To learn more about your favorite authors, illustrators, and the characters they create click on the following links. To find a person quickly, click on the first letter of that person's last name in this chart:
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- David Adler - Author of fiction and nonfiction books for young people.
- Caroline Arnold - Author of nonfiction animal books, including Cheetahs and Elephants .
- Jim Arnosky - Author of All About Alligators , the Crinklefoot series and more.
- Avi - Author of Poppy, The Windcatcher and more .
- Aesop's Fables - an online collection of Aesop's Fables with suggested morals listed. There are over 655 fables in this comprehensive collection.
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- Lynne Reid Banks - Author of the Indian in the Cupboard series.
- T. A. Barron - Author of The Ancient One and the Merlin series.
- Judy Blume - Author of Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, Superfudge and more .
- Jan Brett - Author/illustrator of The Gingerbread Baby, The Mitten, and more.
- Marc Brown - Author/illustrator of the Arthur the Aardvark books.
- Betsy Byars - Author of many books, including The Not Just Anybody Family and the Herculeah Jones series
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- Eric Carle - Author/illustrator of The Very Hungry Caterpillar and more.
- Beverly Cleary - Author of the Ramona Quimby books, Henry Huggins series, and Mouse and the Motorcycle series.
- Vicki Cobb - Author of many science experiment books, including Bet You Can't!
- Bruce Coville - Author of the Magic Shop series, The Dragonslayers and more.
- Sharon Creech - Award winning author of Walk Two Moons.
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- Roald Dahl - Author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda and many more .
- Tomie dePaola - Author/illustrator of numerous books, including Bill and Pete, and Tom.
- Kate DiCamillo - Author of Because of Winn Dixie and The Tale of Despereaux
- Tony DiTerlizzi - Author/illustrator of numerous books including The Spider and the Fly and the Spiderwick Chronicles.
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- Jean Craighead George - Author of many nature theme books, including My Side of the Mountain and several nonfiction books.
- Gail Gibbons -Author/illustrator of many nonfiction science picture books, including Whales .
- Dan Gutman - Author of Honus and Me and others .
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- Mary Downing Hawn - Author of Wait Till Helen Comes, Gentleman Outlaw and Me, Eli and many other outstanding books.
- Kevin Henkes - Author/illustrator of Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse and others.
- Bruce Hiscock - Author /illustrator of The Big Tree and other nature books.
- Johanna Hurwitz - Author of dozens of books for young readers: One Small Dog, Class Clown, Ever-Clever Eliza, and many more.
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- Carolyn Keene - Author of the Nancy Drew Mysteries.
- Suzy Kline - Author of the Herbie Jones , Horrible Harry , and Orp series.
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- Ann Martin - Author of the popular Baby Sitter's Club and many more books.
- Gerald McDermott - Author/illustrator of Anansi, Zomo the Rabbit and more.
- Ben Mikaelsen - Author of adventure books, including Rescue Josh McGuire.
- Bernard Most - Author/illustrator of many fiction and nonfiction dinosaur books.
- Robert Munsch - Author/illustrator of The Paperbag Princess, Thomas' Snowsuit and more.
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- Jerry Pallotta - Author/illustrator of many science alphabet books, including The Underwater Alphabet Book and The Reptile Alphabet Book.
- Barbara Park - Author of the very funny Junie B. Jones series.
- Katherine Paterson - Award winning author of A Bridge to Terabithia and more.
- Gary Paulsen - Author of Hatchet, Harris and Me, How Angel Peterson Got His Name, and many more outstanding books.
- Dav Pilkey - Author/illustrator of Dragon's Fat Cat, Kat Kong , the Captain Underpants series and others. This is a fun website for kids.
- Patricia Polacco - Author/illustrator of many books, including Thundercake and Rechenka's Eggs.
- Beatrix Potter - Author/illustrator of the Peter Rabbit books.
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- H.A. & Margaret Rey - authors of Curious George, the lovable and mischevious monkey.
- J. K. Rowling - Author of the Harry Potter series.
- Ron Roy - Author of the A to Z Mystery series and many other great books.
- Nicole Rubel - Author/Illustrator of many great books including A Cowboy Named Ernestine and No More Vegetables. Illustrator of the Rotten Ralph books.
- Cynthia Rylant - Author of many different kinds of books like Henry and Mudge, Missing May, and many others.
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- Louis Sachar - Author of Holes, The Marvin Redpost series, & the Wayside School series.
- Jon Scieszka - Author of the Time Warp Trio series, The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, and many other wonderful books.
- Dr. Seuss - How many of his books can you name?
- Marjorie Weinman Sharmat - Author of the Nate the Great series.
- Seymour Simon - Author of many excellent science books, including Saturn, Jupiter, and Earthquakes.
- Roland Smith - Author of Sasquatch, Jaguar and others.
- Lemony Snicket - Author of the Series of Unfortunate Events.
- Jerry Spinelli - Author of Newberry Award Winner Maniac Magee and many other wonderful books.
- William Steig - Author/illustrator of Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, Shrek and more.
- Janet Stevens - Author/illustrator of The Dog Who Had Kittens. Illustrator of the Anansi books retold by Eric Kimmel.
- R. L. Stine - Author of the Goosebumps series.
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- Mike Thaler - Author/illustrator of The Teacher From the Black Lagoon and others in the series.
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Judith Viorst - Author of Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.
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- Jane Yolen - Author of numerous books, including Sleeping Ugly and The Pit Dragon Trilogy.
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