Ray Bial
Photographer/author Bial has created critically acclaimed photo-essays for children, including Ghost Towns of the American West and The Underground Railroad. Tenement is due out this summer.

Lois Lowry
Best-selling and award-winning author of books for young readers, including the Newbery Medal winners Number the Stars and The Giver.

Betsy Bowen
Bowen created hand-printed woodblock images to illustrate Shingebiss: An Ojibwe Legend and The Troll with No Heart in His Body. Antler, Bear, Canoe is due out this fall.

Mary Lyons
Lyons is the author of fifteen books for young readers. Knockabeg: A Famine Tale is her most recent book.

Linda Crotta Brennan
Author of the books Marshmallow Kisses and Flannel Kisses, both illustrated by Mari Takabayashi.

David Macaulay
Since his first book, Cathedral, Caldecott Medal Winner Macaulay has created many best-selling books. Angelo is his latest picture book.

Jan Brett
Brett's magnificent paintings glorify her simple but engaging stories in Scary, Scary Halloween.

Jacqueline Briggs Martin
Author of Snowflake Bentley, winner of the 1999 Caldecott Medal, and The Lamp, the Ice, and the Boat Called Fish.

Don Brown
Author/illustrator of Uncommon Traveler: Mary Kingsley in Africa, a Horn Book Honor Selection.

Michael McCurdy
Award-winning author/illustrator of many American history books, including Giants in the Land and An Algonquian Year.

Virginia Lee Burton
Author and illustrator of some of the most beloved and enduring books ever written for children, including The Little House (winner of the 1942 Caldecott Medal) and Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel.

Alice McGill
McGill is an internationally renowned storyteller and the author of numerous acclaimed books, including In the Hollow of Your Hand. Here We Go Round is her latest novel.

Sandra and Harry Choron
Sandra Choron is an author, editor, art director, and literary agent. Harry Choron is a graphic designer. They are the authors of The All-New Book of Lists for Kids and have just completed The Book of Lists for Teens.

Patricia McMahon
Author of Dancing Wheels and One Belfast Boy.

John Clapp
Clapp's illustrations offer young readers a vivid slice of history in Right Here on This Spot.

Bruce McMillan
Author/photographer of Days of the Ducklings, McMillan has traveled from Antarctica to Iceland to bring the wonders of nature to his young audience.

Catherine Clinton
Compiler of I, Too, Sing America: Three Centuries of African-American History and author of The Black Soldier 1492 to the Present.

Lynn Munsinger
Illustrator of Score One for the Sloths, Hooway for Wodney Wat, and the Tacky the Penguin books.

Sneed B. Collard
Author of many books about animals and nature, including Making Animal Babies, Animal Dads, and Leaving Home.

Joi Nobisso
Author of the children's book John Blair and the Great Hinckley Fire, illustrated by Ted Rose.

James M. Deem
Author of the 1999 Parents' Choice Award winner, Bodies from the Bog, and other books for young readers.

Jerrie Oughton
Author of the award-winning young adult novel, Music from a Place Called Half Moon.

Olivier Dunrea
Illustrator of The Boy Who Loved to Draw: Benjamin West, the autobiographical story of the world-famous artist.

H. A. Rey and Margret Rey
Creators of the Curious George books.

Garret Freymann-Weyr
Author of acclaimed young adult novel When I Was Older and the riveting My Heartbeat, a five-star novel.

Allen Say
Caldecott Medal–winning author/illustrator of Grandfather's Journey and the renowned picture books Tea with Milk, Emma's Rug, Allison, El Chino, and Tree of Cranes. Home of the Brave is his latest picture book.

Dianne Gray
Author of Holding Up the Earth, a beautifully portrayed young adult novel about a child of adoption.

April Sayre
Sayre's If You Should Hear a Honey Guide won the John Burroughs Medal and was a 1995 School Library Journal Best Book of the Year.

Sheila Greenwald
Author/illustrator of Mariah Delany's Author-of-the-Month Club and The Mariah Delany Lending Library Disaster.

Maureen Taylor
Genealogy expert and author of Through the Eyes of Your Ancestors.

Carol Otis Hurst
Author of Through the Lock and In Plain Sight.

J.R.R. Tolkien
Learn more about J.R.R. Tolkien, "Author of the Century."

Jennifer Jacobson
Author of Winnie (Dancing) on Her Own, an early chapter book that explores friendships and individuality.

Chris Van Allsburg
"Master of the mysterious," author of the Caldecott Medal–winning books The Polar Express and Jumanji, and the Caldecott Honor Book The Garden of Abdul Gasazi. Zathura is coming soon!

D. B. Johnson
Inspired by Henry David Thoreau's Walden, Henry Builds a Cabin follows the award-winning Henry Hikes to Fitchburg for another adventure in the life of Henry the bear.

Bernard Waber
Bernard Waber has written and illustrated many beloved books for children, including the Lyle Crocodile books and most recently Courage.

Natalie Kinsey-Warnock
Natalie Kinsey-Warnock is the author of many fine children's books. From Dawn Till Dusk is her first for Houghton Mifflin.

Wong Herbert Yee
Yee's Fireman Small won the 1997 Parents' Choice Award and began a series of exciting Fireman Small adventures.

Helen Lester
Author of the Tacky the Penguin books and the award-winning Hooway for Wodney Wat and Score One for the Sloths.