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    • Giant Rays of Hope: Protecting Manta Rays to Safeguard the Sea
    • A River’s Gifts: The Mighty Elwha River Reborn
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    • Neema’s Reason To Smile
    • Zoo Scientists to the Rescue
    • Sea Otter Heroes: The Predators That Saved an Ecosystem
    • Plastic, Ahoy! Investigating the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
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kidlit creators who make kids want to read

some of my favorites

I interviewed these talented kidlit creators for a monthly column I wrote for California Kids!, a regional parenting magazine. Click on their names below to read their profiles and then read their work.

Child reading

A-F

Sarah Albee
Julia Alvarez
Laurie Halse Anderson
M. T. Anderson
Jennifer Armstrong
Tedd Arnold
Caroline Arnold
Jim Arnosky
Jim Averbeck
Jim Aylesworth
Marianne Berkes
Franny Billingsley
Ann Martin Bowler
Linda Boyden
Larry Dane Brimner
Monica Brown
Joseph Bruchac
Ashley Bryan
Lisa Rojany Buccieri
Eve Bunting
Loree Griffin Burns
Priscilla Burris
Toni Buzzeo
Denys Cazet
J. B. Cheaney
Christopher Cheng
Michael Chesworth
Gennifer Choldenko
Bruce Coville
Sharon Creech
Carolyn Crimi
Doreen Cronin
Christopher Paul Curtis
Doug Cushman
Karen Cushman
Paula Danziger
Deborah Davis
Nicola Davies
Katie Davis
Tomie de Paola
Erin Dealey
Dianne de Las Casas
Anna Dewdney
David Diaz
Susan Middleton Elya
Judith Ross Enderle &
Stephanie Gordon
Margarita Engle
Jill Esbaum
Terri Farley
Jeri Chase Ferris
Paul Fleischman
Sid Fleischman
Sue Fliess
Douglas Florian
Betsy Franco
Mary Ann Fraser
Marla Frazee
Laurie Friedman

G-L

Michael Garland
Patricia Lee Gauch
Arthur Geisert
Donna Gephart
Robin Preiss Glasser
Lisa Graff
Mini Grey
Bruce Hale
Janet Halfmann
Kelly Milner Halls
Jessica Harper
Charise Mericle Harper
Leslie Helakoski
Tad Hills
Anna Grossnickle Hines
Jennifer Holm
Hillary Homzie
Ellen Hopkins
Deborah Hopkinson
Carol Otis Hurst
Loretta Ichord
Emily Jenkins
Steve Jenkins
Angela Johnson
D. B. Johnson
Barbara Joosse
Verla Kay
Natalie Kinsey-Warnock
Naomi Kinsman
Jo Kittinger
Elisa Kleven
Elizabeth Koehler-Pentacoff
Jackie French Koller
Uma Krishnaswami
Jarrett Krosoczka
Jane Kurtz
Laura McGee Kvasnosky
Alexandria LaFaye
R. L. LaFevers
Deborah Nourse Lattimore
Gail Carson Levine
Brian Lies
Virginia Loh-Hagan
Loren Long
Melinda Long
Lois Lowry

M-R

Jeff Mack
Patricia MacLachlan
Jacqueline Briggs Martin
Meghan McCarthy
Lisa McCourt
Susan Meddaugh
Alice McGinty
Patricia McKissack
Eoin McNamee
Marisa Montes
Heather Montgomery
Lori Mortensen
Marissa Moss
Diane Muldrow
Rita Murphy
Donna Jo Napoli
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Kadir Nelson
Kim Norman
Laura Numeroff
Alexis O’Neill
Jane O’Connor
Debbie Ridpath Ohi
Mary Pope Osborne
Margie Palatini
Jerry Pallotta
Coleen Murtagh Paratore
Barbara Park
Linda Sue Park
Ann Whitford Paul
Gary Paulsen
Jan Peck
Richard Peck
Erica Perl
Richard Perlmutter
LeUyen Pham
Tamora Pierce
Daniel Pinkwater
Patricia Polacco
Joy Preble
Sherri Duskey Rinker
Barbara Robertson
Deborah Lee Rose
Betsy Rosenthal
Michael Elsohn Ross
Pam Munoz Ryan

S-Z

Louis Sachar
Barney Saltzberg
Daniel San Souci
Jill Santopolo
April Pulley Sayre
David Schwartz
Jon Scieszka & Lane Smith
Judy Sierra
Alan Silberberg
Erica Silverman
Marilyn Singer
Linda Joy Singleton
Peter Sís
Teri Sloat
Danna Smith
Jerry Spinelli
Sue Stauffacher
David Ezra Stein
Melissa Stewart
Jeff Stone
Christine Taylor-Butler
Laura Torres
Valerie Tripp
Leslie Tryon
Ann Turner
Pamela S. Turner
Deborah Underwood
Chris Van Allsburg
Wendelin Van Draanen
Ginger Wadsworth
Lee Wardlaw
Beth Nixon Weaver
Rosemary Wells
Mo Willems
Suzanne Morgan Williams
Jeanette Winter
Gretchen Woelfle
Ashley Wolff
Janet Wong
Dan Yaccarino
Caryn Yacowitz
Jane Yolen
Aaron Zenz

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    • Giant Rays of Hope: Protecting Manta Rays to Safeguard the Sea
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    • Planet Ocean
    • Eavesdropping on Elephants
    • Neema’s Reason To Smile
    • Zoo Scientists to the Rescue
    • Sea Otter Heroes: The Predators That Saved an Ecosystem
    • Plastic, Ahoy! Investigating the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
    • Ebola: Fears and Facts
    • Jingle the Brass
    • Nugget on the Flight Deck
    • Surviving Animal Attacks
    • Elite Operations series
    • Energy Lab series
    • QuickReads Fluency Library
    • Books for English language-learners
    • Writers write all kinds of things
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