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- Verna Aardema (1911-2000)
- Joan Aiken (1924-2004)
- David Almond (b. 1951)
- Neil Ardley (1937-2004)
- Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
- Laurie Halse Anderson (b. 1961)
- Avi (b. 1937)
- Molly Bang (b. 1943)
- Helen Bannerman (c. 1862-1946)
- L. Frank Baum (1856-1919)
- Ian Beck (b. 1947)
- Michael Bedard (b. ?)
- Eric Beddows (b. 1951)
- Ludwig Bemelmans (1898-1962)
- Stan (1923-2005) and Jan Berenstain (b. 1923)
- Francesca Lia Block (b. 1962)
- Enid Blyton (1897-1968)
- Lucy M. Boston (1892-1990)
- Sandra Boynton (b. 1953)
- Calef Brown (b. 196?)
- Anthony Browne (b. 1946)
- Margaret Wise Brown (1910-1952)
- Mark Buehner (b. 1959) and Caralyn Buehner (b. 1963)
- Gelett Burgess (1866-1951)
- Virginia Lee Burton (1909-1968)
- Randolph Caldecott (1846-1886)
- Eric Carle (b. 1929)
- Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)
- Beverly Cleary (b. 1916)
- Andrew Clements (b. 1949)
- Eoin Colfer (b. 1965)
- Bryan Collier (b. 1959?)
- Susan Cooper (b. 1935)
- The Lost Land (The official Susan Cooper Home Page)
- Cooper, Susan (brief autobiographical sketch from 1973, at the Educational Paperback Association)
- Robert Cormier (1925-2000)
- Palmer Cox (1840-1924)
- Donald Crews (b. 1938)
- Gillian Cross (b. 1945)
- Chris Crutcher (b. 1946)
- Christopher Paul Curtis (b. 1954)
- Roald Dahl (1916-1990)
- Ted Dewan (b. 1961)
- Edmund Dulac (1882-1953)
- Tim Egan (b. 1957)
- Jules Feiffer (b. 1929)
- Henry Felsen (1916-1995)
- Cornelia Funke (b. 1958)
- Wanda Gág (1893-1946)
- Paul Gallico (1897-1976)
- Jack Gantos (b. 1951)
- Edward Gorey (1925-2000)
- Elizabeth Goudge (1900-1984)
- Kate Greenaway (1846-1901)
- Mark Haddon (b. 1962)
- Virginia Hamilton (1936-2002).
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- Kevin Henkes (b. 1960)
- Carolivia Herron (b. 1947)
- Karen Hesse (b. 1952)
- Russell Hoban (b. 1925): see my page of "American Literature" links
- Syd Hoff (1912-2004)
- Syd Hoff: bibliography by Brett Bayne (still available, courtesy of the Wayback Machine, which captured the page on 5 Mar. 2001).
- Syd Hoff (at HarperCollins)
- Syd Hoff Cartoons (no actual cartoons on the site; page merely indicates that Syracuse University Library's Department of Special Collections holds original drawings of "Laugh It Off," Hoff's syndicated strip)
- In Memory of Syd Hoff (at About.com)
- Syd Hoff (brief info. at NNDB)
- Heinrich Hoffman (1809-1894)
- Michael Hoeye (b. 1947)
- Polly Horvath (b. 1957)
- Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
- Thomas Hughes (1822-1896)
- Mick Inkpen (b. 1952)
- Tove Jansson (1914-2001)
- Crockett Johnson (1906-1975)
- Elizabeth Orton Jones (b. 1910)
- Diana Wynne Jones (b.1934)
- Ann Jonas (b. 1932)
- William Joyce (b. 1957)
- Norton Juster (b. 1929)
- Erich Kästner (1899-1974)
- Ezra Jack Keats (1916-1983)
- E. L. Konigsburg (b. 1930)
- Ruth Krauss (1901-1993)
- Robert Lawson (1892-1957)
- Munro Leaf (1905-1976)
- Edward Lear (1812-1888)
- Ursula K. LeGuin (b. 1929): see my page of "American Authors" links
- Lois Lenski (1893-1974)
- Julius Lester (b. 1939)
- C. S. Lewis (1898-1963)
- Astrid Lindgren (1907-2002)
- Leo Lionni (1910-1999)
- Robert Lipsyte (b. 1938)
- Arnold Lobel (1933-1987)
- David Macaulay (b. 1946)
- Patricia MacLachlan (b. 1938)
- James Marshall (1942-1992)
- Fred Marcellino (1939-2001)
- Victor Martinez (b. 1954)
- Robert McCloskey (1914-2003)
- Eve Merriam (1915-1992)
- A. A. Milne (1882-1956)
- Else Holmelund Minarik (b. 1920)
- L. M. Montgomery (1874-1942)
- Christopher Myers (b. 1975)
- Walter Dean Myers (b. 1937)
- Peter Newell (1862-1924)
- E. Nesbit (1858-1924)
- Kay Nielsen (1886-1957)
- Nancy Osa (b. 1967)
- Linda Sue Park (b. 1960)
- Julie Anne Peters (b. 1952)
- Dav Pilkey (b. 1966)
- Daniel Pinkwater (b. 1941)
- Beatrix Potter (1866-1943)
- Terry Pratchett (b. 1948)
- Jack Prelutsky (b. 1940)
- Philip Pullman (b. 1946)
- Philip Pullman (official site)
- Philip Pullman (at ACHUKA).
