List of important
Children's literature authors and their most famous works.
- 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 Wizard of Oz
- 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 Bunford[?] - The Incredible Journey[?]
- John Bunyan, (1628-1688), Pilgrim's Progress
- Frances Hodgeson Burnett[?] - The Secret Garden[?]
- Virginia Lee Burton[?] - Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel[?]
- 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.
- Franklin W. Dixon[?] - The Hardy Boys[?] series
- Mary Mapes Dodge[?] - Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates
- William Pere du Bous[?] - Twenty-One Balloons[?]
- 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[?]
- 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[?]
- Lois Lowry - The Giver
- Louis Sachar -- Wayside School is Falling Down[?] series
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery, (1900-1944), The Little Prince
- Richard Scarry - (1919-1994) Busytown series
- Ouida Sebestyen[?] - American, (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
- Francesca Simon, (born 1955), Horrid Henry series
- 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?[?]
- Edward L. Stratemeyer[?] - (see Victor Appleton, Jr.[?], Carolyn Keene, Franklin Dixon[?])
- Jonathan Swift, (1667-1745), Gulliver's Travels