Awesome Authors of
Children's Books
There are so many cool websites that tell about our favorite authors! I have limited most of these sites to only those which are "official" as opposed to ones that link to a publishing house.
Select an author or book series that you are interested in and click on their name. Authors are arranged in order by their last name.
Tony Abbott Secrets of Droon series
C.S. Adler All kinds of great Fiction books for kids.
David A. Adler He writes the Cam Jansen books and also many biographies.
Jennifer Allison Have you read the Gilda Joyce, Physic Investigator series?
David Almond British author of Skellig, Heaven Eyes, Kit's Wilderness, etc.
Laurie Halse Anderson Fever 1793 What if you got sick long ago?
Kathi Appelt Picture books and a wonderful book about Pack Horse Librarians.
Caroline Arnold She likes to write Non-fiction books.
Mike Artell He likes cartooning
Frank Asch Moonbear and many other picture books.
Avi Newbery Award winner Crispin and Poppy
Bailey School Kids books Find out about the authors and this series
Molly Bang Wonderful picture books
Lynne Reid Banks The Indian in the Cupboard series and more.
T. A. Barron Feeling adventurous? Like Merlin stories?
Annie Barrows Do you like best friends Ivy + Bean?
Franny Billingsley Well Wished and the Folk Keeper fantasies.
Jeanne Birdsall Have you read The Penderwicks? She visited our school in 2008.
Betty Birney Humphrey the hamster
Holly Black The Spiderwick Chronicles.
Robert J. Blake Do you love dogs? He does!
Rhoda Blumberg She likes to write true books about fascinating people.
Judy Blume The "Fudge" books
Louise Borden A Cincinnati author who lives right down the road!
Jan Brett She's an outstanding illustrator of picture books
Elise Broach Masterpiece and Shakespeare's Secret
Pat Brisson Letters from a best friend named Kate
Betsy Byars Summer of the Swans and so many others!
Georgia Byng Molly Moon books.......get hypnotized!
Elisa Carbone Do you like suspenseful novels?
Eric Carle Remember his picture books- The Hungry Caterpillar, etc.?
Patrick Carman The Land of Elyon series
Mary Casanova She writes about the wilderness.
Judith Caseley She gets ideas for her books from her own life.
Andrea Cheng Andrea lives in Cincinnati!
Lauren Child Clarice Bean is fun
Matt Christopher Do you like sports?This website is written by Matt's son, Dale.
Beverly Cleary Ramona and Ralph (the mouse) books
Brian Cleary He loves poems and words (for another website)
Andrew Clements Author of Frindle
Esme Raji Codell She wrote Sing a Song of Tuna Fish.
Eoin Colfer He writes the popular Artemis Fowl books
Suzanne Collins She wrote the Gregor fantasy series
Penny Colman She loves to write true facts about interesting women.
Susan Cooper A British author who wrote The Dark Is Rising series.
Bruce Coville My Teacher Fried My Brains, etc.
Sharon Creech Walk Two Moons, etc.
Christopher Paul Curtis Bud, Not Buddy and The Watson's Go to Birmingham
Debbie Dadey The Bailey School Kids
Roald Dahl The BFG, The Twits, James and the Giant Peach, etc.
The Dear America series
Cynthia DeFelice Weasel and other historical fiction books.
Ken Derby The Top 10 Ways to Ruin the First Day of 5th Grade
Kate DiCamillo The Tale of Despereaux and Because of Winn-Dixie
Tony DiTerlizzi The Spiderwick Chronicles
Tomie DePaola Strega Nona and many wonderful folktales
Michael Dooling Illustrates lots of books about history.
Frances Dowell lots of great books for kids- funny and sad ones
Kathleen Duble Have you read The Sacrifice about the witch trials long ago in Mass.?
Lois Duncan Did you like Hotel for Dogs?
Betsy
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has written many funny books for kids, too!
Jeanne DuPrau City of Ember and People of the Sparks
Michelle Edwards Wonderful beginning chapter books
Esme Codell Sahara Special, Diary of a Fairy Godmother
Anne Fine English author of The Tulip Touch, Flour Babies, etc.
John Flanagan Have you read the Ranger's Apprentice books?
Sid Fleischman So many wonderful books! He knows magic, too!
Candace Fleming Fun books! She visited our school in Dec. 2009
Ralph Fletcher He loves to teach others to write. He writes fiction and poetry.
Mem Fox Popular Australian author who also has advice for adults.
Martha Freeman Have you read the Chickadee Court mystery series?
Jack Gantos Joey Pigza and Rotten Ralph.
Sherry Garland She writes about Texas and Vietnam.
Jean Craighead George Julie of the Wolves and other books about nature.
Kristine O'Connell George Do you like poetry? She has visited our school.
Gail Gibbons She loves to write all kinds of information books.
Patricia Reilly Giff Such wonderful Fiction books!Lily's Crossing, Pictures of Hollis Woods, etc.
