Rebecca Caudill-1899-1985
http://www.rbls.lib.il.us/rip/crcaudill.htm

Pura Belpre-1899-1982
http://www.library.pitt.edu/libraries/is/enroom/awards/
purabelpre.htm
http://www.weberpl.lib.ut.us/booklists/books.php?BookListID=89&SortOrder=Author

Judith Viorst-1931-
http://www.annonline.com/interviews/980112/biography.html
http://www.dramaticpublishing.com/viorst.html
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/viorst.html
http://www.bookbrowse.com/biographies/index.cfm?author_number=502 http://www.library.okstate.edu/friends/cobb/viorst.htm

Eve Rice-1951-

Deborah Hopkinson-1952-
http://www.deborahhopkinson.com/
http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~kvander/clara7.html
http://www.kidsreads.com/features/010620-hopkinson-deborah.asp

Betsy Duffey-1953-
http://www.penguinputnam.com/nf/Author/AuthorPage/
0,,0_1000009601,00.html

Mary Cassanova-1957-
http://www.marycasanova.com/
http://www.childrenslit.com/f_casanova.html
http://www.pleasantcopublications.com/author_information/
authors/casanova.htm
http://www.mcelmeel.com/writing/casanova.html
http://www.childrensliteraturenetwork.org/authors/casanova.html
http://www.kidsbookshelf.com/spotlightmc.asp

Walt Morey-1907-1992
http://oregonmag.com/morey.htm
http://www.reynolds.k12.or.us/~morey/morey.html

Joan Lowery Nixon-1927-2003
http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/mystery/bio.htm
http://www.teenreads.com/authors/au-nixon-joan-lowery.asp http://www.webenglishteacher.com/nixon.html
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/nixon.htm
http://www.kidsreads.com/authors/au-nixon-joan-lowery.asp

John C. Wallner-1945-

Barbara Bartos-Hoeppner-1923-

Russell Hoban-1925-
http://www.ocelotfactory.com/hoban/
http://www.davidhigham.co.uk/html/Clients/Russell_Hoban
http://www.lib.usm.edu/%7Edegrum/html/research/findaids/hobanrus.htm
http://www.roland-collection.com/rolandcollection/literature/101/W64.htm

Barbara Shook Hazen-1930-
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr/mtai/hazen.html
http://www.lib.usm.edu/%7Edegrum/html/research/findaids/hazen.htm

Patricia Lauber-1924-
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr/mtai/lauber.html
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/lauber.htm
http://special.lib.umn.edu/findaid/html/clrc/clrc0157.html

Joan Elma Rahn-1929-

Mona Kerby-1951-
http://www.carr.org/authco/kerby.htm

David Wiesner-1957-
http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/authors/wiesner/
http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/authors/wiesner/
home.html
http://www.bookpage.com/9909bp/david_wiesner.html
http://www.rif.org/art/illustrators/wiesner.mspx
http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~kvander/tuesday.html
http://reading.indiana.edu/ieo/bibs/wiesner.html

Berta Hader-1891-1976
http://www.lib.usm.edu/%7Edegrum/html/research/findaids/hader.htm

Wyatt Rainey Blassingame-1909-1985

Jerome Wexler-1923-
http://www.lib.usm.edu/~degrum/html/research/findaids/
wexler.html

Weyman B. Jones-1928-

Charles Dickens-1812-1870
http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Dickens.html
http://www.helsinki.fi/kasv/nokol/dickens.html
http://www.fidnet.com/~dap1955/dickens/
http://www.dickensmuseum.com/
http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/dickens/dickensov.html http://www.online-literature.com/dickens/ http://www.incwell.com/Biographies/Dickens.html

Laura Ingalls Wilder-1867-1957
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/wilder.htm
http://webpages.marshall.edu/~irby1/laura.htmlx
http://www.liwms.com/
http://www.lauraingallswilder.com/
http://www.lauraingallswilderhome.com/
http://www.walnutgrove.org/
http://www.geocities.com/~prairiehome/
http://www.teachersfirst.com/winners/wilder.htm http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/whm/bio/
ingallswilder_l.htm http://www.myhero.com/myhero/hero.asp?hero=lauraIngallsWilder
http://www.whitehouse.gov/kids/dreamteam/laurawilder.html http://vvv.com/home/jenslegg/index2.htm

