Wikipedia:WikiProject Children's literature/Author list, from 1001 Children's Books
A list of the authors from Julia Eccleshare's 1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up (Cassell, 2009).
We have articles on far more than these of course; but we probably ought to have articles on all of these, so this may be a useful tracking list. Also the illustrators, where these were different from the author.
cf our own List of children's literature authors; List of young adult authors; List of children's non-fiction writers and List of children's book illustrators (defunct)
A
editVerna Aardema, Rafael Abalos, Richard Adams, Aesop, John Agard, Allan Ahlberg (5), Joan Aiken (2), Jez Alborough, Louisa May Alcott, Ciro Alegria, Lloyd Alexander, Oscar Alfaro, Harry Allard, Pamela Allen, Chris Van Allsburg (2), David Almond (2), Fernando Alonso (author), Francesco Tullio Altan, Edmondo Amicis, Monserrat Del Amo, Paro Anand, Hans Christian Anderson (3), Lena Anderson (2), Giana Anguissola, Mitsumasa Anno, Gloria Anzaldua, Edward Ardizzone, Ronda Armitage, William H. Armstrong, Daisy Ashford, Bernard Ashley (author), Richard Atwater, Margaret Atwood, Bernardo Atxaga, Esther Averill, Gillian Avery, Avi (author), Reverend W. Awdry (2), Marcel Aymé
B
editB.B. = Denys Watkins-Pitchford (2), Natalie Babbitt, Allan Baillie, Jeannie Baker, Robert Michael Ballantyne, Lynne Reid Banks, Antonia Barber, Joyce Barkhouse, Judi Barrett, J.M. Barrie, Graeme Base, Michael Gerard Bauer, Lyman Baum, Nina Bawden (2), Lesley Beake, Fleur Beale, Thea Beckman, Michael Bedard, Hilaire Belloc, Ludwig Bemelmans, Stan and Jan Berenstain, Mara Bergman, Gunilla Bergstrom, Gunilla Bergström, Paul Berna, Roy Berocay, James Berry (author) ?= James Berry (poet) ? (2), Elsa Beskow (2), Paul Biegel (2), Val Biro, Gavin Bishop, Christina Bjork, Holly Black, Malorie Blackman (2), Quentin Blake (2), Benedict Blathwayt, Judy Blume (2), Enid Blyton (2), [Bois: see Pène Du Bois], Lygia Bojunga, Kirsten Bole, Michael Bond, Waldemar Bonsels, Paul-Jacques Bonzon, Lucy Boston, Tim Bowler, Frank Cottrell Boyce, John Boyne, Ray Bradbury, Karleen Bradford, Christianna Brand, Henrietta Branford, Angela Brazil, Elinor M. Brent-Dyer, Theresa Breslin, Norman Bridwell, Katharine M. Briggs, Raymond Briggs (5), Carol Brink, H.F. Brinsmead, Joyce Lankester Brisley, Jeff Brown (author), Marcia Brown, Margaret Wise Brown (2), Pamela Brown (writer), Anthony Browne (author) (2), Eileen Browne (author), Robert Browning, Alyssa Brugman, Dick Bruna, Jean de Brunhoff, Quint Buchholz de:Quint Buchholz, Anthony Buckeridge, Miguel Bunuel, Gottfried August Burger, Frances Hodgson Burnett (3), Sheila Burnford, John Burningham (3), Janet Burroway, Hester Burton, Virginia Lee Burton (2), Heinrich Christian Wilhelm Busch, Nick Butterworth, Dino Buzzati, Betsy Byars (3)
C
