List of children's literature writers

This is a list of important children's literature authors and their most famous works. For a discussion of the criteria used to define something as a work of children's literature, see children's literature.

A

• Verna Aardema (born 1911-2001) - Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears and others
• Joan Abelove (born 1945)
• Richard Adams (born 1920) - Watership Down
• C. S. Adler (born 1932) - Magic of the Glits, Ghost Brother, and others
• Aesop - Fables
• Joan Aiken (1924-2004) - The The Wolves of Willoughby Chase series, the Arabella and Mortimer series.
• Vivien Alcock (1924-2003) - The Haunting of Cassie Palmer
• Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) - Little Women
• Lloyd Alexander (born 1924) - The Chronicles of Prydain series (1969 Newbery Medal), the Westmark series
• Joseph Alexander Altsheler (1862-1919) - The Young Trailers Series, The Civil War Series
• David Almond - Skellig, Kit's Wilderness
• Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) - Fairy Tales and Stories
• K. A. Applegate - Animorphs; Remnants; Everworld series
• Victor Appleton - Tom Swift
• Edward Ardizzone (1900-1979) - Tim All Alone, Tim and the Brave Sea Captain, etc.
• Laura Adams Armer (1874-1963) - Waterless Mountain (1932 Newbery Medal)
• William H. Armstrong (1914-1999) - Sounder
• Frank Asch (born 1946) - I Can Blink "Happy Birthday Moon" and others.
• Martin Auer (born 1951) - Now now Markus, The Blue Boy and others.
• Harold Avery (1869-1943) - The Triple Alliance and others.
• Christopher Awdry (born 1940) - The Railway Series No's 27-40 Thomas the tank engine stories
• Wilbert Awdry (1911-1997) - The Railway Series No's 1-26 Thomas the tank engine stories

B

• Natalie Babbitt (born 1932) - Tuck Everlasting, The Search for Delicious, The Devil's Storybook
• Enid Bagnold (1889-1981) - National Velvet
• R. M. Ballantyne (1825-1894) - The Coral Island
• Blue Balliett - Chasing Vermeer,The Wright 3
• Lynne Reid Banks (born 1929) - Indian in the Cupboard series
• Helen Bannerman (1862-1946) - Little Black Sambo (published in 1899)
• Jill Barklem (born 1951) - Brambly Hedge
• J. M. Barrie (1860-1937) - Peter Pan
• T. A. Barron (born 1952) - Lost Years of Merlin series
• Margaret Stuart Barry (born 1958) - Simon and the Witch
• Graeme Base (born 1958) - Animalia
• L. Frank Baum (1856-1919) - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz series
• Nina Bawden (born 1925) - Carrie's War
• "BB" (D. J. Watkins-Pitchford) (1905-1990) - Little Grey Men, Down The Bright Stream
• Jerome Beatty Jr - (1916-2002) Matthew Looney's Voyage to the Earth
• John Bellairs (1938-1991) - The House with a Clock in Its Walls
• Berechiah ha-Nakdan - Mishle Shualim, Fables of a Jewish Aesop
• Stan and Jan Berenstain - The Berenstain Bears series
• Elisabeth Beresford - The Wombles
• John Bibee - The Spirit Flyer Series
• Donald Bisset - Talks With A Tiger, Tiger Wants More, 'Oh dear', said Tiger series
• Holly Black - The Spiderwick Chronicles, Tithe, Valiant
• Malorie Blackman (born 1962) - Noughts & Crosses series
• Judy Blume (born 1938) - Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret
• Enid Blyton (1897-1968) - The Noddy books, The Famous Five series, The Secret Seven series, The Magic Faraway Tree series etc etc
• Angela Sommer-Bodenburg Little Vampire series
• Nancy Bond - Newbery Medal winner, A String in the Harp
• Michael Bond - Paddington Bear series
• Lucy M. Boston - Green Knowe series
• James Bow - The Unwritten Girl
• Tony Bradman (1954-) "Dilly the Dinosaur" series
• Gillian Bradshaw (1956-) - historical fiction
• Christianna Brand - author of Nurse Matilda series (adapted as Nanny McPhee)
• Ann Brashares - The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Series
• Jan Brett (1949-) - Trouble with Trolls
• Thomas Brezina (born 1963) - The Knickerbocker Gang
• Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić (1874-1938)
• Lauren Brooke - author of the Heartland and Chestnut Hill series
• Walter R. Brooks - the Freddy the Pig series
• Marcia Brown - Puss in Boots
• Margaret Wise Brown (1910-1952) - Goodnight Moon, The Runaway Bunny
• Susan Taylor Brown - Can I Pray With My Eyes Open?, Oliver's Must-Do List, Hugging the Rock
• Jean de Brunhoff - The Story of Babar
• Jan Brzechwa (1900-1966) - one of the two most famous authors of Polish poems for children
• Anthony Buckeridge - Jennings school stories
• Eve Bunting (born 1928) - Smoky Night
• John Bunyan (1628-1688) - Pilgrim's Progress
• Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) - A Long Trip to Tea Time, The Land Where the Ice Cream Grows
• Doris Burn - Andrew Henry's Meadow, The Summerfolk
• Sheila Burnford - The Incredible Journey
• Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) - A Little Princess, Little Lord Fauntleroy, The Secret Garden
• Virginia Lee Burton - The Little House, Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
• Betsy Byars - Cracker Jackson, Summer of the Swans

