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==A==
[[File:David_A._Adler.JPG|thumb|[[David A. Adler]]]]
*[[Verna Aardema]] (1911–2001) – ''[[Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears]]''
*[[Rafael Ábalos]] (born 1956) – ''Grimpow''
*[[Jacob Abbott]] (1803–1879) – ''Rollo'' series, ''Cousin Lucy's Conversations'', ''Bruno''
*[[Tony Abbott (author)|Tony Abbott]] (born 1952) – ''[[The Secrets of Droon]]'', ''[[Danger Guys Series|Danger Guys]]''
*[[Deborah Abela]] (born 1966) – ''Max Remy Superspy'', ''Grimsdon''
*[[Joan Abelove]] (born 1945) – ''Go and Come Back''
*[[Chris van Abkoude]] (1880–1960) – ''[[Pietje Bell]]'' series, ''Little Crumb''
*[[Socorro Acioli]] (born 1975) – ''The Ghost Dancer''
*[[Richard Adams]] (1920–2016) – ''[[Watership Down]]''
*[[Jean Adamson]] (born 1928) – ''[[Topsy and Tim]]''
*[[C. S. Adler]] (born 1932) – ''Magic of the Glits'', ''Ghost Brother''
*[[David A. Adler]] (born 1947) – ''Cam Jansen'' series, ''The Babe and I''
*[[Aesop]] (6th century BCE) – ''[[Aesop's Fables|Fables]]''
*[[Edith J. Agnew]] (1897–1988) – ''Nezbah's Lamb''
*[[Joan Aiken]] (1924–2004) – ''[[The Wolves of Willoughby Chase]]'', ''Arabel and Mortimer'' series, ''A Necklace of Raindrops''
*[[Ahmad Akbarpour]] (born 1970) – ''If I Were a Pilot''
*[[Uxue Alberdi]] (born 1984) – ''Besarkada'' 
*[[Vivien Alcock]] (1924–2003) – ''[[The Haunting of Cassie Palmer]]''
*[[Louisa May Alcott]] (1832–1888) – ''[[Little Women]]'', ''[[The Brownie and the Princess]]''
*[[Kwame Alexander]] (born 1958) – ''[[The Crossover]]''
*[[Lloyd Alexander]] (1924–2007) – ''[[The Chronicles of Prydain]]'' series, ''[[Westmark (novel)|Westmark]]'' trilogy
*[[Sue Alexander]] (1933–2008) – ''Nadia the Willful''
*[[Horatio Alger, Jr.]] (1832–1899) – ''[[Ragged Dick]]''
*[[Mabel Esther Allan]] (1915–1998) – ''Over the Sea to School'', ''Ballet for Drina'', ''The Ballet Family''
*[[David Almond]] (born 1951) – ''[[Skellig]]'', ''[[Heaven Eyes]]'', ''[[Kit's Wilderness]]''
*[[Joseph Alexander Altsheler]] (1862–1919) – ''The Young Trailers'' series, ''The Civil War'' series
*[[Julia Alvarez]] (born 1950) – ''Tia Lola'' series
*[[Hans Christian Andersen]] (1805–1875) – "[[The Snow Queen]]", "[[The Little Mermaid]]", "[[The Ugly Duckling]]", "[[The Emperor's New Clothes]]", "[[The Princess and the Pea]]", "[[Thumbelina]]"
*[[Lena Anderson]] (born 1939) – ''Tea for Ten'', ''Tick-Tock''
*[[Verily Anderson]] (1915–2010) – ''Brownies'' series
*[[Sam Angus (writer)|Sam Angus]] (born 1967) – ''Soldier Dog'', ''The House on Hummingbird Island''
*[[Charlotte Anley]] (1796–1893) – ''Influence: A Moral Tale for Young People'' (1822)
*[[K. A. Applegate]] (born 1956) – ''[[Animorphs]]'', ''[[Remnants (science fiction)|Remnants]]'', ''[[Everworld]]'' series, ''[[The One and Only Ivan]]''
*[[Victor Appleton]] ([[Stratemeyer Syndicate|Stratemeyer house]] [[pseudonym]] from 1910) – ''[[Tom Swift]]'' series
*[[Malayath Appunni]] (born 1943) – ''Kambili Kuppayam''
*[[Philip Ardagh]] (born 1961) – [[Eddie Dickens]] series, ''[[Philip Ardagh#Unlikely Exploits|Unlikely Exploits]]'' series
*[[Edward Ardizzone]] (1900–1979) – ''Tim All Alone'', ''Tim and the Brave Sea Captain'' (self-illustrated)
*[[Laura Adams Armer]] (1874–1963) – ''[[Waterless Mountain]]''
*[[William H. Armstrong (author)|William H. Armstrong]] (1914–1999) – ''[[Sounder (novel)|Sounder]]''
*[[Elizabeth Arnold (children's writer)|Elizabeth Arnold]] (born 1944) – ''The Parsley Parcel''
*[[Tedd Arnold]] (born 1949) – ''[[No Jumping on the Bed!]]'', ''[[Parts (book)|Parts]]''
*[[Ruth M. Arthur]] (1905–1979) – ''[[A Candle in Her Room]]'', ''[[Portrait of Margarita]]'', ''[[Requiem for a Princess]]''
*[[Frank Asch]] (born 1946) – ''[[I Can Blink]]''
*[[Bernard Ashley (author)|Bernard Ashley]] (born 1935) – ''The Trouble with Donovan Croft'', ''Dodgem'', ''Little Soldier''
*[[Ros Asquith]] (living) – ''Teenage Worrier'' series
*[[M. E. Atkinson]] (1899–1974) – ''August Adventure'', ''Smugglers' Gap'', ''Mystery Manor''
*[[Margaret Atwood]] (born 1939) – ''Up in the Tree'', ''Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut'', ''Wandering Wenda and Widow Wallop's Wunderground Washery ''
*[[Cécile Aubry]] (1928–2010) – ''[[Belle et Sébastien]]''
*[[Martin Auer]] (born 1951) – ''[[Now, Now, Markus]]'', ''[[The Blue Boy (children's book)|The Blue Boy]]''
*[[Steve Augarde]] (born 1950) – ''The Various'', ''[[Celandine (novel)|Celandine]]''
*[[Jonathan Auxier]] (born 1981) – ''The Night Gardener'', ''Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster''
*[[Esther Averill]] (1902–1992) – ''The Cat Club'', ''The Fire Cat''
*[[Gillian Avery]] (1926–2016) – ''The Warden's Niece'', ''The Elephant War'', ''A Likely Lad''
*[[Harold Avery]] (1869–1943) – ''The Triple Alliance'', ''Play the Game''
*[[Edward Irving Wortis|Avi]] (born 1937) – ''[[Crispin: The Cross of Lead]]'', ''[[The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle]]''
*[[Christopher Awdry]] (born 1940) – ''[[The Railway Series]]'' #27–40 ([[Thomas the Tank Engine]] stories)
*[[W. V. Awdry|Wilbert Awdry]] (1911–1997) – ''[[The Railway Series]]'' #1–26 (Thomas the Tank Engine stories)

==B==
[[File:Derrick_Barnes_at_BookExpo_(05633).jpg|thumb|[[Derrick Barnes (author)|Derrick Barnes]]]]
*[[Natalie Babbitt]] (1932–2016) – ''[[Tuck Everlasting]]'', ''[[Knee-Knock Rise]]'', ''[[The Search for Delicious]]''
*[[Maria Baciu]] (born 1942) – ''Ghetuţele copilăriei''
*[[Enid Bagnold]] (1889–1981) – ''[[National Velvet]]''
*[[Bob Balaban]] (born 1945) – ''McGrowl'' series
*[[R. M. Ballantyne]] (1825–1894) – ''[[The Coral Island]]''
*[[Blue Balliett]] (born 1955) – ''[[Chasing Vermeer]]'', ''[[The Wright 3]]'', ''[[The Calder Game]]''
*[[Lynne Reid Banks]] (born 1929) – ''[[The Indian in the Cupboard]]'' series
*[[Helen Bannerman]] (1862–1946) – ''[[Little Black Sambo]]''
*[[Shirley Barber]] (1935–2023) – ''The Tale of Martha B. Rabbit'', ''A Wedding in Fairyland''
*[[Ralph Henry Barbour]] (1870–1944) – ''The Half Back'', ''For the Honor of the School'', ''Tom, Dick and Harriet''
*[[Clive Barker]] (born 1952) – ''[[The Thief of Always]]''
*[[Joyce Barkhouse]] (1913–2012) – ''[[Pit Pony (novel)|Pit Pony]]'' 
*[[Jill Barklem]] (1951–2017) – ''[[Brambly Hedge]]''
*[[Steve Barlow]] <!-- R to joint biography --> and Steve Skidmore – ''[[Outernet (book)|Outernet]]'' series
*[[Kitty Barne]] (1883–1961) – ''She Shall Have Music'', '' Family Footlights'', ''[[Visitors from London]]'', ''Rosina Copper''
*[[Derrick Barnes (author)|Derrick Barnes]] – ''[[Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut]]'', ''Ruby and the Booker Boys'' series
*[[Kelly Barnhill (author)|Kelly Barnhill]] (living) – ''The Girl Who Drank the Moon''
*[[J. M. Barrie]] (1860–1937) – ''[[Peter Pan]]''
*[[T. A. Barron]] (born 1952) – ''[[Lost Years of Merlin series|The Lost Years of Merlin]]''
*[[Dave Barry]] (born 1947) – ''[[Peter and the Starcatchers]]'' series
*[[Margaret Stuart Barry]] (1927–2022) – ''[[Simon and the Witch]]''
*[[Graeme Base]] (born 1958) – ''[[Animalia (book)|Animalia]]''
*[[L. Frank Baum]] (1856–1919) – ''[[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz]]'' series
*[[Hans Baumann (writer)|Hans Baumann]] (1914–1988) – ''Sons of the Steppe'', ''I Marched with Hannibal''
*[[Nina Bawden]] (1925–2012) – ''[[Carrie's War]]'', ''[[The Witch's Daughter]]'', ''The Peppermint Pig''
*[[Denys Watkins-Pitchford|"BB" (D. J. Watkins-Pitchford)]] (1905–1990) – ''[[The Little Grey Men]]'', ''Down the Bright Stream'', ''[[Bill Badger and the Pirates]]''
*[[Sydney George Hulme Beaman|S. G. Hulme Beaman]] (1887–1932) – ''[[Toytown]]'' stories
*[[Jerome Beatty Jr]] (1916–2002) – ''[[Matthew Looney]]'' space series
*[[Aaron Becker]] (born 1974) – ''[[Journey (picture book)|Journey]]'', ''Quest'', ''Return''
*[[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''
*[[Ludwig Bemelmans]] (1898–1962) – ''[[Madeline (book series)|Madeline]]''
*[[Derek Benz]] (born 1971) – ''[[Grey Griffins]]''
*[[Berechiah ha-Nakdan]] (12th – 13th century) – ''Mishle Shualim'', ''Fables of a Jewish Aesop''
*[[Stan and Jan Berenstain]] (1923–2005 and 1923–2012) – ''The [[Berenstain Bears]]'' series
*[[Elisabeth Beresford]] (1928–2010) – ''[[The Wombles]]'', ''Awkward Magic''
*[[Leila Berg]] (1917–2012) – ''[[Nippers (book series)|Nippers]]'' series
*[[Paul Berna]] (1908–1994) – ''A Hundred Million Francs'', ''The Street Musician'', ''Flood Warning''
*[[Elsa Beskow]] (1874–1953)
*[[Luc Besson]] (born 1958) – ''[[Arthur and the Minimoys]]'' series
*[[Amália Bezerédj]] (1804–1837) – ''Flóri könyve''
*[[Vitaly Bianki]] (1894–1959) – ''Whose Nose Is Better?''
*[[David Biedrzycki]] (born 1955) – ''[[Ace Lacewing|Ace Lacewing: Bug Detective]]'', ''Me and My Dragon'', ''Santa Retires''
*[[Paul Biegel]] (1925–2006) – ''[[The King of the Copper Mountains]]'', ''The Little Captain'', ''The Elephant Party''
*[[Margaret Biggs]] (born 1929) – ''Melling School'' series
*[[Franny Billingsley]] (born 1954) – ''Well Wished'', ''Big Bad Bunny''
*[[Claire Huchet Bishop]] (1899–1993) – ''[[The Five Chinese Brothers]]'', ''[[All Alone (novel)|All Alone]]'', ''The Big Loop''
*[[Christina Björk]] (born 1938) – ''Linnea in Monet's Garden''
*[[Holly Black]] (born 1971) – ''[[The Spiderwick Chronicles]]'', ''[[The Nixie's Song: Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles|Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles]]'', ''Tithe'', ''Valiant''
*[[Mary Fleming Black]] (1848-1893) - ''Bright Jewels''
*[[Malorie Blackman]] (born 1962) – ''[[Noughts & Crosses]]'', ''[[Pig Heart Boy]]'', ''[[Cloud Busting]]''
*[[Beverly Gray#Clair Blank|Clair Blank]] (1915–1965) – ''[[Beverly Gray]]'' mystery series
*[[Judy Blume]] (born 1938) – ''[[Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret]]'', ''[[Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing|Fudge]]'' series
*[[Enid Blyton]] (1897–1968) – [[Noddy (character)|''Noddy'']] series, [[The Famous Five (novel series)|''The Famous Five'']] series, ''[[The Secret Seven]]'' series, ''[[The Faraway Tree]]'' series, ''[[Sunny Stories]]'' magazine
*[[Godfried Bomans]] (1913–1971) – ''[[Erik of het klein insectenboek|Eric in the Land of the Insects]]'', ''The Wily Wizard and the Wicked Witch'', ''Pim, Frits en Ida'' 
*[[Michael Bond]] (1926–2017) – ''[[Paddington Bear]]'' series
*[[Nancy Bond]] (born 1945) – ''[[A String in the Harp]]''
*[[Ruskin Bond]] (born 1934) – ''[[The Room on the Roof]]'', ''[[The Blue Umbrella]]'', ''[[Angry River]]''
*[[Veronica Bonilla]] (born 1962) – ''The Platanario'' series, ''Magic Dream''
*[[Arna Bontemps]] (1902–1970) – ''[[Sad-Faced Boy]]'', ''Lonesome Boy'', ''Mr. Kelso's Lion''
*[[Lucy M. Boston]] (1892–1990) – ''[[Green Knowe]]'' series
*[[J. Allan Bosworth]] (1925–1990) – ''White Water, Still Water'', ''All the Dark Places''
*[[Marie Marguerite Bouvet]] (1865–1915) – ''Sweet William'', ''Little Marjorie's Love Story'', ''Prince Tip–Top''
*[[Chris Bradford]] (born 1974) – ''[[Young Samurai]]'' series
[[File:Abigail_Farwell_Brown_in_1921.jpg|thumb|[[Abbie Farwell Brown]]]]
*[[Kimberly Brubaker Bradley]] (born 1967) – ''[[The War That Saved My Life]]''
*[[Tony Bradman]] (born 1954) – ''Dilly the Dinosaur'' series
*[[Gillian Bradshaw]] (born 1956) – ''The Dragon and the Thief'', ''The Land of Gold'', ''Beyond the North Wind''
*[[Christianna Brand]] (1907–1988) – ''[[Nurse Matilda]]'' series (adapted as [[Nanny McPhee]])
*[[Ann Brashares]] (born 1967) – ''[[The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants]]'' series
*[[Angela Brazil]] (1868–1947) – ''The Nicest Girl in the School'', ''For the Sake of the School'', ''The Jolliest Term on Record''
*[[Petronella Breinburg]] (1931–2019) – ''My Brother Sean'', ''Sally-Ann's Umbrella''
*[[Elinor Brent-Dyer]] (1894–1969) – ''[[Chalet School]]'' series
*[[Jan Brett]] (born 1949) – ''Trouble with Trolls'', ''The Three Snow Bears''
*[[Thomas Brezina]] (born 1963) – ''[[The Knickerbocker Gang]]'', ''[[Tom Turbo]]''
*[[Rae Bridgman]] – ''The MiddleGate Books'': ''The Serpent's Spell'', ''Amber Ambrosia'', ''Fish & Sphinx''
*[[Katharine Mary Briggs]] (1898–1980) – ''Hobberdy Dick'', ''Kate Crackernuts''
*[[Robert Bright]] (1902–1988) – ''Georgie''
*[[Carol Ryrie Brink]] (1895–1981) – ''[[Caddie Woodlawn]]'', ''[[Baby Island]]''
*[[Hesba Fay Brinsmead]] (1922–2003) – ''[[Pastures of the Blue Crane]]'', ''Longtime Dreaming''
*[[Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić]] (1874–1938) – ''[[The Marvelous Adventures and Misadventures of Hlapić the Apprentice]]'', ''[[Croatian Tales of Long Ago|Tales of Long Ago]]''
*[[Frances Freeling Broderip]] (1830–1878) – ''Funny Fables for Little Folks''
*[[Lauren Brooke]] – ''[[Heartland (novel series)|Heartland]]'' series, ''[[Chestnut Hill series|Chestnut Hill]]'' series
*[[Walter R. Brooks]] (1886–1958) – ''[[Freddy the Pig]]'' series
*[[Abbie Farwell Brown]] (1871–1927) – ''The Book of Saints and Friendly Beasts'', ''The Lonesomest Doll'' 
*[[Marc Brown (author)|Marc Brown]] (born 1946) – ''[[Arthur's Nose|Arthur]]'' series
*[[Marcia Brown]] (1918–2015) – ''[[Puss in Boots]]''
*[[Margaret Wise Brown]] (1910–1952) – ''[[Goodnight Moon]]'', ''The Runaway Bunny''
*[[Pamela Brown (writer)|Pamela Brown]] (1924–1989) – ''[[The Swish of the Curtain]]''
*[[Frances Browne]] (1816–1879) – ''Granny's Wonderful Chair''
*[[Mary Grant Bruce]] (1878–1958) – ''A Little Bush Maid''
*[[Jean de Brunhoff]] (1899–1937) – ''[[Babar the Elephant]]'' series
*[[Ashley Bryan]] (1923–2022) – ''[[Freedom Over Me]]'', ''Sing to the Sun''
*[[Jan Brzechwa]] (1900–1966) – ''[[Pan Kleks]]'' series, and many poems for children
*[[John Buchan]] (1875–1940) – ''[[The Magic Walking Stick]]'', ''The Long Traverse''
*[[Susan Buchan]] (1882–1977) – ''Jim and the Dragon'', ''Mice on Horseback'', ''The Cat's Grandmother''
*[[Anthony Buckeridge]] (1912–2004) – ''[[Jennings (novels)|Jennings]]'' school stories
*[[Maria Elizabeth Budden]] (c. 1780–1832) – ''Always Happy!!: Or, Anecdotes of Felix and his Sister Serena. A Tale''
*[[Kir Bulychev]] (1934–2003) – ''[[Alisa Selezneva]]'' series
*[[Elizabeth C. Bunce]] (living) – ''A Curse Dark as Gold'', ''StarCrossed'', Myrtle Hardcastle Mystery series ''Premeditated Myrtle'', ''Cold-Blooded Myrtle''
*[[Eve Bunting]] (born 1928) – ''[[Smoky Night]]''
*[[John Bunyan]] (1628–1688) – ''[[Pilgrim's Progress]]''
*[[Robert J. Burch]] (1925–2007) – ''Queenie Peavy'', ''Ida Early Comes Over the Mountain''
*[[Della Burford]] (born 1946) – ''Journey to Dodoland'', ''Magical Earth Secrets'', ''Miracle Galaxy''
*[[Anthony Burgess]] (1917–1993) – ''A Long Trip to Tea Time'', ''The Land Where the Ice Cream Grows''
*[[Gelett Burgess]] (1866–1951) – ''[[Goops]]'' series, and many poems for children including "[[Purple Cow]]"
*[[Thornton W. Burgess]] (1874–1965) – ''[[The Adventures of Danny Meadow Mouse]]'', ''Old Mother West Wind''
*[[Doris Burn]] (1923–2011) – ''[[Andrew Henry's Meadow]]'', ''The Summerfolk''
*[[Alice Hale Burnett]] (fl. early 20th c.) – ''The Merryvale Boys''
*[[Frances Hodgson Burnett]] (1849–1924) – ''[[A Little Princess]]'', ''[[Little Lord Fauntleroy]]'', ''[[The Secret Garden]]''
*[[Sheila Burnford]] (1918–1984) – ''[[The Incredible Journey]]''
*[[Edgar Rice Burroughs]] (1875–1950) – ''[[Tarzan]]'' series
*[[Hester Burton]] (1913–2000) – ''[[Time of Trial]]''
*[[Jessie Burton]] (born 1982) – ''The Restless Girls'', ''Medusa''
*[[Virginia Lee Burton]] (1909–1968) – ''[[The Little House (picture book)|The Little House]]'', ''[[Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel]]''
*[[A. J. Butcher]] – ''[[Spy High]]'' series
*[[Rumena Bužarovska]] (born 1981) – ''What the Ladybug Saw'' 
*[[Betsy Byars]] (1928–2020) – ''[[Summer of the Swans]]'', ''[[Tornado (novel)|Tornado]]''
*[[Georgia Byng]] (born 1965) – ''[[Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism]]'', ''[[Molly Moon Stops the World]]''

