List of children's literature writers

These writers are notable authors of children's literature with some of their most famous works.

A

 * Verna Aardema (1911–2001) – Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears
 * Rafael Ábalos (born 1956) – Grimpow
 * Jacob Abbott (1803–1879) – Rollo series, Cousin Lucy's Conversations, Bruno
 * Tony Abbott (born 1952) – The Secrets of Droon, Danger Guys
 * Deborah Abela (born 1966) – Max Remy Superspy, Grimsdon
 * Joan Abelove (born 1945) – Go and Come Back
 * Chris van Abkoude (1880–1960) – Pietje Bell series, Little Crumb
 * Socorro Acioli (born 1975) – The Ghost Dancer
 * Richard Adams (1920–2016) – Watership Down
 * Jean Adamson (born 1928) – Topsy and Tim
 * C. S. Adler (born 1932) – Magic of the Glits, Ghost Brother
 * David A. Adler (born 1947) – Cam Jansen series, The Babe and I
 * Aesop (6th century BCE) – Fables
 * Edith J. Agnew (1897–1988) – Nezbah's Lamb
 * Joan Aiken (1924–2004) – The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, Arabel and Mortimer series, A Necklace of Raindrops
 * Ahmad Akbarpour (born 1970) – If I Were a Pilot
 * Uxue Alberdi (born 1984) – Besarkada
 * Vivien Alcock (1924–2003) – The Haunting of Cassie Palmer
 * Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888) – Little Women, The Brownie and the Princess
 * Kwame Alexander (born 1958) – The Crossover
 * Lloyd Alexander (1924–2007) – The Chronicles of Prydain series, Westmark trilogy
 * Sue Alexander (1933–2008) – Nadia the Willful
 * Horatio Alger, Jr. (1832–1899) – Ragged Dick
 * Mabel Esther Allan (1915–1998) – Over the Sea to School, Ballet for Drina, The Ballet Family
 * David Almond (born 1951) – Skellig, Heaven Eyes, Kit's Wilderness
 * Joseph Alexander Altsheler (1862–1919) – The Young Trailers series, The Civil War series
 * Julia Alvarez (born 1950) – Tia Lola series
 * Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875) – "The Snow Queen", "The Little Mermaid", "The Ugly Duckling", "The Emperor's New Clothes", "The Princess and the Pea", "Thumbelina"
 * Lena Anderson (born 1939) – Tea for Ten, Tick-Tock
 * Verily Anderson (1915–2010) – Brownies series
 * Sam Angus (born 1967) – Soldier Dog, The House on Hummingbird Island
 * Charlotte Anley (1796–1893) – Influence: A Moral Tale for Young People (1822)
 * K. A. Applegate (born 1956) – Animorphs, Remnants, Everworld series, The One and Only Ivan
 * Victor Appleton (Stratemeyer house pseudonym from 1910) – Tom Swift series
 * Malayath Appunni (born 1943) – Kambili Kuppayam
 * Philip Ardagh (born 1961) – Eddie Dickens series, Unlikely Exploits series
 * Edward Ardizzone (1900–1979) – Tim All Alone, Tim and the Brave Sea Captain (self-illustrated)
 * Laura Adams Armer (1874–1963) – Waterless Mountain
 * William H. Armstrong (1914–1999) – Sounder
 * Elizabeth Arnold (born 1944) – The Parsley Parcel
 * Tedd Arnold (born 1949) – No Jumping on the Bed!, Parts
 * Ruth M. Arthur (1905–1979) – A Candle in Her Room, Portrait of Margarita, Requiem for a Princess
 * Frank Asch (born 1946) – I Can Blink
 * Bernard Ashley (born 1935) – The Trouble with Donovan Croft, Dodgem, Little Soldier
 * Ros Asquith (living) – Teenage Worrier series
 * M. E. Atkinson (1899–1974) – August Adventure, Smugglers' Gap, Mystery Manor
 * Margaret Atwood (born 1939) – Up in the Tree, Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut, Wandering Wenda and Widow Wallop's Wunderground Washery 
 * Cécile Aubry (1928–2010) – Belle et Sébastien
 * Martin Auer (born 1951) – Now, Now, Markus, The Blue Boy
 * Steve Augarde (born 1950) – The Various, Celandine
 * Jonathan Auxier (born 1981) – The Night Gardener, Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster
 * Esther Averill (1902–1992) – The Cat Club, The Fire Cat
 * Gillian Avery (1926–2016) – The Warden's Niece, The Elephant War, A Likely Lad
 * Harold Avery (1869–1943) – The Triple Alliance, Play the Game
 * Avi (born 1937) – Crispin: The Cross of Lead, The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
 * Christopher Awdry (born 1940) – The Railway Series #27–40 (Thomas the Tank Engine stories)
 * Wilbert Awdry (1911–1997) – The Railway Series #1–26 (Thomas the Tank Engine stories)

B

 * Natalie Babbitt (1932–2016) – Tuck Everlasting, Knee-Knock Rise, The Search for Delicious
 * Maria Baciu (born 1942) – Ghetuţele copilăriei
 * Enid Bagnold (1889–1981) – National Velvet
 * Bob Balaban (born 1945) – McGrowl series
 * R. M. Ballantyne (1825–1894) – The Coral Island
 * Blue Balliett (born 1955) – Chasing Vermeer, The Wright 3, The Calder Game
 * Lynne Reid Banks (born 1929) – The Indian in the Cupboard series
 * Helen Bannerman (1862–1946) – Little Black Sambo
 * Shirley Barber (1935–2023) – The Tale of Martha B. Rabbit, A Wedding in Fairyland
 * Ralph Henry Barbour (1870–1944) – The Half Back, For the Honor of the School, Tom, Dick and Harriet
 * Clive Barker (born 1952) – The Thief of Always
 * Joyce Barkhouse (1913–2012) – Pit Pony
 * Jill Barklem (1951–2017) – Brambly Hedge
 * Steve Barlow and Steve Skidmore – Outernet series
 * Kitty Barne (1883–1961) – She Shall Have Music,  Family Footlights, Visitors from London, Rosina Copper
 * Derrick Barnes – Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut, Ruby and the Booker Boys series
 * Kelly Barnhill (living) – The Girl Who Drank the Moon
 * J. M. Barrie (1860–1937) – Peter Pan
 * T. A. Barron (born 1952) – The Lost Years of Merlin
 * Dave Barry (born 1947) – Peter and the Starcatchers series
 * Margaret Stuart Barry (1927–2022) – Simon and the Witch
 * Graeme Base (born 1958) – Animalia
 * L. Frank Baum (1856–1919) – The Wonderful Wizard of Oz series
 * Hans Baumann (1914–1988) – Sons of the Steppe, I Marched with Hannibal
 * Nina Bawden (1925–2012) – Carrie's War, The Witch's Daughter, The Peppermint Pig
 * "BB" (D. J. Watkins-Pitchford) (1905–1990) – The Little Grey Men, Down the Bright Stream, Bill Badger and the Pirates
 * S. G. Hulme Beaman (1887–1932) – Toytown stories
 * Jerome Beatty Jr (1916–2002) – Matthew Looney space series
 * Aaron Becker (born 1974) – Journey, Quest, Return
 * Thea Beckman (1923–2004) – Crusade in Jeans, Children of Mother Earth series
 * Frank Beddor (born 1958) – The Looking Glass Wars series
 * John Bellairs (1938–1991) – The House with a Clock in Its Walls
 * Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953) – Cautionary Tales for Children, The Bad Child's Book of Beasts, More Beasts for Worse Children
 * Ludwig Bemelmans (1898–1962) – Madeline
 * Derek Benz (born 1971) – Grey Griffins
 * Berechiah ha-Nakdan (12th – 13th century) – Mishle Shualim, Fables of a Jewish Aesop
 * Stan and Jan Berenstain (1923–2005 and 1923–2012) – The Berenstain Bears series
 * Elisabeth Beresford (1928–2010) – The Wombles, Awkward Magic
 * Leila Berg (1917–2012) – Nippers series
 * Paul Berna (1908–1994) – A Hundred Million Francs, The Street Musician, Flood Warning
 * Elsa Beskow (1874–1953)
 * Luc Besson (born 1958) – Arthur and the Minimoys series
 * Amália Bezerédj (1804–1837) – Flóri könyve
 * Vitaly Bianki (1894–1959) – Whose Nose Is Better?
 * David Biedrzycki (born 1955) – Ace Lacewing: Bug Detective, Me and My Dragon, Santa Retires
 * Paul Biegel (1925–2006) – The King of the Copper Mountains, The Little Captain, The Elephant Party
 * Margaret Biggs (born 1929) – Melling School series
 * Franny Billingsley (born 1954) – Well Wished, Big Bad Bunny
 * Claire Huchet Bishop (1899–1993) – The Five Chinese Brothers, All Alone, The Big Loop
 * Christina Björk (born 1938) – Linnea in Monet's Garden
 * Holly Black (born 1971) – The Spiderwick Chronicles, Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles, Tithe, Valiant
 * Malorie Blackman (born 1962) – Noughts & Crosses, Pig Heart Boy, Cloud Busting
 * Clair Blank (1915–1965) – Beverly Gray mystery series
 * Judy Blume (born 1938) – Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret, Fudge series
 * Enid Blyton (1897–1968) – Noddy series, The Famous Five series, The Secret Seven series, The Faraway Tree series, Sunny Stories magazine
 * Godfried Bomans (1913–1971) – Eric in the Land of the Insects, The Wily Wizard and the Wicked Witch, Pim, Frits en Ida
 * Michael Bond (1926–2017) – Paddington Bear series
 * Nancy Bond (born 1945) – A String in the Harp
 * Ruskin Bond (born 1934) – The Room on the Roof, The Blue Umbrella, Angry River
 * Veronica Bonilla (born 1962) – The Platanario series, Magic Dream
 * Arna Bontemps (1902–1970) – Sad-Faced Boy, Lonesome Boy, Mr. Kelso's Lion
 * Lucy M. Boston (1892–1990) – Green Knowe series
 * J. Allan Bosworth (1925–1990) – White Water, Still Water, All the Dark Places
 * Marie Marguerite Bouvet (1865–1915) – Sweet William, Little Marjorie's Love Story, Prince Tip–Top
 * Chris Bradford (born 1974) – Young Samurai series
 * Kimberly Brubaker Bradley (born 1967) – The War That Saved My Life
 * Tony Bradman (born 1954) – Dilly the Dinosaur series
 * Gillian Bradshaw (born 1956) – The Dragon and the Thief, The Land of Gold, Beyond the North Wind
 * Christianna Brand (1907–1988) – Nurse Matilda series (adapted as Nanny McPhee)
 * Ann Brashares (born 1967) – The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series
 * Angela Brazil (1868–1947) – The Nicest Girl in the School, For the Sake of the School, The Jolliest Term on Record
 * Petronella Breinburg (1931–2019) – My Brother Sean, Sally-Ann's Umbrella
 * Elinor Brent-Dyer (1894–1969) – Chalet School series
 * Jan Brett (born 1949) – Trouble with Trolls, The Three Snow Bears
 * Thomas Brezina (born 1963) – The Knickerbocker Gang, Tom Turbo
 * Rae Bridgman – The MiddleGate Books: The Serpent's Spell, Amber Ambrosia, Fish & Sphinx
 * Katharine Mary Briggs (1898–1980) – Hobberdy Dick, Kate Crackernuts
 * Robert Bright (1902–1988) – Georgie
 * Carol Ryrie Brink (1895–1981) – Caddie Woodlawn, Baby Island
 * Hesba Fay Brinsmead (1922–2003) – Pastures of the Blue Crane, Longtime Dreaming
 * Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić (1874–1938) – The Marvelous Adventures and Misadventures of Hlapić the Apprentice, Tales of Long Ago
 * Frances Freeling Broderip (1830–1878) – Funny Fables for Little Folks
 * Lauren Brooke – Heartland series, Chestnut Hill series
 * Walter R. Brooks (1886–1958) – Freddy the Pig series
 * Marc Brown (born 1946) – Arthur series
 * Marcia Brown (1918–2015) – Puss in Boots
 * Margaret Wise Brown (1910–1952) – Goodnight Moon, The Runaway Bunny
 * Pamela Brown (1924–1989) – The Swish of the Curtain
 * Frances Browne (1816–1879) – Granny's Wonderful Chair
 * Mary Grant Bruce (1878–1958) – A Little Bush Maid
 * Jean de Brunhoff (1899–1937) – Babar the Elephant series
 * Ashley Bryan (1923–2022) – Freedom Over Me, Sing to the Sun
 * Jan Brzechwa (1900–1966) – Pan Kleks series, and many poems for children
 * John Buchan (1875–1940) – The Magic Walking Stick, The Long Traverse
 * Susan Buchan (1882–1977) – Jim and the Dragon, Mice on Horseback, The Cat's Grandmother
 * Anthony Buckeridge (1912–2004) – Jennings school stories
 * Maria Elizabeth Budden (c. 1780–1832) – Always Happy!!: Or, Anecdotes of Felix and his Sister Serena. A Tale
 * Kir Bulychev (1934–2003) – Alisa Selezneva series
 * Elizabeth C. Bunce (living) – A Curse Dark as Gold, StarCrossed, Myrtle Hardcastle Mystery series Premeditated Myrtle, Cold-Blooded Myrtle
 * Eve Bunting (born 1928) – Smoky Night
 * John Bunyan (1628–1688) – Pilgrim's Progress
 * Robert J. Burch (1925–2007) – Queenie Peavy, Ida Early Comes Over the Mountain
 * Della Burford (born 1946) – Journey to Dodoland, Magical Earth Secrets, Miracle Galaxy
 * Anthony Burgess (1917–1993) – A Long Trip to Tea Time, The Land Where the Ice Cream Grows
 * Gelett Burgess (1866–1951) – Goops series, and many poems for children including "Purple Cow"
 * Thornton Burgess (1874–1965) – The Adventures of Danny Meadow Mouse, Old Mother West Wind
 * Doris Burn (1923–2011) – Andrew Henry's Meadow, The Summerfolk
 * Alice Hale Burnett (fl. early 20th c.) – The Merryvale Boys
 * Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849–1924) – A Little Princess, Little Lord Fauntleroy, The Secret Garden
 * Sheila Burnford (1918–1984) – The Incredible Journey
 * Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875–1950) – Tarzan series
 * Hester Burton (1913–2000) – Time of Trial
 * Jessie Burton (born 1982) – The Restless Girls, Medusa
 * Virginia Lee Burton (1909–1968) – The Little House, Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
 * A. J. Butcher – Spy High series
 * Rumena Bužarovska (born 1981) – What the Ladybug Saw
 * Betsy Byars (1928–2020) – Summer of the Swans, Tornado
 * Georgia Byng (born 1965) – Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism, Molly Moon Stops the World

