Classic Children’s Writers
Joan Aiken – The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, Midnight Is A Place, Go Saddle the Sea
Louisa M. Alcott – Little Women; Eight Cousins
Lloyd Alexander – The Book of Three; The Black Cauldron; The Castle of Llyr; Taran Wanderer; The High King
Lucy M. Boston – The Children Of Green Knowe
Enid Blyton – The Famous Five series; the Adventure series; the Barney mysteries
Katharine M Briggs – Katie Crackernuts
Frances Hodgson Burnett – The Secret Garden; A Little Princess
Nan Chauncy – They Found a Cave
Susan Cooper – Over Sea, Under Stone, The Dark Is Rising; Greenwitch; The Grey King; Silver on the Tree
Peter Dickinson – The Devils’ Children; The Blue Hawk
Monica Edwards – The White Riders
Eleanor Farjeon – The Glass Slipper; The Little Bookroom; The Silver Curlew; Jim at the Corner; Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard
Leon Garfield – Jack Holborn; Devil-in-the-Fog; Smith; Black Jack; John Diamond
Alan Garner – The Weirdstone of Brisingamen; The Moon of Gomrath; Elidor; The Owl Service
William Golding – The Princess Bride
Rumer Godden – The Greengage Summer; Battle of the Villa Fiorata
Nicholas Stuart Grey – The Stone Cage; Down In The Cellar; The Seventh Swan; The Apple Stone; Grimbold’s Other World
Elizabeth Goudge – The Little White Horse; Linnets And Valerians; Henrietta’s House
Ursula le Guin – A Wizard Of Earthsea
Molly Hunter – A Stranger Came Ashore; The Spanish Letters
Anne Holm – I am David
Diana Wynne Jones – Charmed Life; The Lives of Christopher Chant; Conrad's Fate; Witch Week; The Magicians of Caprona; The Spellcoats; Cart and Cwidder; Drowned Ammet; Crown of Dalemark; Power of Three
C.S. Lewis – The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; Prince Caspian; The Voyage of the Dawn Treader; The Silver Chair; The Horse and His Boy; The Magician's Nephew; The Last Battle Penelope Lively – A Stitch in Time; The Wild Hunt of Hagworthy; The Ghost of Thomas Kempe
John Masefield – The Midnight Folk; The Box of Delights
L.M. Montgomery – Anne of Green Gables; Emily of New Moon; The Story Girl; The Blue Castle
Edith Nesbit – The Phoenix And The Carpet; The House Of Arden; The Enchanted Castle; Five Children & It
E.J. Oxenham – The Abbey Girls series
Ruth Park – Playing Beatie Bow
Philippa Pierce – Tom’s Midnight Garden, Minnow on the Say
Elizabeth Marie Pope – The Perilous Gard
Ian Serrallier – The Silver Sword
Dodie Smith – I Capture The Castle
Elizabeth Spence – The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Rosemary Sutcliff – The Witch’s Brat; The Rider of the White Horse; Brother Dusty-feet
Noel Streatfield – Ballet Shoes; Thursday’s Child
J.R.R Tolkien – The Hobbit
Geoffrey Trease – Cue For Treason; The Popinjay Stairs; The Dutch Are Coming; The Fieldof the Forty Footsteps; Calabrian Quest; In the Land of the Mogul; The Iron Tsar; A Masque for the Queen; Bring Out the Banners; Danger in the Wings
Alison Uttley – A Traveller in Time
T.H. White – The Sword In The Stone
Elizabeth Wein – Code Name Verity; Rose Under Fire
Contemporary Children’s Writers
Deb Abela – The Remarkable Secret of Aurelia Bonhoffen
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley – The War that Saved my Life; The War I Finally Won
Elizabeth C. Bunce – A Curse As Dark as Gold
Kate Di Camillo – The Tale Of Despereaux
Michelle Cooper – A Brief History of Montmaray; The FitzOsbornes in Exile; The FitzOsbornes at War
Cornelia Funke – The Thief-Lord; Inkheart; Inkspell; Inkdeath; Reckless
John Flanagan – The Ranger’s Apprentice series
Neil Gaiman – Coraline; The Graveyard Book
Cassandra Golds – Clair-de-Lune; The Museum of Mary Child; The Three Loves of Persimmon; Pureheart
Shannon Hale – Goose Girl; A Book of A Thousand Days
Joanne Harris – Runemarks
Frances Hardinge – Fly-by-Night; Twilight Robbery; The Lie Tree; A Skinful of Shadows; Cuckoo Song
Mary Hoffman – The Falconer’s Knot; David; the Stravaganza series
Celine Kiernan – Begone the Raggedy Witches
Eva Ibbotson – The Star of Kazan; Song For Summer; Journey to the River Sea; The Morning Gift; Magic Flutes; A Company of Swans; Madensky Square
Sheryl Jordan – The Anger of Angels
Kathryn Langrish – Troll Fell; Troll Mill; Troll Blood; Dark Angels
Gail Carson Levine – Ella Enchanted; Fairest
Lois Lowry – Number the Stars
Geraldine McCaughrean – The Kite Rider; Peter Pan In Scarlet; A Little Lower than the Angels; A Pack of Lies; A White Darkness
Jaclyn Moriarty – The Extrememly Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte Nettlestone
Michael Morpugo – The Amazing Story Of Adolphus Tips; War Horse
Belinda Murrell – The Locket of Dreams; The Ruby Talisman; The Ivory Rose
Garth Nix – Sabriel, Lirael, Abhorsen, Clariel; The Keys to the Kingdom; Frog Kisser!
Phillip Pullman – Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife, The Golden Compass
J.K.Rowling – the Harry Potter books
Brian Selznick – The Invention of Hugo Cabret; Wonder Struck; The Marvels
Laura Amy Schlitz – A Drowned Maiden’s Hair – a Melodrama; Fire Spell
Maggie Stiefvater – The Scorpio Races
Cat Weatherill – Wild Magic; Bark Belly