==C==
[[File:Eric_Carle_kinderboekenschrijver,_1988_-_28_(cropped).jpg|thumb|[[Eric Carle]]]]
*[[Meg Cabot]] (born 1967) – ''[[The Princess Diaries]]'', ''[[Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls]]''
*[[Eleanor Cameron]] (1912–1996) – ''[[The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet]]'', ''The Court of the Stone Children''
*[[Joanna Campbell]] (born 1946) – ''[[Thoroughbred (series)|Thoroughbred]]'' series
*[[Cao Wenxuan]] (born 1954) – ''[[Bronze and Sunflower]]''
*[[William Cardell]] (1780–1828) – ''The Story of Jack Halyard, the Sailor Boy''
*[[Rosa Nouchette Carey]] (1840–1909) – ''Not Like Other Girls'', ''Heriot's Choice''
*[[Eric Carle]] (1929–2021) – ''[[The Very Hungry Caterpillar]]'', ''The Very Busy Spider''
*[[Natalie Savage Carlson]] (1906–1997) – ''The Happy Orpheline'', ''The Family Under the Bridge'', ''The Empty Schoolhouse''
*[[Carrie Carlton]] (1834–1868) - ''Inglenook''
*[[Isobelle Carmody]] (born 1958) – ''The Legend of Little Fur'', ''Magic Night'', ''[[Obernewtyn Chronicles]]''
*[[Lewis Carroll]] (1832–1898) – ''[[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland]]'', ''[[Through the Looking-Glass]]''
*[[Anne Laurel Carter]] (born 1953) – ''[[The Shepherd's Granddaughter]]'', ''Under a Prairie Sky'' 
*[[Peter Carter (author)|Peter Carter]] (1929–1999) – ''The Sentinels'', ''Children of the Book'', ''[[Borderlands (novel)|Borderlands]]''
*[[Soman Chainani]] (born 1979) – ''[[The School for Good and Evil]]''
*[[Anna Maria Mead Chalmers]] (1809–1891) – ''The Good Resolution'', ''The Sisters''
*[[Aidan Chambers]] (1934–2025) – ''Seal Secret'', ''The Present Takers''
*[[Neelam Saxena Chandra]] (born 1969) – ''Five Tales'', ''Tales from Sundervan'', ''Pankhudiyaan'', ''Chanda''
*[[Scott Chantler]] (born 1972) – ''Two Generals'', ''[[Three Thieves (graphic novel series)|Three Thieves]]'', ''NorthWest Passage''
*[[Charles III]] (born 1948) – ''[[The Old Man of Lochnagar]]''
*[[Geoffrey Chaucer]] (c. 1343–1400) – ''[[The Nun's Priest's Tale|Chanticleer and the Fox]] (from [[The Canterbury Tales]])''
*[[Nan Chauncy]] (1900–1970) – ''They Found a Cave'', ''Tiger in the Bush'', ''Devils' Hill'', ''Tangara''
*[[Simon Cheshire]] (born 1954) – ''Saxby Smart: Private Detective'', ''Pants on Fire'', ''Operation Sting''
*[[Ruth Chew]] (1920–2010) – ''The Wednesday Witch'', ''What the Witch Left'', ''The Trouble with Magic'' 
*[[Lauren Child]] (born 1965) – [[Charlie and Lola]] series, [[Clarice Bean series]]
*[[Irma Chilton]] (1930–1990) – ''Take Away the Flowers''
*[[Samuel Youd|John Christopher]] (1922–2012) – ''[[Sword of the Spirits|The Prince in Waiting]]'' series, ''[[The Tripods]]'' trilogy
*[[Matt Christopher]] (1917–1997) – ''[[Wild Pitch (novel)|Wild Pitch]]'', ''[[The Kid Who Only Hit Homers]]'', ''Tough to Tackle''
*[[Korney Chukovsky]] (1882–1969) – ''[[Moydodyr]]''
*[[Ella Rodman Church]] (1831–1912) – ''A Christmas Wreath, for Little People'', ''Little Pilgrim'' series
*[[Mrs. Henry Clarke]] (1853–1908) – ''Miss Merivale's Mistake'', ''Put to the Proof''
*[[Pauline Clarke]] (1921–2013) – ''[[The Twelve and the Genii]]''
*[[Beverly Cleary]] (1916–2021) – ''[[Ramona Quimby]]'' series
*[[Andrew Clements]] (1949–2019) – ''[[Frindle]]'', ''[[A Week in the Woods]]''
*[[Eleanor Clymer]] (1906–2001) – ''The Trolley Car Family''
*[[Susan Clymer]] (born 1951) – Animals in Room 202 series
*[[Joanna Cole (author)|Joanna Cole]] (1944–2020) – ''[[The Magic School Bus (book series)|The Magic School Bus]]'' series
*[[Chris Colfer]] (born 1990) – ''[[The Land of Stories]]''
*[[Eoin Colfer]] (born 1965) – ''[[Artemis Fowl (series)|Artemis Fowl]]'' series
*[[Sneed B. Collard III]] (born 1959) – ''Hangman's Gold'', ''The Governor's Dog Is Missing!'', ''Dog 4491''
*[[Suzanne Collins]] (born 1962) – ''[[The Underland Chronicles]]'', ''[[The Hunger Games trilogy]]''
*[[Carlo Collodi]] (1826–1890) – ''[[The Adventures of Pinocchio]]''
*[[Joséphine Colomb]] (1833–1892) – ''[[La fille de Carilès]]''
*[[Padraic Colum]] (1881–1972) – ''[[The King of Ireland's Son]]''
*[[John Amos Comenius]] (1592–1670) – ''[[Orbis Pictus|Orbis Sesualim Pictis]]'' (The Visible World in Pictures)
*[[Ying Chang Compestine]] (born 1963) – ''[[Secrets of the Terra-Cotta Soldier]]'', ''The Chinese Emperor's New Clothes'' 
*[[Harriet Theresa Comstock]] (1860–1925) – ''Molly the Drummer Boy'', ''Janet of the Dunes''
*[[Jane Leslie Conly]] (born 1948) – ''[[Racso and the Rats of NIMH]]'', ''[[R-T, Margaret, and the Rats of NIMH]]'', ''[[Crazy Lady!]]''
*[[Susan Coolidge]] (1835–1905) – ''[[What Katy Did]]'' series
*[[Barbara Cooney]] (1917–2000) – ''[[Chanticleer and the Fox]]'', ''[[Miss Rumphius]]''
*[[Susan Cooper]] (born 1935) – ''[[The Dark Is Rising Sequence|The Dark Is Rising]]'' series, ''[[The Boggart]]''
*[[Esther Copley]] (1786–1851) – ''Early Friendships''
*[[Zizou Corder]] – ''[[Lionboy]]'' series
*[[William Corlett]] (1938–2005) – ''[[The Magician's House]]'' series
*[[Rachel Cosgrove]] (1922–1998) – ''[[The Hidden Valley of Oz]]''
*[[John Cotton (Puritan)|John Cotton]] (1585–1652) – ''[[Milk for Babes]]'' [[catechism]]
*[[Bruce Coville]] (born 1950) – ''[[Space Brat]]'', ''[[My Teacher Is an Alien]]'', ''[[Aliens Ate My Homework]]'', ''[[The Unicorn Chronicles]]'', ''[[Magic Shop Books|Magic Shop]]'' series
*[[Joy Cowley]] (born 1936) – ''The Silent One'', ''Bow Down Shadrach''
*[[Palmer Cox]] (1840–1924) – ''[[The Brownies]]'' series
*[[John Coy]] (born 1958) – ''Night Driving'', ''Crackback''
*[[Joe Craig (writer)|Joe Craig]] (born 1981) – ''[[Jimmy Coates]]'' series
*[[Ion Creangă]] (1837–1889) –  ''[[Childhood Memories (book)|Childhood Memories]]'', ''[[The Goat and Her Three Kids]]'', ''[[Harap Alb]]'', ''[[Ivan Turbincă]]'', ''[[Dănilă Prepeleac]]''
*[[Sharon Creech]] (born 1945) – ''[[Walk Two Moons]]'', ''[[Ruby Holler]]'', ''[[Heartbeat (novel)|Heartbeat]]''
*[[Helen Cresswell]] (1934–2005) – ''[[The Bagthorpe Saga]]''
*[[Richmal Crompton]] (1890–1969) – ''[[Just William]]''
*[[Michael Cronin (actor)|Michael Cronin]] (born 1942) – ''Against the Day'' series
*[[Gillian Cross]] (born 1945) – ''[[Wolf (novel)|Wolf]]'', ''[[The Great Elephant Chase]]'', ''[[The Demon Headmaster]]'' series
*[[Sarah Crossan]] – ''The Weight of Water'', ''Apple and Rain'', ''One''
*[[Kevin Crossley-Holland]] (born 1941) – ''[[Storm (novella)|Storm]]'', ''[[The Seeing Stone]]''
*[[Catherine Crowe]] (1790–1872) – ''Pippie's Warning; or, Mind Your Temper''
*[[Gabriella Csire]] (born 1938) – ''Turpi'' series
*[[John Cunliffe (author)|John Cunliffe]] (1933–2018) – ''[[Postman Pat]]'' series; ''[[Rosie & Jim]]'' series
*[[Jane Louise Curry]] (born 1932) – ''Abaloc'' series, ''Poor Tom's Ghost'', ''The Egyptian Box'', ''The Black Canary''
*[[Judi Curtin]] (born 1960s) – ''Alice & Megan'' series, ''Time after Time'' series
*[[Chara M. Curtis]] – ''How Far to Heaven'', ''All I See Is Part of Me'', ''No One Walks on My Father's Moon'', ''Fun Is a Feeling''

==D==
[[File:Mary Hayes Davis.png|thumb|[[Mary Hayes Davis]]]]
*[[Debbie Dadey]] (born 1959) – ''[[Bailey School Kids|The Adventures of the Bailey School Kids]]''
*[[Roald Dahl]] (1916–1990) – ''[[Charlie and the Chocolate Factory]]'', ''[[Matilda (novel)|Matilda]]'', ''[[The BFG]]'', ''[[James and the Giant Peach]]'', ''[[The Witches (book)|The Witches]]'', ''[[Fantastic Mr Fox]]''
*[[Alice Dalgliesh]] (1893–1979) – ''[[The Bears on Hemlock Mountain]]'', ''[[The Courage of Sarah Noble]]'', ''[[The Silver Pencil]]''
*[[Annie Dalton]] (born 1948) – ''[[Angels Unlimited]]'' series, ''Afterdark'' series
*[[David Scott Daniell]] (1906–1965) – ''Young English'', ''Mission for Oliver'', ''The Dragon and the Rose'', ''By Jiminy''
*[[Ben M. Baglio|Lucy Daniels]] (born 1960) – ''[[Animal Ark]]'', ''[[Dolphin Diaries]]''
*[[Paula Danziger]] (1944–2004) – ''[[The Cat Ate My Gymsuit]]'', ''Amber Brown'' series
*[[James Dashner]] (born 1972) – ''[[The 13th Reality]]'' series
*[[Alan Davidson (author)|Alan Davidson]] (born 1943) – ''Annabel'' series, ''Light'', ''The Bewitching of Alison Allbright''
*[[Stephen Mark Davies]] (born 1976) – ''Sophie'' series, ''Hacking Timbuktu'', ''Outlaw''
*[[Lavinia R. Davis]] (1909–1961) – ''The Wild Birthday Cake'', ''Buttonwood Island'', ''Donkey Detectives''
*[[Mary Hayes Davis]] (c.1884–1948) – ''[[Chinese Fables and Folk Stories]]'' (with Chow Leung)<ref>{{Cite journal |date=January 1909 |title=Book Reviews – ''Chinese Fables and Folk Stories'' |url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/453833 |journal=The Elementary School Journal |volume=9 |issue=5 |page=278|doi=10.1086/453833 }}</ref>
*[[Cecil Day-Lewis]] (1904–1972) – ''Dick Willoughby'', ''[[The Otterbury Incident]]''
*[[Jean D'Costa]] (born 1937) – ''[[Escape to Last Man Peak]]''
*[[Edmondo De Amicis]] (1846–1908) – ''[[Heart (novel)|Heart]]'' (''Cuore'')
*[[Marguerite de Angeli]] (1889–1987) – ''[[The Door in the Wall (novel)|The Door in the Wall]]'', ''[[Black Fox of Lorne]]'', ''[[Bright April]]''
*[[Jeanne de Cavally]] (1926–1992) – ''Pouê-pouê, le petit cabri''
*[[Walter de la Mare]] (1873–1956) – ''The Three Mulla Mulgars'', ''Songs of Childhood'', ''Peacock Pie'', ''[[Collected Stories for Children]]''
*[[Silvana De Mari]] (born 1953) – ''[[The Last Dragon (novel)|The Last Dragon]]''
*[[Terry Deary]] (born 1946) – ''[[The Fire Thief (novel)|The Fire Thief]]'', ''Master Crook's Crime Academy'' series
*[[Barthe DeClements]] (born 1920) – ''Nothing's Fair in Fifth Grade''
*[[Jan Deberitz]] (1950–2014) – ''Morgentåkedalen (Morning Fog Valley)''
*[[Daniel Defoe]] (1660–1731) – ''[[Robinson Crusoe]]''
*[[Meindert DeJong]] (1906–1991) – ''[[The Wheel on the School]]'', ''[[The House of Sixty Fathers]]''
*[[Tomie dePaola]] (1934–2020) – ''[[Strega Nona]]'', ''[[26 Fairmount Avenue]]''
*[[Lavinia Derwent]] (1909–1989) – ''Tammy Troot'', ''Sula''
*[[Kate DiCamillo]] (born 1964) – ''[[Because of Winn Dixie]]'', ''[[The Tale of Despereaux]]'', ''[[The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane]]'', ''[[Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures]]''
*[[Charles Dickens]] (1812–1870) – ''[[A Christmas Carol]]'', ''[[Oliver Twist]]'', ''[[s:The Magic Fishbone|The Magic Fishbone]]''
*[[Peter Dickinson]] (1927–2015) – ''[[The Changes (TV series)|The Changes]]'' trilogy, ''[[Tulku]]'', ''[[City of Gold (book)|City of Gold]]'', ''[[Eva (novel)|Eva]]'', ''The Kin''
*[[Miep Diekmann]] (1925–2017) – ''The Haunted Island'', ''Just a Street'', ''Slave Doctor''
*[[Anne Digby]] (born 1935) – ''[[Trebizon]]'' series
*[[Thomas M. Disch]] (1940–2008) – ''[[The Brave Little Toaster (novel)|The Brave Little Toaster]]'', ''The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars''
*[[Tony DiTerlizzi]] (born 1969) – ''[[The Spiderwick Chronicles]]'', ''[[The Nixie's Song: Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles|Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles]]''
*[[Franklin W. Dixon]] ([[Stratemeyer Syndicate|Stratemeyer house]] [[pseudonym]] from 1927) – ''[[The Hardy Boys]]'' series
*[[Rex Dixon]] (1908–1971) – ''[[Pocomoto]]'' series
*[[Chris D'Lacey]] (born 1954) – ''[[The Fire Within (novel)|The Fire Within]]'' series
*[[Lynley Dodd]] (born 1941) – ''[[Hairy Maclary]]'', ''[[Slinky Malinki]]''
*[[Mary Mapes Dodge]] (1831–1905) – ''[[Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates]]''
*[[Julia Donaldson]] (born 1948) – ''[[The Gruffalo]]'', ''[[Monkey Puzzle (book)|Monkey Puzzle]]'', ''[[The Troll]]''
*[[Amanda Minnie Douglas]] (1831–1916) – ''A Little Girl'' series, ''Helen Grant'' series, ''A Modern Cinderella''
*[[Marian Douglas]] (1842-1913) - ''Picture Poems for Young People''
*[[Beatriz Doumerc]] (1929–2014) – ''La línea'', ''Daniel y los reyes''
*[[Siobhan Dowd]] (1960–2007) – ''[[The London Eye Mystery]]'', ''[[Bog Child]]''
*[[Debra Doyle]] (1952–2020) – ''School of Wizardry'', ''Knight's Wyrd''
*[[Roddy Doyle]] (born 1958) – ''Not Just for Christmas'', ''Wilderness''
*[[Tonke Dragt]] (born 1930) – ''[[The Letter for the King]]'', ''The Secrets of the Wild Wood''
*[[Crescent Dragonwagon]] (born 1952) – ''Always, Always'', ''Home Place'', ''Half a Moon and One Whole Star''
*[[Anna Harriett Drury]] (also Harriet, 1824–1912) – ''The Three Half-Crowns: a story for boys'', ''Richard Rowe's Parcel''
*[[William Pène du Bois]] (1916–1993) – ''[[The Twenty-One Balloons]]''
*[[Diane Duane]] (born 1952) – ''[[So You Want to Be a Wizard]]''
*[[Ursula Dubosarsky]] (born 1961) – ''The Red Shoe'', ''[[The Golden Day]]'', ''The Blue Cat''
*[[Tessa Duder]] (born 1940) – ''Alex Archer'' series, ''Tiggie Tompson'' series
*[[Florence Dugdale]] (1879–1937) – ''The Book of Baby Birds''
*[[Lois Duncan]] (1934–2016) – ''[[I Know What You Did Last Summer (novel)|I Know What You Did Last Summer]]'', ''A Gift of Magic''
*[[Jeanne DuPrau]] (born 1944) – ''[[The City of Ember|The Books of Ember]]'' series
*[[Lynda Durrant]] (born 1954) – ''[[The Beaded Moccasins]]'', ''[[Echohawk]]''. ''[[Betsy Zane, the Rose of Fort Henry]]''
*[[Christine Dzidrums]] (born 1971) – ''[[Cutters Don't Cry]]'', ''Gabby Douglas: Golden Smile, Golden Triumph''

