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L'Engle, Madeleine

A Wrinkle in Time, A Ring of Endless Light, A Wind in the Door, The Arm of the Starfish, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Troubling a Star...

Lenski, Lois

Strawberry Girl, Cowboy Small, The Little Fire Engine, The Little Farm, The Little Sailboat, I Like Winter, Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison...

Levine, Gail Carson

Ella Enchanted, Dave at Night, The Two Princesses of Bamarre, The Wish, The Princess Test...

Lewin, Betsy

Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type, Giggle, Giggle, Quack, Cat Count, Chubbo's Pool, Gorilla Walk...

Lewin, Ted

Market!, Fair!, Big Jimmy's Kum Kau Chinese Take Out, Gorilla Walk, Elephant Quest, Peppe the Lamplighter...

Lewis, C. S.

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, The Horse and His Boy, The Silver Chair, Prince Caspian...

Lionni, Leo

Swimmy, Frederick, Inch by Inch, Little Blue and Little Yellow, A Color of His Own...

Lobel, Anita

On Market Street, Alison's Zinnia, Potatoes, Potatoes, One Lighthouse, One Moon...

Lobel, Arnold

Frog and Toad Together, Frog and Toad are Friends, Days with Frog and Toad, Mouse Tales, Fables, Grasshopper on the Road, Uncle Elephant...

London, Jonathan

Froggy Gets Dressed, Froggy's First Kiss, Froggy Plays Soccer, Froggy Learns to Swim, Froggy's Halloween, Shawn and Keeper Show-and-Tell...

Lowry, Lois

The Giver, Number the Stars, Anastasia Krupnik, Anastasia At Your Service, Attaboy, Sam!, Gathering Blue, Gooney Bird Greene...

MacLachlan, Patricia

Sarah, Plain and Tall, Caleb's Story, Arthur, for the Very First Time, Baby, The Facts and Fictions of Minna Pratt, Journey, Three Names, Unclaimed Treasures...

MacLachlan, Patricia : Audio Clips

Listen to audio clips of an interview with Patricia MacLachlan.

Marshall, James

George and Martha, Miss Nelson is Missing!, The Stupids Step Out, The Three Little Pigs, The Cut-Ups, Fox on Stage, Rats on the Roof, Space Case...

Martin, Ann M.

The "Baby-Sitters Club" series, "California Diaries" series, The Doll People, A Corner of the Universe, P.S. Longer Letter Later, Snail Mail No More...

Martin, Ann M. : NYPL Author Chat!

Read the Transcript from NYPL's Author Chat with Ann M. Martin, held July 6, 2004.

Martin, Bill Jr.

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?, Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?, A Beasty Story, Barn Dance!, Knots on a Counting Rope, Old Devil Wind...

Martin, Bill Jr. : Video Clips

Watch video clips of an interview with Bill Martin Jr.

Martin, Jacqueline Briggs

Snowflake Bentley, Grandmother Bryant's Pocket...

McKissack, Patricia and Frederick: Video Clips

Watch video clips of an interview with Patricia and Frederick McKissack.

Milne, A. A.

Winnie-the-Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner, When We Were Very Young, Now We Are Six, The Magic Hill...

Mora, Pat

Tomas and the Library Lady, A Library for Juana: The World of Sor Juana Ines, Una Biblioteca para Juana: El Mundo de Sor Juana Ines, Listen to the Desert = Oye al Desierto...

Mora, Pat: Video Clips

Watch video clips of an interview with Pat Mora.

Munro, Roxie

The Inside-Outside Book of Libraries, The Inside-Outside Book of New York City, Christmastime in New York City, Doors, Crocodiles, Camels & Dugout Canoes: Eight Adventurous Episodes

Munsch, Robert

50 Below Zero, The Paper Bag Princess, Stephanie's Ponytail, Get Out of Bed!, More pies!, Aaron's Hair...

Murphy, Jim

An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793, The Great Fire, Inside the Alamo, Gone a-Whaling, Blizzard...

Myers, Walter Dean

Motown and Didi, The Mouse Rap, Scorpions, Harlem: A Poem, Amistad : A Long Road to Freedom, Malcolm X: A Fire Burning Brightly, Patrol: An American Soldier in Vietnam, Fast Sam, Cool Clyde, and Stuff...

Myers, Walter Dean : NYPL Author Chat!

Read the Transcript from NYPL's Author Chat with Walter Dean Myers, held July 29, 2004. http://summerreading.nypl.org/read2004/chats/myers.html

Myers, Walter Dean : Video Clip

Watch a video clip of an interview with Walter Dean Myers.

