Elissa Haden Guest is an American author of children's books.
Her 2000 book Iris and Walter received a starred review from Publishers Weekly . [1]
Her parents were Peter Haden-Guest and Genia Pauline Hindes, also known as Jean Haden-Guest. Her brothers, Christopher Guest and Nicholas Guest, work in the film industry. [2]
Anne Evelyn Bunting , is a Northern Ireland-born American writer of more than 250 books. Her work covers a broad array of subjects and includes fiction and non-fiction books. Her novels are primarily aimed at children and young adults, but she has also written the text for picture books. While many of her books are set in Northern Ireland, where she grew up, her topics and settings range from Thanksgiving to riots in Los Angeles. Bunting's first book, The Two Giants, was published in 1971. Due to the popularity of her books with children, she has been listed as one of the Educational Paperback Association's top 100 authors.
Faith McNulty was an American non-fiction author, probably best known for her 1980 literary journalism genre book The Burning Bed. She is also known for her authorship of wildlife pieces and books, including children's books.
Mark Winegardner is an American writer born and raised in Bryan, Ohio. His novels include The Godfather Returns, Crooked River Burning, and The Veracruz Blues. He published a collection of short stories, That's True of Everybody, in 2002. His newest novel, The Godfather's Revenge, was published in November 2006 by Putnam. His Godfather novels continue the story of the Corleone family depicted in Mario Puzo's The Godfather.
Roland Smith is an American author of young adult fiction as well as nonfiction books for children.
Sara Pennypacker is a New York Times bestselling American author of children's literature. She has written seventeen children's books, including Pax, Pax Journey Home, Here in the Real World, Summer of the Gypsy Moths, the Clementine, the Waylon series, and Stuart series.
Christine Davenier is a French author and illustrator of children's books. She has illustrated a large number of books, the authors of which include Jack Prelutsky, Julie Andrews and her daughter Emma Walton Hamilton, Madeleine L'Engle, and Juanita Havill, and has received critical acclaim.
Bethany Barton is an author and illustrator of children's books.
Tiffany D. Jackson is a New York Times Bestselling American author of young adult fiction and a horror filmmaker, best known for her NAACP Image Award-nominated debut novel Allegedly.
Wendy Corsi Staub is an American writer of suspense novels and young adult fiction. She has written under her own name as well as Wendy Brody, Wendy Markham, and Wendy Morgan.
Anica Mrose Rissi is an American author of children's books and young adult novels. Her first book, Anna, Banana, and the Friendship Split, was published by Simon & Schuster in 2015. Her nonfiction pieces have been published by the New York Times and The Writer magazine.
Ann Napolitano is an American writer.
Wendy Anderson Halperin is an American illustrator and author of children's books.
Kathryn Osebold Galbraith is an American author of children's books.
JaNay Brown-Wood is a professor and writer of children's books.
Marsha Wilson Chall is an American educator and author of children's picture books. Several of her books were inspired by her home state of Minnesota.
Anne Shelby is an American writer of children's picture books.
Nancy Sippel Carpenter is an American illustrator of children's picture books.
Megan Dowd Lambert is an American author and academic who writes children's books and about children and reading.
Tessa Bailey is an American author of romance fiction.
Brigette Barrager is an American illustrator and author of children's books.