A Collage of Top 126 Bestselling Children’s Book Authors

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