C

• Meg Cabot - The Princess Diaries
• Wendy Campbell - Doodles the Dodo
• Dorothy Canfield Fisher - Understood Betsy
• Eric Carle - The Very Hungry Caterpillar, The Very Busy Spider
• Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) (1832-1898) - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass
• Geoffrey Chaucer (ca.1343-1400) - Chanticleer the Fox (extract from Canterbury Tales)
• John Christopher (born 1922) - (Pseudonym of Samuel Youd) - The Prince in Waiting series, The Tripods trilogy
• Matt Christopher (born 1917) - Return of the Homerun Kid
• Beverly Cleary - Ramona Quimby series
• Eoin Colfer - Artemis Fowl series
• Carlo "Collodi" Lorenzini - The Adventures of Pinocchio
• John Amos Comenius - Orbis Sesualim Pictis Picture Book
• Harriet Theresa Comstock (b. 1860-d. ? ) American.
• Arthur Conan Doyle - The Lost World (Arthur Conan Doyle) Professor Challenger stories
• Susan Coolidge - What Katy Did books
• Barbara Cooney - Chanticleer and the Fox, Miss Rumphius
• Susan Cooper - The Dark Is Rising series
• Zizou Corder - Lionboy Series
• Emily Costello - Animal Emergency series
• John Cotton - Milk for Babes
• Bruce Coville - Space Brat, My Teacher is an Alien
• Joy Cowley - The Silent One
• Palmer Cox - The Brownies series
• Joe Craig - The Jimmy Coates series
• Sharon Creech - Walk Two Moons
• Helen Cresswell - The Bagthorpe Saga
• Richmal Crompton - Just William
• Michael Cronin - Against The Day (1998) series
• István Csukás (born 1936) – "Bowl Hat and Potato Nose", "Dopey the Dragon", "Tales of Pom Pom"

D

• Debbie Dadey - The Adventures of the Bailey School Kids series
• Roald Dahl (1916-1990) - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, The Witches
• Lucy Daniels - Animal Ark
• Paula Danziger - The Cat Ate My Gymsuit
• Alan Davidson - The Annabel books, Light
• Stephen Mark Davies
• Lavinia Riker Davis {1909-1961} The Wild Birthday Cake
• Edmondo De Amicis - Cuore (Heart)
• Walter de la Mare
• Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) - Robinson Crusoe
• Kate DiCamillo - Because of Winn Dixie, The Tale of Despereaux, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
• Charles Dickens (1812-1870) - A Christmas Carol
• Peter Dickinson - The Changes trilogy, Tulku, City of Gold
• Anne Digby - Trebizon series
• Thomas M. Disch - The Brave Little Toaster, The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars
• Franklin W. Dixon - The Hardy Boys series
• Lynley Dodd - Hairy Maclary
• Mary Mapes Dodge - Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates
• V. H. Drummond - The Flying Postman
• Crescent Dragonwagon
• Diane Duane - So You Want to Be a Wizard
• Tessa Duder - Alex Series
• Joseph Duval - Blaze the Adventure Greyhound
• William Pène du Bois - The Twenty-One Balloons
• Lois Duncan - I Know What You Did Last Summer, A Gift of Magic

