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Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Amy Krouse Rosenthal (1965-2017) was a Chicago author of 30+ children's books (Duck! Rabbit!, Uni the Unicorn), the memoirs Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life and Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal, and the viral Modern Love essay "You May Want to Marry My Husband."
Beatrix Potter
Beatrix Potter (1866-1943), British author-illustrator of The Tale of Peter Rabbit and 23 Tales selling over 250 million copies; also mycologist, Herdwick sheep farmer, and National Trust benefactor who left over 4,000 Lake District acres.
Charlotte Pence Bond
Charlotte Pence Bond, daughter of former Vice President Mike Pence and Karen Pence, is a bestselling author of the Marlon Bundo children's series and Where You Go, and a Daily Wire journalist on Morning Wire.
Cynthia Rylant
Cynthia Rylant, born 1954, is an American author and poet who has written more than one hundred children's books; her novel Missing May won the Newbery Medal in 1993.
Dr. Seuss
Dr. Seuss is the pen name of Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904-1991), American children's author and cartoonist of The Cat in the Hat and Green Eggs and Ham; over 60 books, 1984 Pulitzer Prize, six titles withdrawn in 2021.
Dr. Seuss bibliography
Dr. Seuss bibliography: the complete book list of Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904–1991), also published as Theo. LeSieg and Rosetta Stone; 48 lifetime books from Mulberry Street (1937) to Oh, the Places You'll Go! (1990), plus posthumous and withdrawn titles.
Edith Howes
Edith Howes was a New Zealand teacher and children's writer who wrote about 30 books, pioneered Montessori-influenced infant teaching at Gore, and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1928.
Emma Walton Hamilton
Emma Walton Hamilton, full name Emma Katherine Walton Hamilton, is a British-born American author and educator, daughter of Julie Andrews, with whom she has co-authored over thirty-five books.
Eric Carle
Eric Carle (1929-2021), American picture-book author and illustrator of The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Brown Bear, Brown Bear; known for painted tissue-paper collage, over 70 books, 170 million copies, and the Amherst museum he founded.
Judith Kerr
Judith Kerr, aka Anna Judith Helene Kerr, was a German-born British writer and illustrator (1923–2019), creator of The Tiger Who Came to Tea, the Mog series, and the exile trilogy Out of the Hitler Time.
Judith Viorst
Judith Viorst (born 1931) is an American author of the classic picture book Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, the bestseller Necessary Losses, humorous verse, and books on aging.
Julia Donaldson
Julia Donaldson, born 1948, is a British children's writer best known for The Gruffalo (1999), UK Children's Laureate from 2011 to 2013, and made a Dame in 2026.
Mahmoud Kianoush
Mahmoud Kianoush (محمود کیانوش, 1934–2021) was an Iranian poet, writer, and translator known as the founder of children's poetry in Iran; he moved to London in 1974.
Marc Brown (author)
Marc Tolon Brown (born 1946) is an American children's author and illustrator, creator of Arthur the Aardvark (Arthur's Nose, 1976) and creative producer of the Emmy-winning PBS series Arthur; also illustrator of Wild About Books.
Margaret Wise Brown
Margaret Wise Brown (1910–1952), also published as Golden MacDonald and Juniper Sage, American picture-book author of Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny; Bank Street 'here-and-now' pioneer who wrote over 100 children's books.
Maurice Sendak
Maurice Sendak (1928–2012), American children's book author and illustrator of Where the Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen, and Outside Over There; Caldecott, Andersen, Wilder, and Astrid Lindgren award winner and opera designer.
Michael Rosen
Michael Rosen (born 1946) is a British children's poet, author of We're Going on a Bear Hunt and Michael Rosen's Sad Book, Children's Laureate 2007–2009, Goldsmiths professor, BBC broadcaster, and 2023 PEN Pinter Prize winner.
Mo Willems
Mo Willems (born 1968), American author, illustrator, animator, and playwright, creator of Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!, Knuffle Bunny, and Elephant & Piggie; six Emmys on Sesame Street, three Caldecott Honors, two Geisel Medals.
P. D. Eastman
P. D. Eastman, born Philip Dey Eastman, was an American children's book author and illustrator whose books, including Go, Dog. Go!, have sold more than fifty million copies.
Peter Brown (illustrator)
Peter Brown (born 1979) is an American children's book author and illustrator, creator of The Wild Robot series and the picture books The Curious Garden and Mr. Tiger Goes Wild, and Caldecott Honor illustrator of Creepy Carrots!.
Raymond Briggs
Raymond Redvers Briggs (1934–2022), English illustrator and author of Father Christmas, Fungus the Bogeyman, and the wordless The Snowman; twice Kate Greenaway Medalist, CBE 2017, creator of adult graphic novels When the Wind Blows and Ethel & Ernest.
Richard Scarry
Richard Scarry (1919-1994), American children's author and illustrator of Busytown books with Lowly Worm and Huckle Cat; Best Word Book Ever (1963) sold 7 million copies; over 100 million books sold worldwide.
Rieko Nakagawa
Rieko Nakagawa (中川李枝子) was a Japanese children's author best known for the picture-book series Guri and Gura and for writing the lyrics of the My Neighbor Totoro theme song.
Robert Munsch
Robert Munsch (Robert Norman Peter Maria Munsch), born 1945 in Pittsburgh, is a Canadian children's author and storyteller with nearly 100 books and over 87 million copies sold, known for The Paper Bag Princess and Love You Forever.
Samuil Marshak
Samuil Marshak (Самуил Маршак, 1887–1964) was a Russian poet, playwright, and translator who founded modern Soviet children's literature and gave Russian readers Shakespeare's sonnets and Burns.
Shigeo Watanabe
Shigeo Watanabe (渡辺茂男, 1928–2006) was a Japanese children's author, translator, and library science professor at Keio University who published about 300 children's books, including the fire-engine story Shōbō jidōsha Jiputa.
Stan and Jan Berenstain
Stan and Jan Berenstain (both born 1923) were a Philadelphia-born husband-and-wife cartoonist team who created the Berenstain Bears with Dr. Seuss as editor in 1962; more than 300 books and hundreds of millions of copies sold.
Vasil Vitka
Vasil Vitka (Васіль Вітка, born Timofey Krysko, 1911–1996) was a Belarusian Soviet poet and playwright known chiefly for children's literature, winning the 1972 Yanka Kupala State Prize.