List of children's non-fiction writers

This is a list of authors who have written non-fiction (informational) books for children. For a discussion of the criteria used to define something as a work of children's literature, see children's literature.

• Peter Ackroyd (UK, born 1949) – history
• David A. Adler (US, born 1947) – biographies
• Agnes Allen (UK) – social history
• Jules Archer (US, 1915–2008) – US history and politics
• Philip Ardagh (UK, born 1961) – history, archaeology, mythology
• Jennifer Armstrong (US, born 1961) – exploration
• Caroline S. Arnold (US) – nonfiction books about animals, fossils, world cultures, global warming, and life cycles
• Nick Arnold (UK, born 1964) – science, zoology
• Russell Ash (UK, 1946–2010) – reference inc. The Top 10 of Everything
• Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (UK) – Scouting
• Kelly Barnhill (US) – sewers, medicine
• Thelma and Corydon Bell (US) – science, weather, time
• Mary Boone (US) – nature/environment, history, world cultures, pop culture
• Aliki Brandenberg (US) – history
• Maria Elizabeth Budden (UK) – history and upbringing
• Brian P. Cleary (US) – words, measurements
• Daniel Cohen (US) – UFOs, the occult, ghosts, crypto-zoology
• Joanna Cole (US) – science
• Sneed B. Collard (US) – science, biology, conservation
• Esther Copley (UK) – slavery, Bible natural history
• Peter Corey (UK) – relationships, psychology, self-help; Coping With...
• Sara Jane Crafts (US) – songs
• Terry Deary (UK) – history, true stories
• Dougal Dixon (UK) – futuristic zoology
• Dorcas Dole (England) – Quakerism
• Eleanor Doorly (UK) – history, biography
• Evelyn Everett-Green (UK) – biography
• Fanny Fern (US, 1811–1872) – humor, society
• Mrs. E. M. Field (Ireland) – history
• Leonard Everett Fisher (US) – colonial American craftsmen, legendary figures
• Russell Freedman (US) – history and biography
• Jackie French (Australia) – Australian history, natural history
• Jean Fritz (US) – US history and legend
• Anita Ganeri (UK) – geography
• Gail Gibbons (US) – folklore, zoology, geography, history
• Roger Lancelyn Green (UK) – myth, folklore, biography
• Joyce Hansen (US) – African-American history, biography
• Gerald Hausman (US) – biography, mythology, folklore
• Gail Hennessey (US) – economics, biography
• Don Herbert (US) – science
• Susie Hodge (UK) – art history, practical art, history, science, religion, biography
• James Janeway (England) – A Token For Children: stories of conversions
• William Loren Katz (US) – African-American and Native American history
• Jennie Ellis Keysor (US, 1860–1945) – American literature, art topics
• Kathleen Krull (US) – biography, music, folklore
• Poul Lange (Denmark and USA) – simple anatomy (body orifices)
• Kathryn Lasky (US) – history, biography
• Julius Lester (US) – African-American history
• David Macaulay (US) – architecture, technology, design
• John Malam (UK) – ancient history, archaeology, biography, natural history
• Jane Marcet (UK) – chemistry, political economy, grammar
• Mrs Markham (UK, real name Elizabeth Penrose – English history
• Sandra Markle (US) – science
• Fredrick McKissack (US) – African-American history, biography
• Patricia McKissack (US) – African-American history, biography
• Arthur Mee (UK) – reference, British geography
• Milton Meltzer (US) – Jewish, African-American and American history, biography
• Jenny B. Merrill (US) – Bible stories
• Iain Moncreiffe of that Ilk (UK) – heraldry, royalty, Scottish clans
• Jim Murphy (US) – US history
• Darcy Pattison (US) – science, science history, and US history
• L. du Garde Peach (UK) – historical biography
• Pickles (pen name of Lisa Tolliver) – educational activity books
• Ferry Piekart (NL) – cultural anthropology
• Kjartan Poskitt (UK) – maths
• Rhoda Power and Eileen Power (UK) – history
• Charles Ray (UK) – editor of children's encyclopedias, such as Everybody's Enquire Within
• Upendrakishore Raychowdhury (India) – Bengali
• Ana María Rodríguez (US) – nature, science, cultures, history, health
• Acharya Ramlochan Saran (India) – non-fiction Sanskrit, Hindi, Urdu, Maithili, English, Nepalese
• Helen Roney Sattler (US) – natural history, science and technology
• Miriam Schlein (US) – animals, space, time
• Millicent Selsam (US) – biology
• Elizabeth Missing Sewell (UK) – religion, education theory
• Bonnie Shemie (US) – history of architecture
• Katherine Binney Shippen (US) – history, invention, music
• Seymour Simon (US) – science
• Marilyn Singer (US) – zoology
• Armstrong Sperry (US) – history, exploration, ethnology
• Diane Stanley (US) – biographies
• Philip Steele (UK) – history, junior biographies, peoples and cultures
• Dugald Steer (UK) – Ologies
• Dorothy Sterling (US) – nature, US history, civil rights
• Shelley Tanaka (Canada) – history, biography, arts, archeology, environment
• Isabel Thomas (UK) – science
• R. J. Unstead (UK) – history
• Anne de Vries (NL) – history and religion
• Priscilla Wakefield (UK, 1751–1832) – science, recreation and travel
• Mildred Pitts Walter (US) – African-American history and culture
• Nadia Wheatley (Australia) – environment and multiculturalism
• Philip Wilkinson (UK) – history, the arts, religion and architecture
• Herbert S. Zim (US) – Golden Guides series, nature, science and technology
• Allan Zullo (US) – survival, true stories, ghosts and sport

See also

• List of children's literature writers
• List of non-fiction writers