E

• Edward Eager - Half Magic; Magic by the Lake; Knight's Castle; The Time Garden; The Well-Wishers; Magic or Not; Seven-Day Magic (in suggested reading order, not publication date order)
• Edward Wyke Smith - The Marvelous Land Of Snergs
• Martin Ebbertz - Little Mr. Jaromir
• Dorothy Edwards - The Magician Who Kept A Pub and other stories
• T. S. Eliot - Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
• Julie Andrews Edwards - The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles
• Edward Einhorn
• Michael Ende - The Neverending Story, Momo
• Eleanor Estes- The Middle Moffat, Rufus M., The Hundred Dresses, Ginger Pye
• Juliana Horatia Ewing - A Flat Iron for a Farthing, The Story of a Short Life

F

• John Meade Falkner - Moonfleet
• Walter Farley - The Black Stallion series
• Eleanor Farjeon - Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard
• Penelope Farmer - Charlotte Sometimes
• Eugene Field - Wynken, Blynken, and Nod
• Anne Fine - The Tulip Touch, Madame Doubtfire, Flour Babies
• John D. Fitzgerald - The Great Brain series
• Louise Fitzhugh - Harriet the Spy
• Marjorie Flack (1897-1958) - The Story of Ping, Angus and the Ducks
• Sid Fleischman - The Whipping Boy
• Ian Fleming (1908-1964) - Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
• Esther Forbes - Johnny Tremain
• Antonia Forest - Autumn Term, and others in the Marlow Family series
• Anne Frank (1929-1945) - The Diary of a Young Girl
• Fynn - Mister God, This Is Anna
• Cornelia Funke - The Thief Lord, Inkheart trilogy

G

• Arkady Gaidar - Timur and His Squad
• Neil Gaiman - Coraline
• Paul Gallico - The Snow Goose; Jenny
• Cathrine Garnell - Basil the Bionic Cat series
• Alan Garner - The Owl Service, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, The Moon of Gomrath, Elidor, Red Shift etc.
• Jean Craighead George - My Side of the Mountain
• Fred Gipson - Old Yeller
• Glenda Goertzen (born 1967) - The Prairie Dogs, City Dogs
• Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774) - The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes (see also Goody)
• Elizabeth Goudge - The Little White Horse
• Harry Graham (1874-1936) - Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes
• Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932) - The Wind in the Willows
• Hardie Gramatky - Little Toot
• John Grant - Little Nose stories
• Kate Greenaway - Under the Window
• Kristiana Gregory - Earthquake at Dawn, The Stowaway
• Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm - Grimm's Fairy Tales
• Maria Gripe
• Johnny Gruelle - Raggedy Ann series

H

• Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (2003 Whitbread Awards)
• Virginia Hamilton - M. C. Higgins the Great (1975 Newbery Medal)
• Leif Hamre (b. 1914), Norwegian. (See no:Leif Hamre).
• Daniel Handler - pen name Lemony Snicket - A Series of Unfortunate Events
• Roger Hargreaves (1935-1988) - the Mr. Men and Little Miss series
• Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908) - Uncle Remus
• Juanita Havill - The Jamaica books, Eyes Like Willy's
• Charles Hawes - The Dark Frigate (1924 Newbery Medal)
• Annie Helm (born 1938)
• Marguerite Henry - King of the Wind (1949 Newbery Medal), Misty of Chincoteague
• Zenna Henderson - Stories of "The People"
• James Herriot (1916-1995) - All Creatures Great and Small
• Karen Hesse (born 1952) - Out of the Dust (1998 Newbery Medal)
• E.W. Hildick - McGurk Mysteries
• S.E. Hinton - The Outsiders
• Russell Hoban - The Mouse and His Child
• Mary Hoffman - Stravaganza series
• Christophe Honoré - Tout contre Léo
• Anthony Horowitz - Alex Rider series; The Diamond Brothers Series
• Ted Hughes - The Iron Man (filmed as 'The Iron Giant')
• Thomas Hughes - Tom Brown's School Days
• Irene Hunt - Up a Road Slowly (1967 Newbery Medal)
• Norman Hunter - Professor Branestawm series

I

• Eva Ibbotson - Which Witch?; The Secret of Platform 13
• Laura Ingalls Wilder - Little House on the Prairie series

