Tenth Book of Junior Authors & Illustrators

Edited by Connie C. Rockman

The year 2009 will mark the 75th anniversary of The Junior Book of Authors, the first volume of its kind to celebrate the people who create books for young people. The Junior Authors & Illustrators series has been a welcome and essential source of information since 1934. The biographical profiles have introduced generations of young readers to the authors and artists who create the books they know and love. Children and young adults, parents and educators, as well as aspiring children’s book writers and illustrators will appreciate the valuable insights and lively first-person presentations.

Award-Winning Authors and Illustrators
The latest volume in this indispensable series covers over 180 award-winning authors and illustrators who represent the rich variety and multicultural nature of children’s literature today. Included are Caldecott Honor Book illustrators Bryan Collier and Mo Willems; Newbery Medalists Cynthia Kadohata and Lynne Rae Perkins; popular fantasy creators Cornelia Funke and Rick Riordan; and cultural icons who have written critically acclaimed children’s books, such as Julie Andrews and Holly Hobbie. Authors for teens are also well represented in profiles of Printz Award winners David Almond and Meg Rosoff and Printz Honor book recipients Laurie Halse Anderson, Sonya Hartnett, and Markus Zusak.

Retrospective profiles in this volume include comprehensive overviews of the careers of some of children and young adult literature’s greatest 20th century stars—Roald Dahl, Astrid Lindgren, and Dr. Seuss, among them—as well as those who continue to grow in their careers—such as Patricia Reilly Giff and Jane Yolen.

Multicultural Profiles
The Tenth Book of Junior Authors & Illustrators reflects the diversity of children’s literature today with profiles of many African-American, Hispanic, and Asian- American authors and artists, such as Robert Casilla, Grace Lin, Yuyi Morales, Sean Qualls, and Yoko Kawashima Watkins.

The new Tenth Book of Junior Authors & Illustrators provides the following:

New Geographical Index
Lively anecdotes, important observations, and an account of each writer or artist’s career
An essential tool for readers’ advisory, with lists of works by each person profiled
Intimate first-person sketches—authors and illustrators speak directly and naturally to young readers in many of the entries
Photographic portraits and jacket illustrations that enliven the entries
A perfect starting point for further research—with lists of additional biographical sources
Cross-references to pen names, which makes finding favorite authors easy
A Cumulative Index guides readers to profiles in other Junior Authors & Illustrators volumes

About the Editor

Connie C. Rockman is a specialist in children’s literature as well as an experienced librarian and storyteller. An Adjunct Professor at several universities in Connecticut as well as San Jose State University School of Library and Information Science, she teaches graduate courses in children’s literature, adolescent literature, and storytelling. As an active member of the American Library Association, she has served on the Newbery, Caldecott, Sibert, and Odyssey Award Committees. Ms. Rockman holds a B.A. degree in English from Dickinson College and an M.L.S. from the University of Pittsburgh.

◘ Approx. 850 pp.
◘ Photographs
◘ November 2008
◘ ISBN 978-0-8242-1066-3
◘ $120
◘ $135 (outside the U.S. and Canada)

