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Jacqueline Wilson
Jacqueline Wilson (born 1945, Bath) is a British children's author of over 100 books including The Story of Tracy Beaker, Children's Laureate 2005-2007, Dame Grand Cross 2025, most borrowed UK library author.
Jane Yolen
Jane Yolen (1939–2026), American author of more than 400 books for children and adults, including Owl Moon, The Devil's Arithmetic, the How Do Dinosaurs...? series, and the Pit Dragon trilogy; called the Hans Christian Andersen of America.
Janusz Korczak
Janusz Korczak, pen name of Henryk Goldszmit, was a Polish Jewish pediatrician and educator who ran the Dom Sierot orphanage in Warsaw and is seen as a founder of the children's rights movement.
Jeff Kinney
Jeff Kinney (born 1971, Maryland) is the American author-illustrator of Diary of a Wimpy Kid, creator of Poptropica, and owner of the bookstore An Unlikely Story in Plainville, Massachusetts; over 300 million copies in print.
Johanna Spyri
Johanna Spyri, born Johanna Heusser (1827–1901), was a Swiss writer who began publishing at 44 and wrote Heidi, one of the world's most translated children's classics.
Joseph Bruchac
Joseph Bruchac (born 1942) is an American poet, storyteller, and writer of Abenaki heritage whose more than 180 books center on Indigenous peoples of the Americas.
Kate DiCamillo
Kate DiCamillo (born 1964), also published as Katherine DiCamillo, is an American children's author and two-time Newbery Medalist living in Minneapolis, known for Because of Winn-Dixie, The Tale of Despereaux, and Flora & Ulysses.
Katherine Schwarzenegger
Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt (born 1989), American author and animal advocate, daughter of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver, wife of Chris Pratt; wrote Rock What You've Got, The Gift of Forgiveness, and children's books, hosts BDA Baby.
Kazumi Yumoto
Kazumi Yumoto (湯本香樹実) is a Japanese author of children's novels and picture books known for treating death and grief; her first novel, The Friends, won the 1997 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award.
Kenneth Grahame
Kenneth Grahame (1859–1932), Scottish-born British writer and Bank of England Secretary, author of The Wind in the Willows (1908), Pagan Papers, The Golden Age, Dream Days, and The Reluctant Dragon.
L. Frank Baum
L. Frank Baum (1856-1919), American author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) and 13 Oz sequels; also Father Goose, His Book, the 1902 stage musical, and the Oz Film Manufacturing Company.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867–1957), American author of the Little House series (1932–1943), fiction based on her frontier childhood; written with editor-daughter Rose Wilder Lane; The First Four Years posthumous 1971.
Leela Majumdar
Leela Majumdar (Bengali: লীলা মজুমদার, 1908–2007) was an Indian Bengali writer of more than 125 children's books who co-edited the magazine Sandesh for decades and won the Rabindra Puraskar.
Lemony Snicket
Lemony Snicket, also known as Lemony Snicket of A Series of Unfortunate Events, is Daniel Handler's pen name and fictional narrator persona, author of the 13-volume Baudelaire orphan saga (1999–2006) plus All the Wrong Questions and The Dark.
Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll, pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832–1898), Oxford mathematician at Christ Church, author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass, logician, photographer, and voting theorist.
Louis Sachar
Louis Sachar (born 1954) is an American children's author, creator of the Wayside School series and Holes, which won the 1998 National Book Award and 1999 Newbery Medal; his first adult novel is The Magician of Tiger Castle (2025).
Lucy Hawking
Lucy Hawking, British journalist and children's author born 1969 (Goodreads: 1970), daughter of Stephen Hawking, co-creator of the seven-book George's Secret Key science series and the Princess Olivia climate series.
Lygia Bojunga
Lygia Bojunga, born in 1932, is a Brazilian children's author known for A Bolsa Amarela and the first Brazilian to win both the Hans Christian Andersen and Astrid Lindgren awards.
Mahmoud Shukair
Mahmoud Shukair (محمود شقير; born 1941 in Jabal al-Mukabbar, Jerusalem) is a Palestinian writer of stories, novels, and children's books, winner of the 2011 Mahmoud Darwish Prize.
Maria Gripe
Maria Gripe, born Maria Walter, was a leading Swedish author of children's and youth books whose 38 books, including Hugo och Josefin, were translated into more than 25 languages.
Marina Colasanti
Marina Colasanti (1937–2025) was an Italian-Brazilian writer, journalist, illustrator and translator, born in Asmara, who settled in Rio de Janeiro in 1948 and became one of Brazil's most awarded authors.
Mary Lamb
Mary Lamb (1764–1847) was an English writer who wrote 14 of the 20 tales in Tales from Shakespeare (1807), credited for years to her brother Charles alone.
Matt Haig
Matt Haig (born 1975, Sheffield) is an English author of The Midnight Library, the memoir Reasons to Stay Alive, and A Boy Called Christmas; his fiction and non-fiction center on mental health, regret, and second chances.
Michael Bond
Thomas Michael Bond (1926–2017), English author and BBC cameraman, creator of Paddington Bear; A Bear Called Paddington (1958) sold over 35 million copies in 40 languages; also wrote Olga da Polga and Monsieur Pamplemousse; OBE 1997, CBE 2015.
Michael Ende
Michael Ende (Michael Andreas Helmuth Ende, 1929–1995), German fantasy and children's author of Jim Knopf, Momo and The Neverending Story; 54+ languages, 40+ million copies, son of painter Edgar Ende.
Michael Morpurgo
Michael Morpurgo (born 1943, St Albans), English children's author of War Horse and Private Peaceful, Children's Laureate 2003–2005, knighted 2018, co-founder of Farms for City Children.
Miyoko Matsutani
Miyoko Matsutani (松谷みよ子) was a Japanese children's author and folklorist whose career ran from 1951 to 2015, best known for the fantasy Tatsu no ko Tarō and the Momo-chan series.
Monteiro Lobato
Monteiro Lobato (José Renato Monteiro Lobato, 1882–1948) was a Brazilian writer and publisher who created the Sítio do Picapau Amarelo children's books and pioneered Brazil's publishing industry.
Otfried Preußler
Otfried Preußler (1923–2013), German children's author from Reichenberg/Liberec, wrote classics like Der Räuber Hotzenplotz, Die kleine Hexe, and Krabat; 35 books, over 50 million copies, former teacher, Wehrmacht officer and Soviet POW.
P. L. Travers
P. L. Travers (Pamela Lyndon Travers, born Helen Lyndon Goff, 1899–1996), Australian-born British author of Mary Poppins (1934) and seven sequels; resisted Disney's 1964 film adaptation, which made her wealthy but dissatisfied.