J

• Joseph Jacobs - English Fairy Tales, Favorite Celtic Fairy Tales
• Grace James - the John and Mary series
• Farhat Jamshed - Little Tatu & Tatu's World
• James Janeway - A Token For Children
• Brian Jacques - The Redwall series
• Éva Janikovszky (born 1926) – If I Were a Grown-Up, Who Does This Kid Take After? [1]
• Tove Jansson - The Moomin books
• Paul Jennings - The 'Un' series of books eg Undone!, Unbelievable! etc
• W. E. Johns - Biggles series
• Marcia Thornton Jones - the Adventures of the Bailey School Kids series
• Diana Wynne Jones (born 1934) - the Chrestomanci series; Howl's Moving Castle
• Jacqueline Jules -- The Ziz series: The Hardest Word, Noah and the Ziz, The Ziz and the Hanukkah Miracle
• Norton Juster - The Phantom Tollbooth

K

• Ulrich Karger (born 1957) - The Scary Sleepover
• Jan Karon (born 1937) - Miss Fannie's Hat
• Erich Kästner - Emil and the Detectives, Lottie and Lisa (filmed as The Parent Trap)
• Elizabeth Kay - The Divide trilogy
• Ezra Jack Keats - The Snowy Day (1963 Caldecott Medal)
• Carolyn Keene - The Nancy Drew mystery series
• Charles Keeping - Charley, Charlotte and the Golden Canary
• Harold Keith - Rifles for Watie (1958 Newbery Medal)
• Eric P. Kelly - The Trumpeter of Krakow (1929 Newbery Medal)
• Judith Kerr - When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
• Clive King - Stig of the Dump
• Dick King-Smith - The Sheep-Pig a.k.a. Babe, the Gallant Pig
• Charles Kingsley - The Water Babies
• Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) - Just So Stories, The Jungle Book, Puck of Pook's Hill
• Annette Curtis Klause - Blood and Chocolate
• E. L. Konigsburg - From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (1968 Newbery Medal), The View from Saturday (1997 Newbery Medal)
• Erik P. Kraft - Chocolatina, Lenny and Mel series, Miracle Wimp
• Joseph Krumgold - ...And Now Miguel (1954 Newbery Medal), Onion John (1960 Newbery Medal)

L

• Selma Lagerlöf (1858-1940) - The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
• Andrew Lang (1844-1912) - The Blue Fairy Book
• Kirby Larson - The Magic Kerchief
• Kathryn Lasky - Guardians of Ga'hoole series
• Caroline Lawrence - The Roman Mysteries
• Robert Lawson - Rabbit Hill, Ben and Me
• Ervin Lázár (born 1936) – "The Seven Headed Fairy", "The Little Boy and the Lions", "The Square Round Wood"
• Munro Leaf - The Story of Ferdinand
• Edward Lear (1812-1888) - "The Owl and the Pussycat", A Book of Nonsense
• Dennis Lee - Alligator Pie
• Ursula K. Le Guin (born 1929) - A Wizard of Earthsea, Catwings, Very Far Away From Anyplace Else, Gifts
• Madeleine L'Engle (born 1918) - A Wrinkle in Time
• Gail Carson Levine - Ella Enchanted
• Ted Lewin - Peppe the Lamplighter
• C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) - The Chronicles of Narnia
• Suzanne Lieurance - Shoelaces (with Patrick Girouard)
• Astrid Lindgren (1907-2002) - Pippi Longstocking
• Penelope Lively - The Ghost of Thomas Kempe
• Hugh Lofting (1886-1947) - The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
• Jack London - The Call of the Wild; White Fang
• Lois Lowry - The Giver
• Mary Beth Lundgren - Love, Sara; Seven Scary Monsters

