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Here are the top 2,100 authors and 1,000 illustrators from the whole heritage of children’s literature. And also the top Editors, Translators, and Compilers.

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Robert Bright

Robert Bright was an American author and illustrator of children’s literature who wrote and illustrated over 20 books in his 40-year career. He is best known for Georgie (1944), a children’s classic about a friendly and shy little ghost w... View More

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Author
Illustrator

Lived:
1902 - 1988

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John Burton Brimer

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Lived:
0 B.C. - 0 B.C.

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Ruth Brindze

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Author

Lived:
1903 - 1984

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Carol Ryrie Brink

Carol Ryrie Brink (December 28, 1895 – August 15, 1981) was an American author of over thirty juvenile and adult books. Her novel Caddie Woodlawn won the 1936 Newbery Medal and a Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1958.

Type:
Author

Lived:
1895 - 1981

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Nina K. Brisley

Nina Kennard Brisley studied at Lambeth School of Art and exhibited at the Royal Academy. Beginning in 1923, she illustrated the Chalet School series by Elinor Brent-Dyer. She illustrated books by many others. In the 1950’s her illustrations we... View More

Type:
Illustrator

Lived:
1898 - 1978

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C. E. Brock

Charles Edmund Brock was a widely published English painter, line artist and book illustrator. He signed most of his work C. E. Brock. Free Ebook On our Free Downloads page, get a free ebook of his The Railway Children (1906).... View More

Type:
Illustrator

Lived:
1870 - 1938

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Emma L. Brock (Emma Brock)

Emma Lillian Brock was an American author and illustrator. Born in 1886 in Fort Shaw, Montana. She studied art at the Minneapolis School of Art. As well as illustrating other authors’ works, she began writing and illustrating her own books in 1... View More

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Author
Illustrator

Lived:
1886 - 0 B.C.

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H. M. Brock

Henry Matthew Brock was an English artist and illustrator. In addition to illustrating many of the classic Victorian and Edwardian novels, he drew for the comics. His work appeared in over 2,000 books.

Type:
Illustrator

Lived:
1875 - 1960

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Hugh Brogan

Denis Hugh Vercingetorix Brogan, known as Hugh Brogan, is a British historian and biographer.

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Author
Editor
Compiler

Lived:
1936 - 0 B.C.

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Achim Bröger

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Author

Lived:
0 B.C. - 0 B.C.

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Charlotte Brontë

Charlotte Brontë (April 21, 1816 – March 31, 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood, whose novels are English literature standards. She wrote Jane Eyre under the pen name Cur... View More

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Author

Lived:
1816 - 1855

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Emily Brontë

Emily Jane Brontë (30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) was an English novelist and poet, best remembered for her solitary novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature. Emily was the third eldest of the four surviving B... View More

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Author

Lived:
1818 - 1848

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L. Leslie Brooke

Leonard Leslie Brooke was a British artist and writer. His skillful and witty illustrations in Andrew Lang’s Nursery Rhyme Book (1897) established his reputation as a leading children’s book illustrator of pen-and-ink line drawings and wa... View More

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Author
Illustrator

Lived:
1862 - 1940

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Henry Brooke (Baron Brooke of Cumnor)

A son of L. Leslie Brooke, Henry Brooke was a British politician. His wife was a life peer, and so was his eldest son.

Type:
Author

Lived:
1903 - 1984

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Christopher Brooker

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Type:
Illustrator

Lived:
0 B.C. - 0 B.C.

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Van Wyck Brooks

Van Wyck Brooks was an American literary critic, biographer, and historian. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, as well as eleven honorary doctorates.

Type:
Author

Lived:
1886 - 1963

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Cyrus Brooks

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Author
Translator

Lived:
0 B.C. - 0 B.C.

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Alan Brooks

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Type:
Author

Lived:
1957 - 0 B.C.

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Noah Brooks

Born in Castine, Maine, Noah Brooks used that city as his nom-de-plume as a correspondent during the Civil War. He was a close personal friend of Abraham Lincoln and wrote a biography of the president’s war years.

Type:
Author
Editor
Compiler

Lived:
1830 - 1903

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Walter R. Brooks

Walter Rollin Brooks (January 9, 1886 – August 17, 1958) was an American writer best remembered for his short stories and children’s books, particularly those about Freddy the Pig and other anthropomorphic animal inhabitants of the &ldquo... View More

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Author

Lived:
1886 - 1958

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