editGraciela Beatriz Cabal, Italo Calvino (5), Rod Campbell, Johann Heinrich Campe, Joanna Cannan, Janell Cannon, Roser Capdevila, Josef Capek, Natha Caputo, Eric Carle, Isobelle Carmody, Humphrey Carpenter, Pinin Carpi (2), Lewis Carroll (2), Peter Carter (author), Borita Casas, R. Chavez Castaneda, Brian Caswell, Charles Causley, Wong Chak, Aidan Chambers, Georges Chaulet fr:Georges Chaulet, Nan Chauncy, Lauren Child (4), Constantin Chirita, Mavis Thorpe Clark, Pauline Clarke, Beverly Cleary (2), Vera and Bill Cleaver = Vera Cleaver and Bill Cleaver (2), Babette Cole, Edward William Cole, Eoin Colfer, Carlo Collodi, Paul Collins ?= Paul Collins (fantasy writer) ?, Marie Colmont (2), Luis Coloma, Susan Coolidge, Barbara Cooney, Helen Cooper, Susan Cooper, Robert Cormier (2), David Cornish = D. M. Cornish, Nicoletta Costa it:Nicoletta Costa, Thierry Courtin, Lucy Cousins, Joy Cowley, H. C. Cradock, Sharon Creech, Helen Cresswell, Gary Crew, Donald Crews, Giulio Cesare Croce, Richmal Crompton, Gillian Cross, Kevin Crossley-Holland, John A. = John Cunliffe (author), Christopher Paul Curtis
D
editIngri D'Aulaire (2), Ingri and Edgar Parin D'Aulaire, Marie Catherine Baronne D'Aulnoy, Roald Dahl (6), Alice Dalgliesh, Niki Daly (2), Marjorie Darke, Alexandra Day, Cecil Day-Lewis, Tomie DePaola, Alexis Deacon, Daniel Defoe, Meindert Dejong, Gilbert Delahaye, Miguel Delibes, Violetta Denou, Terry Denton, Anita Desai, Ted Dewan, Anna Dewdney, Gloria Diaz, Kate DiCamillo (2), Charles Dickens (2), Peter Dickinson, Franklin Dixon, Pavol Dobsinsky, Lynley Dodd (2), Berlie Doherty, Julia Donaldson, Beatriz Donnet, Arthur Conan Doyle, Tonke Dragt, Ursula Dubosarsky, Tessa Duder, Carol Ann Duffy, Alexandre Dumas, Arup Kumar Dutta
E
editEdward Eager, P.D. Eastman (3), Dorothy Edwards, T.S. Eliot, Deborah Ellis, Michael Ende (2), Eva Eriksson (illustrator), Eleanor Estes, Antoine de Saint Exupery
F
editIan Falconer, J. Meade Falkner, Eleanor Farjeon (2), Walter Farley, Penelope Farmer, Frederic W. Farrar, Max Fatchen, Istvan Fekete (2), Malika Ferdjoukh, Rafael Ferlosio, Anna Fienberg, Anne Fine (3), Nicholas Fisk, Louise Fitzhugh (2), Percy Fitzpatrick, Marjorie Flack, Paul Fleischman, Sid Fleischman, Ian Fleming, Timothée de Fombelle, Esther Forbes, Michael Foreman (illustrator), Antonia Forest, C.S. Forester, Elena Fortun, Mem Fox, Paula Fox, Andre Franquin, Don Freeman (2), Jackie French, Gloria Fuentes, Fujiko Fujio, Cornelia Funke
G
editNeil Gaiman (2), Carmen Martin Gaite, Laura Gallego, Silvana Gandolfi (2), Ruth S. = Ruth Stiles Gannett, Jane Gardam (2), Geza Gardonyi, Leon Garfield, Alan Garner (4), Eve Garnett, Gustavo Martin Garzo, Marie-Agnes Gaudrat, Theophile Gautier, Jamila Gavin, Maurice Gee, Maria Luisa Gefaell, Jean Craighead George, Adele Geras, May Gibbs, Fred Gipson, Libby Gleeson, Morris Gleitzman, Paul Goble, Rumer Godden, William Golding, Rene Goscinny (2), Elizabeth Goudge, Bob Graham ?= Bob Graham (illustrator) ?, Kenneth Grahame, Hardie Gramatky, Antonio Gramsci, Emily Gravett, Nigel Gray, Roger Green = Roger Lancelyn Green, Graham Greene, Kate Greenaway (2), Mini Grey, Frederick Grice, Andy Griffiths, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Pierre Gripari, Maria Gripe, Tonino Guerra, Josef Guggenmos, Nicolas Guillen, Ursula Le Guin, Rosa Guy, Phillip Gwynne, Wanda Gág
H