Fred Gipson-1908-1973
http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/research/fa/gipson.bio.html
http://www.library.txstate.edu/swwc/archives/writers/gipson.html
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/uthrc/00045/hrc-00045.html

Shonto Begay-1954-
http://www.kstrom.net/isk/art/beads/shonto.html
http://www.poniesdelpueblo.org/Artists/sbegay/sbegay.htm
http://www.statemuseum.arizona.edu/exhibits/avery/
visiting_artists/begay.shtml
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/begay.htm

Jules Verne-1828-1905
http://www.online-literature.com/verne/
http://jv.gilead.org.il/
http://www.jules-verne.nl/gb/
http://vesuvius.jsc.nasa.gov/er/seh/bioverne.htm

Adrienne Adams-1906-2002
http://www.lib.usm.edu/%7Edegrum/html/research/findaids/adams.htm

Anne Rockwell-1934-
http://www.childrensliteraturenetwork.org/brthpage/02feb/2-8rockwell.html
http://www.harpercollins.com/global_scripts/product_catalog/
author_xml.asp?authorid=12652

Hilda Van Stockum-1908-
http://www.lib.usm.edu/~degrum/html/research/findaids/
vanstock.htm

Dick Gackenbach-1927-
http://www.lib.usm.edu/%7Edegrum/html/research/findaids/gackenba.htm

Alice Walker-1944-
http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/
walker.html
http://members.tripod.com/chrisdanielle/aliceindex.html
http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/
walker_a.htm
http://aalbc.com/authors/alice.htm
http://www.ipoet.com/ARCHIVE/BEYOND/Walker/Alice.html
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/walker.htm
http://womenshistory.about.com/library/bio/blbio_
walker_alice.htm
http://results.about.com/alice_walker/
http://www.who2.com/alicewalker.html
http://www.uky.edu/StudentOrgs/AWARE/archives/walker.html

Stephen Roos-1945-
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/authors/Stephen_Roos.htm

Elaine Konigsburg-1930-
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr/mtai/konigsburg.html
http://falcon.jmu.edu/%7Eramseyil/konigsburg.htm
http://www.edupaperback.org/showauth.cfm?authid=58
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr/mtai/konigsburg.html

Frank Brandenberg-1932-

James Rice-1934-

Stephen Gammell-1943-
http://www.bookpage.com/0006bp/stephen_gammell.html

Mark Teague-1963-
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr/mtai/teague.html
http://www.scholastic.com/titles/authors/teague/
http://www.storyopolis.com/portfolio-dbp.asp?ArtistID=147
http://www.rif.org/art/illustrators/teague.mspx

Lucy Cousins-1964-
http://www.storyopolis.com/portfolio-dbp.asp?ArtistID=137

Toshi Maruki-1912-
http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~kvander/snow170.html

Mabel Esther Allan-1915-1998

Jane Yolen-1939-
http://www.janeyolen.com/
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/yolen.htm
http://www.bookpage.com/9901bp/jane_yolen.html
http://www.twbookmark.com/authors/58/652/
http://www.writerswrite.com/journal/jun02/yolen.htm
http://www.underdown.org/yolen.htm

Randolph Caldecott-1846-1886
http://www.randolphcaldecott.org.uk/
http://www.iupui.edu/~engwft/caldecott.htm
http://www.lib.usm.edu/%7Edegrum/html/research/findaids/caldecot.htm
http://www.rcsamerica.com/

Ann Atwood-1913-
http://www.childrensliteraturenetwork.org/brthpage/02feb/2-atwood.html

Judy Blume-1938-
http://www.judyblume.com/
http://www.kidsreads.com/authors/au-blume-judy.asp
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/blume.htm http://www2.scholastic.com/teachers/authorsandbooks/
authorstudies/authorhome.jhtml?authorID=11
http://www.januarymagazine.com/profiles/blume.html
http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/womenenc/blume.html
http://www.teenreads.com/authors/au-blume-judy.asp
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/blume.html
http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/biography/Blume.html