Complete list of authors and illustrators profiled

Aiken, Joan
Aliki
Almond, David
Anderson, Laurie Halse
Atwater-Rhodes, Amelia
Avi
Balliett, Blue
Bausum, Ann
Bechard, Margaret
Bell, Hilari
Bernier-Grand, Carmen T.
Bishop, Nic
Blackwood, Gary
Blake, Robert J.
Bolden, Tonya
Bootman, Colin
Bornstein, Ruth Lercher
Brashares, Ann
Brooks, Kevin
Card, Orson Scott
Carlson, Lori Marie
Carmi, Daniella
Carpenter, Nancy
Casanova, Mary
Casilla, Robert
Child, Lauren
Chodos-Irvine, Margaret
Choldenko, Gennifer
Christensen, Bonnie
Christiana, David
Codell, Esmé Raji
Cofer, Judith Ortiz
Colfer, Eoin
Collard, Sneed B. III
Collier, Bryan
Collins, Suzanne
Colman, Penny
Cooper, Elisha
Crossley-Holland, Kevin
Crowe, Chris
Dahl, Roald
Danziger, Paula
Denslow, Sharon Phillips
Dessen, Sarah
Diakité, Baba Wagué
Dillon, Leo and Diane
Donnely, Jennifer
Dotlich, Rebecca Kai
Downing, Julie
DuPrau, Jeanne
Edwards, Julie Andrews
Ellis, Deborah
Erdrich, Louise
Ering, Timothy Basil
Fancher, Lou
Ferris, Jean
Firth, Barbara
Fisher, Catherine
Fleming, Candace
Frederick, Heather Vogel
Freymann, Saxton
Freymann-Weyr, Garret
Funke, Cornelia
Gaber, Susan
Gaiman, Neil
Gelman, Rita Golden
George, Lindsay Barrett
Giff, Patricia Reilly
Going, K. L.
Gonzalez, Maya Christina
GrandPré, Mary
Gutman, Dan
Hallensleben, Georg
Hamilton, Emma Walton
Hartnett, Sonya
Hautman, Pete
Hedderwick, Mairi
Helquist, Brett
Herrera, Juan Felipe
Hiaasen, Carl
High, Linda Oatman
Hobbie, Holly
Hobbs, Valerie
Howard, Arthur
Hu, Ying-Hwa
Hurst, Carol Otis
Inkpen, Mick
Jeffers, Susan
Jenkins, Emily
Johnson, Steve
Kadohata, Cynthia
Karr, Kathleen
Kerley, Barbara
Kerr, M. E.

Klass, David
Koss, Amy Goldman
Krisher, Trudy
Kuskin, Karla
Lavallee, Barbara
Lawrence, John
Lehman, Barbara
Levithan, David
Lin, Grace
Lindgren, Astrid
Lionni, Leo
Long, Loren
Mack, Tracy
Mason, Simon
McCarty, Peter
McClintock, Barbara
McKenna, Colleen O'Shaughessy
McMullan, Jim
McMullan, Kate
McWhorter, Diane
Meisel, Paul
Montgomery, Sy
Morales, Yuyi
Murdocca, Sal
Nelson, Vaunda Micheaux
Nicholson, William
Nikola-Lisa, W.
Nix, Garth
O’Connor, Barbara
O’Dell, Scott
Oppel, Kenneth
Osa, Nancy
Otani, June
Paolini, Christopher
Patron, Susan
Pattou, Edith
Pearce, Philippa
Perkins, Lynne Rae
Peters, Julie Anne
Pinkney, Myles
Pinkney, Sandra L.
Pohrt, Tom
Pratchett, Terry
Qualls, Sean
Reef, Catherine
Remkiewicz, Frank
Riordan, Rick
Robbins, Ken
Rodda, Emily
Rosen, Michael
Rosenberg, Liz
Rosoff, Meg
Rubin, Susan Goldman
Sage, Angie
Sanchez, Alex
Sanderson, Ruth
Santore, Charles
Schaefer, Carole Lexa
Schanzer, Rosalyn
Schmidt, Gary D.
Schotter, Roni
Seeger, Laura Vaccaro
Seuss, Dr.
Sidman, Joyce
Smith, Cat Bowman
Smith, Cynthia Leitich
Sones, Sonya
Spiegelman, Art
Stroud, Jonathan
Stuve-Bodeen, Stephanie
Tashjian, Janet
Thimmesh, Catherine
Thompson, Lauren
Trueman, Terry
Turner, Megan Whalen
Updale, Eleanor
Van Wright, Cornelius
Vande Velde, Vivian
Vecchione, Patrice
Waldman, Neil
Walker, Sally M.
Warren, Andrea
Watkins, Yoko Kawashima
Weeks, Sarah
Weller, Frances Ward
Wells, Rosemary
Whatley, Bruce
Wiles, Deborah
Willems, Mo
Winter, Jonah
Yolen, Jane
Zaunders, Bo
Zusak, Markus

Tenth Book of Junior Authors & Illustrators

"Illuminating... Particularly valuable is the select bibliography of works by and about each literary figure."
— Library Journal

"H.W. Wilson's series about authors for youth has maintained a strong reputation, and this tenth volume continues the tradition."
— Booklist

"The combination of well-chosen subjects, well-written entries, and an attractive format makes this a solid choice for any library responding to requests for information about children’s book writers and illustrators.”
— Booklist

“ . . . it’s easy to get lost in the subjects’ words as they tell their stories.”
“ . . . this reader-friendly work belongs in all collections.”
— School Library Journal

“Indispensable.”
— The Horn Book

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