Classic Children's Authors
Choose from the authors below, or click on one of the book covers.
- Verna Aardema
- Joan Aiken
- Louisa May Alcott
- Lloyd Alexander
- Harry Allard
- Hans Christian Andersen
- William H. Armstrong
- Natalie Babbitt
- Judi Barrett
- J. M. Barrie
- L. Frank Baum
- Byrd Baylor
- John Bellairs
- Ludwig Bemelmans
- Stan & Jan Berenstain
- Judy Blume
- Michael Bond
- Crosby Bonsall
- L. M. Boston
- Norman Bridwell
- Carol Ryrie Brink
- Jeff Brown
- Margaret Wise Brown
- Clyde Robert Bulla
- Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Sheila Burnford
- Virginia Lee Burton
- Betsy Byars
- Eric Carle
- Lewis Carroll
- Rebecca Caudill
- Beverly Cleary
- Miriam Cohen
- Carlo Collodi
- Barbara Cooney
- Susan Cooper
- Donald Crews
- Karen Cushman
- Roald Dahl
- Paula Danziger
- Marguerite De Angeli
- Jean de Brunhoff
- Meindert De Jong
- Tomie De Paola
- Diane & Leo Dillon
- Lois Duncan
- Edward Eager
- P. D. Eastman
- Elizabeth Enright
- Eleanor Estes
- Marie Hall Ets
- Walter Farley
- Rachel Field
- John D. Fitzgerald
- Louise Fitzhugh
- Marjorie Flack
- Paul Fleischman
- Sid Fleischman
- Esther Forbes
- Mem Fox
- Paula Fox
- Don Freeman
- Jean Fritz
- Wanda Gag
- Paul Galdone
- Jean Craighead George
- Mirra Ginsburg
- Fred Gipson
- Paul Goble
- Kenneth Grahame
- Elizabeth Janet Gray
- Bette Greene
- Virginia Hamilton
- Carolyn Haywood
- Marguerite Henry
- Nat Hentoff
- Russell Hoban
- Margaret Hodges
- Syd Hoff
- Irene Hunt
- Pat Hutchins
- Washington Irving
- Rachel Isadora
- Crockett Johnson
- Ezra Jack Keats
- Steven Kellogg
- Rudyard Kipling
- Jim Kjelgaard
- E. L. Konigsburg
- Robert Kraus
- Ruth Krauss
- Robert Lawson
- Ursula Le Guin
- Munro Leaf
- Madeleine L'Engle
- Lois Lenski
- Theo LeSieg
- Julius Lester
- Sonia Levitin
- C. S. Lewis
- Astrid Lindgren
- Leo Lionni
- Arnold Lobel
- Hugh Lofting
- Maud Hart Lovelace
- Lois Lowry
- David Macaulay
- Betty MacDonald
- James Marshall
- Bill Martin, Jr.
- Mercer Mayer
- Robert McCloskey
- Gerald McDermott
- David McPhail
- A. A. Milne
- Else Holmelund Minarik
- L. M. Montgomery
- Farley Mowat
- E. Nesbit
- Sterling North
- Mary Norton
- Robert C. O'Brien
- Scott O'Dell
- Mary O'Hara
- Peggy Parish
- Katherine Paterson
- Richard Peck
- Robert Newton Peck
- Bill Peet
- Patricia Polacco
- Beatrix Potter
- Ellen Raskin
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
- Wilson Rawls
- Margret Rey
- Jane Yolen
- H. A. Rey
- Willo Davis Roberts
- Barbara Robinson
- Anne Rockwell
- Antoine de Saint Exupery
- Felix Salten
- Allen Say
- Richard Scarry
- George Selden
- Maurice Sendak
- Dr. Seuss
- Anna Sewell
- Uri Shulevitz
- Shel Silverstein
- Seymour Simon
- Esphyr Slobodkina
- Robert Kimmel Smith
- Donald J. Sobol
- Robert D. San Souci
- Elizabeth George Speare
- Armstrong Sperry
- Peter Spier
- Johanna Spyri
- William Steig
- Mildred Taylor
- Kay Thompson
- James Thurber
- P. L. Travers
- Tomi Ungerer
- Chris Van Allsburg
- Judith Viorst
- Bernard Waber
- Rosemary Wells
- E. B. White
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Margery Williams
- Vera B. Williams
- Bernard Wiseman
- Maia Wojciechowska
- Johann Wyss
- Laurence Yep
- Gene Zion
- Charlotte Zolotow