The author is the person who writes the story.
Here is a list of famous authors and a sample book title.
See if your favorite author is listed below:


::KINDERGARTEN to 2nd GRADE

ALIKI- "Ah, Music

DAVID ADLER-fiction and nonfiction

FRANK ASCH-"I Can Blink Like an Owl"

JIM AYLESWORTH-"The Tale of Tricky Fox"

LUDWIG BEMELMANS-"Madeline"

STAN & JAN BERENSTAIN-
"The Berenstain Bears"

PAULETTE BOURGEOIS-"Franklin the Turtle"

BROD BAGERT-"Giant Children"

NORMAN BRIDWELL- "Clifford"

MARC BROWN- "Arthur"

MARGARET WISE BROWN-"The Dirty Little Boy"

VIRGINIA LEE BURTON- "The Little House"

ERIC CARLE-"The Very Hungry Caterpillar"

NANCY CARSON- "Henry's Show and Tell"

JOANNA COLE-"The Magic School Bus"

ROALD DAHL- "Charlie & the Chocolate Factory"

PAULA DANZIGER-"Amber Brown"

TOMIE DE PAOLA-"Stega Nona"

LOIS EHLERT-"Circus"

MEM FOX-"Boo to a Goose"

KEVIN HENKES-"Kitten's First Full Moon"

EZRA JACK KEATS- "My Dog is Lost!"

STEVEN KELLOGG-"Pinkerton and Friends"

STEVEN KROLL-"Patches Lost and Found"

LEO LIONNI-"Frederick"

ARNOLD LOBEL-"Frog and Toad Together"

SUSE MACDONALD-"Here a Chick, Where a Chick"

MERCER MAYER-"Little Critter"

ROBERT MUNSCH-"Smelly Sox"

LAURA NUMEROFF-"If you Take a Mouse to School"

BARBARA PARK- "Junie B. Jones"

BILL PEET-"The Caboose Who Got Loose"

DAV PILKY-"Big Dog & Little Dog"

PATRICIA POLACCO-"An Orange for Frankie"

PEGGY RATHMANN-"Ten Minutes Till Bedtime"

H.A. REY-"Curious George"

ALLEN SAY-"Grandfather's Journey"

RICHARD SCARRY-"How Things Work in Busytown"

MAURICE SENDAK-"In the Night Kitchen"

DR. SEUSS-"Green Eggs & Ham"

SEYMOUR SIMON-"Eyes and Ears"

JAMES STEVENSON-"The Mud Flat Olympics"

CHRIS VAN ALLSBURG-"The Polar Express"

ROSEMARY WELLS-"Ruby's Beauty Shop"

HANS WILHELM-"Tyrone the Horrible"

VERA WILLIAMS-"Amber was Brave, Essie was Smart"

JANET YOLEN-"Good Night, Gorilla"

GENE ZION-"Harry and the Lady Next Door"



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::3rd GRADE to 5th GRADE

DAVID ADLER- fiction and nonfiction

JIM ARNOSKY-"Coyote Raid on Cactus Canyon"

AVI-"Things That Sometimes Happen"

BYRD BAYLOR- "The Best Town in the World"

CHERIE BENNETT-"Zink"

JUDY BLUME-"Freckle Juice"

EVE BUNTING-"The Summer of Riley"

BETSY BYARS-"The 2000 Pound Goldfish"

LYNNE CHERRY-"How Groundhog's Garden Grew"

MATT CHRISTOPHER-"The Dog That Stole Home"

BEVERLY CLEARY-"Ramona the Pest"

JOANNA COLE-"The Magic School Bus"

SHARON CREECH-"Granny Torelli Makes Soup"

ROALD DAHL- "Charlie & the Chocolate Factory"

PAULA DANZIGER-"Amber Brown is Not a Crayon"

LOUISE FITZHUGH-"Harriet the Spy"

JEAN FRITZ-"George Washington's Breakfast"

JEAN CRAIGHEAD GEORGE-"Coyote in Manhattan"

PATRICIA GIFF-"A House of Tailors"

VIRGINIA HAMILTON-"Where Have All the Frogs Gone?"

KAREN HESSE-"The Music of the Dolphins"

JAMES HOWE-"Bunnicula"

BRIAN JACQUES-"High Rhulain"

ELIZABETH LEVY-"Who Are You Calling a Woolly Mammoth?"

PATRICIA MACLACHLAN-"Bittle"

PHYLLIS NAYLOR-"Beetles, Lightly Toasted"

PEGGY PARRISH-"Amelia Bedilia"

GARY PAULSEN-"The Time Hackers"

PATRICIA POLACCO-"An Orange for Frankie"

BILL PEET-"Hubert's Hair-Raising Adventure"

BEATRIX POTTER-"The Sly Old Cat"

J.K.ROWLING-"Harry Potter"

CYNTHIA RYLANT-"The Case of the Missing Monkey"

LOUIS SACHAR-"There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom"

SHEL SILVERSTEIN-"Falling Up"

SEYMOUR SIMON-"Eyes and Ears"

LEMONY SNICKET-"A Series of Unfortunate Events"

DONALD SOBOL-"Encyclopedia Brown"

CHRIS SOENTPIET-"Saturdays & Teacakes"

WILLIAM STEIG-"Shrek!"

MARY STOLZ-"Emmett's Pig"

CHRIS VAN ALLSBURG-"The Polar Express"

LAURA INGALLS WILDER-"Little House on the Prairie"

LAWRENCE YEP-"Dragon of the Lost Sea"

JANET YOLEN-"Good Night, Gorilla"

PAUL ZELINSKY-"The Wheels on the Bus"

PAUL ZINDEL- "My Darling, My Hamburger"