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List Of Children's Literature Authors
These writers are notable authors of children's literature with some of their most famous works. __NOTOC__ A *Verna Aardema (1911–2001) – ''Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears'' *Rafael Ábalos (born 1956) – ''Grimpow'' *Jacob Abbott (1803–1879) – ''Rollo'' series, ''Cousin Lucy's Conversations'', ''Bruno'' *Tony Abbott (author), Tony Abbott (born 1952) – ''The Secrets of Droon'', ''Danger Guys Series, Danger Guys'' *Deborah Abela (born 1966) – ''Max Remy Superspy'', ''Grimsdon'' *Joan Abelove (born 1945) – ''Go and Come Back'' *Chris van Abkoude (1880–1960) – ''Pietje Bell'' series, ''Little Crumb'' *Socorro Acioli (born 1975) – ''The Ghost Dancer'' *Richard Adams (1920–2016) – ''Watership Down'' *Jean Adamson (born 1928) – ''Topsy and Tim'' *C. S. Adler (born 1932) – ''Magic of the Glits'', ''Ghost Brother'' *David A. Adler (born 1947) – ''Cam Jansen'' series, ''The Babe and I'' *Aesop (6th century BCE) – ''Aesop's Fables, Fables'' *Edith J. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Children's Literature
Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created for children. In addition to conventional literary genres, modern children's literature is classified by the intended age of the reader, ranging from picture books for the very young to young adult fiction for those nearing maturity. Children's literature can be traced to traditional stories like fairy tales, which have only been identified as children's literature since the eighteenth century, and songs, part of a wider oral tradition, which adults shared with children before publishing existed. The development of early children's literature, before printing was invented, is difficult to trace. Even after printing became widespread, many classic "children's" tales were originally created for adults and later adapted for a younger audience. Since the fifteenth century much literature has been aimed specifically at children, often with a moral or religious message. Childr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Adamson
Jean Adamson, , ( Bailey; 29 February 1928 – 15 December 2024) was a British writer and illustrator of children's books. She was best known for the ''Topsy and Tim'' books, the first of which was published in 1960 and which have sold 27 million copies. Adamson's creations were also featured widely on television in 84 episodes of ''Topsy and Tim''. Early life Adamson was born Jean Bailey in Peckham, London, on 29 February 1928. Adamson attended Primary School in Peckham and in 1939, she won a scholarship to attend Grammar School, though like many other students, her education was greatly disrupted by the war.. From an early age, Adamson had an inquisitive and creative mind: "I spent a lot of time when I was a child, reading children's picture books, peering at the illustrations and puzzling about how they were done. I added my own illustrations on the lovely, empty fly-leaves.". In Autumn 1944, aged 16, Adamson went to Goldsmiths College to study illustration and design. "A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little Women
''Little Women'' is a coming-of-age novel written by American novelist Louisa May Alcott, originally published in two volumes, in 1868 and 1869. The story follows the lives of the four March sisters— Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy—and details their passage from childhood to womanhood. Loosely based on the lives of the author and her three sisters, it is classified as an autobiographical or semi-autobiographical novel. ''Little Women'' was an immediate commercial and critical success, and readers were eager for more about the characters. Alcott quickly completed a second volume (titled ''Good Wives'' in the United Kingdom, though the name originated with the publisher and not Alcott). It was also met with success. The two volumes were issued in 1880 as a single novel titled ''Little Women''. Alcott subsequently wrote two sequels to her popular work, both also featuring the March sisters: '' Little Men'' (1871) and '' Jo's Boys'' (1886). The novel has been said to address three ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott (; November 29, 1832March 6, 1888) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known for writing the novel ''Little Women'' (1868) and its sequels ''Good Wives'' (1869), ''Little Men'' (1871), and ''Jo's Boys'' (1886). Raised in New England by her Transcendentalism, transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott, she grew up among many well-known intellectuals of the day, including Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau. Encouraged by her family, Louisa began writing from an early age. Louisa's family experienced financial hardship, and while Louisa took on various jobs to help support the family from an early age, she also sought to earn money by writing. In the 1860s she began to achieve critical success for her writing with the publication of ''Hospital Sketches'', a book based on her service as a nurse in the American Civil War. Early in her career, she sometimes used pen names such ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Haunting Of Cassie Palmer
''The Haunting of Cassie Palmer'' is a British television drama for children produced in 1981 by TVS (Television South) for the ITV network and first broadcast on 26 February 1982. The series was based on a novel by Vivien Alcock. In the United States, it was aired on Nickelodeon as part of the series '' The Third Eye''. The show was part of the launch programming for TVS which started broadcasting on 1 January 1982. Nickelodeon had also recently launched when it added ''The Third Eye'' series to its live-action line up. ''The Third Eye'' was a sci-fi/supernatural anthology that included '' Into the Labyrinth'', ''The Haunting of Cassie Palmer'', ''Children of the Stones'' and '' Under the Mountain''. Later '' The Witches and the Grinnygog'' was added. Plot This is a story of 13-year-old Cassie Palmer who lives with her mother, older brother, and sister. Cassie's mother is an eccentric "psychic" (medium). After some of her clients are incensed to discover her mother has tricked ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vivien Alcock
