A

• Verna Aardema (1911-2001) - Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears
• Joan Abelove (born 1945) - Go and Come Back
• 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, 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
• 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
• 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
• R. M. Ballantyne (1825-1894) - The Coral Island
• Blue Balliett (born 1955) - Chasing Vermeer, The Wright 3
• Lynne Reid Banks (born 1929) - The Indian in the Cupboard series
• Helen Bannerman (1862-1946) - Little Black Sambo
• Jill Barklem (born 1951) - Brambly Hedge
• J. M. Barrie (1860-1937) - Peter Pan
• T. A. Barron (born 1952) - The Lost Years of Merlin 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
• John Bellairs (1938-1991) - The House with a Clock in Its Walls
• 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
• John Bibee - The Spirit Flyer series
• Holly Black - 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
• 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
• Nancy Bond - A String in the Harp
• Michael Bond - The Paddington Bear series
• Lucy M. Boston - The Green Knowe series
• James Bow - The Unwritten Girl
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

C

• Meg Cabot - The Princess Diaries
• Wendy Campbell - Doodles the Dodo
• Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879-1958) - Understood Betsy
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Emily Costello - The Journey, Animal Emergency series
• John Cotton (1585-1652) - Milk for Babes catechism
• Bruce Coville - Space Brat, My Teacher is an Alien, Aliens Ate My Homework
• Joy Cowley - The Silent One, Bow Down Shadrach
• Palmer Cox (1840-1924) - The Brownies series
• 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

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
• 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
• 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
• Franklin W. Dixon - The Hardy Boys series
• Lynley Dodd - Hairy Maclary, Slinky Malinki
• Mary Mapes Dodge (1831-1905) - Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates
• 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 (1926-1993) - The Twenty-One Balloons
• Lois Duncan - I Know What You Did Last Summer, A Gift of Magic
• Jeanne DuPrau - The City of Ember

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
• 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

F

• 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
• Penelope Farmer - Charlotte Sometimes, The Summer Birds, A Castle of Bone
• 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
• 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
• Anne Frank (1929-1945) - The Diary of a Young Girl
• Cornelia Funke - The Thief Lord, Inkheart 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
• 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
• 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
• Glenda Goertzen (born 1967) - The Prairie Dogs, City Dogs
• 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
• Kate Greenaway (1846-1901) - Under the Window
• 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

• 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 (1848-1908) - 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
• 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
• Mary Hoffman - Stravaganza series, Amazing Grace
• Christophe Honoré - Tout contre Léo
• Anthony Horowitz - Alex Rider series, The Diamond Brothers series
• Hasan Hourani - Hassan Everywhere
• Ted Hughes (1938-1998) - The Iron Man
• Thomas Hughes (1822-1896) - Tom Brown's School Days
• 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
• 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
• Judith Kerr - When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, The Tiger Who Came To Tea
• 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
• Erik P. Kraft - Chocolatina, Lenny and Mel series, Miracle Wimp
• 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
• 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
• 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 Brogreen 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
• Robert McCloskey (1914-2003) - Make Way for Ducklings, Time of Wonder, Blueberries for Sal
• Eloise McGraw (1915-2000) - The Golden Goblet, The Moorchild
• Sophie McKenzie - Girl, Missing
• Robin McKinley - The Hero and the Crown, The Blue Sword, Spindle's End
• 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
• 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
• 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

• Božena Němcová (1820-1862) - Slovak Fairy Tales and Legends (Slovenské pohádky a pověsti)
• Violet Needham (1876-1967) - The Black Riders, The Stormy Petrel, The Woods of Windri
• 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 - Sabriel, Lirael, Abhorsen, The Keys to the Kingdom 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
• Scott O'Dell (1898-1989) - Island of the Blue Dolphins, The King's Fifth, The Black Pearl
• 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
• Michelle Paver - Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series
• Philippa Pearce (1920-2006) - Tom's Midnight Garden
• Howard Pease (1894-1974) – Secret Cargo, Highroad to Adventure, Bound for Singapore
• 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
• 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, the Johnny Maxwell series, The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents, the Tiffany Aching series
• Otfried Preussler (born 1923) - The Robber Hotzenplotz, The Curse of the Darkling Mill
• Willard Price (1887-1983) - Amazon Adventure and others in the Adventure series
• 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!
• H.A. (1898-1977) & Margret Rey (1906-1996) - Curious George series
• Justin Richards - The Invisible Detective series
• Chris Riddell - The Edge Chronicles, Barnaby Grimes
• Jamie Rix (born 1958) - Alistair Fury, Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kid 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,The Doomsday Mask
• 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'
• Rick Riordan - Percy Jackson & The Olympians series

S

• Louis Sachar - Sideways Stories From Wayside School series, Holes
• Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944) - The Little Prince
• Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) - Rootabaga Stories
• 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
• 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
• 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
• William Sleator – Singularity, Rewind
• Barbara Sleigh - The Carbonel series
• Dodie Smith - 101 Dalmatians
• Edward Wyke Smith (1871-1935) - The Marvelous 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
• Zilpha Keatley Snyder - The Egypt Game, The Headless Cupid, The Witches of Worm
• Donald J. Sobol - Encyclopedia Brown series
• Armstrong Sperry (1897-1976) - Call It Courage
• Jerry Spinelli - Loser, Stargirl, Maniac Magee, Crash, Wringer
• Johanna Spyri (1827-1901) - Heidi
• Andy Stanton - The Mr Gum 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?
• 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

• 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
• Annette Tison & Talus Taylor - The Barbapapa series
• 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
• Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) - Classic Tales and Fables for Children
• Nigel Tranter (1909-2000) - Spaniard's Isle, Nestor the Monster
• P. L. Travers (1899-1986) - Mary Poppins
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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) - Pardon Me, You're Stepping on My Eyeball
• Charlotte Zolotow - Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present

See also

• Lists of writers
• List of children's non-fiction writers
• Children's literature
• Children's literature canon
• Children's literature timeline
• List of children's classic books
• Fairytale
• List of fairy tales
• Young adult literature
• List of young adult authors
• List of children's book illustrators
• Caldecott Medal
• Carnegie Medal
• Newbery Medal

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