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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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Eleanor M. Johnson (Eleanor Murdoch)

Eleanor M. Johnson was an educator and the founder of The Weekly Reader. It brought the news of the world to school children for nearly six decades.

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Author
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Compiler

Lived:
1892 - 1987

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Edna Johnson

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

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Emilie Fendall Johnson (Emilie Louise Dickey Johnson)

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Author

Lived:
1892 - 0 B.C.

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James Ralph Johnson

Born in Fort Payne, Alabama, Marine Corps Major James Ralph Scott Johnson served in WWII and Korea. In addition to his own writing and illustration he has collaborated on books with his wife, Burdetta Faye Beebe. Many of his works deal with nature an... View More

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Author

Lived:
1922 - 1997

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Merle de Vore Johnson

An American bibliographer and anthologist. We have not yet found a reliable photograph of this person. Do you have any information you could share with us? If so, please contact us.... View More

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Author
Editor
Compiler

Lived:
1874 - 1935

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Osa Johnson

Osa Helen Johnson (née Leighty, March 14, 1894 – January 7, 1953) and her husband Martin Elmer Johnson (October 9, 1884 – January 13, 1937) were American adventurers and documentary filmmakers.

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Author

Lived:
1894 - 1953

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Owen Johnson

Owen McMahon Johnson was an American writer best remembered for his stories and novels cataloguing the educational and personal growth of the fictional character Dink Stover. The Lawrenceville Stories (The Prodigious Hickey, The Tennessee Shad, The V... View More

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Author

Lived:
1878 - 1952

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Crockett Johnson

Crockett Johnson was the pen name of cartoonist and children’s book illustrator David Johnson Leisk (October 20, 1906–July 11, 1975). He is perhaps best known for the comic strip Barnaby (1942–1952) and the Harold series of books be... View More

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Author
Illustrator

Lived:
1906 - 1975

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Johanna Johnston

Johanna Johnston was an American author of children's books. She also worked for CBS, writing for the radio show Let’s Pretend. We have not yet found a reliable photograph of this person. Do you have any information you could share with us?If s... View More

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Author

Lived:
1914 - 1982

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Janet Grahame Johnstone

Janet Grahame Johnstone (June 1, 1928 - 1979) and Anne Grahame Johnstone (June 1, 1928 - May 25, 1998) were twin sisters and British children’s book illustrators best known for their delicate, detailed prolific artwork and for illustrating Dodi... View More

Type:
Illustrator

Lived:
1928 - 1979

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Anne Grahame Johnstone

Janet Grahame Johnstone (June 1, 1928 - 1979) and Anne Grahame Johnstone (June 1, 1928 - May 25, 1998) were twin sisters and British children’s book illustrators best known for their delicate, detailed prolific artwork and for illustrating Dodi... View More

Type:
Illustrator

Lived:
1928 - 1998

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Nita Jonas

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Author

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

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Wilfred J. Jones

Wilfred J Jones was an American painter, illustrator, and engraver. He illustrated books for New York-based publishers. We have not yet found a reliable photograph of this person. Do you have any information you could share with us? If so, please con... View More

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Illustrator

Lived:
1888 - 1968

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Helen L. Jones

Helen L. Jones was a long time children’s book editor at Little, Brown & Co. who worked closely with Robert Lawson and many other prominent illustrators and writers of children’s books. We have not yet found a reliable year of birth o... View More

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Author

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

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Owen Jones

Owen Jones was a Welsh artist and a natural polymath. He was a well-known designer of the mid-nineteenth century, and had a huge impact on the appearance of consumer goods.

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Illustrator

Lived:
1808 - 1874

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Elizabeth Orton Jones

Elizabeth Orton Jones was an American illustrator and writer of children’s books. She won the Caldecott Medal in 1945 for her picture book Prayer for a Child.... View More

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Illustrator
Compiler

Lived:
1910 - 2005

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Jessie Mae Jones

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Editor

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

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Gwyn Jones

Professor Gwyn Jones CBE was a Welsh novelist and story writer, and a scholar and translator of Nordic literature and history.

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Author

Lived:
1907 - 1999

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Jessie Orton Jones

Jessie Mae (Orton) Jones was the daughter of Thomas & Jessie (Thomas) Orton. She had a daughter named Elizabeth Orton Jones. Jessie edited her daughter’s 1944 book “Small Rain: Verses from the Bible,” and it won a Caldecott Hono... View More

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

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Laurian Jones

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Illustrator

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

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