of Stories
• Rachel Renee Russell – Dork Diaries
• An Rutgers van der Loeff – Children on the Oregon Trail, Avalanche!
• Chris Ryan – Alpha Force series
• Pam Muñoz Ryan – Esperanza Rising, Becoming Naomi León
• Cynthia Rylant – Missing May, Henry and Mudge series, Poppleton series

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• Louis Sachar – Sideways Stories From Wayside School series, Holes
• Angie Sage – Septimus Heap series
• Antoine de Saint-Exupéry – The Little Prince
• Emilio Salgari – The Tigers of Mompracem, The Black Corsair
• Carl Sandburg – Rootabaga Stories
• Brandon Sanderson – Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians
• Margaret Marshall Saunders – Beautiful Joe
• Constance Savery – Enemy Brothers
• Malcolm Saville – Lone Pine Club series
• Ruth Sawyer – Roller Skates
• Allen Say – Grandfather's Journey, The Ink-Keeper's Apprentice
• Kurtis Scaletta – Mudville, Mamba Point, The Tanglewood Terror
• Richard Scarry – Busytown series
• Annet Schaap – Lampje
• Pam Scheunemann – Overdue Kangaroo, Ape Cape, The Crane Loves Grain
• Jon Scieszka – The Time Warp Trio, The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs!, Science Verse
• Miriam Schlein – The Year of the Panda, I, Tut, The Way Mothers Are
• Mark Schlichting – Harry and the Haunted House
• Laura Amy Schlitz – Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village
• Christoph von Schmid – The Basket of Flowers, Easter Eggs
• Annie M. G. Schmidt – Jip and Janneke, Abeltje, Pluk van de Petteflet
• Alvin Schwartz – Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
• Michael Scott – The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series
• Will Scott – The Cherrys series
• Laura Vaccaro Seeger – First the Egg, Green
• Countess of Ségur – Sophie's Misfortunes, Good Little Girls, Monsieur Cadichon: Memoirs of a Donkey
• Tor Seidler – A Rat's Tale, The Wainscott Weasel, Mean Margaret
• George Selden – The Cricket in Times Square series
• Maurice Sendak – Where the Wild Things Are
• Kate Seredy – The White Stag, The Good Master, The Singing Tree
• Ernest Thompson Seton – Wild Animals I Have Known, Bannertail, Two Little Savages
• Dr. Seuss – The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
• David Severn – Ponies and Poachers, Dream Gold, The Future Took Us
• Anna Sewell – Black Beauty
• Elizabeth Missing Sewell – Amy Herbert
• Miranda Seymour – Mumtaz the Magical Cat
• Margery Sharp – The Rescuers
• Mark Shasha – Night of the Moonjellies
• Charles Green Shaw – It Looked Like Spilt Milk
• Mary Shelley – Maurice, or the Fisher's Cot
• Dorothy Sherrill – The Story of a Little Gray Mouse
• Mary Martha Sherwood – The History of Little Henry and his Bearer, The History of the Fairchild Family
• Gary Shipman and Rhoda Shipman – Pakkins' Land
• Mark Shulman – Scrawl, Mom and Dad are Palindromes, Secret Hiding Places
• Yrsa Sigurðardóttir – We Want Christmas in July, Biobörn
• Shel Silverstein – The Giving Tree, Where the Sidewalk Ends
• Francesca Simon – Horrid Henry series
• Seymour Simon – Einstein Anderson, Science Detective
• Catherine Sinclair – Holiday House, A Book for the Young
• Lester Basil Sinclair – Why Cows Moo
• Isaac Bashevis Singer – Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories, A Day of Pleasure, The Golem
• Marilyn Singer – Turtle in July
• Steve Skidmore and Steve Barlow – Outernet series
• Obert Skye – Leven Thumps series
• Ioan Slavici – The Fairy Aurora, The Twins with the Golden Star