Hank Brown-1940-

David Small-1945-
http://www.multcolib.org/kids/exhibit/small/educatorguide.html

Chris Conover-1950-
http://www.fsgkidsbooks.com/authordetails.asp?ID=Conover
Jacqueline Woodson-1964-
http://www.jacquelinewoodson.com/
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr/mtai/woodson.html http://www.bookreviewssite.com/40208_jacquelinewoodson.html
http://www.calvin.edu/academic/engl/conf/program/
speakers/woodson.htm
http://www.teenreads.com/authors/au-woodson-jacqueline.asp
http://www.alri.org/pubs/woodsonlessons.html

Eleanor Farjeon-1881-1965
http://catstevens.com/discography/people/00118.html
http://www.knowledgerush.com/kr/jsp/db/author.jsp?
authorId=625&authorName=Eleanor+Farjeon
http://wikiquote.org/wiki/Eleanor_Farjeon
http://www.nybooks.com/nyrb/authors/10011
http://www.eldrbarry.net/rabb/farj/farj.htm

Ouida Sebestyen-1924-
http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~kvander/sebestyen.html
http://www.lib.usm.edu/%7Edegrum/html/research/findaids/
sebestye.htm

William Mayne-1928-
http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/intrvws/mayne.htm

Simms Taback-1932-
http://www.creativeparents.com/simmsinterv.html
http://reading.indiana.edu/ieo/bibs/taback.html
http://www.embracingthechild.org/bookspecialtaback.html

William Sleator-1945-
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~sleator/billy/ http://www.friend.ly.net/scoop/biographies/sleatorwilliam/
http://www.ibiblio.org/tench/sleator/
http://www.angelfire.com/mi/willsleator/
http://www.btownccs.k12.in.us/bcms/lib/authors/sleator/
beasties.htm

Janet Taylor Lisle-1947-
http://www.janettaylorlisle.com/
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/lisle.htm
http://www.teenreads.com/authors/au-lisle-janet-taylor.asp

Jamake Highwater-1942-2001
http://www.authortracker.com/author.asp?a=authorid&b=4474
http://www.bayviews.org/baynews/news0106.html
Phyllis Root-1949-
http://www.bookjackets.com/root/root.htm
http://www.childrensliteraturenetwork.org/authors/root.html

George Shannon-1952-
http://www.onlineessay.net/34795_georgeshannon.html

Paul O. Zelinsky-1953-
http://www.paulozelinsky.com/
http://www.rif.org/art/illustrators/zelinsky.mspx
http://www.friend.ly.net/scoop/biographies/zelinskypaul/ http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/zelinsky.htm

Richard Chase-1904-1988
http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/catalog/authordetail.cfm?authorID=4350
http://cass.etsu.edu/archives/afindaid/a188.html

Norman Bridwell-1928-
http://www.kidsreads.com/authors/au-bridwell-norman.asp
http://www.scholastic.com/clifford/flash.htm
http://www.scholastic.ca/clifford/parent/bridwellbio.htm
http://www.lib.usm.edu/~degrum/html/research/
findaids/DG0116f.html?DG0116b
http://www.storybookart.com/nbridwell.html

Doris Orgel-1929-
http://www.palmdigitalmedia.com/author/detail/10142
http://www.lib.usm.edu/~degrum/html/research/
findaids/ORGEL,D.htm

Elaine Landau-1948-
http://www.elainelandau.com/home/

Jan Spivey Gilchrist-1949-
http://members.core.com/~stallion/page1.htm
http://www.lincolnnet.net/users/lrfpfpl/janspiveygilchrist.html
http://www.scbwi-illinois.org/Gilchrist.html
http://dept.kent.edu/virginiahamiltonconf/gilchrist.htm

Sonya Sones-1952-
http://www.teenreads.com/authors/au-sones-sonya.asp
http://www.authorsontheweb.com/features/0204-poet/
kid-poet-authors.asp#Sones

Elizabeth K. Cooper-1916-

Nancy Ekholm Burkert-1933-
http://www.wla.lib.wi.us/lac/notable/1995notable.htm
http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~kvander/snow83.html

Carol Gorman-1952-
http://www.carolgorman.com/
http://www.geocities.com/carolgorman_2000/
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/gorman.htm
http://www.mcelmeel.com/bookauthor/gorman.html
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/MSC/ToMsC650/MsC612/gormanc.htm