C

 * Meg Cabot (born 1967) – The Princess Diaries, Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls
 * Eleanor Cameron (1912–1996) – The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet, The Court of the Stone Children
 * Joanna Campbell (born 1946) – Thoroughbred series
 * Cao Wenxuan (born 1954) – Bronze and Sunflower
 * William Cardell (1780–1828) – The Story of Jack Halyard, the Sailor Boy
 * Rosa Nouchette Carey (1840–1909) – Not Like Other Girls, Heriot's Choice
 * Eric Carle (1929–2021) – The Very Hungry Caterpillar, The Very Busy Spider
 * Natalie Savage Carlson (1906–1997) – The Happy Orpheline, The Family Under the Bridge, The Empty Schoolhouse
 * Isobelle Carmody (born 1958) – The Legend of Little Fur, Magic Night, Obernewtyn Chronicles
 * Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) – Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass
 * Anne Laurel Carter (born 1953) – The Shepherd's Granddaughter, Under a Prairie Sky
 * Peter Carter (1929–1999) – The Sentinels, Children of the Book, Borderlands
 * Soman Chainani (born 1979) – The School for Good and Evil
 * Anna Maria Mead Chalmers (1809–1891) – The Good Resolution, The Sisters
 * Neelam Saxena Chandra (born 1969) – Five Tales, Tales from Sundervan, Pankhudiyaan, Chanda
 * Scott Chantler (born 1972) – Two Generals, Three Thieves, NorthWest Passage
 * Charles III (born 1948) – The Old Man of Lochnagar
 * Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343–1400) – Chanticleer and the Fox (from The Canterbury Tales)
 * Nan Chauncy (1900–1970) – They Found a Cave, Tiger in the Bush, Devils' Hill, Tangara
 * Simon Cheshire (born 1954) – Saxby Smart: Private Detective, Pants on Fire, Operation Sting
 * Ruth Chew (1920–2010) – The Wednesday Witch, What the Witch Left, The Trouble with Magic
 * Lauren Child (born 1965) – Charlie and Lola series, Clarice Bean series
 * Irma Chilton (1930–1990) – Take Away the Flowers
 * John Christopher (1922–2012) – The Prince in Waiting series, The Tripods trilogy
 * Matt Christopher (1917–1997) – Wild Pitch, The Kid Who Only Hit Homers, Tough to Tackle
 * Korney Chukovsky (1882–1969) – Moydodyr
 * Ella Rodman Church (1831–1912) – A Christmas Wreath, for Little People, Little Pilgrim series
 * Mrs. Henry Clarke (1853–1908) – Miss Merivale's Mistake, Put to the Proof
 * Pauline Clarke (1921–2013) – The Twelve and the Genii
 * Beverly Cleary (1916–2021) – Ramona Quimby series
 * Andrew Clements (1949–2019) – Frindle, A Week in the Woods
 * Eleanor Clymer (1906–2001) – The Trolley Car Family
 * Susan Clymer (born 1951) – Animals in Room 202 series
 * Joanna Cole (1944–2020) – The Magic School Bus series
 * Chris Colfer (born 1990) – The Land of Stories
 * Eoin Colfer (born 1965) – Artemis Fowl series
 * Sneed B. Collard III (born 1959) – Hangman's Gold, The Governor's Dog Is Missing!, Dog 4491
 * Suzanne Collins (born 1962) – The Underland Chronicles, The Hunger Games trilogy
 * Carlo Collodi (1826–1890) – The Adventures of Pinocchio
 * Joséphine Colomb (1833–1892) – La fille de Carilès
 * Padraic Colum (1881–1972) – The King of Ireland's Son
 * John Amos Comenius (1592–1670) – Orbis Sesualim Pictis (The Visible World in Pictures)
 * Ying Chang Compestine (born 1963) – Secrets of the Terra-Cotta Soldier, The Chinese Emperor's New Clothes
 * Harriet Theresa Comstock (1860–1925) – Molly the Drummer Boy, Janet of the Dunes
 * Jane Leslie Conly (born 1948) – Racso and the Rats of NIMH, R-T, Margaret, and the Rats of NIMH, Crazy Lady!
 * Susan Coolidge (1835–1905) – What Katy Did series
 * Barbara Cooney (1917–2000) – Chanticleer and the Fox, Miss Rumphius
 * Susan Cooper (born 1935) – The Dark Is Rising series, The Boggart
 * Esther Copley (1786–1851) – Early Friendships
 * Zizou Corder – Lionboy series
 * William Corlett (1938–2005) – The Magician's House series
 * Rachel Cosgrove (1922–1998) – The Hidden Valley of Oz
 * John Cotton (1585–1652) – Milk for Babes catechism
 * Bruce Coville (born 1950) – Space Brat, My Teacher Is an Alien, Aliens Ate My Homework, The Unicorn Chronicles, Magic Shop series
 * Joy Cowley (born 1936) – The Silent One, Bow Down Shadrach
 * Palmer Cox (1840–1924) – The Brownies series
 * John Coy (born 1958) – Night Driving, Crackback
 * Joe Craig (born 1981) – Jimmy Coates series
 * Ion Creangă (1837–1889) – Childhood Memories, The Goat and Her Three Kids, Harap Alb, Ivan Turbincă, Dănilă Prepeleac
 * Sharon Creech (born 1945) – Walk Two Moons, Ruby Holler, Heartbeat
 * Helen Cresswell (1934–2005) – The Bagthorpe Saga
 * Richmal Crompton (1890–1969) – Just William
 * Michael Cronin (born 1942) – Against the Day series
 * Gillian Cross (born 1945) – Wolf, The Great Elephant Chase, The Demon Headmaster series
 * Sarah Crossan – The Weight of Water, Apple and Rain, One
 * Kevin Crossley-Holland (born 1941) – Storm, The Seeing Stone
 * Catherine Crowe (1790–1872) – Pippie's Warning; or, Mind Your Temper
 * Gabriella Csire (born 1938) – Turpi series
 * John Cunliffe (1933–2018) – Postman Pat series; Rosie & Jim series
 * Jane Louise Curry (born 1932) – Abaloc series, Poor Tom's Ghost, The Egyptian Box, The Black Canary
 * Judi Curtin (born 1960s) – Alice & Megan series, Time after Time series
 * Chara M. Curtis – How Far to Heaven, All I See Is Part of Me, No One Walks on My Father's Moon, Fun Is a Feeling

D

 * Debbie Dadey (born 1959) – The Adventures of the Bailey School Kids
 * Roald Dahl (1916–1990) – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, The BFG, James and the Giant Peach, The Witches, Fantastic Mr Fox
 * Alice Dalgliesh (1893–1979) – The Bears on Hemlock Mountain, The Courage of Sarah Noble, The Silver Pencil
 * Annie Dalton (born 1948) – Angels Unlimited series, Afterdark series
 * David Scott Daniell (1906–1965) – Young English, Mission for Oliver, The Dragon and the Rose, By Jiminy
 * Lucy Daniels (born 1960) – Animal Ark, Dolphin Diaries
 * Paula Danziger (1944–2004) – The Cat Ate My Gymsuit, Amber Brown series
 * James Dashner (born 1972) – The 13th Reality series
 * Alan Davidson (born 1943) – Annabel series, Light, The Bewitching of Alison Allbright
 * Stephen Mark Davies (born 1976) – Sophie series, Hacking Timbuktu, Outlaw
 * Lavinia R. Davis (1909–1961) – The Wild Birthday Cake, Buttonwood Island, Donkey Detectives
 * Mary Hayes Davis (c.1884–1948) – Chinese Fables and Folk Stories (with Chow Leung)
 * Cecil Day-Lewis (1904–1972) – Dick Willoughby, The Otterbury Incident
 * Jean D'Costa (born 1937) – Escape to Last Man Peak
 * Edmondo De Amicis (1846–1908) – Heart (Cuore)
 * Marguerite de Angeli (1889–1987) – The Door in the Wall, Black Fox of Lorne, Bright April
 * Jeanne de Cavally (1926–1992) – Pouê-pouê, le petit cabri
 * Walter de la Mare (1873–1956) – The Three Mulla Mulgars, Songs of Childhood, Peacock Pie, Collected Stories for Children
 * Silvana De Mari (born 1953) – The Last Dragon
 * Terry Deary (born 1946) – The Fire Thief, Master Crook's Crime Academy series
 * Barthe DeClements (born 1920) – Nothing's Fair in Fifth Grade
 * Jan Deberitz (1950–2014) – Morgentåkedalen (Morning Fog Valley)
 * Daniel Defoe (1660–1731) – Robinson Crusoe
 * Meindert DeJong (1906–1991) – The Wheel on the School, The House of Sixty Fathers
 * Tomie dePaola (1934–2020) – Strega Nona, 26 Fairmount Avenue
 * Lavinia Derwent (1909–1989) – Tammy Troot, Sula
 * Kate DiCamillo (born 1964) – Because of Winn Dixie, The Tale of Despereaux, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures
 * Charles Dickens (1812–1870) – A Christmas Carol, Oliver Twist, The Magic Fishbone
 * Peter Dickinson (1927–2015) – The Changes trilogy, Tulku, City of Gold, Eva, The Kin
 * Miep Diekmann (1925–2017) – The Haunted Island, Just a Street, Slave Doctor
 * Anne Digby (born 1935) – Trebizon series
 * Thomas M. Disch (1940–2008) – The Brave Little Toaster, The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars
 * Tony DiTerlizzi (born 1969) – The Spiderwick Chronicles, Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles
 * Franklin W. Dixon (Stratemeyer house pseudonym from 1927) – The Hardy Boys series
 * Rex Dixon (1908–1971) – Pocomoto series
 * Chris D'Lacey (born 1954) – The Fire Within series
 * Lynley Dodd (born 1941) – Hairy Maclary, Slinky Malinki
 * Mary Mapes Dodge (1831–1905) – Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates
 * Julia Donaldson (born 1948) – The Gruffalo, Monkey Puzzle, The Troll
 * Amanda Minnie Douglas (1831–1916) – A Little Girl series, Helen Grant series, A Modern Cinderella
 * Marian Douglas (1842-1913) - Picture Poems for Young People
 * Beatriz Doumerc (1929–2014) – La línea, Daniel y los reyes
 * Siobhan Dowd (1960–2007) – The London Eye Mystery, Bog Child
 * Debra Doyle (1952–2020) – School of Wizardry, Knight's Wyrd
 * Roddy Doyle (born 1958) – Not Just for Christmas, Wilderness
 * Tonke Dragt (born 1930) – The Letter for the King, The Secrets of the Wild Wood
 * Crescent Dragonwagon (born 1952) – Always, Always, Home Place, Half a Moon and One Whole Star
 * Anna Harriett Drury (also Harriet, 1824–1912) – The Three Half-Crowns: a story for boys, Richard Rowe's Parcel
 * William Pène du Bois (1916–1993) – The Twenty-One Balloons
 * Diane Duane (born 1952) – So You Want to Be a Wizard
 * Ursula Dubosarsky (born 1961) – The Red Shoe, The Golden Day, The Blue Cat
 * Tessa Duder (born 1940) – Alex Archer series, Tiggie Tompson series
 * Florence Dugdale (1879–1937) – The Book of Baby Birds
 * Lois Duncan (1934–2016) – I Know What You Did Last Summer, A Gift of Magic
 * Jeanne DuPrau (born 1944) – The Books of Ember series
 * Christine Dzidrums (born 1971) – Cutters Don't Cry, Gabby Douglas: Golden Smile, Golden Triumph