==E==
[[File:Julie Andrews 1970.JPG|thumb|[[Julie Andrews|Julie Edwards]]]]
*[[Edward Eager]] (1911–1964) – ''Half Magic'', ''Magic by the Lake'', ''Knight's Castle'', ''The Time Garden'', ''The Well-Wishers'', ''Magic or Not'', ''Seven-Day Magic''
*[[Marion Eames]] (1921–2007) – ''Sionyn a Siarli'', ''Huw a'r Adar Aur'', ''Y Tir Tywyll'' (in Welsh)
*[[Martin Ebbertz]] (born 1962) – ''Little Mr. Jaromir''
*[[Irmengarde Eberle]] (1898–1979)
*[[Walter D. Edmonds]] (1903–1998) – ''[[The Matchlock Gun]]'', ''[[Bert Breen's Barn]]''
*[[Dorothy Edwards (children's writer)|Dorothy Edwards]] (1914–1982) – ''My Naughty Little Sister'', ''[[The Witches and the Grinnygog]]''
*[[Julie Andrews|Julie Edwards (Dame Julie Andrews)]] (born 1935) – ''[[The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles]]''
*[[Leo Edwards]] (1884–1944) – ''Jerry Todd'' series, ''Poppy Ott'' series
*[[Monica Edwards]] (1912–1998) – ''Punchbowl Farm'' series, ''Romney Marsh'' series
*[[Stephen Elboz]] (born 1956) – ''The Byzantium Bazaar''
*[[T. S. Eliot]] (1888–1965) – ''[[Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats]]''
*[[E. C. Eliott]] (1908–1971) – ''[[Kemlo]]'' and ''[[Tas (series)|Tas]]'' series
*[[David Elliott (children's author)|David Elliott]] (born 1947) – ''Bull'', ''Evangeline Mudd and the Great Mink Escapade'', ''Knitty Kitty'' 
*[[Janice Elliott]] (1931–1995) – ''The Sword and the Dream''
*[[Zetta Elliott]] (born 1972) – ''[[Bird (book)|Bird]]'', ''Dragons in a Bag'', ''[[A Place Inside of Me]]''
*[[Sarah Ellis (author)|Sarah Ellis]] (born 1952) – ''[[Pick-Up Sticks (novel)|Pick-Up Sticks]]''
*[[Jonathan Emmett]] (born 1965) – ''Bringing Down the Moon'', ''Someone Bigger'', ''The Princess and the Pig''
*[[Michael Ende]] (1929–1995) – ''[[The Neverending Story]]'', ''[[Momo (novel)|Momo]]'', ''[[Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver]]''
*[[Margarita Engle]] (born 1951) – ''[[The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom]]''
*[[Elizabeth Enright]] (1909–1968) – ''[[The Saturdays (Elizabeth Enright novel)|The Melendy series]]'', ''[[Thimble Summer]]'', ''[[Gone-Away Lake]]''
*[[Hans Magnus Enzensberger]] (1929–2022) – ''[[The Number Devil]]'', ''Where Were You, Robert?''
*[[Louise Erdrich]] (born 1954) – ''[[The Birchbark House]]'', ''[[The Game of Silence]]''
*[[John R. Erickson]] (born 1943) – ''[[Hank the Cowdog]]''
*[[Eleanor Estes]] (1908–1988) – ''[[The Moffats]]'', ''[[Rufus M.]]'', ''[[The Hundred Dresses]]'', ''[[Ginger Pye]]''
*[[Juliana Horatia Ewing]] (1841–1885) – ''[[A Flat Iron for a Farthing]]'', ''The Story of a Short Life''

==F==
[[File:Fink,_Nadia_-FILSA_2016_fRF02.jpg|thumb|[[Nadia Fink]]]]
*[[John Meade Falkner]] (1858–1932) – ''[[Moonfleet (novel)|Moonfleet]]''
*[[Eleanor Farjeon]] (1881–1965) – ''Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard'', ''[[The Little Bookroom]]''
*[[Walter Farley]] (1915–1989) – ''[[The Black Stallion]]'' series
*[[Nancy Farmer (author)|Nancy Farmer]] (born 1941) – ''[[The House of the Scorpion]]'', ''[[The Ear, the Eye and the Arm]]'', ''[[A Girl Named Disaster]]''
*[[Penelope Farmer]] (born 1939) – ''[[Charlotte Sometimes (novel)|Charlotte Sometimes]]'', ''The Summer Birds'', ''A Castle of Bone''
*[[G. E. Farrow]] (1862 – c. 1920) – ''[[The Wallypug of Why]]'', ''The Little Panjandrum's Dodo''
*[[Gertrude Minnie Faulding]] (1875–1961) – ''Old Man's Beard and Other Tales''
*[[Tim Federle]] – ''Better Nate Than Ever'', ''The Great American Whatever''
*[[Eliza Fenwick]] (1766–1840) – ''Mary and Her Cat'', ''Visits to the Junior Library''
*[[Ruby Ferguson]] (1899–1966) – ''Jill's Gymkhana'', ''A Stable for Jill'', ''Jill's Pony Trek''
*[[Chitra Fernando]] (1935–1998) – ''Glass Bangles'', ''The Adventures of Senerat Bandara'', ''Bempi Appu''
*[[Arkady Fiedler]] (1894–1985) – ''[[Robinson Crusoe Island]]'', ''Orinoco''
*[[Eugene Field]] (1850–1895) – ''[[Wynken, Blynken, and Nod]]''
*[[Sarah Fielding]] (1710–1768) – ''[[The Governess, or The Little Female Academy]]''
*[[Anne Fine]] (born 1947) – ''[[The Tulip Touch]]'', ''[[Mrs. Doubtfire|Madame Doubtfire]]'', ''[[Flour Babies]]''
*[[Nadia Fink]] (born 1977) – [[Anti-Princess Series and Anti-Hero Series|''Anti-Princess'' series and ''Anti-Hero'' series]]
*[[Martha Finley]] (1828–1909) – ''[[Elsie Dinsmore]]'' series, ''[[Mildred Keith]]'' series
*[[Francis J. Finn]] (1859–1928) – ''[[Tom Playfair]]'', ''That Football Game'', ''Bobby in Movieland''
*[[Aileen Fisher]] (1906–2002) – ''We Alcotts'', ''I Heard a Bluebird Sing''
*[[Catherine Fisher]] (born 1957) – ''The Snow-Walker'', ''The Book of the Crow'', ''[[The Oracle (novel)|The Oracle]]'', ''Corbenic''
*[[Dorothy Canfield Fisher]] (1879–1958) – ''[[Understood Betsy]]''
*[[John D. Fitzgerald]] (1906–1988) – ''[[The Great Brain]]'' series
*[[Louise Fitzhugh]] (1928–1974) – ''[[Harriet the Spy]]'', ''Nobody's Family Is Going to Change''
*[[Philippe Fix]] (born 1937)
*[[Marjorie Flack]] (1897–1958) – ''The Story of Ping'', ''Angus and the Ducks''
*[[John Flanagan (author)|John Flanagan]] (born 1944) – ''[[Ranger's Apprentice]]'' series
*[[Paul Fleischman]] (born 1952) – ''[[Bull Run (novel)|Bull Run]]'', ''[[Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices]]''
*[[Sid Fleischman]] (1920–2010) – ''[[The Whipping Boy]]'', ''[[By The Great Horn Spoon!]]''
*[[Ian Fleming]] (1908–1964) – ''[[Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (novel)|Chitty Chitty Bang Bang]]''
*[[Shamini Flint]] (born 1969) – ''[[Ten: A Soccer Story]]'', ''Diary of a Soccer Star'', ''The Seeds of Time'', ''Sasha Visits'' series
*[[Esther Forbes]] (1891–1967) – ''[[Johnny Tremain]]''
*[[Antonia Forest]] (1915–2003) – ''[[Autumn Term]]'', ''[[Falconer's Lure]]'' and other Marlow Family books
*[[Elena Fortún]] (1886–1952) – ''[[Celia, lo que dice]]'', ''[[Celia en el colegio]]''
*[[Helen Fox]] (born 1962) – ''[[Eager (novel)|Eager]]'' series
*[[Mem Fox]] (born 1946) – ''[[Possum Magic]]'', ''[[Guess What?]]'', ''[[Wombat Divine]]''
*[[Anne Frank]] (1929–1945) – ''[[The Diary of a Young Girl]]''
*[[Barbara C. Freeman]] (1906–1999) – ''Two-Thumb Thomas'', ''Timi, the Tale of a Griffin''
*[[Don Freeman]] (1908–1978) – ''[[Corduroy (book)|Corduroy]]''
*[[Pamela Freeman]] (born 1960) – ''The Willow Tree's Daughter'', ''The Black Dress'', ''Cherryblossom and the Golden Bear''
*[[Jackie French]] (born 1953) – ''[[Hitler's Daughter]]'', ''[[Diary of a Wombat]]'', ''[[Pete the Sheep]]'', ''[[School for Heroes]]''
*[[Frieda Friedman]] (born 1905, date of death unknown) – ''Dot for Short'', ''Pat and Her Policeman'', ''Carol from the Country''
*[[Cornelia Funke]] (born 1958) – ''[[The Thief Lord]]'', [[Inkheart series|''Inkheart'' series]]
*[[Sandy Fussell]] (born 1960) – ''Samurai Kids'' series, ''Polar Boy''
*[[Rose Fyleman]] (1877–1957) – ''Fairies and Chimneys'', ''The Fairy Green'', ''The Dolls' House''
*Fynn (pseudonym of [[Sydney Hopkins]], 1919–1999) – ''[[Mister God, This Is Anna]]''

==G==
[[File:Rumer_Godden_(3).jpg|thumb|[[Rumer Godden]]]]
*[[Jostein Gaarder]] (born 1952) – ''[[Sophie's World]]'', ''[[The Christmas Mystery]]''
*[[Wanda Gág]] (1893–1946) – ''[[Millions of Cats]]'', ''[[The ABC Bunny]]''
*[[Eva Roe Gaggin]] (1879–1966) – ''[[Down Ryton Water]]'', ''An Ear for Uncle Emil''
*[[Arkady Gaidar]] (1904–1941) – ''[[Timur and His Squad]]''
*[[Neil Gaiman]] (born 1960) – ''[[Coraline]]'', ''[[The Graveyard Book]]''
*[[Paul Gallico]] (1897–1976) – ''[[The Snow Goose: A Story of Dunkirk|The Snow Goose]]'', ''[[Manxmouse]]'', ''Jennie'', ''The Day the Guinea-Pig Talked''
*[[Sally Gardner]] – ''[[The Countess's Calamity]]'', ''[[I, Coriander]]'', ''[[The Red Necklace]]''
*[[Leon Garfield]] (1921–1996) – ''Devil-in-the-Fog'', ''Smith'', ''[[The God Beneath the Sea]]'', ''John Diamond''
*[[Howard R. Garis]] (1873–1962) – ''[[Uncle Wiggily Longears]]'' series
*[[Alan Garner]] (born 1934) – ''[[The Owl Service]]'', ''[[The Weirdstone of Brisingamen]]'', ''[[The Moon of Gomrath]]'', ''[[Elidor]]'', ''[[Red Shift (novel)|Red Shift]]'', ''[[The Stone Book Quartet]]''
*[[Eve Garnett]] (1900–1991) – ''[[The Family from One End Street]]''
*[[Doris Gates]] (1901–1987) – ''[[Blue Willow]]''
*[[Margaret Gatty]] (1809–1873) – ''Parables from Nature'', ''Aunt Judy's Tales''
*[[Jamila Gavin]] (born 1941) – ''[[Coram Boy]]'', ''Grandpa Chatterji''
*[[Béatrice Lalinon Gbado]] (born 1984) – ''Beautiful Debo'', ''Bovi'' series, ''Kaïvi'' series
*[[Anna Genover-Mas]] (born 1963) – ''The Grumpy Gardener''
*[[Jean Craighead George]] (1919–2012) – ''[[My Side of the Mountain]]'', ''[[Julie of the Wolves]]''
*[[Jessica Day George]] (born 1976) – ''[[Princess of the Midnight Ball]]'', ''Dragon Slippers''
*[[Adèle Geras]] (born 1944) – ''Apricots at Midnight'', ''The Girls in the Velvet Frame'', ''The Fabulous Fantoras''
*[[Charles Ghigna|Charles "Father Goose" Ghigna]] (born 1946) – ''Mice Are Nice'', ''Riddle Rhymes'', ''A Fury of Motion: Poems for Boys''
*[[May Gibbs]] (1877–1969) – ''[[Snugglepot and Cuddlepie]]''
*[[Patricia Reilly Giff]] (1935–2021) – ''The Polk Street School'' series, ''Lily's Crossing'', ''[[Pictures of Hollis Woods (book)|Pictures of Hollis Woods]]'', ''Eleven'', ''Storyteller''
*[[Fred Gipson]] (1908–1973) – ''[[Old Yeller]]''
*[[Debi Gliori]] (born 1959) – ''[[Pure Dead series|Pure Dead]]'' series, ''Mr Bear'' series, ''Witch Baby'' series, ''The Tobermory Cat'', ''What's the Time, Mr Wolf?''
*[[Rumer Godden]] (1907–1998) – ''The Doll's House'', ''The Mousewife'', ''[[The Diddakoi]]''
*[[Glenda Goertzen]] (born 1967) – ''The Prairie Dogs'', ''City Dogs''
*[[John Henry Goldfrap]] (1879–1917) – ''The Ocean Wireless Boys'', ''The Boy Aviators'', ''The Dreadnought Boys''
*[[Julia Golding]] (born 1969) – ''[[The Diamond of Drury Lane]]'', ''[[Secret of the Sirens]]''
*[[Oliver Goldsmith]] (1730–1774) – ''[[The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes]]''
*[[Elizabeth Goudge]] (1900–1984) – ''[[The Little White Horse]]'', ''Linnets and Valerians''
*[[Candy Gourlay]] (born 1962) – ''Tall Story'', ''Shine'', ''Bone Talk''
*[[Harry Graham (poet)|Harry Graham]] (1874–1936) – ''Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes''
*[[Kenneth Grahame]] (1859–1932) – ''[[The Wind in the Willows]]''
*[[Hardie Gramatky]] (1907–1979) – ''[[Little Toot]]''
*[[Mary Grannan]] (1900–1975) – ''Just Mary'', ''Maggie Muggins''
*[[John Grant (children's author)|John Grant]] (1930–2014) – ''Little Nose'' stories
*[[Nicholas Stuart Gray]] (1922–1981) – ''Grimbold's Other World'', ''The Seventh Swan''
*[[Alain Grée]] (born 1936)
*[[John Green]] (born 1977) – ''[[Looking for Alaska]]'', ''[[An Abundance of Katherines]]'', ''[[Paper Towns (novel)|Paper Towns]]'', ''[[The Fault in Our Stars]]'', ''[[Will Grayson, Will Grayson]]'', ''[[Let It Snow (novel)|Let It Snow]]''
*[[Roger Lancelyn Green]] (1918–1987) – ''[[King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table]]'', ''The Luck of Troy''
*[[Kate Greenaway]] (1846–1901) – ''[[Under the Window]]''
*[[Frances Nimmo Greene]] (1867–1937) – ''Legends of King Arthur and His Court''
*[[Graham Greene]] (1904–1991) – ''The Little Train'', ''The Little Fire Engine'', ''The Little Horse Bus'', ''The Little Steamroller''
*[[James Greenwood (journalist)|James Greenwood]] (1832–1929) – ''The True History of a Little Ragamuffin''
*[[Kristiana Gregory]] (born 1951) – ''Earthquake at Dawn'', ''The Stowaway'', ''Jenny of the Tetons''
*[[Grey Owl]] (1888–1938) – ''[[The Adventures of Sajo and Her Beaver People]]''
*[[Andy Griffiths (author)|Andy Griffiths]] (born 1961) – ''[[The Bad Book]]'', ''[[Just Tricking]]'', ''[[The 13-Storey Treehouse]]'', ''[[Treasure Fever!]]''
*[[Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm]] (1785–1863 and 1786–1859) – ''[[Grimm's Fairy Tales]]''
*[[Maria Gripe]] (1923–2007) – ''Hugo and Josephine'', ''In the Time of the Bells'', ''Elvis and His Secret''
*[[John Grisham]] (born 1955) – ''[[Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer]]'' series
*[[Annie Groovie]] (born 1970) – ''Léon'' series
*[[Johnny Gruelle]] (1880–1938) – ''[[Raggedy Ann]]'' series
*[[Jacqueline Guest]] ({{floruit|1999–2018}}) – ''Free Throw'', ''Triple Threat'', ''Death by Dinosaur''
*[[Kristín Helga Gunnarsdóttir]] (born 1963) – ''Fiasol'' series
*[[Dan Gutman]] (born 1955) – ''[[The Million Dollar Shot]]'', ''[[Baseball Card Adventures]]'', ''[[My Weird School]]'' series
*[[Bethan Gwanas]] (born 1962) – ''Llinyn Trôns'', ''Sgôr''

