Authors

Authors are the essential hub of any library - without them we wouldn't have libraries! Learn more about some of your favourite authors here.

Stan and Jan Berenstain (Berenstain Bears)

Sandra Boynton (Barnyard dance, Blue hat, green hat)

Jan Brett (The mitten)

Norman Bridwell (Clifford the big red dog)

Eric Carle (The very hungry caterpillar)

Ben Clanton (Narwhal and Jelly series)

Donald Crews (Shortcut, Freight train)

Tomie dePaola (Strega Nona)

Lois Ehlert (Growing vegetable soup, Pie in the sky)

Kevin Henkes (Wemberly worried, Chester's way)

Eric  Hill (Spot)

Ezra Jack Keats (The snowy day, Peter's chair)

Leo Lionni (Fish is fish, Frederick)

Arnold Lobel (Frog and Toad)

Bill Martin Jr. (Brown bear, brown bear, what do you see?)

A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)

Robert Munsch (Love you forever, Thomas' snowsuit)

Laura Numeroff (If you give a mouse a cookie)

Beatrix Potter (Peter Rabbit)

H.A. Rey (Curious George)

Maurice Sendak (Where the wild things are)

Dr. Seuss (Green eggs and ham)

Rosemary Wells (Max and Ruby)

Mo Willems (Don't let the pigeon drive the bus, Elephant & Piggie)

Vera B. Williams (A chair for my mother)

Jane Yolen (How do dinosaurs say good night?)

Charlotte Zolotow (I want to be little, The night when mother was away)

Jim Benton (Dear dumb diary, Catwad)

Judy Blume (Tales of a  fourth grade nothing, Superfudge)

Beverly Cleary (Beezus, Ramona)

Jean Craighead George (Julie of the wolves)

Roald Dahl (Charlie and the chocolate factory, The giant)

Walter Farley (The black stallion)

Laura Ingalls Wilder (Little house on the prairie)

Jeff Kinney (Diary of a wimpy kid)

C.S. Lewis (Narnia)

Lois Lowry (The giver, Number the stars)

Patricia MacLachlan (Sarah, plain and tall)

Ann Martin (Babysitters Club)

Lucy Maud Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables)

Mary Pope Osborne (The magic tree house series)

Peggy Parish (Amelia Bedelia)

Jack Prelutsky (It's raining pigs and noodles)

J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter)

Cynthia Rylant (Henry and Mudge)

Louis Sachar (Holes, Wayside School)

Jon Scieszka (Trucktown, Smash, crash)

Shel Silverstein (Falling up, The giving tree)

Lemony Snicket (A series of unfortunate events)

Lauren Tarshis (I survived series)

E.B. White (Charlotte's web, The trumpet of the swan)

Avi (Good dog, Poppy, Ragweed)

Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland)

Cornelia Funke (Inkherart, Ghosthunters)

Madeleine l'Engle (A wrinkle in time)

Gordon Korman (Island, MacDonald Hall)

James Patterson (Treasure hunters, Max Einstein)

Gary Paulsen (Hatchet, Dogsong)

Rick Riordan (Percy Jackson)

Ron Roy (A to Z series)

Michael Wade (and then it happened)

Eric Walters (Branded, Run, Shaken)

Eric Wilson (mysteries)