Naidoo, Beverley

Journey to Jo'burg, Chain of Fire, The Other Side of Truth, Out of Bounds: Seven Stories of Conflict and Hope...

Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds

Shiloh, Shiloh Season, The Agony of Alice, Outrageously Alice, Beetles, Lightly Toasted, The Witch's Eye, The Boys Start the War...

Newbery, John

The Newbery Medal for American children's literature is named for this 18th century British book publisher.

Nixon, Joan Lowery

Ghost Town: Seven Ghostly Stories, Gus & Gertie and the Missing Pearl, The Making of a Writer...

Numeroff, Laura

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, If You Give a Moose a Muffin, If You Give a Pig a Pancake, If You Take a Mouse to the Movies, What Mommies Do Best...

Osborne, Mary Pope

The "Magic Tree House" series, New York's Bravest, American Tall Tales, Favorite Norse Myths, Kate and the Beanstalk, The Brave Little Seamstress...

Osborne, Mary Pope: NYPL Author Chat!

Read the Transcript from NYPL's Author Chat with Mary Pope Osborne held August 6th, 2003.

Oxenbury, Helen

We're Going on a Bear Hunt, Farmer Duck, Clap Hands, Say Goodnight, All Fall Down, I Touch, Tickle, Tickle...

Parish, Peggy

Amelia Bedelia, Amelia Bedelia Helps Out, Come Back, Amelia Bedelia, Amelia Bedelia Goes Camping, Dinosaur Time...

Park, Barbara

The "Junie B. Jones" series, The Kid in the Red Jacket, Mick Harte was Here, Psssst! It's Me--The Bogeyman, Almost Starring Skinnybones...

Park, Linda Sue

A Single Shard, When My Name was Keoko, Seesaw Girl, The Kite Fighters, The Firekeeper's Son...

Paterson, Katherine

Bridge to Terabithia, Jacob have I loved, Lyddie, The Great Gilly Hopkins, Park's Quest, The Same Stuff as Stars, The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks, Marvin One Too Many, Marvin's best Christmas Present Ever...

Paterson, Katherine: Video Clips

Watch video clips of an interview with Katherine Paterson.

Paulsen, Gary

Hatchet, Brian's Winter, Brian's Return, Dogsong, Harris and Me, The Monument, Nightjohn, The River, The Voyage of the Frog, The Winter Room...

Peck, Richard

A Long Way From Chicago, A Year Down Yonder, Ghosts I Have Been, Lost in Cyberspace, Fair Weather, The Great Interactive Dream Machine...

Peck, Robert Newton

Soup, Soup 1776, Soup's drum, Soup for President, Soup in love, A Day No Pigs Would Die...

Pilkey, Dav

The "Captain Underpants" series, The "Ricky Ricotta's Mighty Robot" series, Dog Breath, The Paperboy, The Hallo-Wiener, Dragon's Fat Cat, Dragon's Merry Christmas...

Pinkney, Brian, Jerry & Miles: Video Clips

Watch video clips of interviews with the Pinkneys.

Pinkwater, Daniel

The Hoboken Chicken Emergency, Lizard Music, At the Hotel Larry, Fat Camp Commandos, Irving and Muktuk: Two Bad Bears, Ned Feldman, Space Pirate...

Polacco, Patricia

Pink and Say, The Keeping Quilt, Thank You, Mr. Falker, Luba and the Wren, Oh, Look!, Mrs. Katz and Tush, Thunder Cake...

Polacco, Patricia: Video Clip

Watch a video clip of an interview with Patricia Polacco.

Prelutsky, Jack

For Laughing Out Loud: Poems to Tickle Your Funnybone, The Dragons are Singing Tonight, Monday's Troll, The Gargoyle on the Roof: Poems, Awful Ogre's Awful Day, Tyrannosaurus Was a Beast: Dinosaur Poems...

Quackenbush, Robert

I Did it with My Hatchet: A Story of George Washington, James Madison & Dolley Madison and Their Times, Once Upon a Time!: A Story of the Brothers Grimm Quick, Annie, Give Me a Catchy line!: A Story of Samuel F.B. Morse...

Ransome, Arthur

The "Swallows and Amazons" series, The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship; A Russian Tale...

Rathmann, Peggy

Good Night, Gorilla, Officer Buckle and Gloria, 10 Minutes till bedtime, The Day the Babies Crawled Away...

Rey, H.A. and Margaret

The "Curious George" books, Find the Constellations, Whiteblack the Penguin Sees the World, Katy No-Pocket...