E

 * Edward Eager (1911–1964) – Half Magic, Magic by the Lake, Knight's Castle, The Time Garden, The Well-Wishers, Magic or Not, Seven-Day Magic
 * Marion Eames (1921–2007) – Sionyn a Siarli, Huw a'r Adar Aur, Y Tir Tywyll (in Welsh)
 * Martin Ebbertz (born 1962) – Little Mr. Jaromir
 * Irmengarde Eberle (1898–1979)
 * Walter D. Edmonds (1903–1998) – The Matchlock Gun, Bert Breen's Barn
 * Dorothy Edwards (1914–1982) – My Naughty Little Sister, The Witches and the Grinnygog
 * Julie Edwards (Dame Julie Andrews) (born 1935) – The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles
 * Leo Edwards (1884–1944) – Jerry Todd series, Poppy Ott series
 * Monica Edwards (1912–1998) – Punchbowl Farm series, Romney Marsh series
 * Stephen Elboz (born 1956) – The Byzantium Bazaar
 * T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) – Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
 * E. C. Eliott (1908–1971) – Kemlo and Tas series
 * David Elliott (born 1947) – Bull, Evangeline Mudd and the Great Mink Escapade, Knitty Kitty
 * Janice Elliott (1931–1995) – The Sword and the Dream
 * Sarah Ellis (born 1952) – Pick-Up Sticks
 * Jonathan Emmett (born 1965) – Bringing Down the Moon, Someone Bigger, The Princess and the Pig
 * Michael Ende (1929–1995) – The Neverending Story, Momo, Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver
 * Margarita Engle (born 1951) – The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom
 * Elizabeth Enright (1909–1968) – The Melendy series, Thimble Summer, Gone-Away Lake
 * Hans Magnus Enzensberger (1929–2022) – The Number Devil, Where Were You, Robert?
 * Louise Erdrich (born 1954) – The Birchbark House, The Game of Silence
 * John R. Erickson (born 1943) – Hank the Cowdog
 * Eleanor Estes (1908–1988) – The Moffats, Rufus M., The Hundred Dresses, Ginger Pye
 * Juliana Horatia Ewing (1841–1885) – A Flat Iron for a Farthing, The Story of a Short Life

F

 * John Meade Falkner (1858–1932) – Moonfleet
 * Eleanor Farjeon (1881–1965) – Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard, The Little Bookroom
 * Walter Farley (1915–1989) – The Black Stallion series
 * Nancy Farmer (born 1941) – The House of the Scorpion, The Ear, the Eye and the Arm, A Girl Named Disaster
 * Penelope Farmer (born 1939) – Charlotte Sometimes, The Summer Birds, A Castle of Bone
 * G. E. Farrow (1862 – c. 1920) – The Wallypug of Why, The Little Panjandrum's Dodo
 * Gertrude Minnie Faulding (1875–1961) – Old Man's Beard and Other Tales
 * Tim Federle – Better Nate Than Ever, The Great American Whatever
 * Eliza Fenwick (1766–1840) – Mary and Her Cat, Visits to the Junior Library
 * Ruby Ferguson (1899–1966) – Jill's Gymkhana, A Stable for Jill, Jill's Pony Trek
 * Chitra Fernando (1935–1998) – Glass Bangles, The Adventures of Senerat Bandara, Bempi Appu
 * Arkady Fiedler (1894–1985) – Robinson Crusoe Island, Orinoco
 * Eugene Field (1850–1895) – Wynken, Blynken, and Nod
 * Sarah Fielding (1710–1768) – The Governess, or The Little Female Academy
 * Anne Fine (born 1947) – The Tulip Touch, Madame Doubtfire, Flour Babies
 * Nadia Fink (born 1977) – Anti-Princess series and Anti-Hero series
 * Martha Finley (1828–1909) – Elsie Dinsmore series, Mildred Keith series
 * Francis J. Finn (1859–1928) – Tom Playfair, That Football Game, Bobby in Movieland
 * Aileen Fisher (1906–2002) – We Alcotts, I Heard a Bluebird Sing
 * Catherine Fisher (born 1957) – The Snow-Walker, The Book of the Crow, The Oracle, Corbenic
 * Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879–1958) – Understood Betsy
 * John D. Fitzgerald (1906–1988) – The Great Brain series
 * Louise Fitzhugh (1928–1974) – Harriet the Spy, Nobody's Family Is Going to Change
 * Philippe Fix (born 1937)
 * Marjorie Flack (1897–1958) – The Story of Ping, Angus and the Ducks
 * John Flanagan (born 1944) – Ranger's Apprentice series
 * Paul Fleischman (born 1952) – Bull Run, Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices
 * Sid Fleischman (1920–2010) – The Whipping Boy, By The Great Horn Spoon!
 * Ian Fleming (1908–1964) – Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
 * Shamini Flint (born 1969) – Ten: A Soccer Story, Diary of a Soccer Star, The Seeds of Time, Sasha Visits series
 * Esther Forbes (1891–1967) – Johnny Tremain
 * Antonia Forest (1915–2003) – Autumn Term, Falconer's Lure and other Marlow Family books
 * Elena Fortún (1886–1952) – Celia, lo que dice, Celia en el colegio
 * Helen Fox (born 1962) – Eager series
 * Mem Fox (born 1946) – Possum Magic, Guess What?, Wombat Divine
 * Anne Frank (1929–1945) – The Diary of a Young Girl
 * Barbara C. Freeman (1906–1999) – Two-Thumb Thomas, Timi, the Tale of a Griffin
 * Don Freeman (1908–1978) – Corduroy
 * Pamela Freeman (born 1960) – The Willow Tree's Daughter, The Black Dress, Cherryblossom and the Golden Bear
 * Jackie French (born 1953) – Hitler's Daughter, Diary of a Wombat, Pete the Sheep, School for Heroes
 * Frieda Friedman (born 1905, date of death unknown) – Dot for Short, Pat and Her Policeman, Carol from the Country
 * Cornelia Funke (born 1958) – The Thief Lord, Inkheart series
 * Sandy Fussell (born 1960) – Samurai Kids series, Polar Boy
 * Rose Fyleman (1877–1957) – Fairies and Chimneys, The Fairy Green, The Dolls' House
 * Fynn (pseudonym of Sydney Hopkins, 1919–1999) – Mister God, This Is Anna

G

 * Jostein Gaarder (born 1952) – Sophie's World, The Christmas Mystery
 * Wanda Gág (1893–1946) – Millions of Cats, The ABC Bunny
 * Eva Roe Gaggin (1879–1966) – Down Ryton Water, An Ear for Uncle Emil
 * Arkady Gaidar (1904–1941) – Timur and His Squad
 * Neil Gaiman (born 1960) – Coraline, The Graveyard Book
 * Paul Gallico (1897–1976) – The Snow Goose, Manxmouse, Jennie, The Day the Guinea-Pig Talked
 * Sally Gardner – The Countess's Calamity, I, Coriander, The Red Necklace
 * Leon Garfield (1921–1996) – Devil-in-the-Fog, Smith, The God Beneath the Sea, John Diamond
 * Howard R. Garis (1873–1962) – Uncle Wiggily Longears series
 * Alan Garner (born 1934) – The Owl Service, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, The Moon of Gomrath, Elidor, Red Shift, The Stone Book Quartet
 * Eve Garnett (1900–1991) – The Family from One End Street
 * Doris Gates (1901–1987) – Blue Willow
 * Margaret Gatty (1809–1873) – Parables from Nature, Aunt Judy's Tales
 * Jamila Gavin (born 1941) – Coram Boy, Grandpa Chatterji
 * Béatrice Lalinon Gbado (born 1984) – Beautiful Debo, Bovi series, Kaïvi series
 * Anna Genover-Mas (born 1963) – The Grumpy Gardener
 * Jean Craighead George (1919–2012) – My Side of the Mountain, Julie of the Wolves
 * Jessica Day George (born 1976) – Princess of the Midnight Ball, Dragon Slippers
 * Adèle Geras (born 1944) – Apricots at Midnight, The Girls in the Velvet Frame, The Fabulous Fantoras
 * Charles "Father Goose" Ghigna (born 1946) – Mice Are Nice, Riddle Rhymes, A Fury of Motion: Poems for Boys
 * May Gibbs (1877–1969) – Snugglepot and Cuddlepie
 * Patricia Reilly Giff (1935–2021) – The Polk Street School series, Lily's Crossing, Pictures of Hollis Woods, Eleven, Storyteller
 * Fred Gipson (1908–1973) – Old Yeller
 * Debi Gliori (born 1959) – Pure Dead series, Mr Bear series, Witch Baby series, The Tobermory Cat, What's the Time, Mr Wolf?
 * Rumer Godden (1907–1998) – The Doll's House, The Mousewife, The Diddakoi
 * Glenda Goertzen (born 1967) – The Prairie Dogs, City Dogs
 * John Henry Goldfrap (1879–1917) – The Ocean Wireless Boys, The Boy Aviators, The Dreadnought Boys
 * Julia Golding (born 1969) – The Diamond of Drury Lane, Secret of the Sirens
 * Oliver Goldsmith (1730–1774) – The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes
 * Elizabeth Goudge (1900–1984) – The Little White Horse, Linnets and Valerians
 * Candy Gourlay (born 1962) – Tall Story, Shine, Bone Talk
 * Harry Graham (1874–1936) – Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes
 * Kenneth Grahame (1859–1932) – The Wind in the Willows
 * Hardie Gramatky (1907–1979) – Little Toot
 * Mary Grannan (1900–1975) – Just Mary, Maggie Muggins
 * John Grant (1930–2014) – Little Nose stories
 * Nicholas Stuart Gray (1922–1981) – Grimbold's Other World, The Seventh Swan
 * Alain Grée (born 1936)
 * John Green (born 1977) – Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines, Paper Towns, The Fault in Our Stars, Will Grayson, Will Grayson, Let It Snow
 * Roger Lancelyn Green (1918–1987) – King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table, The Luck of Troy
 * Kate Greenaway (1846–1901) – Under the Window
 * Frances Nimmo Greene (1867–1937) – Legends of King Arthur and His Court
 * Graham Greene (1904–1991) – The Little Train, The Little Fire Engine, The Little Horse Bus, The Little Steamroller
 * James Greenwood (1832–1929) – The True History of a Little Ragamuffin
 * Kristiana Gregory (born 1951) – Earthquake at Dawn, The Stowaway, Jenny of the Tetons
 * Andy Griffiths (born 1961) – The Bad Book, Just Tricking, The 13-Storey Treehouse, Treasure Fever!
 * Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm (1785–1863 and 1786–1859) – Grimm's Fairy Tales
 * Maria Gripe (1923–2007) – Hugo and Josephine, In the Time of the Bells, Elvis and His Secret
 * John Grisham (born 1955) – Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer series
 * Annie Groovie (born 1970) – Léon series
 * Johnny Gruelle (1880–1938) – Raggedy Ann series
 * Jacqueline Guest – Free Throw, Triple Threat, Death by Dinosaur
 * Kristín Helga Gunnarsdóttir (born 1963) – Fiasol series
 * Dan Gutman (born 1955) – The Million Dollar Shot, Baseball Card Adventures, My Weird School series
 * Bethan Gwanas (born 1962) – Llinyn Trôns, Sgôr