Jamie Gilson Funny chapter books
John Grogan He visited our school in 2007. Do you like dogs? You'll love Marley!
Dan Gutman The Kid Who Ran For President, Million Dollar books, My Weird School & more
Margaret Peterson Haddix She's our favorite Ohio author! Margaret came to our school in 2008.
Shannon Hale The Princess Academy and other neat books.
Jake Halpern Visited with our 4th and 5th grade Feb. 2010 to talk about Dormia.
Bethany Hamilton The surfer who lost her arm in an accident.
Virginia Hamilton An African-American author from Ohio
Cheryl Harness She loves history picture books
Kevin Henkes You remember many of his picture books-he has novels, too!
Carl Hiaasen He wrote the Newbery honor book, Hoot.
Linda Oatman High Lots of good fiction.
Will Hillenbrand An illustrator from Cincinnati!
Anna Grossnickle Hines Most of her titles are picture books.
Valerie Hobbs Sonny's War
Will Hobbs Exciting outdoor adventure books.
Michael Hoeye There's a new mouse in town..............
Jennifer Holm The Princess Academy, Babymouse, Penny from Heaven, Our Only May Amelia
Kimberly Willis Holt My Louisiana Sky and When Zachary Beaver Came to Town.
Deborah Hopkinson Do you like baseball, bluebirds, quilting or lighthouses?
Erin Hunter Don't you love the Warriors fantasy series about cats?
Brian Jacques The Redwall books
Pamela Jane She likes monsters and Winky Blue
Patrick Jennings He visited our school a few years ago.
Lynne Jonell Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat and a 2nd book......
William Joyce Santa Calls, Bently & Egg and many more picture books.
Cynthia Kadohata Winner of the 2005 Newbery for Kira-kira.
G. Brian Karas Illustrator of more than 80 books
Peg Kehret Do you like mysteries?
Laurie Keller Scrambled States, Open Wide: Tooth School Inside, Do Unto Otters
Steven Kellogg Many outstanding picture books. Do you like dogs?
Jeff Kinney Diary of a Wimpy Kid is so funny!
Natalie Kinsey-Warnock Wonderful picture books about the outdoors.
Kaza Kingsley She writes the Erec Rex books and lives here in Cincinnati!
Kate Klise Regarding the Fountain
Gordon Korman He has visited our school! He wrote The Toilet Paper Tigers.
Stephen Krensky He visited our school, too!
Kathleen Krull Kathleen visited our school December 12, 2002!
Natalie Kinsey -Warnock A writer who loves history.
Jane Kurtz Jane was born in Ethiopia. Most of her books tell about Africa.
Bruce Lansky He loves poetry
Kathryn Lasky She has written non-fiction and fiction books.
Ingrid Law Savvy What if everyone in your family had magic powers?
Ursula Le Guin Do you like fantasy books?
Loreen Leedy She loves art AND math!
Madeleine L'Engle A Wrinkle in Time series
Peter Lerangis Has written two of the books in the 39 Clues series. Visited with our 5th gd. 3/10.
Ted Lewin An outstanding illustrator and author.
Sonia Levitin Sonia's family escaped from Germany before WWII
Elizabeth Levy Our 2001 visiting author
C.S. Lewis The Narnia books
J. Patrick Lewis Learn about an Ohio poet
Janet Taylor Lisle Our 2000 visiting author.
Loren Long A Cincinnati illustrator
Lois Lowry Number the Stars, The Giver
Mary Lyons She likes stories about history, esp. about the South or Ireland
Mike Lupica He visited our school in 2007. Do you like sports?
David Macaulay Architecture books like Castle, Pyramid, Cathedral, etc.
Nancy McArthur The Plant that Ate Dirty Socks
Geraldine McCaughrean Stop the Train! and The Kite Rider.
Joyce McDonald Comfort Creek
Megan McDonald Judy Moody books. She loves nature, too.
Alison McGhee Have you read about Julia Gillian?
Bruce McMillan He loves nature. Do you like puffins?
Sue Macy Are you a girl that enjoys sports? Read her books!
Jacqueline Briggs Martin Caldecott winner for Snowflake Bentley
Alice Mead Junebug and Soldier Mom
Ben Mikaelsen Do you like adventure stories?
Brandon Marie Miller She loves American History and lives right here in Cincinnati!
Derek Munson Enemy Pie
Robert Munsch Lots of books! I bet you know his book Love You Forever.
Jon Muth An illustrator who grew up in Cincinnati.
Donna Jo Napoli All kinds of books!
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Shiloh and so many others
Trinka Hakes Noble A wonderful illustrator. She wrote Apple Tree Christmas.
The My Name is America series
Scott O'Dell Island of the Blue Dolphins and other historical fiction books
Kenneth Oppel Like Fantasy stories? You'll like his books!
Jerry Pallotta He likes to write alphabet books
Christopher Paolini Can you imagine writing a book when you are 15? He did!