==H==
[[File:Tuuli_Hypén_IMG_8468_C.jpg|thumb|[[Tuuli Hypén]]]]
*[[Maria Hack]] (1777–1844) – ''Winter Evenings'', ''Harry Beaufoy, or, The Pupil of Nature''
*[[Margaret Peterson Haddix]] (born 1964) – ''[[Shadow Children]]'' series
*[[Mark Haddon]] (born 1962) – ''[[The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time]]'', ''[[Agent Z]]'' series
*[[Matt Haig]] (born 1975) – ''[[Shadow Forest]]'', ''A Boy Called Christmas''
*[[J. B. S. Haldane]] (1892–1964) – ''Mr Friend Mr Leakey''
*[[Virginia Hamilton]] (1936–2002) – ''[[M. C. Higgins the Great]]''
*[[Leif Hamre]] (1914–2007) – ''Otter Three Two Calling'', ''Contact Lost'', ''Blue Two&nbsp;... Bale Out''
*[[H. Irving Hancock]] (1866–1922) – ''High School Boys'' series, ''West Point'' series, ''Young Engineers'' series
*[[Joyce Hansen]] (born 1942) – ''The Gift-Giver'', ''The Captive'', ''I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly''
*[[Frances Hardinge]] (born 1973) – ''[[Fly by Night (Hardinge novel)|Fly by Night]]'', ''[[The Lie Tree]]''
*[[Roger Hargreaves]] (1935–1988) – ''[[Mr. Men]]'' series, ''[[Little Miss]]'' series
*[[Cynthia Harnett]] (1893–1981) – ''[[The Wool-Pack]]'', ''[[The Load of Unicorn]]'', ''[[The Writing on the Hearth]]''
*[[Amanda Bartlett Harris]] (1824–1917) – ''How We Went Birds' Nesting'', ''Little Folks' Every Day Book''
*[[Joel Chandler Harris]] (1845–1908) – ''[[Uncle Remus]]''
*[[Mary K. Harris]] (1905–1966) – ''Emily and the Headmistress'', ''The Bus Girls'', ''Seraphina''
*[[Rosemary Harris (writer)|Rosemary Harris]] (1923–2019) – ''[[The Moon in the Cloud]]'', ''A Quest for Orion'', ''Zed''
*[[Edith Ogden Harrison]] (1862–1955) – ''[[Prince Silverwings]]'', ''The Star Fairies''
*[[Lisi Harrison]] (born 1970) – [[The Clique (series)|''The Clique'' series]], ''Alpha'' series, [[Monster High#Books|''Monster High'' books]]
*[[Peter Härtling]] (1933–2017) – ''Oma'', ''{{ill|Ben liebt Anna|de|Ben liebt Anna|vertical-align=sup}}'', ''{{ill|Krücke|de|Krücke (Roman)|vertical-align=sup}}''
*[[Sonya Hartnett]] (born 1968) – ''[[The Silver Donkey]]'', ''[[The Children of the King]]''
*[[Juanita Havill]] (born 1949) – ''Jamaica'' series, ''Eyes Like Willy's''
*[[Charles Hawes]] (1889–1923) – ''[[The Dark Frigate]]'', ''The Great Quest''
*[[Barbara Haworth-Attard]] (born 1953) –  ''TruthSinger'', ''To Stand on My Own'', ''A Trail of Broken Dreams''
*[[Nathaniel Hawthorne]] (1804–1864) –  ''[[A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys]]'', ''[[Tanglewood Tales]]''
*[[Carolyn Haywood]] (1898–1990) – ''Betsy'' series, ''Eddie'' series 
*[[Helen Haywood]] (1907–1995) – ''Peter Tiggywig'' series
*[[Carol Hedges]] – ''Jigsaw'', ''Spy Girl'' series
*[[Florence Parry Heide]] (1919–2011) – ''[[The Shrinking of Treehorn]]''
*[[Robert A. Heinlein]] (1907–1988)  – ''[[Rocket Ship Galileo]]'', ''[[Have Space Suit—Will Travel]]''
*[[Racey Helps]] (1913–1970) – ''Barnaby Littlemouse'' series
*[[Kevin Henkes]] (born 1960) – ''[[Kitten's First Full Moon]]'', ''[[The Year of Billy Miller]]'', ''[[Olive's Ocean]]'', ''[[Waiting (picture book)|Waiting]]''
*[[Zenna Henderson]] (1917–1983) – ''[[Ingathering: The Complete People Stories]]''
*[[Marguerite Henry]] (1902–1997) – ''[[King of the Wind]]'', ''[[Misty of Chincoteague (novel)|Misty of Chincoteague]]''
*[[Nat Hentoff]] (1925–2017) – ''This School Is Driving Me Crazy'', ''The Day They Came to Arrest the Book''
*[[G. A. Henty]] (1832–1902) – ''Out on the Pampas'', ''[[The Young Buglers, A Tale of the Peninsular War|The Young Buglers]]'', ''[[The Cat of Bubastes]]'', ''[[With Lee in Virginia, A Story of the American Civil War|With Lee in Virginia]]'', ''[[Beric the Briton]]''
*[[James Herriot]] (1916–1995) – ''All Creatures Great and Small'', ''James Herriot's Treasury for Children''
*[[Karen Hesse]] (born 1952) – ''[[Out of the Dust]]'', ''[[The Music of Dolphins]]''
*[[Carl Hiaasen]] (born 1953) – ''[[Hoot (novel)|Hoot]]''
*[[Clifford B. Hicks]] (1920–2010) – ''First Boy on the Moon'', ''The Marvelous Inventions of Alvin Fernald''
*[[Donna Barba Higuera]] – ''[[Lupe Wong Won't Dance]]'', ''[[The Last Cuentista]]''
*[[E. W. Hildick]] (1925–2001) – ''[[Jack McGurk]]'' mysteries, ''[[Jim Starling]]'' series
*[[Lorna Hill]] (1902–1991) – ''A Dream of Sadler's Wells''
*[[Nigel Hinton]] (born 1941) – ''[[Buddy (Hinton novel)|Buddy]]'', ''Beaver Towers''
*[[S. E. Hinton]] (born 1948) – ''[[The Outsiders (novel)|The Outsiders]]'', ''[[That Was Then, This Is Now]]'', ''[[Rumble Fish (novel)|Rumble Fish]]''
*[[Russell Hoban]] (1925–2011) – ''[[The Mouse and His Child]]''
*[[Will Hobbs]] (born 1947) – ''Bearstone'',  ''Beardream'', ''Ghost Canoe'', ''Go Big or Go Home''
*[[Michael Hoeye]] (born 1947) – ''[[Hermux Tantamoq]]'' series
*[[E. T. A. Hoffmann]] (1776–1822) – ''[[The Nutcracker and the Mouse King]]''
*[[Mary Hoffman]] (born 1945) – ''[[Stravaganza]]'' series, ''Amazing Grace''
*[[Barbara Hofland]] (1770–1844) – ''The Son of a Genius'', ''The Blind Farmer and His Children'', ''The Young Crusoe''
*[[Christophe Honoré]] (born 1970) – ''Tout contre Léo''
*[[Laura Lee Hope]] ([[Stratemeyer Syndicate|Stratemeyer house]] [[pseudonym]] from 1904) – ''[[Bobbsey Twins]]'' series
*[[Isabel Hornibrook]] (1859–1952) – ''Camp and Trail''
*[[Anthony Horowitz]] (born 1955) – ''[[Alex Rider]]'' series, ''[[The Diamond Brothers]]'' series, ''[[The Power of Five|The Gatekeepers]]'' series
*[[Hasan Hourani]] (1974–2003) – ''Hassan Everywhere''
*[[Janni Howker]] – ''The Nature of the Beast'', ''Badger on the Barge''
*[[Carol Hughes (author)|Carol Hughes]] (born 1955) – ''Jack Black and the Ship of Thieves'', ''Dirty Magic'', ''[[The Princess and the Unicorn]]''
*[[Ted Hughes]] (1938–1998) – ''[[The Iron Man (novel)|The Iron Man]]''
*[[Thomas Hughes]] (1822–1896) – ''[[Tom Brown's School Days]]''
*[[Shirley Hughes]] (1927–2022) – ''[[Dogger (book)|Dogger]]'', ''Hero on a Bicycle'', ''Ella's Big Chance'', ''Alfie'' series
*[[John Hulme (author)|John Hulme]] (born 1970) – ''[[The Seems]]'' series
*[[Irene Hunt]] (1907–2001) – ''[[Up a Road Slowly]]'', ''[[The Lottery Rose]]''
*[[Erin Hunter]] (joint pseudonym from 2003) – ''[[Warriors (novel series)|''Warriors'' series]], ''[[Seekers (novel series)|''Seekers'' series]]
*[[Norman Hunter (author)|Norman Hunter]] (1899–1995) – ''[[Professor Branestawm]]'' series
*[[Emily Huws]] (born 1942) – ''Cyfres Corryn: Chwannen'', ''Lol neu Lwc?''
*[[Zach Hyman]] (born 1992) – ''The Magician's Secret'', ''Hockey Hero'', ''The Bambino and Me''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/s?k=zach+hyman&crid=160190XYGZKV6&sprefix=zach+hyman%2Caps%2C74&ref=nb_sb_noss_1 |title=zach hyman |publisher=Amazon.com |date= |accessdate=2022-06-18}}</ref>
*[[Tuuli Hypén]] (born 1983) – {{lang|fi|Veikan metsäretki}}, {{lang|fi|Veikka ja talvi}}

==I==
*[[Eva Ibbotson]] (1925–2010) – ''[[Which Witch? (novel)|Which Witch?]]'', ''[[The Secret of Platform 13]]'', ''[[Journey to the River Sea]]''
*[[Theodor Illek]] (born 1984) – ''The Golden Key''
*[[Jean Ingelow]] (1820–1897) – ''Mopsa the Fairy''
*[[Mick Inkpen]] (born 1962) – ''[[Kipper the Dog]]'' series, ''[[Wibbly Pig]]'' series
*[[Mary E. Ireland]] (1834–1927) – ''Timothy and His Friends''
*[[Washington Irving]] (1783–1859) – "[[The Legend of Sleepy Hollow]]", "[[Rip Van Winkle]]"
*[[Koji Ishikawa (illustrator)|Koji Ishikawa]] (born 1963) – ''Colorful Animals Hide and Seek'' series
*[[Petre Ispirescu]]  (1830–1887) – ''[[Legende sau basmele românilor|Romanian Legends or Fairy Tales]]'', ''[[Greuceanu]]''
*[[Oksana Ivanenko]] (1906–1997) – ''Forest Tales''

==J==
[[File:Victoria_Jamieson_for_the_National_Book_Award.jpg|thumb|[[Victoria Jamieson]]]]
*[[Joseph Jacobs]] (1854–1916) – ''English Fairy Tales'', ''Celtic Fairy Tales'', ''European Folk and Fairy Tales''
*[[Brian Jacques]] (1939–2011) – ''[[Redwall]]'' series, ''[[Castaways of the Flying Dutchman]]''
*[[Grace James]] – ''[[John and Mary]]'' series, ''Green Willow and Other Japanese Fairy Tales''
*[[Victoria Jamieson]] – ''[[When Stars Are Scattered]]'', ''[[Roller Girl]]''
*[[James Janeway]] (1636–1674) – ''A Token for Children''
*[[Éva Janikovszky]] (1926–2003) – ''If I Were a Grown-Up'', ''Who Does This Kid Take After?''
*[[Tove Jansson]] (1914–2001) – ''[[Moomin]]'' series
*[[Annie Jay]] (born 1957) – ''Complot à Versailles'', ''À la poursuite d'Olympe''
*[[Richard Jefferies]] (1848–1887) – ''Wood Magic'', ''Bevis''
*[[Theodora Robinson Jenness]] (1847–1935) – ''Two Young Homesteaders'', ''Piokee'', ''Above the Range''
*[[Paul Jennings (Australian author)|Paul Jennings]] (born 1943) – ''Unreal!'', ''Undone!'', ''Unbelievable!'', ''The Paw Thing'', ''The Gizmo'', ''Wicked'' series
*[[W. E. Johns]] (1893–1968) – ''[[Biggles]]'' series, ''[[Worrals]]'' series
*[[Annie Fellows Johnston]] (1863–1931) – ''The Little Colonel'', ''Miss Santa Claus of the Pullman''
*[[Diana Wynne Jones]] (1934–2011) – ''[[Chrestomanci]]'' series, ''[[Howl's Moving Castle (novel)|Howl's Moving Castle]]'', ''[[Dogsbody (novel)|Dogsbody]]''
*[[Lara Jones]] (1975–2010) – ''[[Poppy Cat]]'' series
*[[Marcia Thornton Jones]] (born 1958) – ''[[Bailey School Kids|The Adventures of the Bailey School Kids]]'' series, ''Ghostville Elementary'' series
*[[T. Llew Jones]] (1915–2009) – ''Trysor Plas y wernen'', ''Anturiaethau Twm Siôn Cati: Y Ffordd Beryglus''
*[[Terry Jones]] (1942–2020) – ''[[Fairy Tales (Jones book)|Fairy Tales]]'', ''[[The Saga of Erik the Viking]]'', ''Squire'' series
*[[Mary Catherine Judd]] (1852–1930s) – ''[[Classic Myths]]'', ''[[Wigwam Stories]]''
*[[Jacqueline Jules]] (born 1956) – ''Zapato Power'' series, ''Unite or Die: How Thirteen States Became a Nation''
*[[Norton Juster]] (1929–2021) – ''[[The Phantom Tollbooth]]'', ''[[The Hello, Goodbye Window]]''
*[[May Justus]] (1898–1989) – ''Gabby Gaffer'', ''Luck for Little Lihu'', ''New Boy in School''

==K==
[[File:Judith_Kerr_on_September_15,_2016_at_the_International_Literature_Festival_Berlin.jpg|thumb|[[Judith Kerr]]]]
*[[Keri Kaa]] (1942–2020) – ''Taka Ki Ro Wai''
*[[Cynthia Kadohata]] (born 1956) – ''[[Kira-Kira]]'', ''[[Weedflower]]'', ''The Thing About Luck''
*[[Eiko Kadono]] (born 1935) – ''[[Kiki's Delivery Service (novel)|Kiki's Delivery Service]]''
*[[Joan Kahn]] (1914–1994) – ''Ladies and Gentlemen, said the Ringmaster'', ''Seesaw'', ''You Can't Catch Me''
*[[Maira Kalman]] (born 1949) – ''Fireboat'', ''Max Stravinsky: Poet-Dog'' series
*[[Ulrich Karger]] (born 1957) – ''[[The Scary Sleepover]]''
*[[Jan Karon]] (born 1937) – ''Miss Fannie's Hat''
*[[Erich Kästner]] (1899–1974) – ''[[Emil and the Detectives]]'', ''[[Lottie and Lisa]]'', ''[[The Flying Classroom]]''
*[[Elizabeth Kay]] (born 1949) – [[The Divide trilogy|''The Divide'' trilogy]]
*[[Annie Keary]] (1825–1879) – ''Heroes of Asgard''
*[[Ezra Jack Keats]] (1916–1983) – ''[[The Snowy Day]]'', ''Whistle for Willie'', ''Goggles!''
*[[Carolyn Keene]] ([[Stratemeyer Syndicate|Stratemeyer house]] [[pseudonym]] from 1930) – ''[[Nancy Drew]]'' mystery series
*[[Charles Keeping]] (1924–1988) – ''Charley, Charlotte and the Golden Canary''
*[[Harold Keith]] (1903–1998) – ''[[Rifles for Watie]]''
*[[Eric P. Kelly]] (1884–1960) – ''[[The Trumpeter of Krakow]]''
*[[Gene Kemp]] (1926–2015) – ''[[The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler]]'', ''The Pride of Tamworth Pig''
*[[Louise Andrews Kent]] (1886–1969) – ''He Went with Marco Polo'', ''He Went with Hannibal'', ''Two Children of Tyre''
*[[Judith Kerr]] (1923–2019) – ''[[When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit]]'', ''[[The Tiger Who Came To Tea]]''
*[[Lady Amabel Kerr]] (1846–1906) – ''A Bible Picture Book for Catholic Children'', ''Lives of the Saints for Children'' 
*[[P. B. Kerr]] (1956–2018) – ''[[Children of the Lamp]]'' series
*[[Alexander Key]] (1904–1979) – ''[[Escape to Witch Mountain]]'', ''The Forgotten Door'', ''The Case of the Vanishing Boy''
*[[Dorothy Kilner]] (1755–1836) – ''The Life and Perambulation of a Mouse''
*[[Garry Kilworth]] (born 1941) – ''The Welkin Weasels'' series, ''Knights of Liöfwende'' series, ''[[Attica (novel)|Attica]]''
*[[Clive King]] (1924–2018) – ''[[Stig of the Dump]]''
*[[Dick King-Smith]] (1922–2011) – ''[[The Sheep-Pig]]'', ''[[The Queen's Nose]]''
*[[Charles Kingsley]] (1819–1875) – ''[[The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby|The Water Babies]]'', ''The Heroes''
*[[Jeff Kinney (writer)|Jeff Kinney]] (born 1971) – [[Diary of a Wimpy Kid (series)|''Diary of a Wimpy Kid'' series]]
*[[Rudyard Kipling]] (1865–1936) – ''[[Just So Stories]]'', ''[[The Jungle Book]]'', ''[[Puck of Pook's Hill]]''
*[[Ole Lund Kirkegaard]] (1940–1979) 
*[[Jim Kjelgaard]] (1910–1959) – ''Kalak of the Ice'', ''Fire-Hunter'', ''The Spell of the White Sturgeon'', ''Wolf Brother''
*[[Jon Klassen]] (born 1981) – ''[[This Is Not My Hat]]''
*[[Annette Curtis Klause]] (born 1953) – ''[[Blood and Chocolate (novel)|Blood and Chocolate]]''
*[[Anne Knight (children's writer)|Anne Knight]] (1792–1860) – ''School-Room Lyrics'', ''Mary Gray''
*[[Nellie van Kol]] (1851–1930) – ''Ons Blaadje''
*[[E. L. Konigsburg]] (1930–2013) – ''[[From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler]]'', ''[[The Second Mrs. Giaconda]]'', ''[[The View from Saturday]]''
*[[Robin Koontz]] (born 1954) – ''In a Cabin in a Wood'', ''Leaps and Creeps: How Animals Move to Survive''
*[[Janusz Korczak]] (1878–1942) – ''[[King Matt the First]]'', ''[[Kaytek the Wizard]]''
*[[Conor Kostick]] (born 1964) – ''[[Epic (novel)|Epic]]'', ''Saga'', ''Edda'', ''Move'', ''The Book of Curses'', ''The Book of Wishes''
*[[Erik P. Kraft]] – ''Chocolatina'', ''Lenny and Mel'' series, ''Miracle Wimp''
*[[Ruth Krauss]] (1901–1993) – ''[[The Carrot Seed]]''
*[[Adrienne Kress]] – ''Alex and the Ironic Gentleman'', ''Timothy and the Dragon's Gate'' 
*[[Uma Krishnaswami]] (born 1956) – ''Naming Maya'', ''Monsoon''
*[[Joseph Krumgold]] (1908–1980) – ''[[...And Now Miguel]]'', ''[[Onion John]]''
*[[Guus Kuijer]] (born 1942) – ''Madelief'' series, ''Polleke'' series
*[[Kunjunni Mash|Kunjunni]] (1927–2006) – ''Kunjunni Kavithakal''
*[[Jane Kurtz]] (born 1952) – ''River Friendly River Wild, Water Hole Waiting''