H

 * Maria Hack (1777–1844) – Winter Evenings, Harry Beaufoy, or, The Pupil of Nature
 * Margaret Peterson Haddix (born 1964) – Shadow Children series
 * Mark Haddon (born 1962) – The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Agent Z series
 * Matt Haig (born 1975) – Shadow Forest, A Boy Called Christmas
 * J. B. S. Haldane (1892–1964) – Mr Friend Mr Leakey
 * Virginia Hamilton (1936–2002) – M. C. Higgins the Great
 * Leif Hamre (1914–2007) – Otter Three Two Calling, Contact Lost, Blue Two ... Bale Out
 * H. Irving Hancock (1866–1922) – High School Boys series, West Point series, Young Engineers series
 * Joyce Hansen (born 1942) – The Gift-Giver, The Captive, I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly
 * Frances Hardinge (born 1973) – Fly by Night, The Lie Tree
 * Roger Hargreaves (1935–1988) – Mr. Men series, Little Miss series
 * Cynthia Harnett (1893–1981) – The Wool-Pack, The Load of Unicorn, The Writing on the Hearth
 * Amanda Bartlett Harris (1824–1917) – How We Went Birds' Nesting, Little Folks' Every Day Book
 * Joel Chandler Harris (1845–1908) – Uncle Remus
 * Mary K. Harris (1905–1966) – Emily and the Headmistress, The Bus Girls, Seraphina
 * Rosemary Harris (1923–2019) – The Moon in the Cloud, A Quest for Orion, Zed
 * Edith Ogden Harrison (1862–1955) – Prince Silverwings, The Star Fairies
 * Lisi Harrison (born 1970) – The Clique series, Alpha series, Monster High books
 * Peter Härtling (1933–2017) – Oma, Ben liebt Anna, Krücke
 * Sonya Hartnett (born 1968) – The Silver Donkey, The Children of the King
 * Juanita Havill (born 1949) – Jamaica series, Eyes Like Willy's
 * Charles Hawes (1889–1923) – The Dark Frigate, The Great Quest
 * Barbara Haworth-Attard (born 1953) – TruthSinger, To Stand on My Own, A Trail of Broken Dreams
 * Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) – A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys, Tanglewood Tales
 * Carolyn Haywood (1898–1990) – Betsy series, Eddie series
 * Helen Haywood (1907–1995) – Peter Tiggywig series
 * Carol Hedges – Jigsaw, Spy Girl series
 * Florence Parry Heide (1919–2011) – The Shrinking of Treehorn
 * Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) – Rocket Ship Galileo, Have Space Suit—Will Travel
 * Racey Helps (1913–1970) – Barnaby Littlemouse series
 * Kevin Henkes (born 1960) – Kitten's First Full Moon, The Year of Billy Miller, Olive's Ocean, Waiting
 * Zenna Henderson (1917–1983) – Ingathering: The Complete People Stories
 * Marguerite Henry (1902–1997) – King of the Wind, Misty of Chincoteague
 * Nat Hentoff (1925–2017) – This School Is Driving Me Crazy, The Day They Came to Arrest the Book
 * G. A. Henty (1832–1902) – Out on the Pampas, The Young Buglers, The Cat of Bubastes, With Lee in Virginia, Beric the Briton
 * James Herriot (1916–1995) – All Creatures Great and Small, James Herriot's Treasury for Children
 * Karen Hesse (born 1952) – Out of the Dust, The Music of Dolphins
 * Carl Hiaasen (born 1953) – Hoot
 * Clifford B. Hicks (1920–2010) – First Boy on the Moon, The Marvelous Inventions of Alvin Fernald
 * Donna Barba Higuera – Lupe Wong Won't Dance, The Last Cuentista
 * E. W. Hildick (1925–2001) – Jack McGurk mysteries, Jim Starling series
 * Lorna Hill (1902–1991) – A Dream of Sadler's Wells
 * Nigel Hinton (born 1941) – Buddy, Beaver Towers
 * S. E. Hinton (born 1948) – The Outsiders, That Was Then, This Is Now, Rumble Fish
 * Russell Hoban (1925–2011) – The Mouse and His Child
 * Will Hobbs (born 1947) – Bearstone, Beardream, Ghost Canoe, Go Big or Go Home
 * Michael Hoeye (born 1947) – Hermux Tantamoq series
 * E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776–1822) – The Nutcracker and the Mouse King
 * Mary Hoffman (born 1945) – Stravaganza series, Amazing Grace
 * Barbara Hofland (1770–1844) – The Son of a Genius, The Blind Farmer and His Children, The Young Crusoe
 * Christophe Honoré (born 1970) – Tout contre Léo
 * Laura Lee Hope (Stratemeyer house pseudonym from 1904) – Bobbsey Twins series
 * Isabel Hornibrook (1859–1952) – Camp and Trail
 * Anthony Horowitz (born 1955) – Alex Rider series, The Diamond Brothers series, The Gatekeepers series
 * Hasan Hourani (1974–2003) – Hassan Everywhere
 * Janni Howker – The Nature of the Beast, Badger on the Barge
 * Carol Hughes (born 1955) – Jack Black and the Ship of Thieves, Dirty Magic, The Princess and the Unicorn
 * Ted Hughes (1938–1998) – The Iron Man
 * Thomas Hughes (1822–1896) – Tom Brown's School Days
 * Shirley Hughes (1927–2022) – Dogger, Hero on a Bicycle, Ella's Big Chance, Alfie series
 * John Hulme (born 1970) – The Seems series
 * Irene Hunt (1907–2001) – Up a Road Slowly, The Lottery Rose
 * Erin Hunter (joint pseudonym from 2003) – 'Warriors series, 'Seekers series
 * Norman Hunter (1899–1995) – Professor Branestawm series
 * Emily Huws (born 1942) – Cyfres Corryn: Chwannen, Lol neu Lwc?
 * Zach Hyman (born 1992) – The Magician's Secret, Hockey Hero, The Bambino and Me
 * Tuuli Hypén (born 1983) – Veikan metsäretki, Veikka ja talvi

I

 * Eva Ibbotson (1925–2010) – Which Witch?, The Secret of Platform 13, Journey to the River Sea
 * Theodor Illek (born 1984) – The Golden Key
 * Jean Ingelow (1820–1897) – Mopsa the Fairy
 * Mick Inkpen (born 1962) – Kipper the Dog series, Wibbly Pig series
 * Mary E. Ireland (1834–1927) – Timothy and His Friends
 * Washington Irving (1783–1859) – "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", "Rip Van Winkle"
 * Koji Ishikawa (born 1963) – Colorful Animals Hide and Seek series
 * Petre Ispirescu (1830–1887) – Romanian Legends or Fairy Tales, Greuceanu
 * Oksana Ivanenko (1906–1997) – Forest Tales

J

 * Joseph Jacobs (1854–1916) – English Fairy Tales, Celtic Fairy Tales, European Folk and Fairy Tales
 * Brian Jacques (1939–2011) – Redwall series, Castaways of the Flying Dutchman
 * Grace James – John and Mary series, Green Willow and Other Japanese Fairy Tales
 * Victoria Jamieson – When Stars Are Scattered, Roller Girl
 * James Janeway (1636–1674) – A Token for Children
 * Éva Janikovszky (1926–2003) – If I Were a Grown-Up, Who Does This Kid Take After?
 * Tove Jansson (1914–2001) – Moomin series
 * Annie Jay (born 1957) – Complot à Versailles, À la poursuite d'Olympe
 * Richard Jefferies (1848–1887) – Wood Magic, Bevis
 * Theodora Robinson Jenness (1847–1935) – Two Young Homesteaders, Piokee, Above the Range
 * Paul Jennings (born 1943) – Unreal!, Undone!, Unbelievable!, The Paw Thing, The Gizmo, Wicked series
 * W. E. Johns (1893–1968) – Biggles series, Worrals series
 * Annie Fellows Johnston (1863–1931) – The Little Colonel, Miss Santa Claus of the Pullman
 * Diana Wynne Jones (1934–2011) – Chrestomanci series, Howl's Moving Castle, Dogsbody
 * Lara Jones (1975–2010) – Poppy Cat series
 * Marcia Thornton Jones (born 1958) – The Adventures of the Bailey School Kids series, Ghostville Elementary series
 * T. Llew Jones (1915–2009) – Trysor Plas y wernen, Anturiaethau Twm Siôn Cati: Y Ffordd Beryglus
 * Terry Jones (1942–2020) – Fairy Tales, The Saga of Erik the Viking, Squire series
 * Mary Catherine Judd (1852–1930s) – Classic Myths, Wigwam Stories
 * Jacqueline Jules (born 1956) – Zapato Power series, Unite or Die: How Thirteen States Became a Nation
 * Norton Juster (1929–2021) – The Phantom Tollbooth, The Hello, Goodbye Window
 * May Justus (1898–1989) – Gabby Gaffer, Luck for Little Lihu, New Boy in School

K

 * Keri Kaa (1942–2020) – Taka Ki Ro Wai
 * Cynthia Kadohata (born 1956) – Kira-Kira, Weedflower, The Thing About Luck
 * Eiko Kadono (born 1935) – Kiki's Delivery Service
 * Joan Kahn (1914–1994) – Ladies and Gentlemen, said the Ringmaster, Seesaw, You Can't Catch Me
 * Maira Kalman (born 1949) – Fireboat, Max Stravinsky: Poet-Dog series
 * Ulrich Karger (born 1957) – The Scary Sleepover
 * Jan Karon (born 1937) – Miss Fannie's Hat
 * Erich Kästner (1899–1974) – Emil and the Detectives, Lottie and Lisa, The Flying Classroom
 * Elizabeth Kay (born 1949) – The Divide trilogy
 * Annie Keary (1825–1879) – Heroes of Asgard
 * Ezra Jack Keats (1916–1983) – The Snowy Day, Whistle for Willie, Goggles!
 * Carolyn Keene (Stratemeyer house pseudonym from 1930) – Nancy Drew mystery series
 * Charles Keeping (1924–1988) – Charley, Charlotte and the Golden Canary
 * Harold Keith (1903–1998) – Rifles for Watie
 * Eric P. Kelly (1884–1960) – The Trumpeter of Krakow
 * Gene Kemp (1926–2015) – The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler, The Pride of Tamworth Pig
 * Louise Andrews Kent (1886–1969) – He Went with Marco Polo, He Went with Hannibal, Two Children of Tyre
 * Judith Kerr (1923–2019) – When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, The Tiger Who Came To Tea
 * Lady Amabel Kerr (1846–1906) – A Bible Picture Book for Catholic Children, Lives of the Saints for Children
 * P. B. Kerr (1956–2018) – Children of the Lamp series
 * Alexander Key (1904–1979) – Escape to Witch Mountain, The Forgotten Door, The Case of the Vanishing Boy
 * Dorothy Kilner (1755–1836) – The Life and Perambulation of a Mouse
 * Garry Kilworth (born 1941) – The Welkin Weasels series, Knights of Liöfwende series, Attica
 * Clive King (1924–2018) – Stig of the Dump
 * Dick King-Smith (1922–2011) – The Sheep-Pig, The Queen's Nose
 * Charles Kingsley (1819–1875) – The Water Babies, The Heroes
 * Jeff Kinney (born 1971) – Diary of a Wimpy Kid series
 * Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) – Just So Stories, The Jungle Book, Puck of Pook's Hill
 * Ole Lund Kirkegaard (1940–1979)
 * Jim Kjelgaard (1910–1959) – Kalak of the Ice, Fire-Hunter, The Spell of the White Sturgeon, Wolf Brother
 * Jon Klassen (born 1981) – This Is Not My Hat
 * Annette Curtis Klause (born 1953) – Blood and Chocolate
 * Anne Knight (1792–1860) – School-Room Lyrics, Mary Gray
 * Nellie van Kol (1851–1930) – Ons Blaadje
 * E. L. Konigsburg (1930–2013) – From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, The Second Mrs. Giaconda, The View from Saturday
 * Robin Koontz (born 1954) – In a Cabin in a Wood, Leaps and Creeps: How Animals Move to Survive
 * Janusz Korczak (1878–1942) – King Matt the First, Kaytek the Wizard
 * Conor Kostick (born 1964) – Epic, Saga, Edda, Move, The Book of Curses, The Book of Wishes
 * Erik P. Kraft – Chocolatina, Lenny and Mel series, Miracle Wimp
 * Ruth Krauss (1901–1993) – The Carrot Seed
 * Adrienne Kress – Alex and the Ironic Gentleman, Timothy and the Dragon's Gate
 * Uma Krishnaswami (born 1956) – Naming Maya, Monsoon
 * Joseph Krumgold (1908–1980) – ...And Now Miguel, Onion John
 * Guus Kuijer (born 1942) – Madelief series, Polleke series
 * Kunjunni (1927–2006) – Kunjunni Kavithakal
 * Jane Kurtz (born 1952) – River Friendly River Wild, Water Hole Waiting

