Meet The Author

Nikki Giovanni is a woman who isn't afraid to speak her mind, and her writing is all the ...

Illustrator Henry Cole explains the inspiration, experiences, and processes behind his wo...

The author of the Goosebumps series writes books that creep kids out, and boy do they lov...

David Shannon is the writer and illustrator behind the eponymous "No, David!" books. In t...

Mark Teague likes to find humor in the everyday events of childhood. In this exclusive vi...

Linda Sue Park, Korean American author of children's fiction, has been an avid reader and...

Marc Brown is the author and illustrator of Arthur, everyone's favorite aardvark. In this...

Laurence Yep writes books that draw from his Chinese American background yet speak to com...

Pamela Duncan Edwards often teams up with illustrator Henry Cole to create alliterative c...

Pam Munoz Ryan isn't afraid of indomitable women. In fact, she's inspired by them! Just l...

Peter Sis is the celebrated writer and illustrator of "Madlenka" and the Caldecott Honor ...

Jack is an award-winning author of a wide variety of books. He writes picture books for y...

"Blink your eyes and say click!" Cam Jansen, David Adler's heroine with a photographic me...

Did you know that Beethoven's favorite food was macaroni and cheese? Did you know that Jo...

If a picture can speak a thousand words, Bruce Degen's illustrations can spark a thousand...

Seymour Simon is a man in love with science. As a kid he was even president of the Junior...

At first glance, it may appear that Kate DiCamillo waltzed onto the children's book scene...

Award-winning illustrator Bryan Collier began creating art at the age of 15. Using his si...

Jane Yolen has written stories about toads in space, dinosaurs at bedtime, and much more....

Betsy Lewin, the illustrator of Click Clack Moo, takes a playful approach to her work.&nb...

Eve Bunting is a spellbinding storyteller, both in conversation and in writing. In this e...

Christopher Myers comes from a long line of creative storytellers. In this exclusive vide...

Patricia Polacco tells warm family tales drawn from her own childhood among an extended i...

As a young girl Denise Fleming used to spend hours in her father's workshop cutting, glui...

Kadir Nelson is a naturally gifted artist whose extraordinary talent continues to develop...

In 2002, George Ancona received the Washington Post-Children's Book Guild Nonfiction Awar...

British author and illustrator Emily Gravett brings a fresh perspective to her children's...

Alma Flor Ada has had a lifelong love for stories, her passion is evident in her retellin...

Avi is the 2003 Newbery Medal award winning author of Crispin: A Cross of Lead, and widel...

Jon Scieszka (which rhymes with Fresca) is the playful and cheeky author behind "The True...

Gail Gibbons writes the kind of non-fiction books that young children pore over. In this ...

Lane Smith recently described his artwork as a mixture between his fine arts background a...

After high school graduation, Christopher took a well-paying job at an automobile factory...

Jerry Spinelli still remembers the night when he was awakened by a phone call. His novel,...

Jack Prelutsky writes wonderfully wacky poems that children find irresistible. In this in...

Lois Ehlert's unique children's books, such as Color Zoo, reflect her creative and curiou...

Nikki Grimes was born in Harlem, but grew up in many different parts of New York. As a fo...

Carole Boston Weatherford is a children's book author and poet who "mines the past for fa...

Lois Lowry's first children's book, "A Summer to Die", was published in 1977. In 1979 Low...

Ashley Bryan is an eclectic artist who uses painting, poetry, music, collage, and prose t...

Since 1994 Robert Sabuda has taken three-dimensional pop-up books to new heights. Elabora...

Eric Rohmann believes that each story needs illustrations that match its tone, content, a...

Janet Wong's career switch was so dramatic that she was featured on a segment of The Opra...

Francisco X. Alarcon is an award-winning poet who grew up in two countries: he spent time...

Between teaching and writing other books, Riordan didn't think he had time for a children...

Tanya Lee Stone began making up stories when she was a kid.Stone has written nearly 100 b...

Brian Selznick feels that his illustrations are more authentic when he immerses himself i...

Lewis's interests in fine arts & illustration led him to coin the term "artistrator" to d...

Laura Vaccaro Seeger writes and illustrates children's books that seem disarmingly simple...

Chris Van Allsburg is the author and illustrator of many celebrated children's books such...