==L==
[[File:Astrid Lindgren (cropped).jpg|thumb|[[Astrid Lindgren]]]]
*[[María Hortensia Lacau]] (1910–2006) – ''País de Silvia'', ''Chingola y Hornerín'', ''Yo y Hornerín'', ''El libro de Juancito Maricaminero''
*[[Sheila LaFarge]] - ''Golden Butter''
*[[Selma Lagerlöf]] (1858–1940) – ''[[The Wonderful Adventures of Nils]]''
*[[Elizabeth Laird (author)|Elizabeth Laird]] (born 1943) – ''[[The Garbage King]]'', ''[[Crusade (Laird novel)|Crusade]]''
*[[Charles Lamb]] (1775–1834) and [[Mary Lamb]] (1764–1847) – ''[[Tales from Shakespeare]]''
*[[Derek Landy]] (born 1974) – [[Skulduggery Pleasant|''Skulduggery Pleasant'' series]]
*[[Andrew Lang]] (1844–1912) – ''[[The Blue Fairy Book]]'', ''[[The Red Fairy Book]]'', ''[[The Red Romance Book]]''
*[[Noel Langley]] (1911–1980) – ''The Land of Green Ginger''
*[[Katherine Langrish]] – ''[[Troll Fell]]'', ''[[Troll Mill]]'', ''[[Troll Blood]]''
*[[Jane Langton]] (1922–2018) – ''The Hall Family Chronicles'' series
*[[Jennifer Lanthier]] (born 1964) – ''The Mystery of the Martello Tower'', ''[[The Stamp Collector]]''
*[[Kirby Larson]] – ''The Magic Kerchief'', ''[[Hattie Big Sky]]''
*[[Kathryn Lasky]] (born 1944) – ''[[Guardians of Ga'hoole]]'' series, ''[[The Night Journey (novel)|The Night Journey]]''
*[[Dorothy P. Lathrop]] (1891–1980) – ''[[The Fairy Circus]]'', ''The Dog in the Tapestry Garden''
*[[Caroline Lawrence]] (born 1954) – ''[[The Roman Mysteries]]''
*[[Michael Lawrence (writer)|Michael Lawrence]] (born 1943) – ''[[The Snottle]]'' and other Jiggy McCue books, ''[[Young Dracula and Young Monsters|Young Dracula]]'', ''The Aldous Lexicon''
*[[Robert Lawson (author)|Robert Lawson]] (1892–1957) – ''[[Rabbit Hill]]'', ''[[Ben and Me]]'', ''[[They Were Strong and Good]]''
*[[Ervin Lázár]] (1936–2006) – ''The Seven Headed Fairy'', ''The Little Boy and the Lions'', ''The Square Round Wood''
*[[Ursula K. Le Guin]] (1929–2018) – ''[[Earthsea (book series)|Earthsea]]'' series, ''Very Far Away from Anywhere Else'', ''[[Catwings]]'' series, ''[[Annals of the Western Shore]]'' series
*[[Munro Leaf]] (1905–1976) – ''[[The Story of Ferdinand]]''
*[[Sarah Lean]] – ''A Dog Called Homeless'' 
*[[Edward Lear]] (1812–1888) – "[[The Owl and the Pussycat]]", ''[[:s:A Book of Nonsense|A Book of Nonsense]]''
*[[Diana Lebacs]] (1947–2022) – ''Nanco van Bonaire'', ''Caimins geheim''
*[[Dennis Lee (author)|Dennis Lee]] (born 1939) – ''[[Alligator Pie]]''
*[[Harper Lee]] (1926–2016) – ''[[To Kill a Mockingbird]]'' 
*[[Robert Leeson]] (1928–2013) – ''The Third Class Genie'', ''It's My Life''
*[[Madeleine L'Engle]] (1918–2007) – ''[[A Wrinkle in Time]]'', ''[[Meet the Austins]]''
*[[Lois Lenski]] (1893–1974) – ''[[Phebe Fairchild: Her Book]]'', ''[[Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison]]'', ''[[Strawberry Girl]]''
*[[Lois Gladys Leppard]] (1924–2008) – ''[[Mandie]]'' series
*[[Peter Lerangis]] (born 1955) – ''[[Seven Wonders (series)|Seven Wonders]]'' series, ''[[The Sword Thief]]'' and ''[[The Viper's Nest]]'' in ''[[The 39 Clues]]'' collaborative series, ''Spy X'' series, ''Abracadabra'' series
*[[Helen Lester]] (born 1936) – ''Tacky the Penguin''
*[[Gail Carson Levine]] (born 1947) – ''[[Ella Enchanted]]'', ''[[The Two Princesses of Bamarre]]'', ''[[Fairest (novel)|Fairest]]'', ''[[Dave at Night]]'', ''[[The Wish (novel)|The Wish]]''
*[[Ted Lewin]] (1935–2021) – ''Peppe the Lamplighter''
*[[C. S. Lewis]] (1898–1963) – ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]'' series
*[[Hilda Lewis]] (1896–1974) – ''The Ship That Flew'', ''[[The Gentle Falcon]]''
*[[J. Patrick Lewis]] (born 1942) – ''A Hippopotamusn't'', ''Swan Song'', ''The House''
*[[J. S. Lewis]] (born 1972) – ''[[Grey Griffins]]''
*[[Naomi Lewis]] (1911–2009) – English translations of the works of [[Hans Christian Andersen]]
*[[Grace Lin]] (born 1974) – ''[[Where the Mountain Meets the Moon]]'', ''The Year of the Dog''
*[[Anne Lindbergh]] (1940–1993) – ''The People of Pineapple Place'', ''The Worry Week'', ''Nick of Time''
*[[Astrid Lindgren]] (1907–2002) – ''[[Pippi Longstocking]]'', ''[[Ronia the Robber's Daughter]]''
*[[Norman Lindsay]] (1879–1969) – ''[[The Magic Pudding]]'', ''The Flyaway Highway''
*[[Eva Lindström]] (born 1952) – ''The Cat Hat'', ''Olli och Mo'', ''My Dog Mouse''
*[[Eric Linklater]] (1899–1974) – ''[[The Wind on the Moon]]'', ''The Pirates in the Deep Green Sea''
*[[Leo Lionni]] (1910–1999) – ''Inch by Inch'', ''Swimmy'', ''Frederick'', ''Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse''
*[[Jean Little]] (1932–2020) – ''[[Mine for Keeps]]'', ''[[From Anna]]'', ''[[Orphan at My Door]]'' 
*[[Penelope Lively]] (born 1933) – ''[[The Ghost of Thomas Kempe]]'', ''[[A Stitch in Time (Lively novel)|A Stitch in Time]]''
*[[Monteiro Lobato]] (1882–1948) – ''[[Sítio do Picapau Amarelo (novel series)|Sítio do Picapau Amarelo]]'' series
*[[Mira Lobe]] (1913–1995) – ''The Snowman Who Went for a Walk'', ''Little I Am Me''
*[[Hugh Lofting]] (1886–1947) – ''[[Doctor Dolittle]]'' series
*[[Jack London]] (1876–1916) – ''[[The Call of the Wild]], [[White Fang]]''
*[[Lois Lowry]] (born 1937) – ''[[Number the Stars]]'', ''[[The Giver]]'', ''[[Anastasia Krupnik]]'' series
*[[Nina Lugovskaya]] (1918–1993) – ''The Diary of a Soviet Schoolgirl, 1932–1937''
*[[Janet Lunn]] (1928–2017) – ''[[The Root Cellar]]'', ''[[The Hollow Tree]]''
*[[Patricia Lynch]] (c. 1894–1972) – ''The Turf-Cutter's Donkey'', ''Brogeen'' series
*[[Elinor Lyon]] (1921–2008) – ''The House in Hiding'', ''Carver's Journey'', ''Run Away Home''

==M==
[[File:Robert_Munsch,_1997.jpg|thumb|[[Robert Munsch]]]]
*[[Annette Macarthur-Onslow]] (born 1933) – ''Uhu'', ''The Giant Bamboo Happening''
*[[Amy MacDonald (writer)|Amy MacDonald]] (born 1951) – ''Little Beaver and the Echo'', ''Rachel Fister's Blister''
*[[Betty MacDonald]] (1908–1958) – ''[[Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle]]'' series
*[[George MacDonald]] (1824–1905) – ''[[At the Back of the North Wind]]'', '' [[The Princess and the Goblin]]''
*[[Ellen MacGregor]] (1906–1954) – ''Miss Pickerell'' series
*[[Reginald James MacGregor]] – ''The Young Detectives''
*[[D. J. MacHale]] (born 1955) – ''[[The Pendragon Adventure]]''
*[[Božena Mačingová]] (1922–2017) – ''Danuška''
*[[Angus MacVicar]] (1908–2001) – ''[[The Lost Planet (novel)|The Lost Planet]]''
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*[[Sandra Magsamen]] (born 1959) – ''The Gift''
*[[Margaret Mahy]] (1936–2012) – ''[[The Haunting (Mahy novel)|The Haunting]]'', ''[[The Changeover]]'', ''[[Maddigan's Fantasia]]'', ''Memory''
*[[Hector Malot]] (1830–1907) – [[Sans Famille|''Nobody's Boy'' (''Sans Famille'')]]
*[[Clare Mallory]] (1913–1991) – ''Merry Begins'', ''Juliet Overseas'', ''The League of the Smallest''
*[[Ruth Manning-Sanders]] (1888–1988) – ''A Book of Dragons'' and other anthologies of [[fairy tales]] from around the world (''A Book of&nbsp;...'' series)
*[[Daniel P. Mannix]] (1911–1997) – ''[[The Fox and the Hound (novel)|The Fox and the Hound]]''
*[[Alicia Catherine Mant]] (1788–1869) – ''Christmas, a Happy Time'', ''Ellen, or The Young Godmother''
*[[Margaret Manuel]] ({{floruit|2010}}) — ''I See Me''
*[[Emilia Marryat]] (c. 1835–1875) – ''Amongst the Maoris'' 
*[[Frederick Marryat]] (1792–1848) – ''[[The Children of the New Forest]]''
*[[John Marsden (writer)|John Marsden]] (1950–2024) – [[Tomorrow series|''Tomorrow'' series]]
*[[Katherine Marsh]] (born 1974) – ''The Night Tourist'', ''Jepp, Who Defied the Stars''
*[[James Marshall (author)|James Edward Marshall]] (1942–1992), as James Marshall and/or Edward Marshall – ''Fox in Love, Fox and His Friends, Fox on Wheels''
*[[Ann M. Martin]] (born 1955) – ''[[The Babysitters Club]]'' series
*[[Emily Winfield Martin]] – ''Dream Animals'', ''Oddfellow's Orphanage''
*[[J. P. Martin]] (1880–1966) – ''Uncle'' series
*[[Cissy van Marxveldt]] (1889–1948) – ''[[Joop ter Heul]]'' series
*[[John Masefield]] (1878–1967) – ''[[The Midnight Folk]]'', ''[[The Box of Delights]]''
*[[Cotton Mather]] (1663–1728) – ''A Token for the Children of New England''
*[[André Maurois]] (1885–1967) – ''[[Fattypuffs and Thinifers]]''
*[[Mercer Mayer]] (born 1943) – ''[[Little Critter]]'' series, ''[[Little Monster]]'' series
*[[James Mayhew]] (born 1964) – ''Miranda the Explorer'', ''Ella Bella Ballerina'', ''The Knight Who Took All Day''
*[[William Mayne]] (1928–2010) – ''A Swarm in May'' (''Choir School'' series), ''[[A Grass Rope]]'', ''Earthfasts'', ''Low Tide''
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*[[Geraldine McCaughrean]] (born 1951) – ''[[Peter Pan in Scarlet]]'', ''A Pack of Lies''
*[[Robert McCloskey]] (1914–2003) – ''[[Make Way for Ducklings]]'', ''[[Time of Wonder]]'', ''[[Blueberries for Sal]]''
*[[Eloise McGraw]] (1915–2000) – ''[[The Golden Goblet]]'', ''[[The Moorchild]]'', ''[[The Rundelstone of Oz]]''
*[[Lauren Lynn McGraw]] (1915–2000) – ''[[Merry Go Round in Oz]]''
*[[Lurline Wailana McGregor]] ({{floruit|2008}}) – ''Between the Deep Blue Sea and Me''
*[[Sharon E. McKay]] (born 1954) – ''[[Charlie Wilcox]]'', ''Our Canadian Girl: Penelope'' series
*[[David McKee]] (born 1935) – ''Toucan Two Can''
*[[Robin McKinley]] (born 1952) – ''[[The Hero and the Crown]]'', ''[[The Blue Sword]]'', ''[[Spindle's End]]''
*[[Patricia McKissack]] (1944–2017) – ''[[Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters]]'', ''[[Never Forgotten]]''
*[[Colin McNaughton]] (born 1951) – ''Captain Abdul's Pirate School''
*[[Janet McNeill]] (1907–1994) – ''My Friend Specs McCann'', ''The Battle of St. George Without''
*[[Karen McQuestion]] – ''Celia and the Fairies'', ''Edgewood''
*[[Geoffrey McSkimming]] (born 1962) – ''[[Cairo Jim]]'' series
*[[L. T. Meade]] (1854–1914) – ''A World of Girls''
*[[Stephen W. Meader]] (1892–1977) – ''[[Boy with a Pack]]''
*[[Rainbow Magic|Daisy Meadows]] – ''[[Rainbow Magic]]'' series
*[[Joe Medicine Crow]] (1913–2016) – ''Counting Coup: Becoming a Crow Chief on the Reservation and Beyond''
*[[Milton Meltzer]] (1915–2009) – ''The Black Americans'', ''The American Revolutionaries'', ''Mark Twain Himself''
*[[Jean Merrill]] (1923–2012) – ''[[The Pushcart War]]''
*[[Laurence Meynell]] (1899–1989) – ''The Old Gang''
*[[Karin Michaëlis]] (1872–1950) – ''Bibi'' 
*[[Richard Michelson]] (born 1953) – ''Animals That Ought to Be: Poems about Imaginary Pets'', ''Across the Alley''
*[[Katherine Milhous]] (1894–1977) – ''[[The Egg Tree]]''
*[[Olive Beaupre Miller]] (1883–1968) – ''My Book House'' series
*[[Sibley Miller]] – ''Breyer Wind Dancers'' series
*[[A. A. Milne]] (1882–1956) – ''[[Winnie-the-Pooh]]'', ''[[The House at Pooh Corner]]'', ''[[When We Were Very Young]]''
*[[Elyne Mitchell]] (1913–2002) – [[Silver Brumby|''Silver Brumby'' series]]
*[[Ingvar Moe]] (1936–1993) – ''Dei må ikkje skyta Garm (They Musn't Shoot Garm)''
*[[Walter Moers]] (born 1957) – ''[[The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear]]''
*[[John Mole (poet)|John Mole]] (born 1941) – "Variations on an old Rhyme"
*[[Chris Monroe]] (born 1962) – ''Monkey with a Tool Belt'', ''Sneaky Sheep''
*[[Frances Trego Montgomery]] (1858–1925) – ''Billy Whiskers'' series
*[[Lucy Maud Montgomery]] (1874–1942) – ''[[Anne of Green Gables]]'' series, ''[[Emily of New Moon]]''
*[[Susanna Moodie]] (1803–1885) – ''The Little Quaker'', ''The Sailor Brother''
*[[Clement Clarke Moore]] (1779–1863) – "[[A Visit From St. Nicholas]]"
*[[Pat Mora]] (born 1942) – ''[[Pablo's Tree]]'', ''A Library for Juana'', ''Confetti'', ''Doña Flor'', ''A Birthday Basket for Tia''
*[[Yuyi Morales]] (born 1968) – ''Niño Wrestles the World'', ''[[Viva Frida]]'', ''Little Night''
*[[Lorin Morgan-Richards]] (born 1975) – ''[[A Boy Born from Mold and Other Delectable Morsels]]'', ''[[The Goodbye Family]]''
*[[John A. Moroso]] (1874–1957) – ''[[Nobody's Buddy]]''
*[[Michael Morpurgo]] (born 1943) – ''[[Why the Whales Came]]'', ''[[The Wreck of the Zanzibar]]'', ''[[Private Peaceful]]''
*[[Farley Mowat]] (1921–2014) – ''[[Lost in the Barrens]]'', ''[[Owls in the Family]]''
*[[Robert Muchamore]] (born 1972) – ''[[CHERUB]]'' series, ''[[Henderson's Boys]]'' series
*[[Dhan Gopal Mukerji]] (1890–1936) – ''Kari the Elephant'', ''[[Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon]]'', ''Hindu Fables for Little Children''
*[[Clara Mulholland]] (1849–1934) – ''The Strange Adventures of Little Snowdrop and Other Tales''
*[[Brandon Mull]] (born 1974) – ''[[Fablehaven]]'' series
*[[Robert Munsch]] (born 1945) – ''[[Love You Forever]]'', ''[[The Paper Bag Princess]]''
*[[Jill Murphy]] (1949–2021) – ''[[The Worst Witch]]'', ''The Last Noo-Noo''
*[[Andrew Murray (children's writer)|Andrew Murray]] (born 1970) – ''Ghost Rescue''
*[[Susan Musgrave]] (born 1951) – ''Gullband'', ''Dreams Are More Real Than Bathtubs''

