Here are links to the web sites of some of the authors of stories we have
read in class, or ones you have
read at home. Click on your favorite link to learn more about your favorite
writer!
Author of Goonie Bird Greene and Anastasia Krupnik........
Lois Lowry
Author of the Junie B. Jones series, The Kid in the Red Jacket
and Skinnybones......
Barbara Park
Author of The Polar Express, Jumanji, and Two Bad Ants......
Chris Van Allsburg
Author of the Ramona series, Muggie Maggie and The Mouse and the
Motorcycle......
Beverly Cleary
Author of the Judy Moody and Stink books........
Megan McDonald
Author of Johnny Appleseed and Pecos Bill.....
Steven Kellogg
Author of Gooseberry Park....
Cynthia Rylant
Poet of The New Kid on the Block, A Pizza the Size of the
Sun......
Jack Prelutsky
Author of Swamps and Marshes, Sunken Treasure.......
Gail Gibbons
Author of the Arthur books........
Marc Brown
Author of Sideways Stories from Wayside School and Marvin
Redpost.......
Louis Sachar
Author of Earthquake Terror......
Peg Kehret
Author of the Just Grace books.......
Charise Mericle Harper
Author of the Humphrey the Hamster books......
Betty Birney
Author of Class Clown and the David Bernstein books.......
Johanna Hurwitz
Author of Piggins and Owl Moon......
Jane Yolen
Author of Captain Underpants and Cat Kong......
Dav Pilkey
Author of Animal Tracking......
Jim Arnosky
Author of Cook-A-Doodle-Doo...
Janet Stevens
Author of Lon Po Po and Yeh Shen.......
Ed Young
Author of Pigeon Drives the Bus........
Mo Willems
Author of George's Marvelous Medicine and The Twits.....
Roald Dahl
Author of the Time Warp Trio books......
Jon Scieszka
Poet of Kids Pick the Funniest Poems.....
Bruce Lansky
Author of the historical mystery series.....
Carole Marsh