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Author McElmeel, Sharron L.

Title 100 most popular children's authors : biographical sketches and bibliographies / Sharron L. McElmeel
Published Englewood, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited, 1999

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 MELB  809.99282 M1416/O  AVAILABLE
Description xxxi, 495 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Series Popular authors series
Popular authors series.
Contents David A. Adler -- Lloyd Alexander -- Avi -- James Matthew Barrie -- Patricia Beatty -- John Bellairs -- Judy Blume -- Michael Bond -- Bill Brittain -- Anne Evelyn "Eve" Bunting -- Betsy Byars -- Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) -- Matthew F. "Matt" Christopher -- John Ciardi -- Beverly Cleary -- Eth Clifford (Ethel Rosenberg) -- Christopher Collier -- James Lincoln Collier -- Ellen Conford -- Pam Conrad -- Bruce Coville -- Roald Dahl -- Paula Danziger -- Judy Delton -- Lois Duncan -- Eleanor Estes -- Aileen Fisher -- Louise Fitzhugh -- John D. Fitzgerald -- Paul Fleischman -- Sid Fleischman -- Paula Fox -- Russell Freedman -- Jean Fritz -- Jean Craighead George -- Patricia Reilly Giff -- Jamie Gilson -- Carol Gorman -- Mary Downing Hahn -- Lynn Hall -- Virginia Hamilton -- Marguerite Henry -- Clifford B. Hicks -- Lee Bennett Hopkins -- Langston Hughes -- Irene Hunt -- Johanna Hurwitz -- Paul B. Janeczko -- Rudyard Kipling -- James Arthur Kjelgaard -- Suzy Kline
E. L. Konigsburg -- Madeleine L'Engle -- Robert Lawson -- C. S. Lewis -- Astrid Lindgren -- Myra Cohn Livingston -- Jack London -- Lois Lowry -- Patricia MacLachlan -- Patricia McKissack -- A. A. Milne -- Nicholasa Mohr -- Phyllis Reynolds Naylor -- Joan Lowery Nixon -- Mary Norton -- Scott O'Dell -- Jerry Pallotta -- Barbara Park -- Katherine Paterson -- Gary Paulsen -- Richard Peck -- Robert Newton Peck -- Jack Prelutsky -- Ivy Ruckman -- Cynthia Rylant -- Louis Sachar -- Marilyn Sachs -- George Selden -- Shel Silverstein -- Seymour Simon -- Gloria Skurzynski -- Alfred Slote -- Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve -- Zilpha Keatley Snyder -- Elizabeth George Speare -- Jerry Spinelli -- Robert Lawrence (R. L.) Stine -- Mary Stolz -- Mildred D. Taylor -- Theodore Taylor -- Yoshiko Uchida -- Cynthia Voigt -- E. B. (Elwyn Brooks) White -- Laura Ingalls Wilder -- Elizabeth Winthrop -- David Wisniewski -- Betty Ren Wright -- Elizabeth Yates -- Jane Yolen
Summary A guide based on a 1997 survey of popular children's book authors provides biographical sketches and selected bibliographies for such writers as Beverly Cleary, Lois Lawry, Lewis Carroll, Mary Downing Hahn, and C.S. Lewis
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Authors, American -- Biography -- Dictionaries.
Authors, English -- Biogrphy -- Dictionaries
Authors, English -- Biography -- Dictionaries.
Children's literature, American -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries.
Children -- Books and reading -- English-speaking countries -- Dictionaries.
Children's literature, English -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries.
Authors, American -- Biography -- Dictionaries.
American literature -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries.
Authors, English -- Biography -- Dictionaries.
English literature -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Dictionaries.
Bibliographies.
LC no. 98041942
ISBN 1563086468 (cloth)
Other Titles One hundred most popular children's authors