Dorothy Canfield Fisher-1879-1958
http://www-distance.syr.edu/pvitadcf.html
http://www.dcfaward.org/
http://www.vermonttoday.com/century/mostinflu/dcfisher.html
http://www.vuhs.org/project/fisher.htm
http://homepage.mac.com/crowleyvt/dcfaward/dcf/
pages/bio/dorothy.html
http://www.unl.edu/Cather/resources/tours/arlington.html
http://famouscreativewomen.com/one/559.htm

Alice Mary Norton (Andre Norton)-1912-
http://www.andre-norton.org/anorton/anlf.shtml
http://www.oasfis.org/Andre.html
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Vault/3473/norton.html
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/authors/Andre_Norton.htm

Virginia Sorensen-1912-1991

Robert Newton Peck-1928-
http://www.edupaperback.org/showauth.cfm?authid=101
http://www.buyindies.com/listings/3/0/TPDL-30.html
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ALAN/winter97/w97-04-Gerlach.html

Michael McCurdy-1942-
http://www.michaelmccurdy.com/
http://www.bcn.net/~mmccurdy/
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr/mtai/mccurdy.html
http://arts.envirolink.org/visual_arts/Michael_McCurdy/bio.html
http://teachers.net/archive/mccurdy.html

Susan Beth Pfeffer-1948-

Virginia Kahl-1918-
http://www.wla.lib.wi.us/lac/notable/1993notable.htm

Barbara Joosse-1949-
http://www.barbarajoosse.com/

Louis Slobodkin-1903-1975
http://www.lib.usm.edu/~degrum/html/research/findaids/
DG0904f.html?DG0904b.html~mainFrame

Mildred Lee-1908-2003

Jill Krementz-1940-
http://www.newmassmedia.com/ls97spring/writer.html
http://celebrities.adoption.com/famous/jill-krementz.html

Amy Tan-1952-
http://www.luminarium.org/contemporary/amytan/
http://www.barclayagency.com/tan.html
http://www.salon.com/12nov1995/feature/tan.html
http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/tan0int-1
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/tan.htm

William MacKellar-1914-

Rosemary Harris-1923-

Mary Christian Blount-1933-

Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve-1933-
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/
http://www.ipl.org.ar/cgi/ref/native/browse.pl/A118
http://www.sdcte.dsu.edu/englishnotes/summer1999/
drivinghawk.htm

Patricia Hermes-1936-
http://www.kidsreads.com/series/series-myamerica-author.asp
http://teacherweb.com/PL/americanschoolofwarsaw/
patriciahermes/
http://www.authorsillustrators.com/hermes/hermes.htm

Jim Aylesworth-1943-
http://www.ayles.com/
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/aylesworth.htm

Ruthanne L. McCunn-1946-

Roma Gans-1894-1996

Edward Gorey-1925-2000
http://www.fearofdolls.com/gorey.html
http://www.goreyography.com/west/west.htm
http://www.fearofdolls.com/gorey.html
http://www.edwardgoreyhouse.org/
http://www.bookpage.com/9811bp/edward_gorey.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/mystery/gorey.html

Harry Kullman-1919-1982

Erich Kastner-1899-1974
http://www.ricochet-jeunes.org/eng/biblio/author/kastner.html

C. S. Adler-1931-
http://usawrites4kids.drury.edu/authors/adlerc/

Laura Geringer-1948-
http://www.harperchildrens.com/hch/aboutus/imprints/
geringer.asp

Walter Wick-1953-
http://www.walterwick.com/

Wilhelm Grimm-1786-1863
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/wgrimm.htm
http://www.ricochet-jeunes.org/eng/biblio/author/
grimmw.html
http://www.calvin.edu/~hett/AZine%20Web/GrimmW.html

Mary Ellen Chase-1887-1973
http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/smitharchives/
manosca44.html
http://wwwa.search.eb.com/women/articles/Chase_Mary_
Ellen.html
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=23021&query=mary%20calkins&ct=eb
http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/maine_people/100445

Uri Orlev-1931-
http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/catalog/authordetail.cfm?
authorID=148

