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) - Nightbirds on Nantucket, The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
- Vivien Alcock (1924-2003) - The Haunting of Cassie Palmer
- Louisa May Alcott - (1832-1888), Little Women
- Lloyd Alexander (born 1924) - The Black Cauldron, The High King (1969 Newbery Medal)
- 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.
- 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)
- 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 Chonicles, 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
- 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
- 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 Katie 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) – "Bowler Hat and Bulbous Nose"
D
- Roald Dahl (1916-1990) - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, The Witches
- Paula Danziger
- Lavinia Riker Davis {1909-1961} The Wild Birthday Cake
- Edmondo De Amicis - Cuore (Heart)
- Walter de la Mare
- 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
- Kate DiCamillo - Because of Winn Dixie, The Tale of Despereaux, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
- 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
- Julie Andrews Edwards - The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles
- EB White - The Trumpet of the Swan, Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little
- 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 - Goggle Eyes, Madame Doubtfire, The 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
- Robert Florczak (1950-)-"YIKES!!!"
- 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 - Mr. God, This is Anna
- Cornelia Funke - The Thief Lord and inkheart seiries and other children's books
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
- 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
- Christophe Honoré
- Anthony Horowitz - Alex Rider series; The Diamond Brothers Series
- Ted Hughes - The Iron Man (fimed 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
- James Janeway - A Token For Children
- Brian Jacques - The Redwall series
- Éva Janikovszky (born 1926) – If I Were a Grown-up
- 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)
- Jan Karon (born 1937)
- Erich Kästner - Emil and the Detectives, Lisa and Lottie (filmed as The Parent Trap)
- Ezra Jack Keats - The Snowy Day (1963 Caldecott Medal)
- Carolyn Keene - The Nancy Drew mystery series
- Charles Keeping
- 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
- Noor Inyat Khan
- Clive King - Stig of the Dump
- Dick King-Smith - The Sheep-Pig (movie 'Babe' based on)
- Charles Kingsley - The Water Babies
- Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) - Just So Stories, The Jungle Book, Puck of Pook's Hill
- Annette Curtis Klause - Alien Secrets
- 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
- Andrew Lang, (1844-1912), fairy tale collections
- Kirby Larson
- 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 Four-cornered Round Forest"
- Munro Leaf - The Story of Ferdinand
- Edward Lear (1812-1888) - A Book of Nonsense
- Dennis Lee - Alligator Pie
- Ursula K. Le Guin (born 1929) - A Wizard of Earthsea, Very Far Away From Anyplace Else, Gifts
- Madeleine L'Engle (born 1918) - A Wrinkle in Time
- Gail Carson Levine - Ella Enchanted
- Ted Lewin
- 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 etc.
- Jack London - The Call of the Wild; White Fang
- Lois Lowry - The Giver
M
- Betty MacDonald - the Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle series
- George Macdonald - At the Back of the North Wind, The Princess and the Goblin
- 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
- André Maurois - Fattypuffs and Thinifers (Patapoufs et Filifers)
- Julian May
- Mercer Mayer
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 Girls series and many others
- Daniel Patrick O'Reilly
P
- Christopher Paolini - Inheritance Trilogy
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Willo Davis Roberts - Mystery Writer
- 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
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
- Ouida Sebestyen (born 1924) - Far From Home
- 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
- Gary Shipman (born 1966) - Pakkins' Land
- Rhoda Shipman (born 1968) - Pakkins' Land
- Mark Shulman (born 1962) - Mom and Dad are Palindromes, Secret Hiding Places
- Shel Silverstein (1930-1999) - The Giving Tree, Where the Sidewalk Ends
- Charlie May Simon (1897-1977) - Robin on the Mountain and 25+ others
- Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902-1991) - Stories for Children
- Marilyn Singer (1948-) - Turtle in July [1]
- Francesca Simon (born 1955) - Horrid Henry series
- William Sleator - science fiction stories (see also list of science fiction authors)
- Barbara Sleigh - Carbonel trilogy
- Dodie Smith - 101 Dalmatians
- 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, 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
- Nikki Tate (1962-) - Tarragon Island novels, Jo's Triumph, and many other children's books
- Ann Jane Taylor - Twinkle,Twinkle,Little Star
- Kaye Thompson - Eloise
- 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
- 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 (Samuel Clemens) - 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
- Susan Vaught - Stormwitch, Trigger
- 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
- Judith Viorst - Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
- John Vornholt - The Troll King books
W
- Judy Waite: Mouse Look Out
- Vivian Walsh - Olive, The Other Reindeer, "Gluey", "Penguin Dreams", "Going to the Getty", "the Mr. Lunch series"
- Jennifer Ward - Way Out in the Desert and other Southwestern picture books
- 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
- 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
- Frank Wilson - Gleda and the Sparkling-Cloth
- 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
See also
- Lists of writers
- Children's Non-Fiction / Nonfiction Authors
- 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
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