M

• Betty MacDonald - the Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle series
• George Macdonald - At the Back of the North Wind, The Princess and the Goblin
• Reginald James MacGregor- The Young Detectives
• D. J. MacHale - The Pendragon Adventures
• Sandra Magsamen - The Gift
• Margaret Mahy - The Changeover ;Maddigans Fantasia
• Hector Malot - Nobody's Boy (Sans Famille)
• Ruth Manning-Sanders - numerous anthologies of fairy tales from around the world
• Frederick Marryat - The Children of the New Forest
• John Marsden - The Tomorrow series
• Edward Marshall - Fox series (Fox in Love, Fox and His Friends, etc.)
• James Marshall - Fox series (Fox in Love, Fox and His Friends, etc.)
• Ann M. Martin - The Baby-sitters Club series
• Robert Martin - Joey series Joey and the River Pirates
• J. P. Martin (1880-1966) - Uncle series
• Cotton Mather - A Token for the Children of New England
• Sarah Matthias - The Riddle of the Poisoned Monk
• André Maurois - Fattypuffs and Thinifers (Patapoufs et Filifers)
• Julian May
• Mercer Mayer
• Meer Abdullah Harun
• William Mayne - A Swarm in May, A Grass Rope, Earthfasts, Low Tide
• Robert McCloskey - Make Way for Ducklings, Blueberries for Sal
• Patricia McCord (formerly Pat Mauser) - Pictures in the Dark
• Sophie McKenzie - Girl, Missing
• Robin McKinley - The Hero and the Crown, The Blue Sword
• Geoffrey McSkimming - Cairo Jim series
• Milton Meltzer history book author
• A. A. Milne (1882-1956) - Winnie-the-Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner
• Olive Beaupre Miller (1883 - 1968) - My Book House series and publisher The Bookhouse for Children
• Walter Moers - The Thirteen and a Half Lives of Captain Bluebear
• Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942) - Anne of Green Gables, Emily of New Moon
• Clement Clarke Moore (1779-1863) - A Visit From St. Nicholas
• Keith Moreau (born 1951) - ABC Fun Things Book
• John A. Moroso (1874-1957) - Nobody's Buddy
• Michael Morpurgo (1943-) Why the Whales Came
• Caryl Cude Mullin - A Riddle of Roses
• Robert Munsch - Love You Forever
• Jill Murphy - The Worst Witch
• Andrew Murray - Ghost Rescue
• Susan Musgrave - Gullband, Dreams Are More Real Than Bathtubs
• Julie Muszynski - Henley: A New York Tail

N

• Božena Němcová (1820 - 1862), a famous Czech writer
• Edith Nesbit (1858-1924) - The Railway Children, Five Children and It, The Phoenix and the Carpet, The Story of the Amulet
• John Newbery - A Little Pretty Pocket-Book Intended for the Instruction and Amusement of Little Master Tommy and Pretty Miss Molly
• Garth Nix - Sabriel and sequels; The Keys to the Kingdom series
• Joan Lowery Nixon - many mystery stories; the Orphan Train series
• Jessica Nelson North MacDonald - The Giant Shoe, and others
• Sterling North - Rascal, The Wolfing, and many other
• Mary Norton - The Borrowers series

O

• Graham Oakley - Church Mice series, Magical Changes
• Robert C. O'Brien - Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, Z for Zachariah
• Scott O'Dell - Island of the Blue Dolphins
• Sally Odgers - Candle Iron
• Timothy Olsen - The Teenage Investor
• Kenneth Oppel -Airborn
• Pat O'Shea - The Hounds of the Morrigan
• Uri Orlev
• Mary Pope Osborne - Magic Treehouse series
• Elsie J. Oxenham - the Abbey Series and many others
• Daniel Patrick O'Reilly

P

• Christopher Paolini - Inheritance cycle
• Barbara Park
• Peter Parnall (1936-)
• Katherine Paterson - Bridge to Terabithia
• Korky Paul
• Michelle Paver - Chronicles of Ancient Darkness Series
• Philippa Pearce (1920-2006) - Tom's Midnight Garden and other children's books.
• Ethel Pedley - Dot and the Kangaroo
• Bill Peet (1915-2002) - Hubert's Hair-Raising Adventure
• Daniel Pennac
• Lynne Rae Perkins (1956-) - Criss Cross (2006 Newbery Medal)
• Charles Perrault (1628-1703) - Tales of Mother Goose
• Ela Peroci (1922 - 2001), one of the best-loved children's authors of Slovenia
• George E. Peterson, Jr. (born 1965) - Wonderful Stories From Skog Forest (series)
• Rodman Philbrick (1951-) Freak The Mighty
• Tamora Pierce (born 1954) - Tortall books, Circle of Magic books
• Christopher Pike - Spooksville series
• Dav Pilkey - Captain Underpants series
• Daniel Pinkwater
• Kin Platt (1911-2003) - the "Big Max" series and "The Blue Man"
• Peter Pohl (1940-)
• Eleanor H. Porter - Pollyanna
• Tracey Porter
• Beatrix Potter (1866-1943) - The Tale of Peter Rabbit
• Ellen Potter - Olivia Kidney
• Terry Pratchett - The Bromeliad, the Johnny Maxwell series, The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents, the Tiffany Aching series
• Otfried Preussler (1923-) - The Robber Hotzenplotz
• Willard Price - The Adventure Series
• Philip Pullman (b. 1946) - His Dark Materials trilogy

