Authors & Illustrators
Here are the top 2,100 authors and 1,000 illustrators from the whole heritage of children’s literature. And also the top Editors, Translators, and Compilers.
Jean Young Ayer
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Author
Lived:
0 B.C. - 0 B.C.
Jim Aylesworth
Jim Ayleworth spent twenty-five years as an elementary school teacher. Since 1980 he has published many books for children.
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Author
Lived:
1943 - 0 B.C.
William James Aylward
Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to a ship builder and owner, Aylward early developed an interest in nautical subjects. He was a student of Howard Pyle and achieved success as an artist and illustrator. He is particularly known for a series of paintings of nautical subjects related to World War I.
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Illustrator
Editor
Compiler
Lived:
1875 - 1956
William Edmondstoune Aytoun
William Edmondstoune Aytoun was a Scottish lawyer, poet and academic. He is best-known for his humorous verse.
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Author
Translator
Lived:
1813 - 1865
Alice Bach
Alice Bach is a native New Yorker with a degree in medieval studies who is fond of cats whom she tries to teach to stand on their heads, without much success.
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Author
Lived:
1942 - 0 B.C.
H. I. Bacharach (Herman I. Bacharach)
Herman Ilfeld Bacharach was a well-known artist and illustrator and designer. Many of his works can be found in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and at the New Mexico State Library.
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Illustrator
Lived:
1899 - 1976
Monica Backway
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Author
Lived:
0 B.C. - 0 B.C.
Paul Bacon
Paul Bacon was a prolific American designer of book jackets and record album covers. He was a jazz musician who performed on the comb.
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Illustrator
Lived:
1923 - 2015
J. H. Bacon
John Henry Frederick Bacon was a British painter and illustrator of genre works, history and bible scenes, and portraits.
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Illustrator
Lived:
1865 - 1914
Peggy Bacon
Margaret Frances “Peggy” Bacon (May 2, 1895 – January 4, 1987) was an American printmaker, illustrator, painter and writer. Bacon was known for her humorous and ironic etchings and drawings, as well as for her satirical caricatures of prominent personalities in the late 1920s and 1930s.
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Author
Illustrator
Lived:
1895 - 1987
Robert Baden-Powell
Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell was a British Army officer, writer, founder and first Chief Scout of The Boy Scouts Association, and founder of the Girl Guides.
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Author
Illustrator
Lived:
1857 - 1941
Barbara Bader
Barbara Bader is the author of American Picturebooks from Noah’s Ark to the Beast Within. She has written extensively on picture books, folklore, multicultural literature, the history of libraries, and publishing for children. She is well-known in the field of children’s literature. She lives in Connecticut.
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Author
Lived:
1972 - 0 B.C.
Enid Bagnold
Enid Algerine Bagnold, Lady Jones, CBE (27 October 1889 – 31 March 1981), known by her maiden name as Enid Bagnold, was a British author and playwright, best known for the 1935 story National Velvet which was filmed in 1944 with Elizabeth Taylor.
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Author
Illustrator
Lived:
1889 - 1981
Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
Carolyn Sherwin Bailey (October 25, 1875 – December 23, 1961) was an American children’s author. She was born in Hoosick Falls, New York and attended Teachers College, Columbia University, from which she graduated in 1896. She contributed to the Ladies’ Home Journal and other magazines, and published volumes of stories for children, methods of story telling and teaching children and other related subjects, which include Boys and Girls of Colonial Days (1917); Broad Stripes and Bright Stars (1919); Hero Stories (1919); and The Little Rabbit Who Wanted Red Wings (1945). She wrote For the Children’s Hour (1906). In 1947, her book Miss Hickory won the Newbery Medal.
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Author
Lived:
1875 - 1961
Bernadine Bailey
Bernadine Freeman Bailey was a prolific writer of mostly non-fiction for children. For a time she served as directing staff editor for Childcraft.
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Author
Lived:
1901 - 1995
Philip H. Bailey
Philip H. Bailey was an American professor of literature and folklore at Brown University and at the Rhode Island School of Design.
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Author
Lived:
0 B.C. - 2012
Beryl Bailey-Jones
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Illustrator
Lived:
0 B.C. - 0 B.C.
Alexander Baillie-Cochrane
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Author
Editor
Lived:
0 B.C. - 0 B.C.
Franklin T. Baker
Franklin Thomas Baker
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Author
Lived:
1864 - 1949
Earl L. Baker
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Author
Editor
Lived:
0 B.C. - 0 B.C.