Alice McDermott is an American writer and university professor. For her 1998 novel Charming Billy she won an American Book Award and the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction.
Jack Gantos is an American author of children's books. He is best known for the fictional characters Rotten Ralph and Joey Pigza. Rotten Ralph is a cat who stars in twenty picture books written by Gantos and illustrated by Nicole Rubel from 1976 to 2014. Joey Pigza is a boy with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), featured in five novels from 1998 to 2014.
Carl Phillips is an American writer and poet. He is a Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. In 2023, he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020.
The Snowy Day is a 1962 American children's picture book by American author and illustrator Ezra Jack Keats. It features Peter, an African American boy, who explores his neighborhood after the season's first snowfall. Keats’ illustrations helped pave the way for more inclusive and diverse children's literature. Keats received the 1963 Caldecott Medal for his collage artwork, which made The Snowy Day the first picture book with an African American protagonist to win a major children's award. The book's reception was largely positive, although some critics pointed out subtle stereotypes, such as how Peter's mother was portrayed. Since its publication The Snowy Day has sold millions of copies and has been translated, adapted, and honored leaving a lasting impression on generations of readers.
Andrea U'Ren also known as Andrea Uren and A. U'Ren is an American author and illustrator of many children's picture books. Her work has garnered several awards, including a Silver Medal from the Society of Illustrators, NY, International Reading Association's Best Book of 2004, Parents' Choice Gold award winner and a reading by Daniel Pinkwater and Scott Simon on National Public Radio of her book Mary Smith about a "knocker-up" also illustrated by Ms. U'Ren. U'Ren's other titles include Pugdog a gender bending tale, One Potato, Two Potato written by Cynthia DeFelice, Stormy's Hat, Just Right for a Railroad Man written by Eric Kimmel and "Feeding the Sheep" written by Leda Schubert.
Sarah Stewart is an American author of children's books. She is married to David Small and lives in a manor house in Mendon, Michigan.
Neal Porter is an American children's book editor. He is the founder of Neal Porter Books, an imprint of Holiday House.
Janice N. Harrington is an American storyteller, poet, and children's writer.
John Shelley (ジョン・シェリー) is a British illustrator, particularly noted for his work in Japan.
Carla Killough McClafferty, is an American author of non-fiction for children, writing mostly about science and history. The International Reading Association awarded the 2007 Children's Book Award for Intermediate Nonfiction to her book Something Out of Nothing: Marie Curie and Radium. The National Council of Teachers of English gave a 2008 Orbis Pictus Recommended book designation to In Defiance of Hitler: The Secret Mission of Varian Fry.
Cynthia Carter DeFelice is an American children's writer. She has written 16 novels and 12 picture books for young readers. The intended audience for her novels is children of reading ages nine to twelve.
Lynne Kelly is an American author of books for children and young adults. Her first novel, Chained, was published in May 2012 by Farrar, Straus, & Giroux/Margaret Ferguson Books.
Gabi Swiatkowska is a Polish-born artist, musician, and children's author and illustrator. She has shown up twice on the ALA Notable Book Award list. One of the books that she illustrated, My Name Is Yoon, won the Ezra Jack Keats Award and is on the New York Public Library's list of 100 Great Children's Books
Jennifer Deirdre Jane Lanthier is a Canadian children's author and journalist. Since August 2016 she has been the Director, U. of T. News at the University of Toronto.
Amy Timberlake is an American author of five children's books: One Came Home, That Girl Lucy Moon, The Dirty Cowboy, Skunk and Badger and Egg Marks the Spot. One Came Home was awarded the Newbery Honor and the Edgar Award. That Girl Lucy Moon was awarded by the Friends of American Writer's Literacy, and The Dirty Cowboy has received a Parent's Choice Gold Medal and won the 2004 Golden Kite Award.
Andrea Wang is an American author of children's books. Her fiction and nonfiction picture books and middle grade novels focusing on the Asian and Asian-American experience have earned numerous awards and accolades.
Taeeun Yoo is a South Korean picture book author and illustrator who is active in the United States. Her first picture book, The Little Red Fish, won the Society of Illustrators’ 2007 Founder's Award, and Only a Witch Can Fly (2009) was named a New York Times Best Picture Book and won the Ezra Jack Keats Book Award in 2010.
Kyung Hye-won(Korean: 경혜원) is a South Korean picture book author and illustrator. Her representative works include Elevator, Dinosaur X-Ray, Bigger Than You, I’m a Lion, and My Big, Secret Friend. She won the Taiwan Open Book Award in 2018 for Dinosaur X-Ray.
Lee Jihyeon is a South Korean illustrator. Her first original picture book, Pool, won the gold medal at the 2015 Society of Illustrators’ Original Art Show, was an NPR.org Best Book of the Year for 2015, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year for 2015, and one of the best-translated books of the year chosen by the IBBY in Sweden in 2016. Her best-known works include Pool, Door, Strange House, and The Last Island.
Arthur Yorinks is an American author, playwright and director. He is best known for writing Hey, Al, which won a Caldecott Medal.
