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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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Joseph Wood Krutch

Joseph Wood Krutch was an American writer, critic, and naturalist, best known for his nature books on the American Southwest and as a critic of reductionistic science.

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Lived:
1893 - 1970

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Patsy Kumm

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

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Dorothy Kunhardt

Dorothy Kunhardt (September 29, 1901 – December 23, 1979) was an American children’s-book author, best known for the baby book Pat the Bunny. She was also a historian and writer about the life of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.... View More

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Author
Illustrator

Lived:
1901 - 1979

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Ben Kutcher

Ben Kutcher was born in Kiev, Russia. He came to the United States with his family at the age of ten and settled in Philadelphia. He studied art abroad, then returned to New York in 1915. Kutcher was something of a contradiction in that he was shy ye... View More

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Illustrator

Lived:
1892 - 1967

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Charles James L'Estrange (Herbert Strang)

A staff member of the Oxford University Press, he wrote under the names of Herbert Strang and Mrs. Herbert Strang, in collaboration with George Herbert Ely. We have not yet found a reliable photograph of this person. Do you have any information you c... View More

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Author
Editor

Lived:
1867 - 1947

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Sir Roger L'Estrange

Sir Roger L'Estrange was an English pamphleteer, author and defender of Royalist claims. His master work was Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists (1692).

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Author

Lived:
1616 - 1704

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Madeleine L’Engle

Madeleine L’Engle (November 29, 1918 – September 6, 2007) was an American writer best known for young-adult fiction, particularly the Newbery Medal-winning A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels: A Wind in the Door, National Book Award-winning... View More

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Author

Lived:
1918 - 2007

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Émile de La Bédollière

Émile de La Bédollière was a French journalist and writer.

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Author

Lived:
1812 - 1883

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Mabel Guinnip La Rue (Mabel Guinnip Scudder La Rue, Mabel G. La Rue)

Mabel Guinnip La Rue was an American author. She was a popular author of juvenile fiction since 1920. 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

Lived:
1880 - 1971

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Aurora Labastida

Aurora Labastida was the children's librarian at the U.S. Embassy's Library in Mexico City. She and Marie Hall Ets created a story called Nine Days to Christmas (1959) that depicts an urban Mexican childhood as well as the magic of Christmas. We have... View More

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0 B.C. - 0 B.C.

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Y. Lacôte

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0 B.C. - 0 B.C.

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Selma Lagerlöf

Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf was a Swedish author and teacher. She was the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Author

Lived:
1858 - 1940

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Blanche Fisher Wright Laite (Blanche Fisher Wright)

Originally from Wisconsin, Blanche Fisher Wright Laite was an illustrator active in the early 1900’s. She is best known for The Real Mother Goose.

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Illustrator

Lived:
1887 - 1938

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Gordon Laite

Gordon Laite was an American illustrator and painter. He attended Beloit College in Wisconsin and the Chicago Art Institute. We have not yet found a reliable photograph of this person. Do you have any information you could share with us? If so, pleas... View More

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Illustrator

Lived:
1925 - 1978

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Jim LaMarche

Jim LaMarche is the illustrator of more than 20 books for children. He grew up in Wisconsin and lives in with his wife and children in Santa Cruz, California. We have not yet found a reliable year of birth of this person. Do you have any information ... View More

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Illustrator

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0 B.C. - 0 B.C.

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Lynton Lamb

Lynton Lamb RDI, FSRA, FSIA was an English artist-designer, author, lithographer and illustrator.

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Author
Editor
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Lived:
1907 - 1977

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Lynton Lamb

Lynton Lamb was an English artist-designer, author, lithographer and illustrator who was notable for his book jacket, poster, architectural decoration and postage stamp designs.

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Illustrator

Lived:
1907 - 1977

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Peter O. Lamb

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

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Charles Lamb

Charles Lamb was an English essayist, poet, and antiquarian, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children’s book Tales from Shakespeare, co-authored with his sister, Mary Lamb.... View More

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Author

Lived:
1775 - 1834

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Mary Lamb

Mary Ann Lamb was an English writer. She is best known for the collaboration with her brother Charles Lamb on the collection Tales from Shakespeare.

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Author

Lived:
1764 - 1847

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