==N==
[[File:Emily_Cheney_Neville.jpg|thumb|[[Emily Cheney Neville]]]]
*[[Beverley Naidoo]] (born 1943) – ''Journey to Jo'burg'', ''[[The Other Side of Truth]]''
*[[Mali Madhavan Nair]] (1914–1994) – ''Mali Ramayanam'', ''Mali Bhagavatham'', ''Tenali Raman''
*[[Leela Nambudiripad]] (1934–2021) – ''Neypayasam, Mithayippoti''
*[[Claire Julie de Nanteuil]] (1834–1897) – ''Capitaine'', ''L'Épave mystérieuse''
*[[P. Narendranath]] (1934–1991) – ''Vikritiraman''
*[[John Neal]] (1793–1876) – ''Great Mysteries and Little Plagues''
*[[Violet Needham]] (1876–1967) – ''The Black Riders'', ''The Stormy Petrel'', ''The Woods of Windri''
*[[John R. Neill]] (1877–1943) – ''[[The Wonder City of Oz]]'', ''[[The Scalawagons of Oz]]'', ''[[Lucky Bucky in Oz]]''
*[[Marilyn Nelson]] (born 1946) – ''A Wreath for Emmett Till'', ''Snook Alone'', ''Ostrich and Lark''
*[[Božena Němcová]] (1820–1862) – ''Slovak Fairy Tales and Legends'', ''[[The Grandmother]]''
*[[Edith Nesbit]] (1858–1924) – ''[[The Story of the Treasure Seekers]]'' (Bastable series), ''[[The Railway Children]]'', ''[[Five Children and It]]'', ''[[The Phoenix and the Carpet]]'', ''[[The Story of the Amulet]]''
*[[Patrick Ness]] (born 1971) – [[Chaos Walking]] trilogy, ''[[A Monster Calls]]'', ''[[More Than This (novel)|More Than This]]''
*[[Emily Cheney Neville]] (1919–1997) – ''[[It's Like This, Cat]]'', ''Berries Goodman''
*[[John Newbery]] (1713–1767) – ''[[A Little Pretty Pocket-Book|A Little Pretty Pocket-Book, intended for the Amusement of Little Master Tommy and Pretty Miss Polly with Two Letters from Jack the Giant Killer]]''
*[[Beverley Nichols]] (1898–1983) – ''The Tree that Sat Down'', ''The Stream that Stood Still'', ''The Mountain of Magic''
*[[Sally Nicholls]] (born 1983) – ''[[Ways to Live Forever]]'', ''Season of Secrets'', ''Things a Bright Girl Can Do''
*[[Jenny Nimmo]] (born c. 1944) – ''[[The Snow Spider]]'' trilogy, ''[[Children of the Red King|Children of the Red King/Charlie Bone]]'' series
*[[Garth Nix]] (born 1963) – ''[[The Old Kingdom|The Old Kingdom/Abhorsen]]'' series, ''[[The Keys to the Kingdom]]'' series, ''[[The Seventh Tower]]'' series
*[[Joan Lowery Nixon]] (1927–2003) – ''Colonial Williamsburg'' series, ''Orphan Train'' series
*[[Ethel Nokes]] (1883–1976) – ''The Fourth Form Gang'', ''Nibs: The Story of a Pony''
*[[Andrew Norriss]] (born 1947) – ''Aquila'', ''The Unluckiest Boy in the World''
*[[Grace May North]] (1876–1960) – ''Bobs, a Girl Detective'', ''Meg of Mystery Mountain'', ''Sisters'', the ''Adele Doring'' series
*[[Jessica Nelson North]] (1891–1988) – ''The Giant Shoe''
*[[Sterling North]] (1906–1974) – ''Rascal'', ''The Wolfing''
*Carol Norton – pen name under which certain works of [[Grace May North]] (1876–1960) were reprinted
*[[Mary Norton (author)|Mary Norton]] (1903–1992) – ''[[The Borrowers]]'' series, ''Bedknob and Broomstick''
*[[Nikolay Nosov]] (1908–1976) – ''[[Dunno|The Adventures of Dunno and his Friends]]''
*[[Christine Nöstlinger]] (1936–2018) – ''Fly Away Home''
*[[Alfred Noyes]] (1880–1958) – ''The Secret of Pooduck Island'', ''Daddy Fell into the Pond and Other Poems for Children''
*[[Sevinj Nurugizi]] (born 1964) – ''Kite''

==O==
[[File:Mary_Pope_Osborne_credit_Elena_Seibert_2012.jpg|thumb|[[Mary Pope Osborne]]]]
*[[Graham Oakley]] (1929–2022) – ''The Church Mice'' series, ''Magical Changes''
*[[Robert C. O'Brien (author)|Robert C. O'Brien]] (1918–1973) – ''[[Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH]]'', ''[[Z for Zachariah]]''
*[[Jane O'Connor]] <!-- redirect to this work --> (born 1947) – ''[[Fancy Nancy]]'' series
*[[Scott O'Dell]] (1898–1989) – ''[[Island of the Blue Dolphins]]'', ''[[The King's Fifth]]'', ''[[The Black Pearl (Scott O'Dell)|The Black Pearl]]''
*[[Charles Ogden (children's writer)|Charles Ogden]] (Star Farm Productions [[pseudonym]] from 2003) – ''[[Edgar & Ellen]]'' series
*[[Ian Ogilvy]] (born 1943) – ''[[Measle and the Wrathmonk]]'', ''[[Measle and the Dragodon]]''
*[[Nnedi Okorafor]] (born 1974) – ''[[Zahrah the Windseeker]]'', ''[[Akata Witch]]'' series 
*[[Jenny Oldfield]] (born 1949) – ''My Magical Pony'', ''[[Home Farm Twins]]'', ''Horses of Half-Moon Ranch'' series
*[[Sibylle von Olfers]] (1881–1916) – ''The Root Children'', ''Little Princess in the Wood''
*[[Carola Oman]] (1897–1978) – ''Ferry the Fearless''
*[[Kenneth Oppel]] (born 1967) – [[Kenneth Oppel|Silverwing series]], ''[[Airborn (Oppel novel)|Airborn]]''
*[[Uri Orlev]] (born 1931) – ''[[The Island on Bird Street]]''
*[[Edward Ormondroyd]] (born 1925) – ''[[David and the Phoenix]]'', ''Castaways on Long Ago'', ''[[Time at the Top]]''
*[[Mary Pope Osborne]] (born 1949) – [[Magic Tree House series]] <!--, ''Tales from the Odyssey'' not famous enough for our biography to mention -->
*[[Pat O'Shea (author)|Pat O'Shea]] (1931–2007) – ''[[The Hounds of the Morrigan]]''
*[[Elsie J. Oxenham]] (1880–1960) – [[Abbey Series|Abbey series]]

==P==
[[File:PULLEIN-THOMPSON_sisters.jpg|thumb|The Pullein-Thompson sisters, [[Christine Pullein-Thompson|Christine]], [[Diana Pullein-Thompson|Diana]] and [[Josephine Pullein-Thompson|Josephine]]]]
*[[Roopa Pai]] – ''[[Taranauts]]'', ''The Gita for Children''
*[[Sippy Pallippuram]] (born 1943) – ''Oridathoru Kunjunni''
*[[Bernard Palmer]] (1914–1998) – [[Danny Orlis series|''Danny Orlis'' series]], ''Felicia Cartwright'' series
*[[Christopher Paolini]] (born 1983) – ''[[Inheritance Cycle]]''
*[[Peggy Parish]] (1927–1988) and [[Herman Parish]] – ''[[Amelia Bedelia]]'' series
*[[Barbara Park]] (1947–2013) – ''[[Skinnybones]]'', ''[[Junie B. Jones]]'' series
*[[Linda Sue Park]] (born 1960) – ''[[A Single Shard]]''
*[[Jenny Marsh Parker]] (1836–1913) – ''The Boy Missionary'', ''What a Little Child Should Know''
*[[Peter Parnall]] (born 1936) – ''Winter Barn'', ''Apple Tree'', ''Woodpile''
*[[Anne Parrish]] (1888–1957) – ''[[The Dream Coach]]'', ''[[Floating Island]]'', ''[[The Story of Appleby Capple]]''
*[[Katherine Paterson]] (born 1932) – ''[[The Master Puppeteer]]'', ''[[Bridge to Terabithia (novel)|Bridge to Terabithia]]'', ''[[The Great Gilly Hopkins]]'', ''[[Jacob Have I Loved]]''
*[[Jill Paton Walsh]] (1937–2020) – ''Gaffer Samson's Luck'', ''The Emperor's Winding Sheet''
*[[James Patterson]] (born 1947) – ''[[Maximum Ride]]'' series, ''[[The Dangerous Days of Daniel X]]''
*[[Gary Paulsen]] (1939–2021) – ''[[Hatchet (novel)|Hatchet]]'', ''The Time Hackers''
*[[Michelle Paver]] (born 1960) – ''[[Chronicles of Ancient Darkness]]'' series
*[[Philippa Pearce]] (1920–2006) – ''[[Tom's Midnight Garden]]''
*[[Kit Pearson]] (born 1947) – ''[[The Sky Is Falling (Pearson novel)|The Sky Is Falling]]'', ''[[Awake and Dreaming]]''
*[[Ridley Pearson]] (born 1953) – ''[[Peter and the Starcatchers]]'' series, ''[[The Kingdom Keepers]]'' series
*[[Howard Pease]] (1894–1974) – ''Secret Cargo'', ''Highroad to Adventure'', ''Bound for Singapore''
*[[Dale Peck]] (born 1967) – ''[[Drift House: The First Voyage|Drift House]]'' series
*[[Ethel Pedley]] (1859–1898) – ''[[Dot and the Kangaroo]]''
*[[Mary Louise Peebles]], a.k.a. Lynde Palmer (1833–1915) – ''The Magnet Stories''
*[[Bill Peet]] (1915–2002) – ''[[The Wump World]]'', ''Hubert's Hair-Raising Adventure''
*[[Daniel Pennac]] (born 1944) – ''The Eye of the Wolf''
*[[Ethel Penrose]] (1857–1938) – ''Clear as the Noon Day''
*[[Lucy Fitch Perkins]] (1865–1937) – ''Twins'' series
*[[Lynne Rae Perkins]] (born 1956) – ''[[Criss Cross (novel)|Criss Cross]]'', ''All Alone in the Universe''
*[[Sarah Maria Clinton Perkins]] (1824–1905) – ''Alice and Her Friends'', ''Eugene Cooper''
*[[Charles Perrault]] (1628–1703) – ''[[Tales of Mother Goose]]'', ''[[Little Red Riding Hood]]''
*Jen Petro-Roy (born 1982) – ''P.S. I Miss You'', ''Life in the Balance'', ''You are Enough'', ''Good Enough: A Novel''
*[[K. M. Peyton]] (born 1929) – ''[[Flambards]]'', ''[[Fly-by-Night (Peyton novel)|Fly-by-Night]]'', ''Prove Yourself a Hero'', ''[[Blind Beauty]]''
*[[LeUyen Pham]] (born 1973) – ''Big Sister, Little Sister ''
*[[Rodman Philbrick]] (born 1951) – ''[[Freak The Mighty]]'', ''[[Max the Mighty]]'', ''[[The Last Book in the Universe]]'', ''[[The Fire Pony]]''
*[[Joan Phipson]] (1912–2003) – ''The Boundary Riders'', ''The Family Conspiracy'', ''Polly's Tiger''
*[[Tamora Pierce]] (born 1954) – ''[[Tortall]]'' series, ''[[Circle of Magic]]'' series
*[[Clara D. Pierson]] (1868–1952) – ''Among the People'' series
*[[Christopher Pike (author)|Christopher Pike]] (born 1954) – ''[[Spooksville]]'' series
*[[Dav Pilkey]] (born 1966) – ''[[Captain Underpants]]'' series
*[[Elizabeth Pinchard]] (fl. 1791–1820) – ''The Blind Child, or, Anecdotes of the Wyndham Family'', ''The Two Cousins''
*[[Daniel Pinkwater]] (born 1941) – ''[[The Big Orange Splot]]'', ''[[The Hoboken Chicken Emergency]]''
*[[Saviour Pirotta]] (born 1958) – ''[[The Orchard Book of First Greek Myths]]''
*[[Annabel Pitcher]] (born 1982) – ''[[My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece]]'', ''[[Ketchup Clouds]]''
*[[Sarah Pitt]] (fl. 1881–1900)
*[[Kin Platt]] (1911–2003) – ''[[Big Max]]'' series, ''[[The Blue Man]]''
*[[Peter Pohl]] (born 1940) – ''[[Johnny, My Friend]]''
*[[Patricia Polacco]] (born 1944) – ''[[Christmas Tapestry]]'', ''[[Pink and Say]]''
*[[Josephine Pollard]] (1834–1892) – ''The Brave Little Tailor'', ''The Life of Washington, A Child's History of America: Told in One-Syllable Words'', ''Bible Stories for Children''
*[[Delia Lyman Porter]] (1858–1933) – "Time and Tommy", "How Polly Saw the Aprons Grow"
*[[Eleanor H. Porter]] (1868–1920) – ''[[Pollyanna]]''
*[[Tracey Porter]] – ''Billy Creekmore''
*[[Lidia Postma]] (born 1952) – ''[[The Witch's Garden]]'', ''The Stolen Mirror''
*[[Beatrix Potter]] (1866–1943) – ''[[The Tale of Peter Rabbit]]'', ''[[The Tailor of Gloucester]]''
*[[Ellen Potter]] (born {{circa|1960|lk=yes}}) – ''Olivia Kidney'' series
*[[Rhoda Power]] (1890–1957) – [[Rhoda Power#Redcap Runs Away|''Redcap Runs Away'']]
*[[Núria Pradas]] (born 1954) – ''Sota el mateix cel''
*[[Terry Pratchett]] (1948–2015) – ''[[The Nome Trilogy]]'', ''[[Johnny Maxwell]]'' series, ''[[The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents]]'', ''[[Tiffany Aching]]'' series
*[[Otfried Preussler]] (1923–2013) – ''[[The Robber Hotzenplotz]]'', ''[[The Curse of the Darkling Mill]]''
*[[Willard Price]] (1887–1983) – ''[[Amazon Adventure]]'', [[The Adventure Series (Willard Price)|''Adventure'' series]]
*[[Elise Primavera]] (born 1955) – ''[[The Secret Order of the Gumm Street Girls]]''
*[[Alison Prince]] (1931–2019) – ''[[My Royal Story]]''
*[[Alf Prøysen]] (1914–1970) – ''[[Mrs. Pepperpot]]'' series
*[[Christine Pullein-Thompson]] (1925–2005) – ''We Rode to the Sea''
*[[Diana Pullein-Thompson]] (1925–2015) – ''I Wanted a Pony''
*[[Josephine Pullein-Thompson]] (1924–2014) – ''Six Ponies''
*[[Philip Pullman]] (born 1946) – ''[[His Dark Materials]]'' trilogy, ''[[Clockwork (novel)|Clockwork]]'', ''[[The Firework-Maker's Daughter]]''
*[[Howard Pyle]] (1853–1911) – ''[[Otto of the Silver Hand]]'', ''[[The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood]]'', ''[[Men of Iron]]''

==R==
[[File:Manon_Steffan_Ros_(33218890640)_(cropped).jpg|thumb|[[Manon Steffan Ros]]]]
*[[Gwynedd Rae]] (1892–1977) – ''[[Mary Plain]]'' series
*[[Janette Rallison]] (born 1966) – ''Fame, Glory, and Other Things on My To Do List''
*[[María Cristina Ramos]] (born 1952) – ''La luna lleva un silencio'', ''El trasluz'' 
*[[Arthur Ransome]] (1884–1967) – [[Swallows and Amazons series|''Swallows and Amazons'' series]]
*[[Ellen Raskin]] (1928–1984) – ''[[The Westing Game]]'', ''[[Figgs & Phantoms]]''
*[[Onjali Q. Raúf]] (born 1981) – ''The Boy at the Back of the Class'', ''The Great (Food) Bank Heist''
*[[Marjorie Rawlings]] (1896–1953) – ''[[The Yearling]]'', ''[[The Secret River (Rawlings book)|The Secret River]]''
*[[Wilson Rawls]] (1913–1984) – ''[[Where the Red Fern Grows]]'', ''[[Summer of the Monkeys]]''
*[[Sukumar Ray]] (1887–1923) – ''[[HaJaBaRaLa]]'', ''[[Abol Tabol]]'', ''[[Pagla Dashu]]''
*[[Helen Leah Reed]] (1861/62 - 1926) - Brenda series
*[[Talbot Baines Reed]] (1852–1893) – ''[[The Fifth Form at St. Dominic's]]''
*[[W. Maxwell Reed]] (1871–1962) – ''The Earth for Sam'', ''The Stars for Sam''
*[[Celia Rees]] (born 1949) – ''The Bailey Game'', ''[[Witch Child]]'', ''Pirates!''
*[[David Rees (author)|David Rees]] (1936–1993) – ''[[The Exeter Blitz]]'', ''The Flying Island''
*[[Gwyneth Rees]] (born 1968) – ''The Mum Hunt'', ''Fairy Dust'' series, ''Mermaid Magic''
*[[Philip Reeve]] (born 1966) – ''[[Buster Bayliss]]'', ''[[Mortal Engines]]'', ''[[Larklight]]'' 
*[[Meta Mayne Reid]] (1905–1991) – ''Beyond the Wide World's End''
*[[Thomas Mayne Reid]] (1818–1883) – ''The Boy Hunters'', ''The Young Voyageurs'', ''The Boy Tar''
*[[Kathryn Reiss]] (born 1957) – ''Time Windows'', ''Paint by Magic'', ''Sweet Miss Honeywell's Revenge''
*[[Ren Rongrong]] (1923–2022) – ''Nobrain'', ''Neverhappy''
*[[Adam Rex]] (born 1973) – ''[[The True Meaning of Smekday]]'', ''Cold Cereal'', ''Fat Vampire'', ''Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich''
*[[H. A. Rey]] (1898–1977) and [[Margret Rey]] (1906–1996) – ''[[Curious George]]'' series, ''[[Pretzel (picture book)|Pretzel]]''
*[[Lou Rhodes]] – ''The Phlunk'', ''The Phlunk's Worldwide Symphony''
*[[Charles Hamilton (writer)|Frank Richards]] (1876–1961) – [[Greyfriars School]] stories featuring [[Billy Bunter]]
*[[Justin Richards]] (born 1961) – ''[[The Invisible Detective]]'' series
*[[Laura E. Richards]] (1850–1943) – ''[[Captain January (novel)|Captain January]]'', ''Tirra Lirra'', ''Eletelephony''
*[[E. J. Richmond]] (1825–1918) – ''[[The Jewelled Serpent]]''
*[[Chris Riddell]] (born 1962) – ''[[The Edge Chronicles]]'', ''[[Barnaby Grimes]]''
*[[E. V. Rieu]] (1887–1972) – ''The Flattered Flying Fish and Other Poems''
*[[Rick Riordan]] (born 1964) – ''[[Percy Jackson & the Olympians]]'', ''[[The Heroes of Olympus]]'', ''[[The Kane Chronicles]]'', ''[[The Maze of Bones]]''
*[[Jamie Rix]] (born 1958) – ''[[The Revenge Files of Alistair Fury|Alistair Fury]]'' series, ''[[Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids]]'' series
*[[Keith Robertson (writer)|Keith Robertson]] (1914–1991) – ''[[Henry Reed (fictional character)|Henry Reed]]'' series
*[[Hilary Robinson (author)|Hilary Robinson]] (born 1962) – ''Mixed Up Fairy Tales'', ''Where The Poppies Now Grow''
*[[Joan G. Robinson]] (1910–1988) – ''Teddy Robinson'' series, ''When Marnie Was There''
*[[Gary D. Robson]] (born 1958) – ''Who Pooped?'' series
*[[Gianni Rodari]] (1920–1980) – ''Telephone Tales (Favole al telefono)'', ''Tales Told by a Machine (Novelle fatte a macchina)''
*[[Emily Rodda]] (born 1948) – ''[[Fairy Realm]]'' series, ''[[Rowan of Rin]]'' series, ''[[Deltora Quest (series)|Deltora Quest]]'' series
*[[Don Roff]] (born 1966) – ''[[Scary Stories (with creepy hand lock)|Scary Stories]]''
*[[Manon Steffan Ros]] (born 1983) – ''Fi a Joe Allen'', ''Llyfr Glas Nebo (The Blue Book of Nebo)''
*[[Malcolm Rose]] (born 1953) – [[Traces series|''Traces'' series]], [[Lawless and Tilley series|''Lawless and Tilley'' series]]
*[[Simon Rose (author)|Simon Rose]] (born 1961) – ''The Alchemist's Portrait'', ''The Sorcerer's Letterbox'', ''The Clone Conspiracy'', ''The Emerald Curse'', ''The Heretic's Tomb''
*[[Michael Rosen]] (born 1946) – ''[[Sad Book]]'', ''Fantastically Funny Stories'', ''Quick, Let's Get Out of Here'', ''[[We're Going on a Bear Hunt]]''
*[[Amy Krouse Rosenthal]] – ''[[Duck! Rabbit!]]''
*[[Meg Rosoff]] (born 1956) – ''[[How I Live Now]]'', ''Just In Case'', ''There Is No Dog'', ''Picture Me Gone''
*[[Diana Ross (author)|Diana Ross]] (1910–2000) – ''The Little Red Engine'' series
*[[Miriam Roth]] (1910–2005) – ''A Tale of Five Balloons''
*[[Veronica Roth]] (born 1988) – ''[[Divergent (novel)|Divergent]]'', ''[[Insurgent (novel)|Insurgent]]'', ''[[Allegiant (novel)|Allegiant]]''
*[[J. K. Rowling]] (born 1965) – ''[[Harry Potter]]'' series
*[[Hemendra Kumar Roy]] (1888–1963) – ''[[Bimal-Kumar]]'' series
*[[Ron Roy]] (born 1940) – ''[[A to Z Mysteries]]'', ''[[Capital Mysteries]]''
*[[Gillian Rubinstein]] (born 1942) – ''[[Space Demons]]'', ''[[Galax-Arena]]''
*[[Katherine Rundell]] (born 1987) – ''The Girl Savage'', ''Rooftoppers''
*[[Salman Rushdie]] (born 1947) – ''[[Haroun and the Sea of Stories]]''
*[[Rachel Renee Russell]] (born 1959) – ''[[Dork Diaries]]''
*[[An Rutgers van der Loeff]] (1910–1990) – ''Children on the Oregon Trail'', ''Avalanche!''
*[[Chris Ryan]] (born 1961) – [[Alpha Force Books|''Alpha Force'' series]]
*[[Pam Muñoz Ryan]] (born 1951) – ''[[Esperanza Rising]]'', ''[[Becoming Naomi León]]''
*[[Amy Louisa Rye]] (1851–unknown) – ''A White Child''
*[[Cynthia Rylant]] (born 1954) – ''[[Missing May]]'', ''[[Henry and Mudge]]'' series, ''[[Poppleton (book series)|Poppleton]]'' series