Elizabeth Partridge She writes all kinds of books, esp. Biographies
Dorothy Hinshaw Patent She writes excellent information books
Katherine Paterson Have you read Bridge to Terabithia?
Gary Paulsen Hatchet
Shelly Pearsall Another Ohio author
Richard Peck A Long Way From Chicago and many others
Lynne Rae Perkins Newbery winner for Criss Cross
Rodman Philbrick Freak the Mighty and The Last Book in the Universe
Tamora Pierce Fantasy books
Dav Pilkey Captain Underpants
Jerry Pinkney Such an outstanding illustrator!
Daniel Pinkwater Artsy Smartsy Club and other funny books
Wendy Pfeffer She loves science and animals.
Patricia Polacco My favorite is Chicken Sunday. She visited our school in '06.
Beatrix Potter Explore the world of Peter Rabbit.
Terry Pratchett The Bromeliad Trilogy and The Wee Free Men. Fantasies.
James Preller Do you enjoy Jigsaw Jones? What about baseball?
Jack Prelutsky America's first Children's Poet Laureate with more than 40 poetry books
Robert Quackenbush Detective Mole and so many others.
James Ransome An outstanding illustrator.
Kathryn Reiss Her book Sweet Miss Honeywell's Revenge is one of our schools' favorites!
Ann Rinaldi Do you like historical fiction for older readers?
Rick Riordan We love the Percy Jackson series! Do you like Greek Mythology?
Emily Rodda Deltora Quest series
Michael J. Rosen An Ohio author who has visited our school
J.K. Rowling The Harry Potter books
Ron Roy The A to Z mysteries
The Royal Diaries series
Pam Munoz Ryan Esperanza Rising, When Marion Sang,
Robert Sabuda He loves to create art for books, especially with paperfolding
Louis Sachar He wrote Holes and the Wayside School books
Graham Salisbury He lives and writes in Hawaii. Let's go visit!
Colleen Salley She loves to tell stories
Ruth Sanderson Do you like fairytales?
April Pulley Sayre Do you like science books? Books about animals?
Elaine Scott She likes to write non-fiction books about outer space, sleep, and other topics
Phyllis Shalant Chapter books about Bartleby the alligator.
Shel Silverstein Poetry!
Neal Shusterman The Schwa was Here.
Gloria Skurzynski True facts AND mysteries.
Judy Sierra Do you like folklore? Baby names?
Seymour Simon Do you enjoy Science books of facts? Seymour does!
Angie Sage She writes the fantasies about Septimus Heap.
Robert San Souci Noted teller of folktales
Jon Scieszka The Stinky Cheese Man
Dr. Seuss Who doesn't know Dr. Seuss?!
Marilyn Singer Poem and nature books
Roland Smith High Adventure books: Peak, Cryptid Hunter, etc.
Lemony Snicket The Series of Unfortunate Events books
Zilpha Snyder The Egypt Game, Cat Running, The Headless Cupid and more
Chris Soentpiet You will love his illustration paintings!
Jerry Spinelli Maniac Magee, Milkweed, Wringer, Crash and more
Judith St. George Do you like history?
Diane Stanley She is most known for her beautiful biographies
William Steig Dr. De Soto, Shrek! and other fun books
Janet Stevens A wonderful illustrator of children's books
R.L. Stine Goosebumps
Jeff Stone The Five Ancestors series- kung fu from long ago in China
Linda Leopold Strauss A Cincinnati author!
Lauren Stringer Illustrator of Fold a Poem and others
Greg Tang This author loves math!
Stephanie S. Tolan This author was born in Ohio. Surviving the Applewhites
Ann Turner Ann loves history.
Chris Van Allsburg The winning illustrator of The Polar Express.
Wendelin Van Draanen Love mysteries? You'll love her books about Sammy Keyes.
Sally Warner Great fictions books for girls
Andrea Warren She likes to write about young people caught up in historical events.
Richard Jesse Watson Wonderful illustrator
Sarah Weeks So B. It: A Novel
MaryAnn Weidt She loves to write biographies.
Rosemary Wells Much loved picture books. See what she has to say about the importance of reading!
Walter Wick The I Spy books
David Wiesner Caldecott winning artist
Laura Ingalls Wilder Learn more about this "Little House" author.
Deborah Wiles Love, Ruby Lavendar and each little bird that sings
N.D. Wilson 100 Cupboards and Dandelion Fire. A magic cupboard in an attic with 100 doors.
Elizabeth Winthrop The Castle in the Attic and others
Kay Winters Voices of Ancient Egypt, Abe Lincoln, The Boy Who Loved Books
Susan Wojciechowski The Beany books and others
Janet Wong Do you like poetry?
Aubrey and Don Wood Picture books like The Napping House
Elvira Woodruff She has visited our school, also!
Jacqueline Woodson She was born in Ohio. Picture books and chapter books.
Tim Wynne-Jones Do you know who Rex Zero is?
Jane Yolen Can you believe anyone could write over 200 books for children?!
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