L

 * María Hortensia Lacau (1910–2006) – País de Silvia, Chingola y Hornerín, Yo y Hornerín, El libro de Juancito Maricaminero
 * Sheila LaFarge - Golden Butter
 * Selma Lagerlöf (1858–1940) – The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
 * Elizabeth Laird (born 1943) – The Garbage King, Crusade
 * Charles Lamb (1775–1834) and Mary Lamb (1764–1847) – Tales from Shakespeare
 * Derek Landy (born 1974) – Skulduggery Pleasant series
 * Andrew Lang (1844–1912) – The Blue Fairy Book, The Red Fairy Book, The Red Romance Book
 * Noel Langley (1911–1980) – The Land of Green Ginger
 * Katherine Langrish – Troll Fell, Troll Mill, Troll Blood
 * Jane Langton (1922–2018) – The Hall Family Chronicles series
 * Jennifer Lanthier (born 1964) – The Mystery of the Martello Tower, The Stamp Collector
 * Kirby Larson – The Magic Kerchief, Hattie Big Sky
 * Kathryn Lasky (born 1944) – Guardians of Ga'hoole series, The Night Journey
 * Dorothy P. Lathrop (1891–1980) – The Fairy Circus, The Dog in the Tapestry Garden
 * Caroline Lawrence (born 1954) – The Roman Mysteries
 * Michael Lawrence (born 1943) – The Snottle and other Jiggy McCue books, Young Dracula, The Aldous Lexicon
 * Robert Lawson (1892–1957) – Rabbit Hill, Ben and Me, They Were Strong and Good
 * Ervin Lázár (1936–2006) – The Seven Headed Fairy, The Little Boy and the Lions, The Square Round Wood
 * Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) – Earthsea series, Very Far Away from Anywhere Else, Catwings series, Annals of the Western Shore series
 * Munro Leaf (1905–1976) – The Story of Ferdinand
 * Sarah Lean – A Dog Called Homeless
 * Edward Lear (1812–1888) – "The Owl and the Pussycat", A Book of Nonsense
 * Diana Lebacs (1947–2022) – Nanco van Bonaire, Caimins geheim
 * Dennis Lee (born 1939) – Alligator Pie
 * Harper Lee (1926–2016) – To Kill a Mockingbird
 * Robert Leeson (1928–2013) – The Third Class Genie, It's My Life
 * Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) – A Wrinkle in Time, Meet the Austins
 * Lois Lenski (1893–1974) – Phebe Fairchild: Her Book, Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison, Strawberry Girl
 * Lois Gladys Leppard (1924–2008) – Mandie series
 * Peter Lerangis (born 1955) – Seven Wonders series, The Sword Thief and The Viper's Nest in The 39 Clues collaborative series, Spy X series, Abracadabra series
 * Helen Lester (born 1936) – Tacky the Penguin
 * Gail Carson Levine (born 1947) – Ella Enchanted, The Two Princesses of Bamarre, Fairest, Dave at Night, The Wish
 * Ted Lewin (1935–2021) – Peppe the Lamplighter
 * C. S. Lewis (1898–1963) – The Chronicles of Narnia series
 * Hilda Lewis (1896–1974) – The Ship That Flew, The Gentle Falcon
 * J. Patrick Lewis (born 1942) – A Hippopotamusn't, Swan Song, The House
 * J. S. Lewis (born 1972) – Grey Griffins
 * Naomi Lewis (1911–2009) – English translations of the works of Hans Christian Andersen
 * Grace Lin (born 1974) – Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, The Year of the Dog
 * Anne Lindbergh (1940–1993) – The People of Pineapple Place, The Worry Week, Nick of Time
 * Astrid Lindgren (1907–2002) – Pippi Longstocking, Ronia the Robber's Daughter
 * Eva Lindström (born 1952) – The Cat Hat, Olli och Mo, My Dog Mouse
 * Eric Linklater (1899–1974) – The Wind on the Moon, The Pirates in the Deep Green Sea
 * Leo Lionni (1910–1999) – Inch by Inch, Swimmy, Frederick, Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse
 * Jean Little (1932–2020) – Mine for Keeps, From Anna, Orphan at My Door
 * Penelope Lively (born 1933) – The Ghost of Thomas Kempe, A Stitch in Time
 * Monteiro Lobato (1882–1948) – Sítio do Picapau Amarelo series
 * Mira Lobe (1913–1995) – The Snowman Who Went for a Walk, Little I Am Me
 * Hugh Lofting (1886–1947) – Doctor Dolittle series
 * Jack London (1876–1916) – The Call of the Wild, White Fang
 * Lois Lowry (born 1937) – Number the Stars, The Giver, Anastasia Krupnik series
 * Nina Lugovskaya (1918–1993) – The Diary of a Soviet Schoolgirl, 1932–1937
 * Janet Lunn (1928–2017) – The Root Cellar, The Hollow Tree
 * Patricia Lynch (c. 1894–1972) – The Turf-Cutter's Donkey, Brogeen series
 * Elinor Lyon (1921–2008) – The House in Hiding, Carver's Journey, Run Away Home

M

 * Amy MacDonald (born 1951) – Little Beaver and the Echo, Rachel Fister's Blister
 * Betty MacDonald (1908–1958) – Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle series
 * George MacDonald (1824–1905) – At the Back of the North Wind,  The Princess and the Goblin
 * Ellen MacGregor (1906–1954) – Miss Pickerell series
 * Reginald James MacGregor – The Young Detectives
 * D. J. MacHale (born 1955) – The Pendragon Adventure
 * Božena Mačingová (1922–2017) – Danuška
 * Angus MacVicar (1908–2001) – The Lost Planet


 * Sandra Magsamen (born 1959) – The Gift
 * Margaret Mahy (1936–2012) – The Haunting, The Changeover, Maddigan's Fantasia, Memory
 * Hector Malot (1830–1907) – Nobody's Boy (Sans Famille)
 * Clare Mallory (1913–1991) – Merry Begins, Juliet Overseas, The League of the Smallest
 * Ruth Manning-Sanders (1888–1988) – A Book of Dragons and other anthologies of fairy tales from around the world (A Book of ... series)
 * Daniel P. Mannix (1911–1997) – The Fox and the Hound
 * Alicia Catherine Mant (1788–1869) – Christmas, a Happy Time, Ellen, or The Young Godmother
 * Margaret Manuel — I See Me
 * Emilia Marryat (c. 1835–1875) – Amongst the Maoris
 * Frederick Marryat (1792–1848) – The Children of the New Forest
 * John Marsden (born 1950) – Tomorrow series
 * Katherine Marsh (born 1974) – The Night Tourist, Jepp, Who Defied the Stars
 * James Edward Marshall (1942–1992), as James Marshall and/or Edward Marshall – Fox in Love, Fox and His Friends, Fox on Wheels
 * Ann M. Martin (born 1955) – The Babysitters Club series
 * Emily Winfield Martin – Dream Animals, Oddfellow's Orphanage
 * J. P. Martin (1880–1966) – Uncle series
 * Cissy van Marxveldt (1889–1948) – Joop ter Heul series
 * John Masefield (1878–1967) – The Midnight Folk, The Box of Delights
 * Cotton Mather (1663–1728) – A Token for the Children of New England
 * André Maurois (1885–1967) – Fattypuffs and Thinifers
 * Mercer Mayer (born 1943) – Little Critter series, Little Monster series
 * James Mayhew (born 1964) – Miranda the Explorer, Ella Bella Ballerina, The Knight Who Took All Day
 * William Mayne (1928–2010) – A Swarm in May (Choir School series), A Grass Rope, Earthfasts, Low Tide


 * Geraldine McCaughrean (born 1951) – Peter Pan in Scarlet, A Pack of Lies
 * Robert McCloskey (1914–2003) – Make Way for Ducklings, Time of Wonder, Blueberries for Sal
 * Eloise McGraw (1915–2000) – The Golden Goblet, The Moorchild, The Rundelstone of Oz
 * Lauren Lynn McGraw (1915–2000) – Merry Go Round in Oz
 * Lurline Wailana McGregor – Between the Deep Blue Sea and Me
 * Sharon E. McKay (born 1954) – Charlie Wilcox, Our Canadian Girl: Penelope series
 * David McKee (born 1935) – Toucan Two Can
 * Robin McKinley (born 1952) – The Hero and the Crown, The Blue Sword, Spindle's End
 * Patricia McKissack (1944–2017) – Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters, Never Forgotten
 * Colin McNaughton (born 1951) – Captain Abdul's Pirate School
 * Janet McNeill (1907–1994) – My Friend Specs McCann, The Battle of St. George Without
 * Karen McQuestion – Celia and the Fairies, Edgewood
 * Geoffrey McSkimming (born 1962) – Cairo Jim series
 * L. T. Meade (1854–1914) – A World of Girls
 * Stephen W. Meader (1892–1977) – Boy with a Pack
 * Daisy Meadows – Rainbow Magic series
 * Joe Medicine Crow (1913–2016) – Counting Coup: Becoming a Crow Chief on the Reservation and Beyond
 * Milton Meltzer (1915–2009) – The Black Americans, The American Revolutionaries, Mark Twain Himself
 * Jean Merrill (1923–2012) – The Pushcart War
 * Laurence Meynell (1899–1989) – The Old Gang
 * Karin Michaëlis (1872–1950) – Bibi
 * Richard Michelson (born 1953) – Animals That Ought to Be: Poems about Imaginary Pets, Across the Alley
 * Katherine Milhous (1894–1977) – The Egg Tree
 * Olive Beaupre Miller (1883–1968) – My Book House series
 * Sibley Miller – Breyer Wind Dancers series
 * A. A. Milne (1882–1956) – Winnie-the-Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner, When We Were Very Young
 * Elyne Mitchell (1913–2002) – Silver Brumby series
 * Ingvar Moe (1936–1993) – Dei må ikkje skyta Garm (They Musn't Shoot Garm)
 * Walter Moers (born 1957) – The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear
 * John Mole (born 1941) – "Variations on an old Rhyme"
 * Chris Monroe (born 1962) – Monkey with a Tool Belt, Sneaky Sheep
 * Frances Trego Montgomery (1858–1925) – Billy Whiskers series
 * Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874–1942) – Anne of Green Gables series, Emily of New Moon
 * Susanna Moodie (1803–1885) – The Little Quaker, The Sailor Brother
 * Clement Clarke Moore (1779–1863) – "A Visit From St. Nicholas"
 * Pat Mora (born 1942) – Pablo's Tree, A Library for Juana, Confetti, Doña Flor, A Birthday Basket for Tia
 * Yuyi Morales (born 1968) – Niño Wrestles the World, Viva Frida, Little Night
 * Lorin Morgan-Richards (born 1975) – A Boy Born from Mold and Other Delectable Morsels, The Goodbye Family
 * John A. Moroso (1874–1957) – Nobody's Buddy
 * Michael Morpurgo (born 1943) – Why the Whales Came, The Wreck of the Zanzibar, Private Peaceful
 * Farley Mowat (1921–2014) – Lost in the Barrens, Owls in the Family
 * Robert Muchamore (born 1972) – CHERUB series, Henderson's Boys series
 * Dhan Gopal Mukerji (1890–1936) – Kari the Elephant, Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon, Hindu Fables for Little Children
 * Clara Mulholland (1849–1934) – The Strange Adventures of Little Snowdrop and Other Tales
 * Brandon Mull (born 1974) – Fablehaven series
 * Robert Munsch (born 1945) – Love You Forever, The Paper Bag Princess
 * Jill Murphy (1949–2021) – The Worst Witch, The Last Noo-Noo
 * Andrew Murray (born 1970) – Ghost Rescue
 * Susan Musgrave (born 1951) – Gullband, Dreams Are More Real Than Bathtubs