Helen Brodie Bannerman-1862-1946

Frank Bonham-1914-1988

Cynthia Voigt-1942-
http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~kvander/voigt.html
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/voight.html
http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/k6/voigt.html
http://www.dd.chalmers.se/~f95lean/authors/voigteng.html
http://falcon.jmu.edu/%7Eramseyil/voigt.htm
http://www2.scholastic.com/teachers/authorsandbooks/
authorstudies/authorhome.jhtml?authorID=96&collateralID=5296&
displayName=Biography

True Kelley-1946-
http://www.truekelley.com/
http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/catalog/
authordetail.cfm?authorID=684

Iain Lawrence-?
http://www.randomhouse.com/teachers/librarians/
Author411QandA.html
http://www.randomhouse.com/kids/catalog/author.pperl?
authorid=16892
http://redcedar.swifty.com/2000/Author_Bios/lawrence.htm

Miriam Young-1913-1989
http://www.logan.com/loganberry/most-young.html

Bernard Wolf-1930-
http://www.leeandlow.com/booktalk/bwolf.html

Judith St. George-1931-
http://www.penguinputnam.com/static/packages/us/
yreaders-new/tl-guide-stgeorgehistory.html

Colby Rodowsky-1932-
http://www.childrensbookguild.org/rodowsky.htm
http://www.childrenslit.com/f_rodowsky.html
http://www.fsgkidsbooks.com/authordetails.asp?ID=Rodowsky

Sharon Bell Mathis-1937-
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/mathis.htm

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow-1807-1882
http://eclecticesoterica.com/longfellow.html
http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/longfellow/
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/poetry/longfel/hwlindex.htm
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/long.htm
http://www.everypoet.com/archive/poetry/Henry_Wadsworth_
Longfellow/longfellow_contents.htm http://dlstewart.com/longfellow/
http://www.online-literature.com/henry_longfellow/
http://www.nps.gov/long/ http://www.selfknowledge.com/264au.htm

Eric Sloane-1905-1985
http://www.ericsloane.com/
http://www.askart.com/artist/S/eric_sloane.asp?ID=2855
http://www.islandnet.com/~see/weather/arts/wxquotes-sloane.htm

Florence Parry Heide-1919-
http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/catalog/
authordetail.cfm?authorID=3507

Mary Frances Shura-1923-

Uri Shulevitz-1935-
http://www.hbook.com/exhibit/shulevitzradio.html
http://www.parents-choice.org/full_abstract.cfm?
art_id=39&the_page=reading_list http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/shulevitz.htm http://www.lib.usm.edu/~degrum/html/research/
findaids/DG0893f.html?DG0893b.html~mainFrame
Mary Kay Kroeger-?
http://www.frontlist.com/booklist/412831

John Tenniel-1820-1914
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/tenniel_sir_john.html
http://www.victorianweb.org/art/illustration/tenniel/
http://www.ricochet-jeunes.org/eng/biblio/illus/tenniel.html
http://30.1911encyclopedia.org/T/TE/TENNIEL_SIR_JOHN.htm
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/People/rgs/alice-table.html

Dee Brown-1908-2003
http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA272694
http://www.geocities.com/arkencyclo/brown.html
http://www.ncteamericancollection.org/litmap/brown_
dee_ar2.htm
http://www.readthewest.com/interview2003-02-DeeBrown.html

Donna Jo Napoli-1948-
http://www.donnajonapoli.com/
http://www.teenreads.com/authors/au-napoli-donna.asp
http://www.friend.ly.net/scoop/biographies/napolidonna/
http://www.kidsreads.com/authors/au-napoli-donna-jo.asp
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/napoli.htm

Megan McDonald-1959-
http://www.meganmcdonald.net/
http://www.pleasantcopublications.com/author_information/
authors/mcdonald.htm http://www.besd53.k12.il.us/shabbona/fritzd/Authors/
Megan%20McDonald/megan_mcdonald.htm
http://www.visitingauthors.com/authors/mcdonald_megan/
mcdonald_megan_bio.html

Harry Milgrom-1912-

David R. Collins-1940-

Susan L. Roth-1944-
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr/mtai/roth.html
http://www.childrensbookguild.org/roth.htm

Patricia McKillip-1948-
http://www.evan.org/McKillip.html
http://famouscreativewomen.com/one/2027.htm
http://www.sff.net/odyssey/mckillip.html