• Arthur Slade – Dust, The Hunchback Assignments
• William Sleator – Singularity, Rewind
• Barbara Sleigh – Carbonel series, Jessamy, No One Must Know, The Snowball
• Dodie Smith – The Hundred and One Dalmatians
• Edward Wyke Smith – The Marvellous Land of Snergs
• Georgina Castle Smith – Froggy's Little Brother
• Roland Smith – Thunder Cave, Peak, Cryptid Hunters
• Barbara Smucker – Underground to Canada, Days of Terror
• Pat Smythe – Three Jays series, Adventure series
• Caroline Snedeker – Downright Dencey, The Forgotten Daughter
• Lemony Snicket – A Series of Unfortunate Events
• Jack Snow – The Magical Mimics in Oz, The Shaggy Man of Oz
• Laurel Snyder – Up and Down the Scratchy Mountains, Any Which Wall, Penny Dreadful
• Zilpha Keatley Snyder – The Egypt Game, The Headless Cupid, The Witches of Worm
• Donald J. Sobol – Encyclopedia Brown series, Two-Minute Mysteries series
• Angela Sommer-Bodenburg – The Little Vampire series
• Virginia Sorenson – Miracles on Maple Hill
• Ivan Southall – Josh, Ash Road, Hills End, To the Wild Sky, Bread and Honey, Fly West
• Stephen Southwold – Fiddlededee: A Medley of Stories
• Elizabeth George Speare – The Witch of Blackbird Pond, The Bronze Bow, The Sign of the Beaver
• Armstrong Sperry – Call It Courage
• Peter Spier – Noah's Ark
• Jerry Spinelli – Loser, Stargirl, Maniac Magee, Crash, Wringer
• Nancy Springer – The Enola Holmes Mysteries, Tales of Rowan Hood
• E. C. Spykman – A Lemon and a Star, The Wild Angel, Terrible Horrible Edie, Edie on the Warpath
• Johanna Spyri – Heidi
• Andy Stanton – Mr Gum series
• Dugald Steer – Ologies series
• William Steig – Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, Doctor De Soto, Shrek!
• John Steptoe – Stevie, Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters
• Robin Stevens – Murder Most Unladylike
• Robert Louis Stevenson – 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
• Mary Stewart – The Little Broomstick, Ludo and the Star Horse, A Walk in Wolf Wood
• Paul Stewart – The Edge Chronicles, Fergus Crane, Muddle Earth, Barnaby Grimes
• R. L. Stine – Goosebumps, Fear Street, The Nightmare Room series
• Frank R. Stockton – The Lady, or the Tiger?
• Hilda van Stockum – A Day on Skates, The Winged Watchman
• Margaret Storey – Timothy and the Two Witches, The Stone Sorcerer, Pauline
• Walter Scott Story – Skinny Harrison Adventurer
• Herbert Strang – Round the World in Seven Days, King of the Air, Rob the Ranger
• Todd Strasser – Help! I'm Trapped... series
• Edward Stratemeyer – founder of the Stratemeyer Syndicate that produced many series, most famously Rover Boys, Bobbsey Twins, Tom Swift, Hardy Boys, and Nancy Drew
• Noel Streatfeild – Ballet Shoes, The Circus Is Coming, Curtain Up, White Boots, The Painted Garden
• Jakob Streit – Liputto: Stories of Gnomes and Trolls
• Hesba Stretton – Jessica's First Prayer
• Agnes Strickland – Tales from English History for Children, The Rival Crusoes
• Charles S. Strong – The Hooded Hawk Mystery, The Scarlet Slipper Mystery, Snow King: Herd Dog of Lapland
• Jeremy Strong – There's a Viking in My Bed
• Jonathan Stroud – The Bartimaeus Trilogy
• Dorothy Margaret Stuart – The Children's Chronicle, The Young Clavengers
• Jennifer Sullivan – The Magic Apostrophe, Gwydion and the Flying Wand
• Deirdre Sullivan, Irish children's writer and poet
• Rosemary Sutcliff – The Eagle of the Ninth, The Lantern Bearers, The Mark of the Horse Lord, Black Ships Before Troy
• Jón Sveinsson – Nonni series
• Jonathan Swift – Gulliver's Travels

