100 Most Popular Children's Authors
by McElmeel, Sharron L.Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1999-05-15
Publisher(s): Libraries Unltd Inc
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Summary
This affordable biographical work and ready-reference spotlights 100 beloved children's book authors with each entry including such features as engaging biographical sketches, photos, selective bibliographies, and lists of related information sources. Included are long-time luminaries as well as many new emerging writers. Grades 3-8. INCLUDES: Beverly Cleary, Marguerite Henry, Jack London, R. L. Stine, and Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Author Biography
SHARRON L. MCELMEEL, an adjunct instructor at Mount Mercy College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is a long-time educator and library media specialist who has built a national reputation in the area of children's literature and is an often requested conference speaker. She was named Iowa Reading Teacher of the Year in 1987 and was nominated as Iowa's Teacher of the Year in 1997.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | |
| David A. Adler | p. 1 |
| Lloyd Alexander | p. 8 |
| Avi | p. 15 |
| James Matthew Barrie | p. 22 |
| Patricia Beatty | p. 26 |
| John Bellairs | p. 30 |
| Judy Blume | p. 35 |
| Michael Bond | p. 41 |
| Bill Brittain | p. 45 |
| Anne Evelyn "Eve" Bunting | p. 50 |
| Betsy Byars | p. 56 |
| Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) | p. 61 |
| Matthew F. "Matt" Christopher | p. 66 |
| John Ciardi | p. 72 |
| Beverly Cleary | p. 75 |
| Eth Clifford (Ethel Rosenberg) | p. 81 |
| Christopher Collier | p. 86 |
| James Lincoln Collier | p. 90 |
| Ellen Conford | p. 94 |
| Pam Conrad | p. 98 |
| Bruce Coville | p. 103 |
| Roald Dahl | p. 109 |
| Paula Danziger | p. 116 |
| Judy Delton | p. 121 |
| Lois Duncan | p. 126 |
| Eleanor Estes | p. 132 |
| Aileen Fisher | p. 135 |
| Louise Fitzhugh | p. 139 |
| John D. Fitzgerald | p. 142 |
| Paul Fleischman | p. 146 |
| Sid Fleischman | p. 153 |
| Paula Fox | p. 157 |
| Russell Freedman | p. 161 |
| Jean Fritz | p. 167 |
| Jean Craighead George | p. 172 |
| Patricia Reilly Giff | p. 179 |
| Jamie Gilson | p. 186 |
| Carol Gorman | p. 191 |
| Mary Downing Hahn | p. 196 |
| Lynn Hall | p. 202 |
| Virginia Hamilton | p. 209 |
| Marguerite Henry | p. 215 |
| Clifford B. Hicks | p. 221 |
| Lee Bennett Hopkins | p. 224 |
| Langston Hughes | p. 230 |
| Irene Hunt | p. 234 |
| Johanna Hurwitz | p. 237 |
| Paul B. Janeczko | p. 242 |
| Rudyard Kipling | p. 245 |
| James Arthur Kjelgaard | p. 248 |
| Suzy Kline | p. 250 |
| E. L. Konigsburg | p. 253 |
| Madeleine L'Engle | p. 258 |
| Robert Lawson | p. 262 |
| C. S. Lewis | p. 266 |
| Astrid Lindgren | p. 269 |
| Myra Cohn Livingston | p. 273 |
| Jack London | p. 276 |
| Lois Lowry | p. 279 |
| Patricia MacLachlan | p. 285 |
| Patricia McKissack | p. 289 |
| A. A. Milne | p. 294 |
| Nicholasa Mohr | p. 299 |
| Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | p. 304 |
| Joan Lowery Nixon | p. 309 |
| Mary Norton | p. 314 |
| Scott O'Dell | p. 317 |
| Jerry Pallotta | p. 321 |
| Barbara Park | p. 324 |
| Katherine Paterson | p. 327 |
| Gary Paulsen | p. 333 |
| Richard Peck | p. 341 |
| Robert Newton Peck | p. 346 |
| Jack Prelutsky | p. 350 |
| Ivy Ruckman | p. 355 |
| Cynthia Rylant | p. 361 |
| Louis Sachar | p. 368 |
| Marilyn Sachs | p. 373 |
| George Selden | p. 380 |
| Shel Silverstein | p. 382 |
| Seymour Simon | p. 385 |
| Gloria Skurzynski | p. 390 |
| Alfred Slote | p. 395 |
| Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve | p. 400 |
| Zilpha Keatley Snyder | p. 405 |
| Elizabeth George Speare | p. 409 |
| Jerry Spinelli | p. 413 |
| Robert Lawrence (R. L.) Stine | p. 417 |
| Mary Stolz | p. 422 |
| Mildred D. Taylor | p. 425 |
| Theodore Taylor | p. 430 |
| Yoshiko Uchida | p. 434 |
| Cynthia Voigt | p. 438 |
| E. B. (Elwyn Brooks) White | p. 442 |
| Laura Ingalls Wilder | p. 445 |
| Elizabeth Winthrop | p. 452 |
| David Wisniewski | p. 455 |
| Betty Ren Wright | p. 460 |
| Elizabeth Yates | p. 463 |
| Jane Yolen | p. 467 |
| App. - Photography Credits | p. 473 |
| Genre Index | p. 477 |
| General Index | p. 481 |
| About the Author | p. 495 |
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