Roberts, Willo Davis

The View From the Cherry Tree, Hostage, The Girl with the Silver Eyes, Jo and the Bandit...

Rowling, J.K.

J.K. Rowling's official site.

Rowling, J.K.

The "Harry Potter" site at Bloomsbury, the British publisher of the series.

Rowling, J.K.

The "Harry Potter" movies at Warner Brothers.

Rowling, J.K.

The "Harry Potter" site at Scholastic, the American publisher of the series.

Rylant, Cynthia

The "Mr. Putter and Tabby" books, the "Henry and Mudge" books, the "Poppleton" books, the "High-Rise Private Eyes" books, Missing May, A Fine White Dust...

Sabuda, Robert

Cookie Count [A Tasty Pop-Up], The 12 Days of Christmas: A Pop-Up Celebration, The Christmas Alphabet, Tutankhamen's Gift...

Sachar, Louis

Holes, the "Marvin Redpost" books, Sideways Stories from Wayside School, Sideways Arithmetic from Wayside School, There's a Boy in the Girls Bathroom...

San Souci, Robert D.

Sukey and the Mermaid, Short & Shivery: Thirty Chilling Tales, The Faithful Friend, The talking Eggs: A Folktale From the American South, Cendrillon: A Caribbean Cinderella, The Hired Hand: an African-American Folktale, N.C. Wyeth's Pilgrims...

Say, Allen

Grandfather's Journey, The Bicycle Man, Tea With Milk, Tree of Cranes, How My Parents Learned to Eat...

Scieszka, Jon : NYPL Author Chat!

Read the Transcript from NYPL's Author Chat with Jon Scieszka held April, 1998.

Scieszka, Jon : Audio Clip

Listen to an audio clip of an interview with Jon Scieszka

Sendak, Maurice

Where the Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen, Little Bear, Chicken Soup With Rice, Nutcracker, No Fighting, No Biting!, Alligators All Around, One Was Johnny, Pierre, The Sign on Rosie's Door...

Seuss, Dr.

The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, The Lorax, Horton Hatches the Egg, And To Think I Saw it on Mulberry Street, Hop on Pop, The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins...

Shannon, David

No, David!, David Goes to School, David Gets in Trouble, Duck on a Bike, The Rain Came Down, A Bad Case of Stripes...

Shannon, David : Video Clips

Watch video clips of an interview with David Shannon

Sharmat, Marjorie

The "Nate the Great" books, Gila Monsters Meet You at the Airport, Maggie Marmelstein for President, Getting Something on Maggie Marmelstein...

Silverstein, Shel

Where the Sidewalk Ends: The Poems & Drawings of Shel Silverstein, A Light in the Attic, Falling Up, The Giving Tree, Who Wants a Cheap Rhinoceros?...

Simon, Seymour

The Heart: Our Circulatory System, Lightning, Destination: Jupiter, the "Einstein Anderson" series, Crocodiles & Alligators, Animals Nobody Loves, The Paper Airplane Book...

Simont, Marc

The "Nate the Great" series, The Stray Dog, The Philharmonic Gets Dressed, Many Moons, A Tree is Nice...

Sis, Peter

Dinosaur!, Ballerina!, Komodo!, Madlenka's Dog, The Dragons are Singing Tonight, The Whipping Boy, Trucks, Trucks, Trucks...

Sis, Peter: Video Clips

Watch video clips of an interview with Peter Sis.

Smith, Jessie Wilcox

The Water-Babies online exhibit at the Library of Congress.

Smith, Lane

The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, the "Time Warp Trio" series, The Stinky Cheese Man, Spooky ABC, The Big Pets, Glasses, Who Needs 'Em?, The Happy Hocky Family!...

Snicket, Lemony

The "Series of Unfortunate Events" books, Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography...

Sobol, Donald J.

The "Encyclopedia Brown" mystery series...

Spinelli, Jerry

Maniac Magee, The Library Card, Crash, Wringer, Loser, There's a Girl in My Hammerlock, Knots in My Yo-Yo String: the Autobiography of a Kid...

Steig, William

Shrek, Doctor De Soto, Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, Pete's a Pizza, CDB!, The Amazing Bone, Abel's Island, Brave Irene...

Stevens, Janet

Tops and Bottoms, Cook-A-Doodle-Doo!, And the Dish Ran Away With the Spoon, Anansi and the Moss-Covered Rock, Anansi Goes Fishing, Coyote Steals the Blanket: a Ute Tale...

Stine, R. L.

The "Goosebumps" books, Nightmare Hour...

Stine, R.L.

The Scholastic site.

Stine, R.L.

The Kidsreads.com site.