This volume covers 243 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.

◘ 357 pp.
◘ Illustrated
◘ 1983
◘ ISBN 0-8242-0694-0
◘ $95
◘ $105 (outside the U.S. and Canada)

Just some of the profiles in Fifth Book of Junior Authors & Illustrators:

• Avi

• John Bellairs

• Stand and Jan Berenstain

• Bill Brittain

• Marc Brown

• Ashley Bryan

• Eve Bunting

• Matt Christopher

• Lucille Clifton

• Joanna Cole

• Robert Cormier

• Paula Danziger

• Tomie de Paola

• Leo and Diane Dillon

• Lois Duncan

• Paul Fleischman

• Isabelle Holland

• Diana Wynne Jones

• Norma Klein

• Lois Lowry

• David Macaulay

• Anne McCaffrey

• Walter Dean Myers

• Joan Lowery Nixon

• Katherine Paterson

• Richard Peck

• Jack Prelutsky

• Shel Silverstein

• William Sleator

• James Stevenson

• Mildred Taylor

• Chris Van Allsburg

• Lawrence Yep