Authors

Welcome to our Author's Page, where we pay hommage to our celebrated children's authors. Discover the remarkable people behind classic tales that have captivated generations of young readers.

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Alice Schertle is an award-winning poet and author of more than 40 books for children, most well known for her New York Times bestselling series, Good Night, Little Blue Truck. She lives in Plainfield, MA.

Anne Dewdney was an award-winning American author and illustrator, teacher, mother and enthusiastic supporter of literacy and reading aloud to children. The first book she wrote and illustrated, Llama Llama Red Pajama, received critical acclaim in 2005. She wrote many other books in the Llama Llama series, which have all been New York Times bestsellers. Her work has been adapted into stage plays, dance performances, musicals, and an animated television series for Netflix.

Beth Ferry is the New York Times bestselling author of numerous children's books illustrated by amazing artists, including Stick and Stone (2017), The Scarecrow (2019), The Nice Dream Truck (2021), and Ten Rules of the Birthday Wish (2019). She lives with her husband, three kids and two bulldogs by the beach in New Jersey.

Jonathan Stutzman is an award-winning children's book author and filmmaker. His work for children includes the bestselling Tiny T. Rex series as well as Llama Destroys the World illustrated by Heather Fox, Bear Is a Bear illustrated by Dan Santat, and many others....

Utah couple Sarah Jane Wright and her husband Kenneth are most famous for their Lola Dutch children’s book series. Sarah Jane opened an online shop in 2008 that has since grown into a worldwide business with art prints, fabrics, wallpaper, puppets, and illustrated children’s books. Kenneth is a full-time educator and history teacher. Together, they have 4 children and write and illustrate beautiful picture books. When their book, Lola Dutch, was first sent out to publishers, it ignited a bidding war among four publishing houses. Ultimately, the Wrights sold the book to Bloomsbury, allowing it to be published internationally from the day it first hits bookstores.

Ludwig Bemelmans was an Austrian-American writer and illustrator of children's books and adult novels. He is known best for the Madeline picture books. Six were published, the first in 1939.

Molly Schaar Idle is an American children's book illustrator, author and animator. In 2014, she was awarded a Caldecott Honor for her picture book Flora and the Flamingo.

Nina Laden is an award-winning, bestselling children’s book author and illustrator. She was born and raised in the New York City area, the daughter of two artists. Nina writes, illustrates, and teaches occasionally...

Richard McClure Scarry ( June 5, 1919 – April 30, 1994) was an American children's author and illustrator who published over 300 books with total sales of over 100 million worldwide. He is best known for his Best Ever book series that take place primarily in the fictional town of Busytown, "which is populated by friendly and helpful resident [animals...such as] Mr. Frumble, Huckle Cat, Mr. Fixit, Lowly Worm, and others..."

Samuel McBratney was a writer from Northern Ireland. He wrote more than fifty books for children and young adults, and is best known as the author of the best-selling children's book Guess How Much I Love You, which has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide, and been translated into 53 languages.

Sandra Keith Boynton is an American humorist, songwriter, director, music producer, children's author, and illustrator. Boynton has written and illustrated over seventy-five books for children and seven general audience books, as well as over four thousand greeting cards, and five music albums.

Sasha Quinton is the author of more than thirty children's books for specialty markets. Florabelle is her first picture book for HarperCollins. She lives with her family in an old, rambling house in Highland Park, Illinois. (And she almost never remembers to make a bed with perfectly tucked corners.)

Sharon's journey from a dyslexic, non-reading child to a national award-winning author has been an adventure filled with a great story's dramatic twists and turns....

Sherri Duskey Rinker is a bestseller author from Illinois. Her works include the picture books Steam Train and Goodnight Construction Site series and novels Revver the Speedway Squirrel and its sequel.

Emily Winfield Martin is an American artist and author-illustrator of children's books. She lives in Portland, Oregon. After graduating from art school in 2005, Martin began selling her visual art through the online store Etsy, thereafter achieving acclaim in The New York Times , on CNN, and on The Martha Stewart Show as one of Etsy's original and most enduring success stories. Eventually Martin parlayed these successes into a career in professional book publication.

Kay Thompson (born Catherine Louise Fink; November 9, 1909 – July 2, 1998) was an American author, singer, vocal arranger, vocal coach, composer, musician, dancer, actress, and choreographer. She became famous for creating the Eloise children's books and for her role in the movie Funny Face.

Nicholas Oldland earned a degree in fine arts at Mount Allison University in New Brunswick, Canada, and enjoyed success as a commercial artist and filmmaker before taking up the role of creative director at Hatley/Little Blue House, a popular apparel company.

Tad Hills is an American children’s book author and illustrator. His first picture book, Duck & Goose, a New York Times bestseller and ALA Notable Book for Children, is about a pair of feathered friends.

Anita Jeram is an English author and illustrator of picture books for children. Growing up in Portsmouth, England, Anita always enjoyed drawing (especially animals), but worked in many different fields before pursuing a degree in art and illustration at Manchester Polytechnic.

Brigette Barrager graduated from CalArts with a BFA in character animation in 2007. She likes tea and books and general old lady-ish stuff, and hates when people's toes hang over the edge of their sandals.

Hilary Knight is an American writer and artist. He is the illustrator of more than 50 books and the author of nine books. He is best known as the illustrator and co-creator of Kay Thompson's Eloise and others in the Eloise series.

Jay Fleck is a designer and illustrator based in Shorewood, IL. His artwork has been featured on products at the Gap and Papyrus, on Threadless.com and on the front page of Society6.com, as well as a number of other brick-and-mortar and internet stores. His illustrations have been featured in many children’s books, including the Tiny T. Rex series (written by Jonathan Stutzman), We’re Going on a Treasure Hunt (written by Kelly DiPucchio), Black Belt Bunny (written by Jacky Davis), and The Diamond and the Boy (written by Hannah Holt). Tilly and Tank is the first picture book he has both written and illustrated.

Jill McElmurry was an American painter, book illustrator, and sometime writer-illustrator of children's picture books, including her own Mad About Plaid and the best-selling Little Blue Truck series. Jill passed away in 2017.

Melissa Castrillon is an English and Colombian illustrator based in the south east of England. She studied at the Cambridge School of Art where she earned a first class honours degree in illustration and a master’s degree in children’s book illustration.

Michel Tcherevkoff is a commercial photographer. Working as the creative eye for important clients, Tcherevkoff has created a dress made from toothbrushes for Johnson & Johnson.

Tom Lichtenheld is the illustrator of the New York Times bestselling Duck Rabbit, Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site, written by Sherri Duskey Rinker, and Stick and Stone, written by Beth Ferry. He has also written and illustrated many popular books for children, including Everything I Know about Pirates and What Are You So Grumpy About. He lives in Geneva, Illinois, with his wife, Jan.