This volume covers 255 authors and illustrators whose works span fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and picture books, and represent a range of talents and viewpoints that exemplify the rich variety of children’s literature. Readers will find information on new and established authors.

Each entry includes a substantial bibliography of works by and about the subject. A convenient cumulative index of this and prior volumes in the series is also featured, plus a list of major awards and citations that recognize excellence in literature for children and young adults.

◘ 320 pp.
◘ Illustrated
◘ 1972
◘ ISBN 0-8242-0408-5
◘ $80
◘ $85 (outside the U.S. and Canada)

Just some of the profiles in Third Book of Junior Authors:

• Joan Aiken

• "Aliki"

• Isaac Asimov

• L. Frank Baum

• Erik and Lenore Blegvad

• Crosby Bonsall

• Elizabeth Borton de Trevi~no

• Raymond Briggs

• Nancy Eckholm Burkert

• Betsy Byars

• Remy Charlip

• Roald Dahl

• Ed Emberley

• Paul Galdone

• Erik Christian Haugaard

• Tove Jansson

• Crockett Johnson

• Robert Kraus

• Leo Lionni

• Farley Mowat

• Sterling North

• Mary Norton

• Bill Peet

• Alice and Martin Provensen

• Ellen Raskin

• Richard Scarry

• Margery Sharp

• Robert Silverberg

• Zilpha Keatley Snyder

• Peter Spier

• Ed Young

• Harve and Margot Zemach