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• Rajesh Talwar – The Three Greens
• Shaun Tan – The Red Tree, The Lost Thing, Tales from Outer Suburbia, Rules of Summer
• Kathryn Tanquary – The Night Parade
• Ann Taylor and Jane Taylor – Rhymes for the Nursery, Original Poems for Infant Minds, Little Ann and Other Poems
• Colin Thiele – Storm Boy, Blue Fin, Sun on the Stubble
• Scarlett Thomas – Worldquake series
• Kate Thompson – Switchers, The New Policeman
• Ruth Plumly Thompson – The Royal Book of Oz and twenty subsequent Oz books
• James Thurber – The Thirteen Clocks, The Wonderful O, Many Moons
• Eve Titus – Basil of Baker Street series, Anatole series
• Barbara Euphan Todd – Worzel Gummidge series
• H. E. Todd – Bobby Brewster series
• J. R. R. Tolkien – The Hobbit, The Father Christmas Letters
• Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoy – The Golden Key, or the Adventures of Buratino
• Leo Tolstoy – Classic Tales and Fables for Children
• Theresa Tomlinson – The Forestwife, Meet Me by the Steelmen, The Moon Riders
• Hazel Townson – The Deathwood Letters, The Speckled Panic, The Invisible Boy
• Catharine Parr Traill – Canadian Crusoes
• Nigel Tranter – Spaniard's Isle, Nestor the Monster
• P. L. Travers – Mary Poppins series
• Mary Treadgold – We Couldn't Leave Dinah
• Geoffrey Trease – Cue for Treason, The Hills of Varna
• Henry Treece – Horned Helmet, The Road to Miklagard, The Children's Crusade
• Sharon Tregenza – Tarantula Tide, The Shiver Stone
• Meriol Trevor – Merlin's Ring, The Other Side of the Moon, The Rose Round, The King of the Castle, The Letzenstein Chronicles
• John R. Tunis – Iron Duke, All American, Keystone Kids, The Kid from Tomkinsville
• Ann Turnbull – Pigeon Summer, The Sand Horse, No Shame, No Fear
• Ethel Turner – Seven Little Australians
• Julian Tuwim – "The Locomotive" and other poems for children
• Mark Twain – The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn

  U

• Tomi Ungerer – The Mellops series, Moon Man, Flix
• Florence Kate Upton – The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls and a Golliwogg
• Anne Ursu – The Cronus Chronicles
• Else Ury – Nesthäkchen and Her Dolls, Nesthäkchen and the World War
• Eduard Uspensky – Crocodile Gena and His Friends, Uncle Fedya, His Dog, and His Cat
• Alison Uttley – Little Grey Rabbit series, A Traveller in Time

  V

• Rachel Vail – Wonder, Do-Over, The Friendship Ring series
• Jenny Valentine – Finding Violet Park, Broken Soup
• Chris Van Allsburg – Jumanji, The Polar Express, The Garden of Abdul Gasazi
• Wendelin Van Draanen – Sammy Keyes series, Flipped
• Hendrik Willem van Loon – The Story of Mankind
• Shreekumar Varma – The Royal Rebel
• Heiki Vilep – The Sounds of Silence, The Monsters of the Closet Door
• Rene Villanueva – Ang Unang Baboy Sa Langit
• Judith Viorst – Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
• Elfrida Vipont – The Lark in the Morn, The Lark on the Wing, The Elephant and the Bad Baby
• John Vornholt – The Troll King series
• Anne de Vries – Journey Through the Night
• Seita Vuorela – The School of Possibilities, Karikko