editAnna-Liisa Haakana, Peter Hacks, Mark Haddon, J.B.S. Haldane, Kathleen Hale, Nathan Hale (writer), Donald Hall, Grace Hallworth, Virginia Hamilton (2), Roger Hargreaves, Cynthia Harnett, Joel Harris, Peter Harris (writer), Peter Hartling, Sonya Hartnett, Libby Hathorn (2), Deborah Hautzig, Aino Havukainen, Charles Hawes, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sarah Hayes, Lian Hearn, Mairi Hedderwick, Florence Parry Heide, Kurt Held (2), Kevin Henkes, Liselotte Wilskopf-Henrich, Marguerite Henry, George Henty, Hergé, Steven Herrick, Karen Hesse, Constance Heward, Wilhem Hey, David Hill (author), Eric Hill, Susan Hill, Barry Hines, S.E. Hinton, Odo Hirsch, Jane Hissey, Russell Hoban (3), Leigh Hobbs, E.T.A. Hoffman, Heinrich Hoffmann (author), Mary Hoffman, Katharine Holabird, Kevin Crossley Holland, Anne Holm, Werner Holzwarth, Elizabeth Honey, Anthony Hope, Laura Lee Hope, Anthony Horowitz (2), Janni Howker, Monica Hughes, Shirley Hughes (3), Ted Hughes (3), Thomas Hughes, Katharine Hull, Norman Hunter (author), Sally Hunter (author), Pat Hutchins
I
editFrancisco Ibanez, Eva Ibbotson, Witi Ihimaera, Mick Inkpen
J
editBrian Jacques, Riitta Jalonen, Eva Janikovszky, Tove Jansson (4), Euclides Jaramillo, Richard Jefferies, Oliver Jeffers, Paul Jennings (Australian author), Juan Jimenez, Catherine Jinks, Hanna Johansen, W.E. Johns, Crockett Johnson, Diana Wynne Jones, Tim Wynne-Jones, Sherryl Jordan de:Sherryl Jordan, Gail Jorgensen, Norton Juster
K
editElina Karjalainen, Erich Kästner, Ezra Jack Keats, Carolyn Keene, Charles Keeping, Harold Keith, Victor Kelleher, Gene Kemp, Judith Kerr (3), Gabriela Keselman, Joseph Kessel, Clive King, Stephen King, Charles Kingsley, Rudyard Kipling (2), Ole Lund Kirkegaard, Edith Klatt, Robin Klein, Eric Knight, E.L. Konigsburg (2), Tomi Kontio, Fernando Krahn, Phyllis Krasilovsky, Robert Kraus, Antoon Krings, James Kruss, Guus Kuijer, Dorothy Kunhardt, Carmen Kurtz
L
editMadeleine L'Engle, Selma Lagerlof, Charles Lamb (writer) and Mary Lamb, Andrew Lang, Jean Latham, Robert Lawson, George Layton, Munro Leaf, Edward Lear (2), Maurice Leblanc, Claude Lebrun, Philippe Lechermeier, Harper Lee, Gaston Leroux, Alison Lester, C.S. Lewis (3), Hilda Lewis, Gunnel Linde, Pija Lindenbaum (2), Joan Lingard, Astrid Lindgren (4), Barbro Lindgren, Elvira Lindo, Joan Lindsay, Norman Lindsay, Kathleen Lines, Eric Linklater, Leo Lionni (3), Penelope Lively, Mira Lobe, Arnold Lobel, A. Rutgers van der Loeff, Hugh Lofting, Jack London (2), Maud Lovelace, Lois Lowry (3), Ulf Löfgren (2)
M
editGeorge MacDonald (2), Ana Maria Machado (3), Patricia MacLachlan, Milos Macourek, Michio Mado, Michelle Magorian, Margaret Mahy (3), Hector Malot, Henning Mankell, Wolf Mankowitz, Melina Marchetta, Walter de la Mare, Jan Mark (3), Frederick Marryat, John Marsden, James Marshall, Bill Martin, Jr., J.P. Martin, John Masefield, Sophie Masson, Paola Mastrocola, Petra Mathers, Wilhelm Matthiessen, Ana Maria Matute, Karl May, Sam McBratney (2), Anne McCaffrey, Geraldine McCaughrean (2), Robert McCloskey (3), Meme McDonald, David McKee (2), Janet McLean, David McRobbie, Gudrun Mebs, Lothar Meggendorfer, David Metzenthen, Stephenie Meyer, Mino Milani, Glenda Millard, Spike Milligan, A. A. Milne (3), Elyne Mitchell, Hayao Miyazaki, Kenji Miyazawa, Shigeru Mizuki, Ferenc Molnar, Mrs. Molesworth, James Moloney, Graciela Montes, L.M. Montgomery (2), Clement Clarke Moore, Victor Mora, Walt Morey, Michael Morpurgo (4), Morris (comics), Jean-Claude Mourievat, Fritz Muhlenweg, Juan Muñoz, Robert Munsch (2), Marie Aude Murall, Jill Murphy (2), Martine Murray, Hanna Muschg, John Muth