- Random House's His Dark Materials site
- His Dark Materials: An Unofficial Fan Site, maintained by Adobe Scribe and Rachel.
- Bridge to the Stars, maintained by Merlyn and others.
- Amazon.com's Philip Pullman pages:
- Powells.com's Philip Pullman interviews:
- "Why I Don't Believe in Ghosts" by Philip Pullman (New York Times, 31 Oct. 2003). No longer available at the Times' site. I'm leaving the link as a citation for anyone who wants it.
- "Pullman brings back Lyra for Oxford mystery" by Vanessa Thorpe and Jonathan Heawood (The Observer, 6 Apr. 2003)
- CBBC Newsround's Hotseat: Philip Pullman (interview, 23 Jan. 2002)
- BBC Radio 4's His Dark Materials radio adaptation
- BBC Radio 4's Webchat with Philip Pullman (7 May 2000)
- Third Way's Heat and Dust: Philip Pullman (interview by Huw Spanner, 2002)
- "The Story Master" by Kathleen Odean (SLJ Online, 1 Oct. 2000). Still available courtesy of the Wayback Machine, which captured the page on 3 Dec. 2000.
- "A wizard with worlds" by Kate Kellaway (Guardian Newspapers, 22 Oct. 2000)
- "Philip Pullman: The Man Who Dared Make Religion the Villain" by Sarah Lyall (New York Times, 7 Nov. 2000)
- "Author Puts Bible Belt to the Test" by Ed Vulliamy (The Observer, 26 Aug. 2001)
- "Talking to Philip Pullman: An Interview" by Wendy Parsons and Catriona Nicholson (The Lion and the Unicorn 23.1 [1999]: 116-134. Available to subscribers of ProjectMuse.)
- "What Makes a Classic? Daemons and Dual Audience in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials" by Susan R. Bobby (The Looking Glass 8.1 (Jan. 2004).
- Author Interview: Philip Pullman (Down Home Books, Oct. 2004)
- Philip Pullman, "The War on Words" (The Guardian, 6 Nov. 2004)
- Philip Nel, Open Letter to the Editors of Snopes.com (31 Oct. 2007)
- Arthur Rackham (1867-1939)
- Chris Raschka (b. 1959)
- Peggy Rathmann (b. 1953)
- Margret (1906-1996) and H.A. Rey (1898-1977)
- Faith Ringgold (b. 1930)
- J. K. Rowling (b. 1965)
- Sara Ryan (b. 1971)
- Cynthia Rylant (b. 1954)
- Benjamin Alire Sáenz (b. 1954)
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944)
- Jon Scieszka (b. 1954)
- Tor Seidler (b. 1952)
- Maurice Sendak (b. 1928)
- Maurice Sendak (site maintained by the Steve Barclay Agency)
- "'Descent into Limbo' The 34th Annual May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture," by Maurice Sendak (MIT, 5 April 2003)
- American Masters: Maurice Sendak (PBS)
- "'Dance's' Conflict Is Center Stage" by Naomi Pfefferman (The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, 18 April 2003). Sendak talks about Brundibar.
- HomeArts' "Maurice Sendak: A Western Canon, Jr." (includes interview, favorite books, more). Courtesy of the Wayback Machine, which captured the site on 21 April 2000.
- Carol Gregory and Inez Ramsey's Maurice Sendak, Children's Book Author (brief biography at Internet School Library)
- The Rosenbach Museum and Library (Philadelphia, PA; holds Sendak's papers)
- Maurice Sendak Exhibit (R. Michelson Galleries, Northhampton, Mass.)
- Hope O'Keeffe's NEA Art Forms: 1996 National Medal of Arts -- Maurice Sendak (brief article on occasion of National Endowment for the Arts' award, including links and photograph of Sendak with the Clintons). Courtesy of the Wayback Machine, which captured the site on 17 Aug. 2000.