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 * Beverley Naidoo (born 1943) – Journey to Jo'burg, The Other Side of Truth
 * Mali Madhavan Nair (1914–1994) – Mali Ramayanam, Mali Bhagavatham, Tenali Raman
 * Leela Nambudiripad (1934–2021) – Neypayasam, Mithayippoti
 * Claire Julie de Nanteuil (1834–1897) – Capitaine, L'Épave mystérieuse
 * P. Narendranath (1934–1991) – Vikritiraman
 * John Neal (1793–1876) – Great Mysteries and Little Plagues
 * Violet Needham (1876–1967) – The Black Riders, The Stormy Petrel, The Woods of Windri
 * John R. Neill (1877–1943) – The Wonder City of Oz, The Scalawagons of Oz, Lucky Bucky in Oz
 * Marilyn Nelson (born 1946) – A Wreath for Emmett Till, Snook Alone, Ostrich and Lark
 * Božena Němcová (1820–1862) – Slovak Fairy Tales and Legends, The Grandmother
 * Edith Nesbit (1858–1924) – The Story of the Treasure Seekers (Bastable series), The Railway Children, Five Children and It, The Phoenix and the Carpet, The Story of the Amulet
 * Patrick Ness (born 1971) – Chaos Walking trilogy, A Monster Calls, More Than This
 * John Newbery (1713–1767) – A Little Pretty Pocket-Book, intended for the Amusement of Little Master Tommy and Pretty Miss Polly with Two Letters from Jack the Giant Killer
 * Sally Nicholls (born 1983) – Ways to Live Forever, Season of Secrets, Things a Bright Girl Can Do
 * Jenny Nimmo (born c. 1944) – The Snow Spider trilogy, Children of the Red King/Charlie Bone series
 * Garth Nix (born 1963) – The Old Kingdom/Abhorsen series, The Keys to the Kingdom series, The Seventh Tower series
 * Joan Lowery Nixon (1927–2003) – Colonial Williamsburg series, Orphan Train series
 * Ethel Nokes (1883–1976) – The Fourth Form Gang, Nibs: The Story of a Pony
 * Andrew Norriss (born 1947) – Aquila, The Unluckiest Boy in the World
 * Grace May North (1876–1960) – Bobs, a Girl Detective, Meg of Mystery Mountain, Sisters, the Adele Doring series
 * Jessica Nelson North (1891–1988) – The Giant Shoe
 * Sterling North (1906–1974) – Rascal, The Wolfing
 * Carol Norton – pen name under which certain works of Grace May North (1876–1960) were reprinted
 * Mary Norton (1903–1992) – The Borrowers series, Bedknob and Broomstick
 * Nikolay Nosov (1908–1976) – The Adventures of Dunno and his Friends
 * Christine Nöstlinger (1936–2018) – Fly Away Home
 * Alfred Noyes (1880–1958) – The Secret of Pooduck Island, Daddy Fell into the Pond and Other Poems for Children
 * Sevinj Nurugizi (born 1964) – Kite

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 * Graham Oakley (1929–2022) – The Church Mice series, Magical Changes
 * Robert C. O'Brien (1918–1973) – Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, Z for Zachariah
 * Jane O'Connor (born 1947) – Fancy Nancy series
 * Scott O'Dell (1898–1989) – Island of the Blue Dolphins, The King's Fifth, The Black Pearl
 * Charles Ogden (Star Farm Productions pseudonym from 2003) – Edgar & Ellen series
 * Ian Ogilvy (born 1943) – Measle and the Wrathmonk, Measle and the Dragodon
 * Nnedi Okorafor (born 1974) – Zahrah the Windseeker, Akata Witch series
 * Jenny Oldfield (born 1949) – My Magical Pony, Home Farm Twins, Horses of Half-Moon Ranch series
 * Sibylle von Olfers (1881–1916) – The Root Children, Little Princess in the Wood
 * Carola Oman (1897–1978) – Ferry the Fearless
 * Kenneth Oppel (born 1967) – Silverwing series, Airborn
 * Uri Orlev (born 1931) – The Island on Bird Street
 * Edward Ormondroyd (born 1925) – David and the Phoenix, Castaways on Long Ago, Time at the Top
 * Mary Pope Osborne (born 1949) – Magic Tree House series
 * Pat O'Shea (1931–2007) – The Hounds of the Morrigan
 * Elsie J. Oxenham (1880–1960) – Abbey series

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 * Roopa Pai – Taranauts, The Gita for Children
 * Sippy Pallippuram (born 1943) – Oridathoru Kunjunni
 * Bernard Palmer (1914–1998) – Danny Orlis series, Felicia Cartwright series
 * Christopher Paolini (born 1983) – Inheritance Cycle
 * Peggy Parish (1927–1988) and Herman Parish – Amelia Bedelia series
 * Barbara Park (1947–2013) – Skinnybones, Junie B. Jones series
 * Linda Sue Park (born 1960) – A Single Shard
 * Jenny Marsh Parker (1836–1913) – The Boy Missionary, What a Little Child Should Know
 * Peter Parnall (born 1936) – Winter Barn, Apple Tree, Woodpile
 * Anne Parrish (1888–1957) – The Dream Coach, Floating Island, The Story of Appleby Capple
 * Katherine Paterson (born 1932) – The Master Puppeteer, Bridge to Terabithia, The Great Gilly Hopkins, Jacob Have I Loved
 * Jill Paton Walsh (1937–2020) – Gaffer Samson's Luck, The Emperor's Winding Sheet
 * James Patterson (born 1947) – Maximum Ride series, The Dangerous Days of Daniel X
 * Gary Paulsen (1939–2021) – Hatchet, The Time Hackers
 * Michelle Paver (born 1960) – Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series
 * Philippa Pearce (1920–2006) – Tom's Midnight Garden
 * Kit Pearson (born 1947) – The Sky Is Falling, Awake and Dreaming
 * Ridley Pearson (born 1953) – Peter and the Starcatchers series, The Kingdom Keepers series
 * Howard Pease (1894–1974) – Secret Cargo, Highroad to Adventure, Bound for Singapore
 * Dale Peck (born 1967) – Drift House series
 * Ethel Pedley (1859–1898) – Dot and the Kangaroo
 * Mary Louise Peebles, a.k.a. Lynde Palmer (1833–1915) – The Magnet Stories
 * Bill Peet (1915–2002) – The Wump World, Hubert's Hair-Raising Adventure
 * Daniel Pennac (born 1944) – The Eye of the Wolf
 * Ethel Penrose (1857–1938) – Clear as the Noon Day
 * Lucy Fitch Perkins (1865–1937) – Twins series
 * Lynne Rae Perkins (born 1956) – Criss Cross, All Alone in the Universe
 * Sarah Maria Clinton Perkins (1824–1905) – Alice and Her Friends, Eugene Cooper
 * Charles Perrault (1628–1703) – Tales of Mother Goose, Little Red Riding Hood
 * Jen Petro-Roy (born 1982) – P.S. I Miss You, Life in the Balance, You are Enough, Good Enough: A Novel
 * K. M. Peyton (born 1929) – Flambards, Fly-by-Night, Prove Yourself a Hero, Blind Beauty
 * LeUyen Pham (born 1973) – Big Sister, Little Sister 
 * Rodman Philbrick (born 1951) – Freak The Mighty, Max the Mighty, The Last Book in the Universe, The Fire Pony
 * Joan Phipson (1912–2003) – The Boundary Riders, The Family Conspiracy, Polly's Tiger
 * Tamora Pierce (born 1954) – Tortall series, Circle of Magic series
 * Clara D. Pierson (1868–1952) – Among the People series
 * Christopher Pike (born 1954) – Spooksville series
 * Dav Pilkey (born 1966) – Captain Underpants series
 * Elizabeth Pinchard (fl. 1791–1820) – The Blind Child, or, Anecdotes of the Wyndham Family, The Two Cousins
 * Daniel Pinkwater (born 1941) – The Big Orange Splot, The Hoboken Chicken Emergency
 * Saviour Pirotta (born 1958) – The Orchard Book of First Greek Myths
 * Annabel Pitcher (born 1982) – My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece, Ketchup Clouds
 * Sarah Pitt (fl. 1881–1900)
 * Kin Platt (1911–2003) – Big Max series, The Blue Man
 * Peter Pohl (born 1940) – Johnny, My Friend
 * Josephine Pollard (1834–1892) – The Brave Little Tailor, The Life of Washington, A Child's History of America: Told in One-Syllable Words, Bible Stories for Children
 * Delia Lyman Porter (1858–1933) – "Time and Tommy", "How Polly Saw the Aprons Grow"
 * Eleanor H. Porter (1868–1920) – Pollyanna
 * Tracey Porter – Billy Creekmore
 * Lidia Postma (born 1952) – The Witch's Garden, The Stolen Mirror
 * Beatrix Potter (1866–1943) – The Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Tailor of Gloucester
 * Ellen Potter (born c. 1960) – Olivia Kidney series
 * Rhoda Power (1890–1957) – Redcap Runs Away
 * Núria Pradas (born 1954) – Sota el mateix cel
 * Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) – The Nome Trilogy, Johnny Maxwell series, The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents, Tiffany Aching series
 * Otfried Preussler (1923–2013) – The Robber Hotzenplotz, The Curse of the Darkling Mill
 * Willard Price (1887–1983) – Amazon Adventure, Adventure series
 * Elise Primavera (born 1955) – The Secret Order of the Gumm Street Girls
 * Alison Prince (1931–2019) – My Royal Story
 * Alf Prøysen (1914–1970) – Mrs. Pepperpot series
 * Christine Pullein-Thompson (1925–2005) – We Rode to the Sea
 * Diana Pullein-Thompson (1925–2015) – I Wanted a Pony
 * Josephine Pullein-Thompson (1924–2014) – Six Ponies
 * Philip Pullman (born 1946) – His Dark Materials trilogy, Clockwork, The Firework-Maker's Daughter
 * Howard Pyle (1853–1911) – Otto of the Silver Hand, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, Men of Iron

