A Collage of Top 126 Bestselling Children’s Book Authors

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