==S==
[[File:Portrait_of_Shel_Silverstein_in_c._1964_by_Jerry_Yulsman.jpg|thumb|[[Shel Silverstein]]]]
*[[Louis Sachar]] (born 1954) – ''[[Sideways Stories From Wayside School]]'' series, ''[[Holes (book)|Holes]]''
*[[Angie Sage]] (born 1952) – ''[[Septimus Heap]]'' series
*[[Antoine de Saint-Exupéry]] (1900–1944) – ''[[The Little Prince]]''
*[[Emilio Salgari]] (1862–1911) – ''[[The Tigers of Mompracem]]'', ''[[The Black Corsair]]''
*[[Felix Salten]] (1869–1945) – ''[[Bambi, A Life in the Woods|Bambi]]'' 
*[[Carl Sandburg]] (1878–1967) – ''[[Rootabaga Stories]]''
*[[Brandon Sanderson]] (born 1975) – ''[[Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians]]''
*[[Yōko Sano]] (1938–2010) – ''The Cat that Lived a Million Times''
*[[Margaret Marshall Saunders]] (1861–1947) – ''[[Beautiful Joe]]''
*[[Constance Savery]] (1897–1999) – ''Enemy Brothers''
*[[Malcolm Saville]] (1901–1982) – ''[[Lone Pine Club]]'' series
*[[Ruth Sawyer]] (1880–1970) – ''[[Roller Skates]]''
*[[Allen Say]] (born 1937) – ''[[Grandfather's Journey]]'', ''The Ink-Keeper's Apprentice''
*[[Kurtis Scaletta]] – ''Mudville'', ''Mamba Point'', ''The Tanglewood Terror''
*[[Richard Scarry]] (1919–1994) – ''Busytown'' series
*[[Annet Schaap]] (born 1965) – ''Lampje''
*[[Pam Scheunemann]] (born 1955) – ''Overdue Kangaroo'', ''Ape Cape'', ''The Crane Loves Grain''
*[[Jon Scieszka]] (born 1954) – ''[[The Time Warp Trio]]'', ''[[The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs!]]'', ''[[Science Verse]]''
*[[Miriam Schlein]] (1926–2004) – ''The Year of the Panda'', ''I, Tut'', ''The Way Mothers Are''
*[[Mark Schlichting]] (born 1948) – ''Harry and the Haunted House''
*[[Laura Amy Schlitz]] (born 1955) – ''[[Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village]]''
*[[Christoph von Schmid]] (1768–1854) – ''The Basket of Flowers'', ''Easter Eggs''
*[[Annie M. G. Schmidt]] (1911–1995) – ''[[Jip and Janneke]]'', ''[[Abeltje]]'',  ''[[Pluk van de Petteflet]]''
*[[Alvin Schwartz (children's author)|Alvin Schwartz]] (1927–1992) – ''[[Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark]]''
*[[Ann Scott-Moncrieff]] (1914–1943) – ''Aboard the Bulger'', ''Auntie Robbo''
*[[Michael Scott (Irish author)|Michael Scott]] (born 1959) – ''[[The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel]]'' series
*[[William Matthew Scott|Will Scott]] (1893–1964) – ''The Cherrys'' series
*[[Laura Vaccaro Seeger]] – ''First the Egg'', [[Green (picture book)|''Green'']]
*[[Countess of Ségur]] (1799–1874) – ''[[Sophie's Misfortunes]]'', ''[[Good Little Girls (novel)|Good Little Girls]]'', ''Monsieur Cadichon: Memoirs of a Donkey''
*[[Tor Seidler]] (born 1952) – ''A Rat's Tale'', ''The Wainscott Weasel'', ''Mean Margaret''
*[[Joshua Seigal]] - ''I Don't Like Poetry''
*[[George Selden (author)|George Selden]] (1929–1989) – ''[[The Cricket in Times Square]]'' series
*[[Maurice Sendak]] (1928–2012) – ''[[Where the Wild Things Are]]''
*[[Kate Seredy]] (1896–1975) – ''[[The White Stag]]'', ''[[The Good Master]]'', ''[[The Singing Tree]]''
*[[Ernest Thompson Seton]] (1860–1946) – ''[[Wild Animals I Have Known]]'', ''[[Bannertail]]'', ''Two Little Savages''
*[[Dr. Seuss]] (1904–1991) – ''[[The Cat in the Hat]]'', ''[[Green Eggs and Ham]]'', ''[[How the Grinch Stole Christmas!]]''
*[[David Severn]] (1918–2010) – ''Ponies and Poachers'', ''Dream Gold'', ''The Future Took Us''
*[[Anna Sewell]] (1820–1878) – ''[[Black Beauty]]''
*[[Elizabeth Missing Sewell]] (1815–1906) – ''Amy Herbert''
*[[Miranda Seymour]] (born 1948) – ''Mumtaz the Magical Cat''
*[[Evelyn Sharp (suffragist)|Evelyn Sharp]] (1869–1955) – ''All the Way to Fairyland'', ''[[The Other Side of the Sun]]''
*[[Margery Sharp]] (1905–1991) – ''[[The Rescuers (book)|The Rescuers]]''
*[[Mark Shasha]] (born 1961) – ''[[Night of the Moonjellies]]''
*[[Charles Green Shaw]] (1892–1974) – ''[[It Looked Like Spilt Milk]]''
*[[Jane Shaw (Scottish author)|Jane Shaw]] (1910–2000) – ''Susan Pulls the Strings''
*[[Mary Shelley]] (1797–1851) – ''[[Maurice (Shelley)|Maurice, or the Fisher's Cot]]''
*[[Dorothy Sherrill]] (1901–1990) – ''The Story of a Little Gray Mouse''
*[[Mary Martha Sherwood]] (1775–1851) – ''[[The History of Little Henry and his Bearer]]'', ''[[The History of the Fairchild Family]]''
*[[Gary Shipman]] (born 1966) and [[Rhoda Shipman]] (born 1968) – ''[[Pakkins' Land]]''
*[[Uri Shulevitz]] (1935–2025) – ''The Treasure'', ''[[Snow (picture book)|Snow]]'', ''[[How I Learned Geography]]''
*[[Mark Shulman (author)|Mark Shulman]] (born 1962) – ''Scrawl'', ''Mom and Dad are Palindromes'', ''Secret Hiding Places''
*[[Henryk Sienkiewicz]] (1846–1916) – ''[[In Desert and Wilderness]]''
*[[Yrsa Sigurðardóttir]] (born 1963) – ''We Want Christmas in July'', ''Biobörn''
*[[Shel Silverstein]] (1930–1999) – ''[[The Giving Tree]]'', ''[[Where the Sidewalk Ends (book)|Where the Sidewalk Ends]]''
*[[Francesca Simon]] (born 1955) – ''[[Horrid Henry]]'' series
*[[Seymour Simon (author)|Seymour Simon]] (born 1931) – ''Einstein Anderson, Science Detective''
*[[Ada Simond]] (1903–1989) – ''Let's Pretend'' series
*[[Catherine Sinclair]] (1800–1864) – ''[[Holiday House (novel)|Holiday House: A Book for the Young]]''
*[[Lester Basil Sinclair]] (1894–1974) – ''Why Cows Moo''
*[[Isaac Bashevis Singer]] (1902–1991) – ''[[Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories]]'', ''A Day of Pleasure'', ''[[The Golem (Singer novel)|The Golem]]''
*[[Marilyn Singer]] (born 1948) – ''Turtle in July''
*[[S. Sivadas]] (born 1940) – ''Rasatantra Kathakal'', ''Pustaka Kalikal''
*[[Steve Skidmore]] <!-- R to joint biography --> (born 1960) and Steve Barlow – ''[[Outernet (book)|Outernet]]'' series
*[[Obert Skye]] – ''[[Leven Thumps]]'' series
*[[Ioan Slavici]]  (1848–1925) – ''[[The Fairy Aurora]]'', ''The Twins with the Golden Star''
*[[Arthur Slade]] (born 1967) – ''Dust'', ''The Hunchback Assignments''
*[[William Sleator]] (1945–2011) – ''[[Singularity (William Sleator novel)|Singularity]]'', ''[[Rewind (William Sleator novel)|Rewind]]''
*[[Barbara Sleigh]] (1906–1982) – [[Carbonel series|''Carbonel'' series]], ''[[Jessamy]]'', ''[[No One Must Know]]'', ''[[The Snowball (children's novel)|The Snowball]]''
*[[Dodie Smith]] (1896–1990) – ''[[The Hundred and One Dalmatians]]''
*[[Edward Wyke Smith]] (1871–1935) – ''[[The Marvellous Land of Snergs]]''
*[[Georgina Castle Smith]] (1845–1933) – ''Froggy's Little Brother''
*[[Roland Smith]] (born 1951) – ''[[Thunder Cave]]'', ''[[Peak (novel)|Peak]]'', ''[[Cryptid Hunters]]''
*[[Barbara Smucker]] (1915–2003) – ''[[Underground to Canada]]'', ''Days of Terror''
[[File:Hilda_van_Stockum_(circa_1957).jpg|thumb|[[Hilda van Stockum]]]]
*[[Pat Smythe]] (1928–1996) – ''Three Jays'' series, ''Adventure'' series
*[[Caroline Snedeker]] (1871–1956) – ''[[Downright Dencey]]'', ''[[The Forgotten Daughter]]''
*[[Daniel Handler|Lemony Snicket]] (born 1970) – ''[[A Series of Unfortunate Events]]''
*[[Jack Snow (writer)|Jack Snow]] (1907–1956) – ''[[The Magical Mimics in Oz]]'', ''[[The Shaggy Man of Oz]]''
*[[Laurel Snyder]] – ''[[Up and Down the Scratchy Mountains]]'', ''Any Which Wall'', ''Penny Dreadful''
*[[Zilpha Keatley Snyder]] (1927–2014) – ''[[The Egypt Game]]'', ''[[The Headless Cupid]]'', ''[[The Witches of Worm]]''
*[[Donald J. Sobol]] (1924–2012) – ''[[Encyclopedia Brown]]'' series, ''Two-Minute Mysteries'' series
*[[Angela Sommer-Bodenburg]] (born 1948) – ''[[The Little Vampire (book series)|The Little Vampire]]'' series
*[[Virginia Sorensen]] (1912–1991) – ''[[Miracles on Maple Hill]]''
*[[Ivan Southall]] (1921–2008) – ''[[Josh (novel)|Josh]]'', ''[[Ash Road]]'', ''[[Hills End]]'', ''To the Wild Sky'', ''Bread and Honey'', ''Fly West''
*[[Stephen Southwold]] (1887–1964) – ''Fiddlededee: A Medley of Stories''
*[[Elizabeth George Speare]] (1908–1994) – ''[[The Witch of Blackbird Pond]]'', ''[[The Bronze Bow]]'', ''[[The Sign of the Beaver]]''
*[[Armstrong Sperry]] (1897–1976) – ''[[Call It Courage]]''
*[[Peter Spier]] (1927–2017) – ''[[Noah's Ark (Spier book)|Noah's Ark]]''
*[[Jerry Spinelli]] (born 1941) – ''[[Loser (novel)|Loser]]'', ''[[Stargirl (novel)|Stargirl]]'', ''[[Maniac Magee]]'', ''[[Crash (1996 novel)|Crash]]'', ''[[Wringer (novel)|Wringer]]''
*[[Nancy Springer]] (born 1948) – ''[[The Enola Holmes Mysteries]]'', ''[[Tales of Rowan Hood]]''
*[[Tricia Springstubb]] (born 1950) – ''What Happened on Fox Street'', ''In the Dark, Phoebe and Digger''
*[[E. C. Spykman]] (1896–1965) – ''A Lemon and a Star'', ''The Wild Angel'', ''Terrible Horrible Edie'', ''Edie on the Warpath''
*[[Johanna Spyri]] (1827–1901) – ''[[Heidi]]''
*[[Andy Stanton]] (born 1973) – ''Mr Gum'' series
*[[Dugald Steer]] (born 1965) – ''[[Ologies]]'' series
*[[William Steig]] (1907–2003) – ''[[Sylvester and the Magic Pebble]]'', ''[[Doctor De Soto]]'', ''[[Shrek!]]''
*[[John Steptoe]] (1950–1989) – ''Stevie'', ''Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters''
*[[Robin Stevens (author)|Robin Stevens]] (born 1988) – ''[[Murder Most Unladylike]]''
*[[Robert Louis Stevenson]] (1850–1894) – ''[[A Child's Garden of Verses]]'', ''[[Treasure Island]]'', ''[[Kidnapped (novel)|Kidnapped]]''
*[[Jennifer J. Stewart]] – ''If That Breathes Fire, We're Toast!'', ''Close Encounters of a Third World Kind''
*[[Mary Stewart (novelist)|Mary Stewart]] (1916–2014) – ''The Little Broomstick'', ''Ludo and the Star Horse'', ''A Walk in Wolf Wood''
*[[Paul Stewart (writer)|Paul Stewart]] (born 1955) – ''[[The Edge Chronicles]]'', ''[[Fergus Crane]]'', ''[[Muddle Earth]]'', ''[[Barnaby Grimes]]''
*[[R. L. Stine]] (born 1943) – ''[[Goosebumps]]'', ''[[Fear Street]]'', ''[[The Nightmare Room]]'' series
*[[Frank R. Stockton]] (1834–1902) – ''[[The Lady, or the Tiger?]]''
*[[Hilda van Stockum]] (1908–2006) – ''[[A Day on Skates]]'', ''The Winged Watchman''
*[[Margaret Storey (children's writer)|Margaret Storey]] (1926–2022) – ''Timothy and the Two Witches'', ''The Stone Sorcerer'', ''Pauline''
*[[Walter Scott Story]] (1879–1955) – ''Skinny Harrison Adventurer''
*[[Herbert Strang]] (1866–1958) – ''Round the World in Seven Days'', ''King of the Air'', ''Rob the Ranger''
*[[Todd Strasser]] (born 1950) – ''[[Help! I'm Trapped...]]'' series
*[[Edward Stratemeyer]] (1862–1930) – founder of the [[Stratemeyer Syndicate]] that produced many series, most famously [[Rover Boys]] (by Stratemeyer as Arthur M. Winfield), [[Bobbsey Twins]], [[Tom Swift]], [[Hardy Boys]], and [[Nancy Drew]]
*[[Noel Streatfeild]] (1895–1986) – ''[[Ballet Shoes (novel)|Ballet Shoes]]'', ''[[The Circus Is Coming]]'', ''[[Curtain Up (novel)|Curtain Up]]'', ''[[White Boots]]'', ''[[The Painted Garden]]'' (US titles ''Circus Shoes'', ''Theater Shoes'', ''Skating Shoes'', ''Movie Shoes'')
*[[Jakob Streit]] (1910–2009) – ''Liputto: Stories of Gnomes and Trolls''
*[[Hesba Stretton]] (1832–1911) – ''Jessica's First Prayer''
*[[Agnes Strickland]] (1796–1874) – ''Tales from English History for Children'', ''The Rival Crusoes''
*[[Charles S. Strong]] (1906–1962) – ''[[The Hooded Hawk Mystery]]'', ''[[The Scarlet Slipper Mystery]]'', ''Snow King: Herd Dog of Lapland''
*[[Jeremy Strong (author)|Jeremy Strong]] (born 1949) – ''There's a Viking in My Bed''
*[[Jonathan Stroud]] (born 1970) – ''[[The Bartimaeus Trilogy]]'', ''[[Lockwood & Co.]]''
*[[Margaret Stuart (poet)|Dorothy Margaret Stuart]] (1889–1963) – ''The Children's Chronicle'', ''The Young Clavengers''
*[[Sheila Stuart]] (1892–1984) – ''Alison's Highland Holiday''
*[[Jennifer Sullivan (writer)|Jennifer Sullivan]] (born 1945) – ''The Magic Apostrophe'', ''Gwydion and the Flying Wand''
*[[Deirdre Sullivan]] – ''Tangleweed and Brine'', ''Prim Improper''
*[[Rosemary Sutcliff]] (1920–1992) – ''[[The Eagle of the Ninth]]'', ''[[The Lantern Bearers (Sutcliff novel)|The Lantern Bearers]]'', ''[[The Mark of the Horse Lord]]'', ''[[Black Ships Before Troy]]''
*[[Jón Sveinsson]] (1857–1944) – ''Nonni'' series 
*[[Jonathan Swift]] (1667–1745) – ''[[Gulliver's Travels]]''