Vivien Alcock (23 September 1924 – 11 October 2003) was an English writer of children's books. Life and career Alcock was born in Worthing, now in West Sussex, England, and her family moved to Devizes in Wiltshire when she was ten years old. She was the youngest of three sisters who were devoted to reading, drawing, and storytelling. Alcock studied at Oxford University's Ruskin School of Drawing until 1942, when she left the program to join the women's branch of the British Army (Auxiliary Territorial Service). Alcock and Leon Garfield met while she was driving ambulances in Belgium. They married and adopted a daughter, named Jane after Jane Austen. Garfield became a successful children's writer in the 1960s. Her own first book published was ''The Haunting of Cassie Palmer'', from Methuen in 1980 when she was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uxue Alberdi
Uxue Alberdi Estibaritz (Elgoibar, Gipuzkoa, 18 March 1984) is a Basque writer and bertsolari. Biography She studied at the Leioa campus and graduated in journalism. She started winning Bertsolaritza competitions in 2003, Julene Azpeitia from Durango was the first, followed by the Xenpelar Award in 2006, and the Osinalde Award for young bertsolari in 2008. In 2005, thanks to the Igartza scholarship for young writers, she wrote his first book: ''Aulki bat elurretan'' (2007). In 2007, thanks also to another creative scholarship, the Joseba Jaka Scholarship, she wrote the book ''Aulki jokoa'' (2009). In 2013, she published ''Euli-giro'' and, in 2017,'' Jenisjoplin'', by the publisher Susa. In 2010, she delved into children's literature Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created for children. In addition to conventional literary genres, modern children's literature is classified by the intended age of the re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahmad Akbarpour
Ahmad Akbarpour () ''Ahmad Akbarpūr'' , born July 31, 1970, in Chah Varz, Lamerd, Fars province, is a novelist and author of short stories and children's books. Biography Ahmad Akbarpour was born on 31 July 1970 in Chah Varz. He got his BA in psychology from Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran. Ahmad Akbarpour started his literary career at the age of 24 by composing poetry. He published his first and only collection of poetry, ''People of the Thursday Evening'', in 1993. A student of Reza Barahani and Houshang Golshiri, he soon started writing fiction for adolescents, adopting a postmodern style of writing. Books ''That Night’s Train'', published in 1999, received the Book of the Year award from Iran's Ministry of Culture. The novel narrates the story of a little girl who recently lost her mother and meets with a teacher during a train trip. This short novel was adapted as a TV film by Hamid Reza Hafezi and later as a movie by Hamid Reza Ghotbi. Published in 2002, ''Go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wolves Of Willoughby Chase
''The Wolves of Willoughby Chase'' is a children's novel by Joan Aiken, first published in 1962. Set in an alternative history of England, it tells of the adventures of cousins Bonnie and Sylvia and their friend Simon the goose-boy as they thwart the evil schemes of their governess Miss Slighcarp, and their so-called "teacher" at boarding school, Mrs. Brisket. The novel is the first in the '' Wolves Chronicles'', a series of books set during the fictional early 19th-century reign of King James the Third. A large number of wolves has migrated from the bitter cold of Europe and Russia into Britain via a new "channel tunnel", and terrorise the inhabitants of rural areas. Aiken wrote the book over a period of years, with a seven-year gap due to her full-time work; the success of this, her second novel, enabled her to quit her job and write full-time. It is described by John Rowe Townsend as "a tale of double-dyed villainy, with right triumphant in the end". It was adapted into a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Aiken
Joan Delano Aiken (4 September 1924 – 4 January 2004) was an English writer specialising in supernatural fiction and children's alternative history novels. In 1999 she was awarded an MBE for her services to children's literature. For ''The Whispering Mountain'', published by Jonathan Cape in 1968, she won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a book award judged by a panel of British children's writers, and she was a commended runner-up for the Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British writer. She won an Edgar Allan Poe Award (1972) for ''Night Fall''. Biography Aiken was born in Mermaid Street in Rye, Sussex, on 4 September 1924. Her father was the American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Conrad Aiken (1889–1973). Her older brother was the writer and research chemist John Aiken (1913–1990), and her older sister was the writer Jane Aiken Hodge (1917–2009). Their mother, Canadian-born Jessie MacDonald (1889� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edith J
Edith is a feminine given name derived from the Old English word , meaning ''wealth'' or ''prosperity'', in combination with the Old English , meaning ''strife'', and is in common usage in this form in English, German, many Scandinavian languages and Dutch. Its French form is Édith. Contractions and variations of this name include Ditte, Dita, and Edie. It was a common first name prior to the 16th century, when it fell out of favour. It became popular again at the beginning of the 19th century and has remained in steady use. It has been among the top hundred most popular names for newborn girls in England and Wales since 2017. It has been among the top 1,000 names for girls in the United States since 1880 and was among the top 50 names for American girls between 1880 and 1927, the height of its popularity. It was ranked as the 513th most popular name for American newborn girls in 2022, according to the Social Security online database. It was the 518th most popular name for newb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aesop's Fables
Aesop's Fables, or the Aesopica, is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a Slavery in ancient Greece, slave and storyteller who lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 Before the Common Era, BCE. Of varied and unclear origins, the stories associated with his name have descended to modern times through a number of sources and continue to be reinterpreted in different verbal Register (sociolinguistics), registers and in popular as well as artistic media. The fables were part of oral tradition and were not collected until about three centuries after Aesop's death. By that time, a variety of other stories, jokes and proverbs were being ascribed to him, although some of that material was from sources earlier than him or came from beyond the Greek cultural sphere. The process of inclusion has continued until the present, with some of the fables unrecorded before the Late Middle Ages and others arriving from outside Europe. The process is continuous and new stories are still b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
