A Collage of Top 127 Bestselling Children’s Book Authors

See Our Top Bestselling Children’s Books Authors Ordered by Sales.

Sharon M. Draper
Misty Copeland
Carole Boston Weatherford
Bill Pinkney
Wes Moore
Derrick Barnes
Rachel Isadora
Tiffany Golden
Sharon Dennis Wyeth
Floyd Cooper
Mari Evans
James Berry
Chinua Achebe
Renée Watson
Langston Hughes
Kekla Magoon
Leslé Honoré
Alicia D. Williams
Malaika Adero
Tonya Bolden
Margot Lee Shetterly
Adijah & Atiya Brabham
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jabari Asim
Taye Diggs
Jerry Craft
Lupita Nyong’o
Faith Ringgold
Yolanda T. Marshall
Innosanto Nagara
Dapo Adeola
Mildred D. Taylor
Kelly Starling Lyons
John Steptoe
Rita Williams-Garcia
Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee
Angela Joy
Kwame Alexander
O.T. Begho
Stacey Abrams aka Selena Montgomery
Ashley Bryan
T.R. Simon
Nancy Redd
Matt Forté
Michelle Meadows
Hill Harper
Gwendolyn Battle-Lavert
Kadir Nelson
Cheryl Willis Hudson
Toni Morrison and Slade Morrison
Nansubuga Nagadya Isdahl
Maya Angelou
Zora Neale Hurston and Adapted by Ibram X. Kendi
Gabrielle Union
Wade Hudson
Leo and Diane Dillon
Jazmyn Simon and Dulé Hill
Vashti Harrison
Trish Cooke
Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renée Watson
Camille Yarbrough
Dominique Furukawa
Kim Taylor
Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
Lisa Bullard
Nikki Grimes
Amanda Gorman
Chris Barton
Angela Johnson
Nkechi Taifa
Jewell Parker Rhodes
Cozbi A. Cabrera
Crystal Swain-Bates
Charlotte Watson Sherman
Cheryl Willis Hudson and Bernette Ford
Mechal Renee Roe
Teffanie Thompson
Lebron James
Eric Velasquez
Patricia C. Mckissack
Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow
Charnelle Pinkney Barlow
Natasha Anastasia Tarpley
Cedella Marley
Andrea Davis Pinkney
Sherri L. Smith and Elizabeth Wein
Jacqueline Woodson
Don Tate
Tamron Hall
Marilyn Nelson
Gwen Richardson and Sylvia Richardson
Grace Byers
Sandra L. Richards
Sydney McGee
Paula Young Shelton
Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie
Kirsti Jewel
Johnnie Christmas
Ibtihaj Muhammad
Katheryn Russell-Brown
Olive Senior
Jewell Parker Rhodes and Kelly McWilliams
Jerdine Nolen
Matthew A. Cherry
Laurie Ann Thompson
Tami Charles
Tony Dungy
Ibi Zoboi
Nikki Giovanni
Kelly McWilliams
Jamia Wilson
Atinuke
Marguerite W. Davol
Shauntay Grant
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Raymond Obstfeld
Virginia Hamilton
Patricia Hruby Powell
Ashley Iman
Garcelle Beauvais
D. Amari Jackson
Quraysh Ali Lansana and Najah-Amatullah Hylton
Adrea Theodore
Debbie Allen
Ilyasah Shabazz
Robert M. Coles
Cheryl Willis Hudson and Wade Hudson
Jason Reynolds