R

• Janette Rallison (born 1966)
• Arthur Ransome (1884-1967) - Swallows and Amazons series
• Marjorie Rawlings - The Yearling
• W. Maxwell Reed (1871-1962) - The Earth for Sam, The Stars for Sam, etc.
• H.A. Rey (1898-1977) - (with Margret Rey) Curious George series
• Jamie Rix (born 1958) - Alistair Fury and Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids series
• Gianni Rodari (1920-1980) - Favole al telefono (Telephone Tales)
• Emily Rodda aka Jennifer Rowe - Deltora Quest Series
• Michael Rosen (1946-) poet
• Diana Ross (1910-2000) - The Little Red Engine series
• J. K. Rowling (born 1965) - Harry Potter series
• Salman Rushdie (born 1947) - Haroon and the Sea of Stories
• Paul Ryan - The Alpha Force Books
• Pam Muñoz Ryan - Esperanza Rising
• Rick Riordan - Percy Jackson & The Olympians books

S

• Louis Sachar - Sideways Stories From Wayside School series, Holes
• Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944) - The Little Prince
• Margaret Marshall Saunders (1861-1947) - Beautiful Joe
• Malcolm Saville - Lone Pine Club series
• Allen Say (1937- ) - Grandfather's Journey (1994 Caldecott Medal winner), The Ink-keeper's Apprentice
• Richard Scarry (1919-1994) - Busytown series
• Laura Vaccaro Seeger - First The Egg (2008 Caldecott Honor winner), (2008 Geisel Honor winner)
• George Selden - The Cricket in Times Square series
• Maurice Sendak (born 1928) - Where the Wild Things Are
• Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel) - The Cat in the Hat
• Anna Sewell (1820-1878) - Black Beauty
• Mary Shelley (1797-1851) - Maurice, or the Fisher's Cot
• Gary Shipman (born 1966) - Pakkins' Land
• Rhoda Shipman (born 1968) - Pakkins' Land
• Mark Shulman (born 1962) - Mom and Dad are Palindromes, Secret Hiding Places
• Yrsa Sigurðardóttir (born 1963)
• Shel Silverstein (1930-1999) - The Giving Tree, Where the Sidewalk Ends
• Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902-1991) - Stories for Children
• Marilyn Singer (1948-) - Turtle in July [2]
• Francesca Simon (born 1955) - Horrid Henry series
• David Skinner (author) (born 1963) - You Must Kiss a Whale
• William Sleator - science fiction stories (see also list of science fiction authors)
• Barbara Sleigh - Carbonel series
• Dodie Smith - 101 Dalmatians
• Lemony Snicket (pen name of Daniel Handler) - A Series of Unfortunate Events
• Zilpha Keatley Snyder - The Egypt Game
• Donald J. Sobol - Encyclopedia Brown series
• Armstrong Sperry (1897-1976) - Call It Courage
• Johanna Spyri (1827-1901) - Heidi
• Andy Stanton Mr Gum Series
• Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) - A Child's Garden of Verses, Treasure Island, Kidnapped (book)
• Jennifer J. Stewart - If That Breathes Fire We're Toast, The Bean King's Daughter, Close Encounters of a Third World Kind
• Paul Stewart (writer) - The Edge Chronicles
• R. L. Stine (born 1943) - Goosebumps; The Nightmare Room; Fear Street series
• Frank R. Stockton (1834-1902) - The Lady or the Tiger?
• Walter Scott Story (1879-1955) - Skinny Harrison Adventurer
• Todd Strasser (author) - Help! I'm Trapped...
• Edward Stratemeyer - (see Victor Appleton, Carolyn Keene, Franklin W. Dixon)
• Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes
• Jonathan Stroud - The Bartimaeus Trilogy
• Rosemary Sutcliff (1920-1992) - historical fiction
• Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) - Gulliver's Travels

