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Thea Beckman (1923–2004) – Crusade in Jeans, Children of Mother Earth series; Frank Beddor (born 1958) – The Looking Glass Wars series; John Bellairs (1938–1991) – The House with a Clock in Its Walls; Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953) – Cautionary Tales for Children, The Bad Child's Book of Beasts, More Beasts for Worse Children
David Shannon (born October 5, 1959) is an American writer and illustrator of children's books.Shannon grew up in Spokane, Washington.He graduated from the Art Center College of Design and now resides in Los Angeles.
Augusta Stevenson (1869–1976 [1]) was a writer of children's literature and a teacher. She was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, and wrote more than thirty children's books, her most famous being for the "Childhood of Famous Americans" series and five volumes of "Children's Classics in Dramatic Form." [2] [3]
Donald Crews (born August 30, 1938) is an American illustrator and writer of children's picture books. In 2015, the American Library Association (ALA) honored him with the Children's Literature Legacy Award, recognizing his lasting contribution to children's literature. [1] His works Freight Train (1978) and Truck (1980) were Caldecott Honor ...
Ryan T. Higgins is an American author and illustrator of children's books.He is best known for his Mother Bruce and Penelope Rex series, both of which have had a book on The New York Times Best Seller List [1] [2] and have won the E. B. White Read Aloud Award for Picture Books.
William Keepers Maxwell Jr. (August 16, 1908 – July 31, 2000) was an American editor, novelist, short story writer, essayist, children's author, and memoirist. He served as a fiction editor at The New Yorker from 1936 to 1975. An editor devoted to his writers, Maxwell became a mentor and confidant to many authors.
Patricia C. McKissack (née Carwell; August 9, 1944 – April 7, 2017) was a prolific African-American children's writer. [1] She was the author of more than 100 books, including Dear America books A Picture of Freedom: The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl; Color Me Dark: The Diary of Nellie Lee Love, The Great Migration North; and Look to the Hills: The Diary of Lozette Moreau, a French Slave Girl.
American children's book author Edward Eager considered Nesbit the best children's author of all time; his books have been compared to Nesbit's and his characters are often fans of her work. [ 48 ] Woman of Stone , the Christmas Eve 2024 episode of the BBC's ' A Ghost Story for Christmas ' strand, is an adaptation of Nesbit's horror story Man ...