A Collage of Top 126 Bestselling Children’s Book Authors

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