T

• Kate Thompson - The New Policeman
• Ruth Plumly Thompson (1891-1976)
• James Thurber (1894-1961) - The Thirteen Clocks, The Wonderful "O", Many Moons
• Annette Tison/Talus Taylor - the Barbapapa books
• H. E. Todd - Bobby Brewster novels, plus others
• Barbara Euphan Todd (1890-1976) Worzel Gummidge and nine other Worzel Gummidge books.
• J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) - The Hobbit
• Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1883–1945) - The Adventures of Buratino or The Golden Key,
• Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) - Classic Tales and Fables for Children
• Nigel Tranter (1909-2000) - wrote 12 adventure stories aimed at 8/10 year olds
• Pamela Travers - Mary Poppins
• Geoffrey Trease (1909-1998) - Cue for Treason and other historical fiction
• Henry Treece (1911-1966) - Horned Helmet, The Road to Miklagard many other books for children.
• Ethel Turner - Seven Little Australians
• Julian Tuwim (1894-1953) - one of the two most famous authors of Polish poems for children
• Mark Twain - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn

V

• Rachel Vail - Wonder and Do-Over
• Chris Van Allsburg - Jumanji; The Polar Express
• Hendrik Willem van Loon - The Story of Mankind
• Wendelin Van Draanen - Sammy Keyes series and Flipped
• Shreekumar Varma
• Jules Verne (1828-1905) - Journey to the Center of the Earth; Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea
• Heiki Vilep (1960) - The Sounds of Silence, The Monsters of the Closet Door
• Rene Villanueva (1954) - Ang Unang Baboy Sa Langit (The First Pig In Heaven)
• Judith Viorst - Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
• John Vornholt - The Troll King books

W

• Lea Wait: Stopping to Home, Wintering Well; a series of historical novels set in Maine.
• Judy Waite: Mouse Look Out
• Vivian Walsh - Olive, the Other Reindeer, "Gluey", "Penguin Dreams", "Going to the Getty", "the Mr. Lunch series"
• Ivy Wallace - The "Pookie" series, the "Animal Shelf" series.
• Jennifer Ward - Way Out in the Desert and other Southwestern picture books
• Serene Wee- When Feet Talk,The Tale of Lady Cabbage,Harry Straw Hat
• Robert Westall - The Machine Gunners, Fathom Five, The Scarecrows
• Scott Westerfeld - Midnighters trilogy, Peeps, The Last Days, Uglies trilogy
• John F.C. Westerman (1901-?), English
• Percy F. Westerman (1876-1959), English
• Suzanne Weyn (b. 1955), The Bar Code Tattoo, Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium
• E.B. White (1899-1985) - Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little, The Trumpet of the Swan
• Kate Douglas Wiggin (1856-1923) - Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
• Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) - The Selfish Giant, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
• Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957) - Little House on the Prairie
• Margery Williams - The Velveteen Rabbit, Poor Cecco
• Ursula Moray Williams - The Little Wooden Horse, Gobbolino the Witch's Cat
• Henry Williamson - (1895-1977) Tarka the Otter
• Henry Winkler - Hank Zipzer Series
• Jacqueline Wilson - Girls In Love, Double Act, The Story of Tracy Beaker
• Patricia Wrede - The Enchanted Forest Chronicles
• Dare Wright - The Lonely Doll
• Patricia Wrightson - The Nargun and The Stars

Y

• Laurence Yep - Golden Mountain Chronicles series, Ribbons
• Jane Yolen - the Commander Toad series, the Dragon's Blood series
• Ed Young - Lon Po Po, Seven Blind Mice

Z

• Paul Zindel - Pardon Me, You're Stepping on My Eyeball
• Charlotte Zolotow

See also

• Lists of writers
• List of children's non-fiction writers
• Children's literature
• Children's literature canon
• Children's literature timeline
• List of children's classic books
• Fairytale
• List of fairy tales
• Young adult literature
• List of young adult authors
• List of children's book illustrators
• Caldecott Medal
• Carnegie Medal
• Newbery Medal

If you add any authors to this list, please also consider adding them to the A-Z list of authors.