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 * Gwynedd Rae (1892–1977) – Mary Plain series
 * Janette Rallison (born 1966) – Fame, Glory, and Other Things on My To Do List
 * María Cristina Ramos (born 1952) – La luna lleva un silencio, El trasluz
 * Arthur Ransome (1884–1967) – Swallows and Amazons series
 * Ellen Raskin (1928–1984) – The Westing Game, Figgs & Phantoms
 * Onjali Q. Raúf (born 1981) – The Boy at the Back of the Class, The Great (Food) Bank Heist
 * Marjorie Rawlings (1896–1953) – The Yearling, The Secret River
 * Wilson Rawls (1913–1984) – Where the Red Fern Grows, Summer of the Monkeys
 * Sukumar Ray (1887–1923) – HaJaBaRaLa, Abol Tabol, Pagla Dashu
 * Talbot Baines Reed (1852–1893) – The Fifth Form at St. Dominic's
 * W. Maxwell Reed (1871–1962) – The Earth for Sam, The Stars for Sam
 * Celia Rees (born 1949) – The Bailey Game, Witch Child, Pirates!
 * David Rees (1936–1993) – The Exeter Blitz, The Flying Island
 * Gwyneth Rees (born 1968) – The Mum Hunt, Fairy Dust series, Mermaid Magic
 * Philip Reeve (born 1966) – Buster Bayliss, Mortal Engines, Larklight
 * Meta Mayne Reid (1905–1991) – Beyond the Wide World's End
 * Thomas Mayne Reid (1818–1883) – The Boy Hunters, The Young Voyageurs, The Boy Tar
 * Kathryn Reiss (born 1957) – Time Windows, Paint by Magic, Sweet Miss Honeywell's Revenge
 * Ren Rongrong (1923–2022) – Nobrain, Neverhappy
 * Adam Rex (born 1973) – The True Meaning of Smekday, Cold Cereal, Fat Vampire, Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich
 * H. A. Rey (1898–1977) and Margret Rey (1906–1996) – Curious George series, Pretzel
 * Lou Rhodes – The Phlunk, The Phlunk's Worldwide Symphony
 * Frank Richards (1876–1961) – Greyfriars School stories featuring Billy Bunter
 * Justin Richards (born 1961) – The Invisible Detective series
 * Laura E. Richards (1850–1943) – Captain January, Tirra Lirra, Eletelephony
 * E. J. Richmond (1825–1918) – The Jewelled Serpent
 * Chris Riddell (born 1962) – The Edge Chronicles, Barnaby Grimes
 * E. V. Rieu (1887–1972) – The Flattered Flying Fish and Other Poems
 * Rick Riordan (born 1964) – Percy Jackson & the Olympians, The Heroes of Olympus, The Kane Chronicles, The Maze of Bones
 * Jamie Rix (born 1958) – Alistair Fury series, Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids series
 * Keith Robertson (1914–1991) – Henry Reed series
 * Hilary Robinson (born 1962) – Mixed Up Fairy Tales, Where The Poppies Now Grow
 * Joan G. Robinson (1910–1988) – Teddy Robinson series, When Marnie Was There
 * Gary D. Robson (born 1958) – Who Pooped? series
 * Gianni Rodari (1920–1980) – Telephone Tales (Favole al telefono), Tales Told by a Machine (Novelle fatte a macchina)
 * Emily Rodda (born 1948) – Fairy Realm series, Rowan of Rin series, Deltora Quest series
 * Don Roff (born 1966) – Scary Stories
 * Manon Steffan Ros (born 1983) – Fi a Joe Allen, Llyfr Glas Nebo (The Blue Book of Nebo)
 * Malcolm Rose (born 1953) – Traces series, Lawless and Tilley series
 * Simon Rose (born 1961) – The Alchemist's Portrait, The Sorcerer's Letterbox, The Clone Conspiracy, The Emerald Curse, The Heretic's Tomb
 * Michael Rosen (born 1946) – Sad Book, Fantastically Funny Stories, Quick, Let's Get Out of Here, We're Going on a Bear Hunt
 * Amy Krouse Rosenthal – Duck! Rabbit!
 * Meg Rosoff (born 1956) – How I Live Now, Just In Case, There Is No Dog, Picture Me Gone
 * Diana Ross (1910–2000) – The Little Red Engine series
 * Miriam Roth (1910–2005) – A Tale of Five Balloons
 * Veronica Roth (born 1988) – Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant
 * J. K. Rowling (born 1965) – Harry Potter series
 * Hemendra Kumar Roy (1888–1963) – Bimal-Kumar series
 * Ron Roy (born 1940) – A to Z Mysteries, Capital Mysteries
 * Gillian Rubinstein (born 1942) – Space Demons, Galax-Arena
 * Katherine Rundell (born 1987) – The Girl Savage, Rooftoppers
 * Salman Rushdie (born 1947) – Haroun and the Sea of Stories
 * Rachel Renee Russell (born 1959) – Dork Diaries
 * An Rutgers van der Loeff (1910–1990) – Children on the Oregon Trail, Avalanche!
 * Chris Ryan (born 1961) – Alpha Force series
 * Pam Muñoz Ryan (born 1951) – Esperanza Rising, Becoming Naomi León
 * Amy Louisa Rye (1851–unknown) – A White Child
 * Cynthia Rylant (born 1954) – Missing May, Henry and Mudge series, Poppleton series

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 * Louis Sachar (born 1954) – Sideways Stories From Wayside School series, Holes
 * Angie Sage (born 1952) – Septimus Heap series
 * Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900–1944) – The Little Prince
 * Emilio Salgari (1862–1911) – The Tigers of Mompracem, The Black Corsair
 * Felix Salten (1869–1945) – Bambi
 * Carl Sandburg (1878–1967) – Rootabaga Stories
 * Brandon Sanderson (born 1975) – Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians
 * Yōko Sano (1938–2010) – The Cat that Lived a Million Times
 * Margaret Marshall Saunders (1861–1947) – Beautiful Joe
 * Constance Savery (1897–1999) – Enemy Brothers
 * Malcolm Saville (1901–1982) – Lone Pine Club series
 * Ruth Sawyer (1880–1970) – Roller Skates
 * Allen Say (born 1937) – Grandfather's Journey, The Ink-Keeper's Apprentice
 * Kurtis Scaletta – Mudville, Mamba Point, The Tanglewood Terror
 * Richard Scarry (1919–1994) – Busytown series
 * Annet Schaap (born 1965) – Lampje
 * Pam Scheunemann (born 1955) – Overdue Kangaroo, Ape Cape, The Crane Loves Grain
 * Jon Scieszka (born 1954) – The Time Warp Trio, The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs!, Science Verse
 * Miriam Schlein (1926–2004) – The Year of the Panda, I, Tut, The Way Mothers Are
 * Mark Schlichting (born 1948) – Harry and the Haunted House
 * Laura Amy Schlitz (born 1955) – Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village
 * Christoph von Schmid (1768–1854) – The Basket of Flowers, Easter Eggs
 * Annie M. G. Schmidt (1911–1995) – Jip and Janneke, Abeltje, Pluk van de Petteflet
 * Alvin Schwartz (1927–1992) – Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
 * Ann Scott-Moncrieff (1914–1943) – Aboard the Bulger, Auntie Robbo
 * Michael Scott (born 1959) – The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series
 * Will Scott (1893–1964) – The Cherrys series
 * Laura Vaccaro Seeger – First the Egg, Green
 * Countess of Ségur (1799–1874) – Sophie's Misfortunes, Good Little Girls, Monsieur Cadichon: Memoirs of a Donkey
 * Tor Seidler (born 1952) – A Rat's Tale, The Wainscott Weasel, Mean Margaret
 * George Selden (1929–1989) – The Cricket in Times Square series
 * Maurice Sendak (1928–2012) – Where the Wild Things Are
 * Kate Seredy (1896–1975) – The White Stag, The Good Master, The Singing Tree
 * Ernest Thompson Seton (1860–1946) – Wild Animals I Have Known, Bannertail, Two Little Savages
 * Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) – The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
 * David Severn (1918–2010) – Ponies and Poachers, Dream Gold, The Future Took Us
 * Anna Sewell (1820–1878) – Black Beauty
 * Elizabeth Missing Sewell (1815–1906) – Amy Herbert
 * Miranda Seymour (born 1948) – Mumtaz the Magical Cat
 * Evelyn Sharp (1869–1955) – All the Way to Fairyland, The Other Side of the Sun
 * Margery Sharp (1905–1991) – The Rescuers
 * Mark Shasha (born 1961) – Night of the Moonjellies
 * Charles Green Shaw (1892–1974) – It Looked Like Spilt Milk
 * Jane Shaw (1910–2000) – Susan Pulls the Strings
 * Mary Shelley (1797–1851) – Maurice, or the Fisher's Cot
 * Dorothy Sherrill (1901–1990) – The Story of a Little Gray Mouse
 * Mary Martha Sherwood (1775–1851) – The History of Little Henry and his Bearer, The History of the Fairchild Family
 * Gary Shipman (born 1966) and Rhoda Shipman (born 1968) – Pakkins' Land
 * Mark Shulman (born 1962) – Scrawl, Mom and Dad are Palindromes, Secret Hiding Places
 * Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846–1916) – In Desert and Wilderness
 * Yrsa Sigurðardóttir (born 1963) – We Want Christmas in July, Biobörn
 * Shel Silverstein (1930–1999) – The Giving Tree, Where the Sidewalk Ends
 * Francesca Simon (born 1955) – Horrid Henry series
 * Seymour Simon (born 1931) – Einstein Anderson, Science Detective
 * Ada Simond (1903–1989) – Let's Pretend series
 * Catherine Sinclair (1800–1864) – Holiday House: A Book for the Young
 * Lester Basil Sinclair (1894–1974) – Why Cows Moo
 * Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902–1991) – Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories, A Day of Pleasure, The Golem
 * Marilyn Singer (born 1948) – Turtle in July
 * S. Sivadas (born 1940) – Rasatantra Kathakal, Pustaka Kalikal
 * Steve Skidmore (born 1960) and Steve Barlow – Outernet series
 * Obert Skye – Leven Thumps series
 * Ioan Slavici (1848–1925) – The Fairy Aurora, The Twins with the Golden Star
 * Arthur Slade (born 1967) – Dust, The Hunchback Assignments
 * William Sleator (1945–2011) – Singularity, Rewind
 * Barbara Sleigh (1906–1982) – Carbonel series, Jessamy, No One Must Know, The Snowball
 * Dodie Smith (1896–1990) – The Hundred and One Dalmatians
 * Edward Wyke Smith (1871–1935) – The Marvellous Land of Snergs
 * Georgina Castle Smith (1845–1933) – Froggy's Little Brother
 * Roland Smith (born 1951) – Thunder Cave, Peak, Cryptid Hunters
 * Barbara Smucker (1915–2003) – Underground to Canada, Days of Terror
 * Pat Smythe (1928–1996) – Three Jays series, Adventure series
 * Caroline Snedeker (1871–1956) – Downright Dencey, The Forgotten Daughter
 * Lemony Snicket (born 1970) – A Series of Unfortunate Events
 * Jack Snow (1907–1956) – The Magical Mimics in Oz, The Shaggy Man of Oz
 * Laurel Snyder – Up and Down the Scratchy Mountains, Any Which Wall, Penny Dreadful
 * Zilpha Keatley Snyder (1927–2014) – The Egypt Game, The Headless Cupid, The Witches of Worm
 * Donald J. Sobol (1924–2012) – Encyclopedia Brown series, Two-Minute Mysteries series
 * Angela Sommer-Bodenburg (born 1948) – The Little Vampire series
 * Virginia Sorenson (1912–1991) – Miracles on Maple Hill
 * Ivan Southall (1921–2008) – Josh, Ash Road, Hills End, To the Wild Sky, Bread and Honey, Fly West
 * Stephen Southwold (1887–1964) – Fiddlededee: A Medley of Stories
 * Elizabeth George Speare (1908–1994) – The Witch of Blackbird Pond, The Bronze Bow, The Sign of the Beaver
 * Armstrong Sperry (1897–1976) – Call It Courage
 * Peter Spier (1927–2017) – Noah's Ark
 * Jerry Spinelli (born 1941) – Loser, Stargirl, Maniac Magee, Crash, Wringer
 * Nancy Springer (born 1948) – The Enola Holmes Mysteries, Tales of Rowan Hood
 * Tricia Springstubb (born 1950) – What Happened on Fox Street, In the Dark, Phoebe and Digger
 * E. C. Spykman (1896–1965) – A Lemon and a Star, The Wild Angel, Terrible Horrible Edie, Edie on the Warpath
 * Johanna Spyri (1827–1901) – Heidi
 * Andy Stanton (born 1973) – Mr Gum series
 * Dugald Steer (born 1965) – Ologies series
 * William Steig (1907–2003) – Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, Doctor De Soto, Shrek!
 * John Steptoe (1950–1989) – Stevie, Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters
 * Robin Stevens (born 1988) – Murder Most Unladylike
 * Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) – A Child's Garden of Verses, Treasure Island, Kidnapped
 * Jennifer J. Stewart – If That Breathes Fire, We're Toast!, Close Encounters of a Third World Kind
 * Mary Stewart (1916–2014) – The Little Broomstick, Ludo and the Star Horse, A Walk in Wolf Wood
 * Paul Stewart (born 1955) – The Edge Chronicles, Fergus Crane, Muddle Earth, Barnaby Grimes
 * R. L. Stine (born 1943) – Goosebumps, Fear Street, The Nightmare Room series
 * Frank R. Stockton (1834–1902) – The Lady, or the Tiger?
 * Hilda van Stockum (1908–2006) – A Day on Skates, The Winged Watchman
 * Margaret Storey (1926–2022) – Timothy and the Two Witches, The Stone Sorcerer, Pauline
 * Walter Scott Story (1879–1955) – Skinny Harrison Adventurer
 * Herbert Strang (1866–1958) – Round the World in Seven Days, King of the Air, Rob the Ranger
 * Todd Strasser (born 1950) – Help! I'm Trapped... series
 * Edward Stratemeyer (1862–1930) – founder of the Stratemeyer Syndicate that produced many series, most famously Rover Boys (by Stratemeyer as Arthur M. Winfield), Bobbsey Twins, Tom Swift, Hardy Boys, and Nancy Drew
 * Noel Streatfeild (1895–1986) – Ballet Shoes, The Circus Is Coming, Curtain Up, White Boots, The Painted Garden (US titles Circus Shoes, Theater Shoes, Skating Shoes, Movie Shoes)
 * Jakob Streit (1910–2009) – Liputto: Stories of Gnomes and Trolls
 * Hesba Stretton (1832–1911) – Jessica's First Prayer
 * Agnes Strickland (1796–1874) – Tales from English History for Children, The Rival Crusoes
 * Charles S. Strong (1906–1962) – The Hooded Hawk Mystery, The Scarlet Slipper Mystery, Snow King: Herd Dog of Lapland
 * Jeremy Strong (born 1949) – There's a Viking in My Bed
 * Jonathan Stroud (born 1970) – The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Lockwood & Co.
 * Dorothy Margaret Stuart (1889–1963) – The Children's Chronicle, The Young Clavengers
 * Sheila Stuart (1892–1984) – Alison's Highland Holiday
 * Jennifer Sullivan (born 1945) – The Magic Apostrophe, Gwydion and the Flying Wand
 * Deirdre Sullivan – Tangleweed and Brine, Prim Improper
 * Rosemary Sutcliff (1920–1992) – The Eagle of the Ninth, The Lantern Bearers, The Mark of the Horse Lord, Black Ships Before Troy
 * Jón Sveinsson (1857–1944) – Nonni series
 * Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) – Gulliver's Travels

