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List of children's literature authors
List of important Children's literature authors and their most famous works.
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- Berechiah ha-Nakdan - Mishle Shualim, Fables of a Jewish Aesop
- Enid Bagnold - National Velvet
- Lynne Reid Banks - Indian in the Cupboard series
- Helen Bannerman - Little Black Sambo (published in 1899, no longer politically correct)
- J. M. Barrie, (1860-1937), Peter Pan
- Graham Base - Animalia
- L. Frank Baum, (1856-1919), The Wonderful Wizard of Oz et seq
- "BB" (D. J. Watkins-Pitchford) Little Grey Men, Down The Bright Stream etc.
- John Bellairs, (1938-1991)
- Jan and Stan Berenstain - The Berenstain Bears series
- Carol Biberstein - Great Grandma's Rocking Chair
- Judy Blume, (born 1938), Are You There God, It's Me Margaret
- Enid Blyton, (1896-1968), Noddy, Secret Seven and Famous Five series
- Michael Bond - Paddington Bear series
- Lucy M. Boston - Green Knowe series
- Thomas Brezina, (born 1968)
- Jean de Brunhoff - The Story of Babar
- Marcia Brown - Puss in Boots,
- Anthony Buckeridge - Jennings school stories
- Sheila Burnford - The Incredible Journey
- John Bunyan, (1628-1688), Pilgrim's Progress
- Frances Hodgson Burnett - The Secret Garden
- Virginia Lee Burton - Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel
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- Roald Dahl, (1916-1990), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, The Witches
- Paula Danziger
- Daniel Defoe, (1660-1731), Robinson Crusoe
- Charles Dickens, (1812-1870), A Christmas Carol
- Peter Dickinson, The Changes trilogy.
- Thomas M. Disch - The Brave Little Toaster, The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars
- Franklin W. Dixon - The Hardy Boys series
- Mary Mapes Dodge - Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates
- William Pène du Bois - The Twenty-One Balloons
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- Andrew Lang, (1844-1912), Blue Fairy Book (and other colors; no connection to the blue fairy in Pinocchio)
- Robert Lawson - Rabbit Hill, Ben and Me
- Munro Leaf - The Story of Ferdinand
- Edward Lear, (1812-1888), A Book of Nonsense
- Dennis Lee - Alligator Pie
- Madeleine L'Engle - A Wrinkle in Time
- Suzanne Lieurance, Patrick Girouard - Shoelaces
- Ursula K. Le Guin, (born 1929), A Wizard of Earthsea
- C.S. Lewis, (1898-1963), The Chronicles of Narnia
- Astrid Lindgren, (1907-2002), Pippi Longstocking
- Hugh Lofting, (1886-1947), The Voyage of Dr. Doolittle etc.
- Lois Lowry - The Giver
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- Louis Sachar -- Wayside School is Falling Down series, Holes
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery, (1900-1944), The Little Prince
- Richard Scarry - (1919-1994) Busytown series
- Ouida Sebestyen - American, (born 1924) - Far From Home
- Maurice Sendak - Where the Wild Things Are
- Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel - The Cat in the Hat
- Anna Sewell, (1820-1878), Black Beauty
- Shel Silverstein, (1930-1999), The Giving Tree, Where the Sidewalk Ends
- Charlie May Simon, (1897-1977), Robin on the Mountain and 25+ others
- Francesca Simon, (born 1955), Horrid Henry series
- William Sleator, science fiction stories (see also list of science fiction authors)
- Lemony Snicket - (pen name of Daniel Handler) - A Series of Unfortunate Events
- Zilpha Keatley Snyder - The Egypt Game
- Don Sobol - Encyclopedia Brown series
- Johanna Spyri, (1827-1901), Heidi
- Robert Louis Stevenson, (1850-1894), A Child's Garden of Verses, Treasure Island
- R. L. Stine - Goosebumps series
- Frank R. Stockton, (1834-1902), The Lady or the Tiger?
- Walter Scott Story, (1879-1955), Skinny Harrison Adventurer
- Edward L. Stratemeyer - (see Victor Appleton, Jr., Carolyn Keene, Franklin Dixon)
- Jonathan Swift, (1667-1745), Gulliver's Travels
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- Jane Yolen -- the Commander Toad series, the Dragon's Blood series
- Ed Young -- Lon Po Po, Seven Blind Mice
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See also: Lists of authors
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