1. Cynthia Rylant

Cynthia Rylant (born June 6, 1954) is an American author and librarian. She has written more than 100 children's books, including works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Several of her books have won awards, including her novel Missing May, which won the 1993 Newbery Medal, and A Fine White Dust which was a 1987 Newbery Honor book. Two of her books are Caldecott Honor Books.

Many of Rylant's books are about her childhood in Appalachia, her pets, the joys and hardships of family life, and the feelings of loners. Many of her books are written in series.

2. Arnold lobel:

Arnold Stark Lobel (May 22, 1933 – December 4, 1987) was an American author of children's books, including the Frog and Toad series and Mouse Soup. He both wrote and illustrated those picture books, as well as Fables for which he won the 1981 Caldecott Medal recognizing the year's best-illustrated U.S. picture book.Selected works : Frog and Toad series, Mister Muster series,Mouse series.

Lobel won the 1981 Caldecott Medal from the American Library Association, recognizing Fables as the year's best-illustrated U.S. children's picture book. He was also a runner-up in 1971 and 1972 Medals, for Frog and Toad are Friends and Hildilid's Night (Caldecott Honor Books).^[5] He won the Garden State Children's Book Award from the New Jersey Library Association for Mouse Soup (1977).

selected works:

• Prince Bertram the Bad (1963)
• A Holiday for Mister Muster (1963)
• Giant John (1964)
• Lucille (1964)
• The Bears of the Air (1966)
• Martha the Movie Mouse (1966)
• The Comic Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and Her Dog(1968)
• The Great Blueness and Other Predicaments (1968)
• Small Pig (1969)
• Ice-Cream Cone Coot, and Other Rare Birds (1971)
• On the Day Peter Stuyvesant Sailed Into Town (1971)
• Owl at Home (1975)
• Grasshopper on the Road (1978)
• A Treeful of Pigs (1979)
• Fables (1980) (A Caldecott Medal winner)
• Uncle Elephant (1981)
• Ming Lo Moves the Mountain (1982)
• The Book of Pigericks: Pig Limericks (1983)
• The Rose in My Garden (1984)
• Whiskers & Rhymes (1985)
• The Frogs and Toads All Sang (2009) (with, daughter, Adrianne Lobel)
• Odd Owls and Stout Pigs: A Book of Nonsense (2009) (with Adrianne Lobel)

Frog and Toad series 

• Frog and Toad are Friends (1970)
• Frog and Toad Together (1972)
• Frog and Toad All Year (1976)
• Days with Frog and Toad (1979)

The 2002 musical A Year with Frog and Toad played on Broadway in 2003 and has toured nationally since.

Mister Muster series

Featuring Arnold Lobel's first self-written and illustrated book

• A Zoo for Mister Muster (1962)
• A Holiday for Mister Muster (1963)

Mouse series

Mouse Tales (1972),Mouse Soup (1977) (Garden State Children's Book Award winner)

3. James Marshall

James Edward Marshall' (October 10, 1942 – October 13, 1992) was an American illustrator and writer of children's books, probably best known for the George and Martha series of picture books (1972–1988). He illustrated books exclusively as James Marshall; when he created both text and illustrations he sometimes wrote as Edward Marshall. He was also homosexual and his husband Billy Murky died at the ending of the George and Martha series of picture books.

4.Judith Viost

Judith Viorst (born February 3, 1931) is an American author, newspaper journalist, and psychoanalysis researcher.^[1] She is perhaps best known^{[citation needed]} for her children's literature, such as The Tenth Good Thing About Barney (about the death of a pet) and the Alexander series of short picture books, which includes Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (1972), which has sold over two million copies.^[2]

5. Virginia Lee Burton

Virginia Lee Burton (August 30, 1909 – October 15, 1968), also known by her married name, Virginia Demetrios, was an American illustrator and children's book author. She both wrote and illustrated seven children's books, including the Caldecott Medal-winning The Little House.

6. Jan Brett

Jan Brett (born December 1, 1949) is a best-selling American author/illustrator of children's books. Her books are known for colorful, detailed depictions of a wide variety of animals and human cultures ranging from Scandinavia to Africa. Her best-known titles include The Hat, The Mitten, The Three Snow Bears and Gingerbread Baby.

7. Bernard Waber

Bernard Waber (September 27, 1921^[2]-May 16, 2013^[1]) was an American children's author most famous for the books The House on East 88th Street (1962), Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile (1965) and the subsequent books in the Lyle series.^[3][4]

8. Bill Peer

Bill Peet (born William Bartlett Peed; January 29, 1915 – May 11, 2002), was an American children's book illustrator and a story writer for Disney Studios. He joined Disney in 1937 and worked first on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) near the end of its production. Progressively, his involvement in the Disney studio's animated feature films and shorts increased, and he remained there until early in the development of The Jungle Book (1967). A row with Disney over the direction of the project led to a permanent personal break. Other feature films that Peet worked on before he left include Pinocchio (1940), Fantasia (1940, The Pastoral Symphony sequence), Dumbo (1941), The Three Caballeros (1944), Song of the South (1946, cartoon sequences), So Dear to My Heart (1948, cartoon sequences), Cinderella (1950), Alice in Wonderland (1951), Peter Pan (1953), Sleeping Beauty (1959), 101 Dalmatians (1961), and The Sword in the Stone (1963). Peet's subsequent career was as a writer and illustrator of children's books.

Books [edit]

• The Ant and the Elephant
• Big Bad Bruce
• Bill Peet: An Autobiography (book), (ISBN 0395509327), 1989; a Caldecott Honor Book for 1990.^[2]
• Buford the Little Bighorn
• The Caboose Who Got Loose
• Capyboppy
• Chester the Worldly Pig
• Cock-a-doodle Dudley
• Countdown to Christmas
• Cowardly Clyde
• Cyrus the Unsinkable Sea Serpent
• Eli
• Ella
• Encore for Eleanor
• Farewell to Shady Glade
• Fly Homer Fly
• The Gnats of Knotty Pine
• Goliath II
• How Droofus the Dragon Lost His Head
• Hubert's Hair-Raising Adventure
• Huge Harold
• Jennifer and Josephine
• Jethro and Joel Were a Troll
• Kermit the Hermit
• The Kweeks of Kookatumdee
• The Luckiest One of All
• Merle the High Flying Squirrel
• No Such Things
• Pamela Camel
• The Pinkish, Purplish, Bluish Egg
• Randy's Dandy Lions
• Smokey
• The Spooky Tail of Prewitt Peacock
• The Whingdingdilly
• The Wump World
• Zella, Zack, and Zodiac

9. William Steig

William Steig (November 14, 1907 – October 3, 2003) was a prolific American cartoonist, sculptor and, later in life, an illustrator and writer of popular children's literature. Most noted for the picture books Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, Abel's Island and Doctor De Soto, he was also the creator of Shrek!, who inspired the popular movie series of the same name. Steig received acclaim not only for the quality of his illustrations but for the gracefulness of his prose style. The New York Times said Steig was "triumphant in the quality of his prose."