N
editBeverley Naidoo, Bill Naughton, Phyllis Naylor, Violet Needham, E. Nesbit (3), William Nicholson (2), Helen Nicoll, Per Nilsson, Jenny Nimmo, Collodi Nipote, Garth Nix, Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Sinikka and Tiina Nopola (2), Sven Nordqvist, Leonie Norrington, Mary Norton, Christine Nöstlinger (3), Laura Numeroff, Lygia Nunes
O
editRobert C. O'Brien (author), Scott O'Dell, Mary O'Hara, Pat O'Shea, Graham Oakley, Sibylle Olfers, Uri Orlev, Wendy Orr, Helen Oxenbury
P
editPeggy Parish, Ruth Park, Katherine Paterson (2), Brian Patten, Gary Paulson, Gudrun Pausewang, Michelle Paver, Philippa Pearce (4), Mal Peet, Pef, William Pène Du Bois, Daniel Pennac, Louis Pergaud, Lucy Fitch Perkins, Charles Perrault, Peyo, K.M. Peyton (2), Jan Pienkowski, Watty Piper, Bianca Pitzorno (2), Francois Place fr:François Place, Benno Pludra, Roberto Piumini, Ludmila Podjavorinská, Peter Pohl, Patricia Polacco, Rafael Pombo, Claude Ponti, Eleanor Porter, Gene Porter, Oliver Postgate, Beatrix Potter (3), Terry Pratchett (4), John Prater, Jack Prelutsky, Mirjam Pressler de:Mirjam Pressler, Otfried Preussler, Susan Price (3), Willard Price, Alf Proysen, Philip Pullman (3)
Q
editGuido Quarzo, Raymond Queneau, Horacio Quiroga
R
editArthur Ransome (2), Ellen Raskin, Peggy Rathmann, Marjorie Rawlings, Wilson Rawls, Mary Rayner, Talbot Baines Reed, Celia Rees, Philip Reeve, Jules Renard, Margret Rey, Frank Richards ?= Charles Hamilton (writer) ?, Hans Richter, Jutta Richter (3), Tohby Riddle, Faith Ringgold, Jacqueline Riviere, Joan Robinson, Gianni Rodari (2), Emily Rodda, Michael Rosen (3), Meg Rosoff, Diana Ross (author), J.K. Rowling (3), Gillian Rubinstein, Salman Rushdie, John Ryan ?= John Ryan (cartoonist) or Johnny Ryan ?, Cynthia Rylant
S
editLouis Sachar, Emilio Salgari (5), J.D. Salinger, Yoko Sano, Inger Sandberg (2), Richard Scarry, Judy Schachner, Annie Schmidt (2), Jürg Schubiger, Silvia Schujer, Charles Schulz, Hermann Schulz, Jon Scieszka (3), Ronald Searle, Sophie Rostopchine, Comtesse de Ségur (2), George Selden, Brian Selznick, Keiko Sena, Maurice Sendak (2), Luis Sepulveda, Kate Seredy, Ian Serrailler, Dr. Seuss (3), Anna Sewell, Darren Shan, Lisa Shanahan, David Shannon, Sylvia Sherry, Jose Silva, Shel Silverstein (2), Francesca Simon, Asko Sirkia, Peter Sís, Antonio Skarmeta, Esphyr Slobodkina, Dick Smith ? distinct from the next ?, Dick King-Smith (2), Dodie Smith (2), Emma Smith ?= Emma Smith (author) ?, Barbara Smucker, Lemony Snicket (2), Alois Theodor Sonnleitner, Ivan Southall, Elizabeth Speare, Eleanor Spence, Jerry Spinelli, Johanna Spyri, Pernilla Stalfelt (2), Ulf Stark, William Steig (4), John Steinbeck, John Steptoe, Robert Louis Stevenson (3), Hilda van Stockum, Catherine Storr (2), Noel Streatfeild (2), Jonathan Stroud, Rosemary Sutcliff (3), Eve Sutton, Hildegarde H. Swift, Jonathan Swift, Robert Swindells (2)
