This volume covers 242 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.

◘ 370 pp.
◘ Illustrated
◘ 1978
◘ ISBN 0-8242-0568-5
◘ $85
◘ $95 (outside the U.S. and Canada)

Just some of the artists profiled in Fourth Book of Junior Authors & Illustrators:

• Arnold Adoff

• Martha Alexander

• Mitsumasa Anno

• Jose Aruego

• Natalie Babbitt

• Enid Bagnold

• Pura Belpre

• William Cole

• Paula Fox

• Paul Goble

• Virginia Hamilton

• S. E. Hinton

• Tana Hoban

• Langston Hughes

• Pat Hutchins

• Susan Jeffers

• M. E. Kerr

• Ursula Le Guin

• Penelope Lively

• Margaret Mahy

• James Marshall

• Emily Arnold McCully

• Lilian Moore

• Jan Pienkowski

• Antoine de Saint-Exupery

• George Selden

• Donald Sobol

• Theodore Taylor

• Rosemary Wells

• Jane Yolen