==T==
[[File:Rajesh_Talwar_Book_Signing.png|thumb|[[Rajesh Talwar]]]]
*[[Rajesh Talwar]] (born 1958) – ''The Three Greens''
*[[Shaun Tan]] (born 1974) – ''[[The Red Tree (Shaun Tan)|The Red Tree]]'', ''[[The Lost Thing]]'', ''Tales from Outer Suburbia'', ''Rules of Summer''
*[[Kathryn Tanquary]] – ''[[The Night Parade]]''
*[[Ambreen Tariq]] – ''Fatima's Great Outdoors''
*[[Ann Taylor (poet)|Ann Taylor]] (1782–1866) and [[Jane Taylor (poet)|Jane Taylor]] (1783–1824) – ''[[Rhymes for the Nursery]]'', ''Original Poems for Infant Minds'', ''Little Ann and Other Poems''
*[[Dorota Terakowska]] (1938–2004) – ''Córka czarownicy''
*[[K. Thayat]] (1927–2011) – ''Mela, Naivedyam''
*[[Colin Thiele]] (1920–2006) – ''[[Storm Boy (novel)|Storm Boy]]'', ''[[Blue Fin]]'', ''[[Sun on the Stubble]]''
*[[Scarlett Thomas]] (born 1972) – ''Worldquake'' series
*[[Kate Thompson (author)|Kate Thompson]] (born 1956) – ''[[Switchers Trilogy|Switchers]]'', ''[[The New Policeman]]''
*[[Ruth Plumly Thompson]] (1891–1976) – ''[[The Royal Book of Oz]]'' (1921) and twenty subsequent [[Oz books]]
*[[Thorarinn Leifsson]] (born 1966) – ''Father's Big Secret'', ''[[Bókasafn Ömmu Huldar|Grandmother's Library]]''
*[[James Thurber]] (1894–1961) – ''[[The Thirteen Clocks]]'', ''[[The Wonderful O]]'', ''[[Many Moons]]''
*[[Tim Tingle]] ({{floruit|2002–2018}}) – ''Crossing Bok Chitto: A Choctaw Tale of Friendship and Freedom''
*[[Eve Titus]] (1905–2002) – ''[[Basil of Baker Street]]'' series, ''[[Anatole (mouse)|Anatole]]'' series
*[[Ada Josephine Todd]] (1858–1904) – ''The Vacation Club''
*[[Barbara Euphan Todd]] (1890–1976) – ''[[Worzel Gummidge]]'' series
*[[H. E. Todd]] (1908–1988) – ''Bobby Brewster'' series
*[[J. R. R. Tolkien]] (1892–1973) – ''[[The Hobbit]]'', ''[[The Father Christmas Letters]]''
*[[Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoy]] (1883–1945) – ''[[Buratino|The Golden Key, or the Adventures of Buratino]]''
*[[Leo Tolstoy]] (1828–1910) – ''Classic Tales and Fables for Children''
*[[Theresa Tomlinson]] (born 1946) – ''The Forestwife'', ''Meet Me by the Steelmen'', ''[[The Moon Riders]]''
*[[Hazel Townson]] (1928–2010) – ''The Deathwood Letters'', ''The Speckled Panic'', ''The Invisible Boy''
*[[Catharine Parr Traill]] (1802–1899) – ''[[Canadian Crusoes]]''
*[[Nigel Tranter]] (1909–2000) – ''Spaniard's Isle'', ''Nestor the Monster''
*[[P. L. Travers]] (1899–1986) – ''[[Mary Poppins (book series)|Mary Poppins]]'' series
*[[Mary Treadgold]] (1910–2005) – ''[[We Couldn't Leave Dinah]]''
*[[Geoffrey Trease]] (1909–1998) – ''[[Cue for Treason]]'', ''[[The Hills of Varna]]''
*[[Henry Treece]] (1911–1966) – ''Horned Helmet'', ''[[The Road to Miklagard]]'', ''The Children's Crusade''
*[[Sharon Tregenza]] (born 1951) – ''Tarantula Tide'', ''The Shiver Stone''
*[[Meriol Trevor]] (1919–2000) – ''Merlin's Ring'', ''The Other Side of the Moon'', ''The Rose Round'', ''The King of the Castle'', ''The Letzenstein Chronicles''
*[[John R. Tunis]] (1889–1975) – ''Iron Duke'', ''All American'', ''Keystone Kids'', ''The Kid from Tomkinsville''
*[[Ann Turnbull]] (born 1943) – ''Pigeon Summer'', ''The Sand Horse'', ''[[No Shame, No Fear]]''
*[[Ethel Turner]] (1872–1958) – ''[[Seven Little Australians]]''
*[[Julian Tuwim]] (1894–1953) – "The Locomotive" and other poems for children, 
*[[Mark Twain]] (1835–1910) – ''[[The Adventures of Tom Sawyer]]'', ''[[The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn]]''

==U==
[[File:Eduard_Uspensky_2.jpg|thumb|[[Eduard Uspensky]]]]
*[[Tomi Ungerer]] (1931–2019) – ''The Mellops'' series, ''Moon Man'', ''Flix ''
*[[Florence Kate Upton]] (1873–1922) – ''[[Golliwogg|The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls and a Golliwogg]]''
*[[Anne Ursu]] – ''The Cronus Chronicles''
*[[Else Ury]] (1877–1943) – ''[[Nesthäkchen and Her Dolls]]'', ''[[Nesthäkchen and the World War]]''
*[[Eduard Uspensky]] (1937–2018) – ''Crocodile Gena and His Friends'', ''[[Uncle Fedya, His Dog, and His Cat]]''
*[[Alison Uttley]] (1884–1976) – ''Little Grey Rabbit'' series, ''A Traveller in Time''

==V==
*[[Rachel Vail]] (born 1966) – ''Wonder'', ''Do-Over'', ''The Friendship Ring'' series
*[[Jenny Valentine]] – ''[[Finding Violet Park]]'', ''[[Broken Soup]]''
*[[Chris Van Allsburg]] (born 1949) – ''[[Jumanji (picture book)|Jumanji]]'', ''[[The Polar Express]]'', ''[[The Garden of Abdul Gasazi]]''
*[[Wendelin Van Draanen]] (born 1965) – ''[[Sammy Keyes]]'' series, ''[[Flipped (novel)|Flipped]]''
*[[Hendrik Willem van Loon]] (1882–1944) – ''[[The Story of Mankind]]'' (nonfiction)
*[[Shreekumar Varma]] (born 1955) – ''The Royal Rebel''
*[[Amy Cripps Vernon]] (1870–1956) – ''Gerald's Chum''
*[[Heiki Vilep]] (born 1960) – ''The Sounds of Silence'', ''The Monsters of the Closet Door''
*[[Rene Villanueva]] (1954–2007) – ''Ang Unang Baboy Sa Langit'' ''(The First Pig In Heaven)''
*[[Judith Viorst]] (born 1931) – ''[[Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day]]''
*[[Elfrida Vipont]] (1902–1992) – ''The Lark in the Morn'', ''[[The Lark on the Wing]]'', ''The Elephant and the Bad Baby''
*[[John Vornholt]] (born 1951) – ''The Troll King'' series
*[[Anne de Vries]] (1904–1964) – ''[[Journey Through the Night]]''
*[[Seita Vuorela]] (1971–2015) – ''The School of Possibilities'', ''Karikko''

==W==
[[File:Mo_Willems_Mazza_Fall_Conference_2012.jpg|thumb|[[Mo Willems]]]]
*[[Bernard Waber]] (1921–2013) – ''[[The House on East 88th Street]]''
*[[Muriel Wace]] (1881–1968) – ''Moorland Mousie''
*[[Jan Wahl]] (1931–2019) – ''Pleasant Fieldmouse'', ''The Furious Flycycle'', ''Humphrey's Bear'' 
*[[Lea Wait]] (born 1946) – ''Stopping to Home'', ''Wintering Well''
*[[Judy Waite]] – ''[[Mouse, Look Out!]]''
*[[Priscilla Wakefield]] (1751–1832) – ''The Juvenile Travellers: Containing the Remarks of A Family During a Tour Through the Principal States and Kingdoms of Europe''
*[[Dorothy Wall]] (1894–1942) – ''[[Blinky Bill]]''
*[[Ivy Wallace]] (1915–2006) – ''Pookie'' series, ''The Animal Shelf'' series
*[[Nancy Elizabeth Wallace]] (born 1948) – ''Snow'' 
*[[John Graham Wallace]] (born 1966) – ''Mr Bumble''
*[[Maria Elena Walsh]] (1930–2011) – ''Tutú Marambá''
*[[Vivian Walsh (author)|Vivian Walsh]] – ''[[Olive, the Other Reindeer]]'', ''Gluey'', ''Penguin Dreams'', ''Mr. Lunch'' series
*[[Mildred Pitts Walter]] – ''Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World, Second Daughter: The Story of a Slave Girl''
*[[Amy Catherine Walton]] (Mrs. O. F. Walton, 1849–1939) – ''Christie's Old Organ''
*[[Jennifer Ward (author)|Jennifer Ward]] (born 1963) – ''Way Out in the Desert''
*[[Elizabeth Watkin-Jones]] (1887–1966) – ''Plant y Mynachdy'', ''Onesimus'' 
*[[Victor Watson (author)|Victor Watson]] (born 1936) – ''Paradise Barn'' series
*[[Marion St John Webb]] (1888–1930) – ''Knock Three Times'', ''The Girls of Chequertrees''
*[[Regina Webb]] (born 1980) – ''Detective Henry Hopper'' series
*[[Sadie Rose Weilerstein]] (1894–1993) – ''The Adventures of K'tonton''
*[[Ronald Welch]] (1909–1982) – ''[[The Gauntlet (novel)|The Gauntlet]]'', ''[[Knight Crusader]]''
*[[Elizabeth Foster Wesselhoeft]] (1840–1919) – ''Sparrow, the Tramp''
*[[Jacqueline West (author)|Jacqueline West]] (born 1979) – ''Dreamers Often Lie'', ''[[The Books of Elsewhere]]'' 
*[[Robert Westall]] (1929–1993) – ''[[The Machine Gunners]]'', ''[[Fathom Five (novel)|Fathom Five]]'', ''[[The Scarecrows]]''
*[[Frank Atha Westbury]] (1838–1901) – ''Australian Fairy Tales''
*[[Scott Westerfeld]] (born 1963) – [[Midnighters trilogy]], ''[[Peeps (novel)|Peeps]]'', ''[[The Last Days (Westerfeld novel)|The Last Days]]'', [[The Uglies series|''Uglies'' series]]
*[[John F. C. Westerman]] (1901–1991) – ''John Wentley Takes Charge'', ''The Invisible Plane''
*[[Percy F. Westerman]] (1876–1959) – ''All Hands to the Boats'', ''Deeds of Pluck and Daring in the Great War''
*[[Carol Weston]] (born 1956) – ''Melanie Martin'' series, ''Ava and Pip''
*[[Michael Wexler]] <!-- redirect to this work --> – ''[[The Seems]]'' series
*[[Suzanne Weyn]] (born 1955) – ''[[The Bar Code Tattoo]]'', ''Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium''
*[[Gloria Whelan]] (born 1923) – ''[[Homeless Bird]]'', ''Angel on the Square'', ''[[Listening for Lions]]'', ''[[Chu Ju's House]]'' 
*[[Evelyn Whitaker]] (1844–1929) – ''Laddie'', ''Tip Cat''
*[[E. B. White]] (1899–1985) – ''[[Charlotte's Web]]'', ''[[Stuart Little]]'', ''[[The Trumpet of the Swan]]''
*[[T. H. White]] (1906–1964) – ''[[The Sword in the Stone (novel)|The Sword in the Stone]]'', ''[[Mistress Masham's Repose]]''
*[[Martin Widmark]] (born 1961) – ''[[The Whodunit Detective Agency]]'' series
*[[Kate Douglas Wiggin]] (1856–1923) – ''[[Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm]]''
*[[Oscar Wilde]] (1854–1900) – ''[[The Selfish Giant (story)|The Selfish Giant]]'', ''[[The Happy Prince and Other Stories]]''
*[[Laura Ingalls Wilder]] (1867–1957) – ''[[Little House on the Prairie (novel)|Little House on the Prairie]]'' and other [[Little House books]]
*[[Geoffrey Willans]] (1911–1958) – ''[[Down with Skool]]'', ''How to Be Topp''
*[[Barbara Willard]] (1909–1994) – ''The Iron Lily''
*[[Mo Willems]] (born 1968) – ''[[Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!]]'', ''[[Knuffle Bunny]]'', ''[[Knuffle Bunny Too]]''
*[[John Ellis Williams]] (1924–2008) – ''Owen the Goat of Snowdon''
*[[Karen Lynn Williams]] (born 1952) – ''Galimoto''
*[[Maiya Williams]] (born 1962) – ''[[The Golden Hour (Maiya Williams novel)|The Golden Hour]]''
*[[Margery Williams]] (1881–1944) – ''[[The Velveteen Rabbit]]'', ''Poor Cecco'', ''[[Winterbound]]''
*[[Oneeka Williams]] (born 1966) – ''Dr. Dee Dee Dynamo'' series, ''Not Even the Sky Is the Limit'' 
*[[Ursula Moray Williams]] (1911–2006) – ''[[Adventures of the Little Wooden Horse]]'', ''[[Gobbolino the Witch's Cat]]''
*[[Rita Williams-Garcia]] (born 1957) – ''[[One Crazy Summer]]'', ''P.S. Be Eleven'', ''Gone Crazy in Alabama''
*[[Henry Williamson]] (1895–1977) – ''[[Tarka the Otter]]''
*[[Budge Wilson]] (1927–2021) – ''[[Before Green Gables]]'', ''The Leaving''
*[[Jacqueline Wilson]] (born 1945) – ''[[Girls in Love (novel)|Girls in Love]]'', ''[[Double Act (novel)|Double Act]]'', ''[[The Story of Tracy Beaker]]'', ''[[The Illustrated Mum]]''
*[[Jane Wilson-Howarth]] (born 1954) – ''Himalayan Kidnap'', ''Chasing the Tiger''
*[[N. D. Wilson]] (born 1978) – ''[[Leepike Ridge]]'', ''[[100 Cupboards]]''
*[[Arthur M. Winfield]] (Edward Stratemeyer pseudonym from 1899) – ''[[Rover Boys]]'' series
*[[Henry Winkler]] (born 1945) – ''[[Hank Zipzer]]'' series
*[[Henry Winterfeld]] (1901–1990) – ''Trouble at Timpetill'', ''Detectives in Togas'', ''Star Girl''
*[[Elizabeth Winthrop]] (born 1948) – ''[[The Castle in the Attic]]''
*[[P. G. Wodehouse]] (1881–1975) – ''[[The Pothunters]]'', ''[[The White Feather]]'', ''[[Mike (novel)|Mike]]''
*[[Mary Wollstonecraft]] (1759–1797) – ''[[Original Stories from Real Life]]''
*[[Audrey Wood]] (born 1948) – ''The Napping House'', ''Moonflute'', ''King Bidgood's in the Bathtub''
*[[Patricia Wrede]] (born 1953) – ''[[Enchanted Forest Chronicles]]'' series
*[[Dare Wright]] (1914–2001) – ''[[The Lonely Doll]]''
*[[Patricia Wrightson]] (1921–2010) – ''The Crooked Snake'', ''[[The Nargun and the Stars]]''
*[[Eva-Lis Wuorio]] (1918–1988) – ''The Island of Fish in the Trees'', ''The Happiness Flower''
*[[Johann David Wyss]] (1743–1818) – ''[[The Swiss Family Robinson]]''

==Y==
[[File:Photo_of_Charlotte_Mary_Yonge.jpg|thumb|[[Charlotte Mary Yonge]]]]
*[[Kelly Yang]] – ''[[Front Desk (book)|Front Desk]]''
*[[Laurence Yep]] (born 1948) – ''The Golden Mountain Chronicles'', [[Dragon (fantasy series)|Dragon series]], ''Ribbons''
*[[Jane Yolen]] (born 1939) – ''[[Owl Moon]]'', ''Commander Toad'' series, [[The Pit Dragon Trilogy|Pit Dragon series]], ''[[Wizard's Hall]]''
*[[Charlotte Mary Yonge]] (1823–1901) – ''The Daisy Chain'', ''The Little Duke'', ''The Dove in the Eagle's Nest''
*[[E. H. Young]] (1880–1949) – ''Caravan Island'', ''River Holiday''
*[[Ed Young (illustrator)|Ed Young]] (born 1931) – ''[[Lon Po Po]]'', ''[[Seven Blind Mice]]''
*[[Miriam Young]] (1913–1974) – ''Miss Suzy'', ''Jellybeans for Breakfast'', ''A Witch's Garden''

==Z==
*[[Zheng Yuanjie]] (born 1955) – ''King of Fairy Tales''
*[[Rania Zaghir]] (born 1977) – ''Who Ate My Ice Cream?''
*[[Paul Zindel]] (1936–2003) – ''[[The Pigman]]''
*[[Feenie Ziner]] (1921–2012) – ''Squanto'', ''The Book of Time''
*[[Charlotte Zolotow]] (1915–2013) – ''Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present''

==See also==
{{Portal |Children's literature}}
{{colbegin}}
*[[Caldecott Medal]]
*[[Carnegie Medal (literary award)|Carnegie Medal]]
*[[Children's literature]]
*[[Fairy tale]]
*[[Newbery Medal]]
*[[Young adult literature]]
*[[List of children's book illustrators]]
*[[List of children's classic books]]
*[[List of children's non-fiction writers]]
*[[List of fairy tales]]
*[[List of young adult authors]]
*[[Lists of writers]]
{{colend}}

==References==
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==External links==
*{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P74RiK3CRGkC&q=international+encyclopedia+of+children%27s+literature |title=International Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literature|isbn=9780203168127|last1=Hunt|first1=Peter|date=14 January 2004}}
*{{Cite book |url=http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195146561.001.0001/acref-9780195146561 |title=The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature}}
*[http://www.series-books.com/ Vintage Series Books for Girls&nbsp;... and a Few for Boys]

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