T
editShaun Tan, Talus Taylor, Mildred Taylor, Theodore Taylor, Toon Tellegen, Ionel Teodoreanu, Jan Terlouw, Liza Tetzner, Osamu Tezuka (3), William Thackeray, Colin Thiele, Dylan Thomas, Valerie Thomas (writer), Kate Thompson (2), Kay Thompson, James Thurber, Annette Tison, Barbara Euphan Todd, Bruno Tognolini, Sami Toivonen, J.R.R. Tolkein (2), Akira Toriyama, Josep Maria Folch i Torres, Michel Tournier, Mary Tourtel, Sue Townsend, William Toye (author), Agostino Traini, P.L. Travers, Mary Treadgold, Geoffrey Trease, Henry Treece, Percy Trezise, Rod Trinca, Jiri Trnka, Ethel Turner, Mark Twain (3)
U
editJanice May Udry, Tomi Ungerer (2), Unknown (5), Else Ury, Alison Uttley (2)
V
editJenny Valentine, Vamba, Vladislav Vancura, Jose Vasconcelos, Max Velthuijs, Jules Verne (3), John Verney, Pierre Very, Paul-Emile Victor, Francine Vidal, Javier Villafañe (2), Gabrielle Vincent, Judith Viorst, Elfrida Vipont, Cynthia Voigt
W
editBernard Waber, Martin Waddell (2), Jenny Wagner (writer), Dorothy Wall, Jill Walsh (2), Maria Walsh, Lynd Ward, Gertrude Chandler Warner, James Watson (author), Alex Wedding, Rosemary Wells, Qin Wenjun, Robert Westall (2), Odile Weulersse, Nadia Wheatley (2), E.B. White (2), T.H. White (2), Pamela Whitlock, Ian Whybrow, Siv Widerberg, David Wiesner (2), Kate Wiggin, Margaret Wild, Oscar Wilde (2), Laura Wilder (3), Carole Wilkinson, Geoffrey Willans, Barbara Willard, Mo Willems (3), Margery Williams, Ursula M. = Ursula Moray Williams, Vera Williams, Henry Williamson, Jeanne Willis, Jacqueline Wilson (3), Henry Winterfeld, Frieda Wishinsky, Jen Wojtowicz, Ema Wolf, Christopher Wormell, Patricia Wrightson, John Wyndham, Johann Wyss
Y
editJane Yolen (2), Arthur Yorinks de:Arthur Yorinks, Ed Young
Z
editZep, Benjamin Zephaniah, Paul Zindel, Gene Zion, Charlotte Zolotow, Markus Zusak
Illustrators
editA
editJanet Ahlberg (3), Mitsumasa Anno, Honor C. Appleton, Kerry Argent
B
editNicola Bayley, Patrick Benson, Celia Berridge, Caroline Binch, Daniele Bour, Raymond Briggs, Joyce L. Brisley, Alec Buckels
C
editRandolph Caldecott, Eric Carle, Barbara Cooney, Helen Craig (3)
D
editRébecca Dautremer, Lynley Dodd
E
editEva Eriksson (illustrator), Wolf Erlbruch
F
editPeter Firmin, Barbara Firth, Henry J. = Henry Justice Ford, Peggy Fortnum
G
editRuth C. = Ruth Chrisman Gannett, H. Garland, John Gilbert, Bob Graham, Margaret Bloy Graham
H
editGeorge Him, Abrom Hoban, Clement Hurd (2)
J
editAnita Jeram, Harold Jones (artist)
K
editJohn L. Kipling, Hilary Knight
L
editRobert Lawson (2), Lois Lenski, Jan Lewitt
M
editMarcel Marlier, Andrew McLean, William Middleton, Patricia Mullins
N
editWilliam Nicholson, Elodie Nouhen
O
editHelen Oxenbury (2)
P
editNatalie Parain, Korky Paul, Reginald Payne, Susan Beatrice Pearse, Jan Pienkowski
R
editH. A. Rey, Adrian Reynolds, Charles Robinson, Feodor Rojankovsky
S
editLasse Sandberg (2), Axel Scheffler, John Schoenherr, E. H. Shepard (3), Otto Speckter, Peter Spier, Günther Stiller
T
editV
editTabaré, Noemí Villamuza, Julie Vivas
W
editLynd Ward, Susi Weigel, Kurt Wiese, Ilon Wikland, Garth Williams,