A Collage of Top 127 Bestselling Children’s Book Authors

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

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