| Jan Brett - author and illustrator of Gingerbread Friends, Hedgie's Surprise, The Hat, The Three Snow Bears, and many more! Eoin Colfer - author of the Artemis Fowl series, The Supernaturalist, The Wish List, and Half Moon Investigations, among others Eric Carle - author and illustrator of so many books including the Very Hungry Caterpillar, The Grouchy Ladybug, Little Cloud, and Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do You See? Jeanne DuPrau Cornelia Funke - German author of Inkheart, Dragon Rider, The Thief Lord, Igraine the Brave, and more! Neil Gaiman - author of Coraline, The Graveyard Book, Stardust, and The Sandman comic books Gail Carson Levine - author of Ella Enchanted, Fairest, Ever, Fairy Dust and the Quest for the Egg, Writing Magic, and more! Lois Lowry - Two time Newbery Medal Winner, author of Number the Stars, The Giver, Gossamer, Anastasia series, The Willoughbys and many more! Stephenie Meyer - author of the Twilight series Dav Pilkey - funny author of Captain Underpants books, A Friend for Dragon, Dogzilla, Kat Kong, and Dog Breath! Emily Rodda - Australian author of Deltora Quest books, Rowan of Rin, Fairy Realm, The Key to Rondo, and more! Pam Muñoz Ryan - author of Paint the wind, Esperanza Rising, Riding Freedom, Nacho and Lolita, and Becoming Naomi León . Dr. Seuss Jon Scieszka - first National Ambassador of Young People's Literature and hilarious author of the Time Warp Trio books, The Stinky Cheese Man and other Fairly Stupid Tales, Math Curse, Squids will be Squids, and much more! Jerry Spinelli - author of Eggs, Maniac Magee, Stargirl, Wringer, and more! Lemony Snicket - An "unpleasant" site for the Series of Unfortunate Events author JRR Tolkien - Tolkien estate site for the author of The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, and The Children of Húrin Wendelin Van Draanen - author of Shredderman, Sammy Keyes, Flipped, and Confessions of a Serial Kisser David Wiesner - Three time Caldecott winner, author & illustrator of Flotsam, The Three Pigs, Tuesday, Sector 7, Night of the Gargoyles, and more! | |