- "Swine Lake: A night at the ballet with Maurice Sendak", interview by Alice Cary (BookPage, May 1999)
- "Unlimited Partnership: Maurice Sendak on Randall Jarrell" interview by James Marcus (Amazon.com, 1998)
- Kate Seredy (1899-1975)
- Dr. Seuss (1904-1991)
- Please see Dr. Seuss on the Web (This collection of links had grown so large as to require a separate page.)
- Shel Silverstein (1932-1999)
- Peter Sis (b. 1949)
- Esphyr Slobodkina (1908-2002)
- Dodie Smith (1896-1990)
- Lane Smith (b. 1959)
- Lemony Snicket [Daniel Handler] (b. 1970)
- Toby Speed (b. 19??)
- Art Spiegelman (b. 1948): see my page of "Visual Arts" links
- William Steig (1907-2003)
- John Steptoe (1950-1989)
- Kay Thompson (c. 1912-1998)
- James Thurber (1894-1961)
- J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973)
- Chris Van Allsburg (b. 1949)
- Lynd Ward (1905-1985): see my page of "Visual Arts" links
- E. B. White (1899-1985)
- T. H. White (1906-1964)
- David Wiesner (b. 1956)
- Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957)
- Mo Willems (b. 19??)
- Jacqueline Wilson (b. 1945)
- David Wisniewski (1953-2002)
- Virginia Euwer Wolff (b. 1937)
- Jacqueline Woodson (b. 1964)
- Dare Wright (1914-2001)
- Tim Wynne-Jones (b. 1948)
- Jane Yolen (b. 1939)
- Charlotte Zolotow (b. 1915)
- Academic: Journals & Scholarship | Scholars | Conferences | Organizations | Other useful sites
- Journals & Scholarship
- Some scholars
- Conferences
- Organizations
- Other useful sites that don't quite fit in the above categories
- Awards: International | U.S. | U.K.
- General Children's Literature Resources and Organizations
- Margaret Vail Anderson's Children's Literature section of her Digital Librarian pages (active, growing, and quite extensive collection of links, updated regularly)
- Authors & Illustrators for Children ("an organization of authors & illustrators of children's books (and their friends) dedicated to creating a better world for children")
- Bibliographies: Children's Literature Resource Guide (at Vanderbilt University's Peabody College of Education)
- Booktrusted.co.uk ("for all those concerned with what children read")
- Alan Brown's Just for Kids Who Love Books
- David K. Brown's Children's Literature Web Guide, including several pages of links to Children's Authors and Illustrators on the Web. Not updated as frequently as it once was, but still good.
- Canadian Illustrated Books in English (University of British Columbia)
- Kathleen Duey's list of over 4,000 Children's Bookstores
- Eleanor's Books' Children's Books Central ("Your guide to children's books on the Web")
- Children and Young People page by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (UK)
- Children's Book Council
- Fairrosa's CyberLibrary of Children's Literature, featuring Children's Litertaure -- Authors & Illustrators (a good collection of links).
- Children's Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD Company)
- Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site
- Children's Peace and Non-Violence Curriculum (Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse)
- Alta Murrieta Elementary School Library's Click & Go Authors
- Cooperative Children's Book Center, School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- International Children's Digital Library
- International Reading Asssociation
- Internet School Library Media Center's Index to Children's Book Authors and Illustrators
- Kansas State University Libraries: Children's Literature Subject Guide
- Marxists Internet Archive's Children's Literature pages, featuring an Annotated Bibliography, Texts and Illustrations, and Resources and Reference.
- Mary Helen Lewis' Only the Best for My Child: A Bibliography of Children's Picturebooks Featuring Powerful, Positive Female Characters. This page has disappeared. Anyone know where it went?
- New York Public Library's Children's Literature site
- New York Public Library's On-Lion for Kids!
- New York Times Book Review's Children's Books (index of reviews since January 1997)
- Deidre Johnson's 19th Cenutry Girls' Series site
- Sharyn November's children's books page, including Authors A-C, Authors D-F, Authors G-J, Authors K-O, Authors P-S, and Authors T-Z.
- Denise Ortakales' Women Children's Book Illustrators site. Recommended.
- Reading Is Fundamental (US)
- Reading Is Fundamental (UK)
- Debbie Reese's American Indians in Children's Literature blog
- Cynthia Leitich Smith's Children's Literature Resources
- Jim Trelease's Trelease-on-reading.com
- Harold Underdown's The Purple Crayon and great page of Children's Book Resources (useful pages with good links)
- Kay E. Vandergrift's Learning About the Author and Illustrator Pages -- highly recommended. May be the most extensive collection of links on the web.
- Susie Wilde's Wilde Writing Works
- Yahoo's Literature Pages: Genre -- Children's
- Young Adult Library Services Association
- Libraries, Schools, Museums, and Exhibits
- Music for Children
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