A Collage of Top 101 Bestselling Children’s Book Authors

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Margot Lee Shetterly
Faith Ringgold
Malaika Adero
Nancy Redd
Marilyn Nelson
Jacqueline Woodson
Misty Copeland
Grace Byers
Langston Hughes
Ilyasah Shabazz
Nikki Giovanni
Stacey Abrams aka Selena Montgomery
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Raymond Obstfeld
Jewell Parker Rhodes
Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renée Watson
Ibi Zoboi
Eric Velasquez
Maya Angelou
Sandra L. Richards
Tonya Bolden
Mechal Renee Roe
Angela Johnson
Gwendolyn Battle-Lavert
Vashti Harrison
Rita Williams-Garcia
Jabari Asim
John Steptoe
Kelly Starling Lyons
Lupita Nyong’o
Nansubuga Nagadya Isdahl
O.T. Begho
Angela Joy
Patricia Hruby Powell
Laurie Ann Thompson
Marguerite W. Davol
Quraysh Ali Lansana and Najah-Amatullah Hylton
Kadir Nelson
Adijah & Atiya Brabham
Kekla Magoon
Olive Senior
Wade Hudson
Amanda Gorman
Don Tate
Debbie Allen
Garcelle Beauvais
Nkechi Taifa
Leo & Diane Dillon
Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie
Hill Harper
Cheryl Willis Hudson
Chris Barton
Ashley Bryan
Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow
Bill Pinkney
Dapo Adeola
Trish Cooke
Renée Watson
Patricia C. Mckissack
Cheryl Willis Hudson and Wade Hudson
Innosanto Nagara
Rachel Isadora
Nikki Grimes
Floyd Cooper
Lebron James
Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee
Kirsti Jewel
Crystal Swain-Bates
T.R. Simon
Sydney McGee
Robert Coles
Derrick Barnes
Jerry Craft
Sharon Dennis Wyeth
Kelly McWilliams
Wes Moore
Taye Diggs
Lisa Bullard
Tami Charles
Carole Boston Weatherford
Gwen Richardson and Sylvia Richardson
Alicia D. Williams
Charlotte Watson Sherman
Natasha Anastasia Tarpley
Virginia Hamilton
Jamia Wilson
Martin Luther King, Jr.
James Berry
Jerdine Nolen
Cedella Marley
Atinuke
Teffanie Thompson
Tony Dungy
Mildred D. Taylor
Chinua Achebe
Gabrielle Union
Cheryl Willis Hudson and Bernette Ford
Kwame Alexander
Mari Evans
Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
Cozbi A. Cabrera
Jason Reynolds