Top 100 Authors of all time

And here at last they all are! Pressed and cleaned and ready for your perusal. From one to one hundred and everything in between. And remember that if you want this list in a fancy handout PDF that looks a lot nicer and can be given to patrons, parents, teachers, etc. just sign up for it here. Enjoy!

None of this could have been possible without the help of Eric Carpenter. He single-handedly created the algorithm that allowed us to tally the votes easily. Then he and Sondra Eklund did double duty to get the final votes tallied and ready in the time to announce. Thanks too to the survey monkeys Sam Bloom, Katie DeKoster, Joy Wright, Kate Conklin, and Dick Holmes who all did the initial tallying.

Bibliography of Sources Used

Blackbeard, Bill, and Martin Williams. The Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comics. Washington D.C.: The Smithsonian Institution Press, 1977.

Clark, Beverly Lyon Clark. Kiddie Lit: The Cultural Construction of Children’s Literature in America. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.

Galda, Lee and Bernice E. Cullinan. Literature and the Child, 5th Edition. Stamford: Wadsworth Thomson Learning, 2002.

Gauch, Patricia Lee. Artist to Artist: 23 Major Illustrators Talk to Children About Their Art. New York: Penguin Young Readers Group, 2007.

Marcus, Leonard, ed. Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom. New York: Harper Collins, 1998.

Marcus, Leonard, ed. Funny Business: Conversations with Writers of Comedy. Boston: Candlewick, 2009.

Marcus, Leonard. Minders of Make-Believe: Idealists, Entrepreneurs, and the Shaping of American Children’s Literature. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2008.

Marcus, Leonard, ed. Show Me a Story! Why Picture Books Matter. Boston: Candlewick, 2011.

Nel, Philip and Julie Mickenberg, ed. Tales for Little Rebels: A Collection of Radical Children’s Literature. New York: New York University Press, 2008.

Pearl, Nancy. Book Crush: For Kids and Teens Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Interest. Seattle: Sasquatch Books, 2007.

Silvey, Anita. 100 Best Books for Children. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004.

Silvey, Anita. Everything I Need to Know I Learned from a Children’s Book. New York: Roaring Brook Press, 2009.

Sutton, Roger and Martha Parravano, ed. A Family of Readers: The Book Lover’s Guide to Children’s and Young Adult Literature. Boston: Candlewick, 2010.

Zipes, Jack, ed. The Norton Anthology of Children’s Literature: The Traditions in English. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2004.