List of children's non-fiction writers

This is a list of authors who have written non-fiction (informational) books for children. For a discussion of the criteria used to define something as a work of children's literature, see children's literature. • Peter Ackroyd (UK, born 1949) – history

• David A. Adler (US, born 1947) – biographies

• Agnes Allen (UK) – social history

• Jules Archer (US, 1915–2008) – US history and politics

• Philip Ardagh (UK, born 1961) – history, archaeology, mythology

• Jennifer Armstrong (US, born 1961) – exploration

• Caroline S. Arnold (US) – nonfiction books about animals, fossils, world cultures, global warming, and life cycles

• Nick Arnold (UK, born 1964) – science, zoology

• Russell Ash (UK, 1946–2010) – reference inc. The Top 10 of Everything

• Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (UK) – Scouting

• Kelly Barnhill (US) – sewers, medicine

• Thelma and Corydon Bell (US) – science, weather, time

• Mary Boone (US) – nature/environment, history, world cultures, pop culture

• Aliki Brandenberg (US) – history

• Maria Elizabeth Budden (UK) – history and upbringing

• Brian P. Cleary (US) – words, measurements

• Daniel Cohen (US) – UFOs, the occult, ghosts, crypto-zoology

• Joanna Cole (US) – science

• Sneed B. Collard (US) – science, biology, conservation

• Esther Copley (UK) – slavery, Bible natural history

• Peter Corey (UK) – relationships, psychology, self-help; Coping With...

• Sara Jane Crafts (US) – songs

• Terry Deary (UK) – history, true stories

• Dougal Dixon (UK) – futuristic zoology

• Dorcas Dole (England) – Quakerism

• Eleanor Doorly (UK) – history, biography

• Evelyn Everett-Green (UK) – biography

• Fanny Fern (US, 1811–1872) – humor, society

• Mrs. E. M. Field (Ireland) – history

• Leonard Everett Fisher (US) – colonial American craftsmen, legendary figures

• Russell Freedman (US) – history and biography

• Jackie French (Australia) – Australian history, natural history

• Jean Fritz (US) – US history and legend

• Anita Ganeri (UK) – geography

• Gail Gibbons (US) – folklore, zoology, geography, history

• Roger Lancelyn Green (UK) – myth, folklore, biography

• Joyce Hansen (US) – African-American history, biography

• Gerald Hausman (US) – biography, mythology, folklore

• Gail Hennessey (US) – economics, biography

• Don Herbert (US) – science

• Susie Hodge (UK) – art history, practical art, history, science, religion, biography

• James Janeway (England) – A Token For Children: stories of conversions

• William Loren Katz (US) – African-American and Native American history

• Jennie Ellis Keysor (US, 1860–1945) – American literature, art topics

• Kathleen Krull (US) – biography, music, folklore

• Poul Lange (Denmark and USA) – simple anatomy (body orifices)

• Kathryn Lasky (US) – history, biography

• Julius Lester (US) – African-American history

• David Macaulay (US) – architecture, technology, design

• John Malam (UK) – ancient history, archaeology, biography, natural history

• Jane Marcet (UK) – chemistry, political economy, grammar

• Mrs Markham (UK, real name Elizabeth Penrose – English history

• Sandra Markle (US) – science

• Fredrick McKissack (US) – African-American history, biography

• Patricia McKissack (US) – African-American history, biography

• Arthur Mee (UK) – reference, British geography

• Milton Meltzer (US) – Jewish, African-American and American history, biography

• Jenny B. Merrill (US) – Bible stories

• Iain Moncreiffe of that Ilk (UK) – heraldry, royalty, Scottish clans

• Jim Murphy (US) – US history

• Darcy Pattison (US) – science, science history, and US history

• L. du Garde Peach (UK) – historical biography

• Pickles (pen name of Lisa Tolliver) – educational activity books

• Ferry Piekart (NL) – cultural anthropology

• Kjartan Poskitt (UK) – maths

• Rhoda Power and Eileen Power (UK) – history

• Charles Ray (UK) – editor of children's encyclopedias, such as Everybody's Enquire Within

• Upendrakishore Raychowdhury (India) – Bengali

• Ana María Rodríguez (US) – nature, science, cultures, history, health

• Acharya Ramlochan Saran (India) – non-fiction Sanskrit, Hindi, Urdu, Maithili, English, Nepalese

• Helen Roney Sattler (US) – natural history, science and technology

• Miriam Schlein (US) – animals, space, time

• Millicent Selsam (US) – biology

• Elizabeth Missing Sewell (UK) – religion, education theory

• Bonnie Shemie (US) – history of architecture

• Katherine Binney Shippen (US) – history, invention, music

• Seymour Simon (US) – science

• Marilyn Singer (US) – zoology

• Armstrong Sperry (US) – history, exploration, ethnology

• Diane Stanley (US) – biographies

• Philip Steele (UK) – history, junior biographies, peoples and cultures

• Dugald Steer (UK) – Ologies

• Dorothy Sterling (US) – nature, US history, civil rights

• Shelley Tanaka (Canada) – history, biography, arts, archeology, environment

• Isabel Thomas (UK) – science

• R. J. Unstead (UK) – history

• Anne de Vries (NL) – history and religion

• Priscilla Wakefield (UK, 1751–1832) – science, recreation and travel

• Mildred Pitts Walter (US) – African-American history and culture

• Nadia Wheatley (Australia) – environment and multiculturalism

• Philip Wilkinson (UK) – history, the arts, religion and architecture

• Herbert S. Zim (US) – Golden Guides series, nature, science and technology

• Allan Zullo (US) – survival, true stories, ghosts and sport