T

 * Rajesh Talwar (born 1958) – The Three Greens
 * Shaun Tan (born 1974) – The Red Tree, The Lost Thing, Tales from Outer Suburbia, Rules of Summer
 * Kathryn Tanquary – The Night Parade
 * Ann Taylor (1782–1866) and Jane Taylor (1783–1824) – Rhymes for the Nursery, Original Poems for Infant Minds, Little Ann and Other Poems
 * Dorota Terakowska (1938–2004) – Córka czarownicy
 * K. Thayat (1927–2011) – Mela, Naivedyam
 * Colin Thiele (1920–2006) – Storm Boy, Blue Fin, Sun on the Stubble
 * Scarlett Thomas (born 1972) – Worldquake series
 * Kate Thompson (born 1956) – Switchers, The New Policeman
 * Ruth Plumly Thompson (1891–1976) – The Royal Book of Oz (1921) and twenty subsequent Oz books
 * Thorarinn Leifsson (born 1966) – Father's Big Secret, Grandmother's Library
 * James Thurber (1894–1961) – The Thirteen Clocks, The Wonderful O, Many Moons
 * Tim Tingle – Crossing Bok Chitto: A Choctaw Tale of Friendship and Freedom
 * Eve Titus (1905–2002) – Basil of Baker Street series, Anatole series
 * Ada Josephine Todd (1858–1904) – The Vacation Club
 * Barbara Euphan Todd (1890–1976) – Worzel Gummidge series
 * H. E. Todd (1908–1988) – Bobby Brewster series
 * J. R. R. Tolkien (1892–1973) – The Hobbit, The Father Christmas Letters
 * Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1883–1945) – The Golden Key, or the Adventures of Buratino
 * Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) – Classic Tales and Fables for Children
 * Theresa Tomlinson (born 1946) – The Forestwife, Meet Me by the Steelmen, The Moon Riders
 * Hazel Townson (1928–2010) – The Deathwood Letters, The Speckled Panic, The Invisible Boy
 * Catharine Parr Traill (1802–1899) – Canadian Crusoes
 * Nigel Tranter (1909–2000) – Spaniard's Isle, Nestor the Monster
 * P. L. Travers (1899–1986) – Mary Poppins series
 * Mary Treadgold (1910–2005) – We Couldn't Leave Dinah
 * Geoffrey Trease (1909–1998) – Cue for Treason, The Hills of Varna
 * Henry Treece (1911–1966) – Horned Helmet, The Road to Miklagard, The Children's Crusade
 * Sharon Tregenza (born 1951) – Tarantula Tide, The Shiver Stone
 * Meriol Trevor (1919–2000) – Merlin's Ring, The Other Side of the Moon, The Rose Round, The King of the Castle, The Letzenstein Chronicles
 * John R. Tunis (1889–1975) – Iron Duke, All American, Keystone Kids, The Kid from Tomkinsville
 * Ann Turnbull (born 1943) – Pigeon Summer, The Sand Horse, No Shame, No Fear
 * Ethel Turner (1872–1958) – Seven Little Australians
 * Julian Tuwim (1894–1953) – "The Locomotive" and other poems for children,
 * Mark Twain (1835–1910) – The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

U

 * Tomi Ungerer (1931–2019) – The Mellops series, Moon Man, Flix 
 * Florence Kate Upton (1873–1922) – The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls and a Golliwogg
 * Anne Ursu – The Cronus Chronicles
 * Else Ury (1877–1943) – Nesthäkchen and Her Dolls, Nesthäkchen and the World War
 * Eduard Uspensky (1937–2018) – Crocodile Gena and His Friends, Uncle Fedya, His Dog, and His Cat
 * Alison Uttley (1884–1976) – Little Grey Rabbit series, A Traveller in Time

V

 * Rachel Vail (born 1966) – Wonder, Do-Over, The Friendship Ring series
 * Jenny Valentine – Finding Violet Park, Broken Soup
 * Chris Van Allsburg (born 1949) – Jumanji, The Polar Express, The Garden of Abdul Gasazi
 * Wendelin Van Draanen (born 1965) – Sammy Keyes series, Flipped
 * Hendrik Willem van Loon (1882–1944) – The Story of Mankind (nonfiction)
 * Shreekumar Varma (born 1955) – The Royal Rebel
 * Amy Cripps Vernon (1870–1956) – Gerald's Chum
 * Heiki Vilep (born 1960) – The Sounds of Silence, The Monsters of the Closet Door
 * Rene Villanueva (1954–2007) – Ang Unang Baboy Sa Langit (The First Pig In Heaven)
 * Judith Viorst (born 1931) – Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
 * Elfrida Vipont (1902–1992) – The Lark in the Morn, The Lark on the Wing, The Elephant and the Bad Baby
 * John Vornholt (born 1951) – The Troll King series
 * Anne de Vries (1904–1964) – Journey Through the Night
 * Seita Vuorela (1971–2015) – The School of Possibilities, Karikko

W

 * Bernard Waber (1921–2013) – The House on East 88th Street
 * Muriel Wace (1881–1968) – Moorland Mousie
 * Jan Wahl (1931–2019) – Pleasant Fieldmouse, The Furious Flycycle, Humphrey's Bear
 * Lea Wait (born 1946) – Stopping to Home, Wintering Well
 * Judy Waite – Mouse, Look Out!
 * Priscilla Wakefield (1751–1832) – The Juvenile Travellers: Containing the Remarks of A Family During a Tour Through the Principal States and Kingdoms of Europe
 * Dorothy Wall (1894–1942) – Blinky Bill
 * Ivy Wallace (1915–2006) – Pookie series, The Animal Shelf series
 * Nancy Elizabeth Wallace (born 1948) – Snow
 * John Graham Wallace (born 1966) – Mr Bumble
 * Maria Elena Walsh (1930–2011) – Tutú Marambá
 * Vivian Walsh – Olive, the Other Reindeer, Gluey, Penguin Dreams, Mr. Lunch series
 * Mildred Pitts Walter – Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World, Second Daughter: The Story of a Slave Girl
 * Amy Catherine Walton (Mrs. O. F. Walton, 1849–1939) – Christie's Old Organ
 * Jennifer Ward (born 1963) – Way Out in the Desert
 * Elizabeth Watkin-Jones (1887–1966) – Plant y Mynachdy, Onesimus
 * Victor Watson (born 1936) – Paradise Barn series
 * Marion St John Webb (1888–1930) – Knock Three Times, The Girls of Chequertrees
 * Regina Webb (born 1980) – Detective Henry Hopper series
 * Sadie Rose Weilerstein (1894–1993) – The Adventures of K'tonton
 * Ronald Welch (1909–1982) – The Gauntlet, Knight Crusader
 * Elizabeth Foster Wesselhoeft (1840–1919) – Sparrow, the Tramp
 * Jacqueline West (born 1979) – Dreamers Often Lie, The Books of Elsewhere
 * Robert Westall (1929–1993) – The Machine Gunners, Fathom Five, The Scarecrows
 * Frank Atha Westbury (1838–1901) – Australian Fairy Tales
 * Scott Westerfeld (born 1963) – Midnighters trilogy, Peeps, The Last Days, Uglies series
 * John F. C. Westerman (1901–1991) – John Wentley Takes Charge, The Invisible Plane
 * Percy F. Westerman (1876–1959) – All Hands to the Boats, Deeds of Pluck and Daring in the Great War
 * Carol Weston (born 1956) – Melanie Martin series, Ava and Pip
 * Michael Wexler – The Seems series
 * Suzanne Weyn (born 1955) – The Bar Code Tattoo, Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium
 * Gloria Whelan (born 1923) – Homeless Bird, Angel on the Square, Listening for Lions, Chu Ju's House
 * Evelyn Whitaker (1844–1929) – Laddie, Tip Cat
 * E. B. White (1899–1985) – Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little, The Trumpet of the Swan
 * T. H. White (1906–1964) – The Sword in the Stone, Mistress Masham's Repose
 * Martin Widmark (born 1961) – The Whodunit Detective Agency series
 * Kate Douglas Wiggin (1856–1923) – Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
 * Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) – The Selfish Giant, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
 * Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867–1957) – Little House on the Prairie and other Little House books
 * Geoffrey Willans (1911–1958) – Down with Skool, How to Be Topp
 * Barbara Willard (1909–1994) – The Iron Lily
 * John Ellis Williams (1924–2008) – Owen the Goat of Snowdon
 * Karen Lynn Williams (born 1952) – Galimoto
 * Maiya Williams (born 1962) – The Golden Hour
 * Margery Williams (1881–1944) – The Velveteen Rabbit, Poor Cecco, Winterbound
 * Oneeka Williams (born 1966) – Dr. Dee Dee Dynamo series, Not Even the Sky Is the Limit
 * Ursula Moray Williams (1911–2006) – Adventures of the Little Wooden Horse, Gobbolino the Witch's Cat
 * Rita Williams-Garcia (born 1957) – One Crazy Summer, P.S. Be Eleven, Gone Crazy in Alabama
 * Henry Williamson (1895–1977) – Tarka the Otter
 * Budge Wilson (1927–2021) – Before Green Gables, The Leaving
 * Jacqueline Wilson (born 1945) – Girls in Love, Double Act, The Story of Tracy Beaker, The Illustrated Mum
 * Jane Wilson-Howarth (born 1954) – Himalayan Kidnap, Chasing the Tiger
 * Arthur M. Winfield (Edward Stratemeyer pseudonym from 1899) – Rover Boys series
 * Henry Winkler (born 1945) – Hank Zipzer series
 * Henry Winterfeld (1901–1990) – Trouble at Timpetill, Detectives in Togas, Star Girl
 * Elizabeth Winthrop (born 1948) – The Castle in the Attic
 * Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797) – Original Stories from Real Life
 * Audrey Wood (born 1948) – The Napping House, Moonflute, King Bidgood's in the Bathtub
 * Patricia Wrede (born 1953) – Enchanted Forest Chronicles series
 * Dare Wright (1914–2001) – The Lonely Doll
 * Patricia Wrightson (1921–2010) – The Crooked Snake, The Nargun and the Stars
 * Eva-Lis Wuorio (1918–1988) – The Island of Fish in the Trees, The Happiness Flower
 * Johann David Wyss (1743–1818) – The Swiss Family Robinson

Y

 * Kelly Yang – Front Desk
 * Laurence Yep (born 1948) – The Golden Mountain Chronicles, Dragon series, Ribbons
 * Jane Yolen (born 1939) – Owl Moon, Commander Toad series, Pit Dragon series, Wizard's Hall
 * Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823–1901) – The Daisy Chain, The Little Duke, The Dove in the Eagle's Nest
 * E. H. Young (1880–1949) – Caravan Island, River Holiday
 * Ed Young (born 1931) – Lon Po Po, Seven Blind Mice
 * Miriam Young (1913–1974) – Miss Suzy, Jellybeans for Breakfast, A Witch's Garden

Z

 * Zheng Yuanjie (born 1955) – King of Fairy Tales
 * Rania Zaghir (born 1977) – Who Ate My Ice Cream?
 * Paul Zindel (1936–2003) – The Pigman
 * Feenie Ziner (1921–2012) – Squanto, The Book of Time
 * Charlotte Zolotow (1915–2013) – Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present