  W

• Bernard Waber – The House on East 88th Street
• Muriel Wace – Moorland Mousie
• Lea Wait – Stopping to Home, Wintering Well
• Judy Waite – Mouse Look Out
• Priscilla Wakefield – The Juvenile Travellers: Containing the Remarks of A Family During a Tour Through the Principal States and Kingdoms of Europe
• Dorothy Wall – Blinky Bill
• Ivy Wallace – Pookie series, The Animal Shelf series
• John Graham Wallace – Mr Bumble
• Maria Elena Walsh – Tutú Marambá
• Vivian Walsh – Olive, the Other Reindeer, Gluey, Penguin Dreams, Mr. Lunch series
• Mildred Pitts Walter – Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World, Second Daughter: The Story of a Slave Girl
• Amy Catherine Walton – Christie's Old Organ
• Jennifer Ward – Way Out in the Desert
• Elizabeth Watkin-Jones – Plant y Mynachdy, Onesimus
• Victor Watson – Paradise Barn series
• Marion St John Webb – Knock Three Times, The Girls of Chequertrees
• Regina Webb – Detective Henry Hopper series
• Sadie Rose Weilerstein – The Adventures of K'tonton
• Ronald Welch – The Gauntlet, Knight Crusader
• Jacqueline West – Dreamers Often Lie, The Books of Elsewhere
• Robert Westall – The Machine Gunners, Fathom Five, The Scarecrows
• Frank Atha Westbury – Australian Fairy Tales
• Scott Westerfeld – Midnighters trilogy, Peeps, The Last Days, Uglies series
• John F. C. Westerman – John Wentley Takes Charge, The Invisible Plane
• Percy F. Westerman – All Hands to the Boats, Deeds of Pluck and Daring in the Great War
• Carol Weston – Melanie Martin series, Ava and Pip
• Michael Wexler – The Seems series
• Suzanne Weyn – The Bar Code Tattoo, Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium
• Gloria Whelan – Homeless Bird, Angel on the Square, Listening for Lions, Chu Ju's House
• Evelyn Whitaker – Laddie, Tip Cat
• E. B. White – Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little, The Trumpet of the Swan
• T. H. White – The Sword in the Stone, Mistress Masham's Repose
• Martin Widmark – The Whodunit Detective Agency series
• Kate Douglas Wiggin – Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
• Oscar Wilde – The Selfish Giant, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
• Laura Ingalls Wilder – Little House on the Prairie and other Little House books
• Geoffrey Willans – Down with Skool, How to Be Topp
• John Ellis Williams – Owen the Goat of Snowdon
• Karen Lynn Williams – Galimoto
• Maiya Williams – The Golden Hour
• Margery Williams – The Velveteen Rabbit, Poor Cecco, Winterbound
• Ursula Moray Williams – Adventures of the Little Wooden Horse, Gobbolino the Witch's Cat
• Rita Williams-Garcia – One Crazy Summer, P.S. Be Eleven, Gone Crazy in Alabama
• Henry Williamson – Tarka the Otter
• Jacqueline Wilson – Girls in Love, Double Act, The Story of Tracy Beaker, The Illustrated Mum
• Jane Wilson-Howarth – Himalayan Kidnap, Chasing the Tiger
• Arthur M. Winfield – Rover Boys series
• Henry Winkler – Hank Zipzer series
• Henry Winterfeld – Trouble at Timpetill, Detectives in Togas, Star Girl
• Elizabeth Winthrop – The Castle in the Attic
• Mary Wollstonecraft – Original Stories from Real Life
• Audrey Wood – The Napping House, Moonflute, King Bidgood's in the Bathtub
• Patricia Wrede – Enchanted Forest Chronicles series
• Dare Wright – The Lonely Doll
• Patricia Wrightson – The Crooked Snake, The Nargun and the Stars
• Eva-Lis Wuorio – The Island of Fish in the Trees, The Happiness Flower
• Johann David Wyss – The Swiss Family Robinson

  Y

• Laurence Yep – The Golden Mountain Chronicles, Dragon series, Ribbons
• Jane Yolen – Owl Moon, Commander Toad series, Pit Dragon series, Wizard's Hall
• Charlotte Mary Yonge – The Daisy Chain, The Little Duke, The Dove in the Eagle's Nest
• E. H. Young – Caravan Island, River Holiday
• Ed Young – Lon Po Po, Seven Blind Mice
• Miriam Young – Miss Suzy, Jellybeans for Breakfast, A Witch's Garden

  Z

• Zheng Yuanjie – King of Fairy Tales
• Paul Zindel – The Pigman
• Charlotte Zolotow – Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present