Blair Lent (1930–2009)

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1. Leo Lionni

   Author of Swimmy, Frederick, Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse

2. Robert McCloskey

   Author of Make Way for Ducklings, Blueberries for Sal

3. Virginia Lee Burton

   Author of Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, The Little House

4. William Steig

   Author of Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, Doctor De Soto

5. Verna Aardema

   Author of Why Mosquitos Buzz in People's Ears, Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain (Reading Rainbow Book)

6. Esphyr Slobodkina

   Author of Caps for Sale

7. Ludwig Bemelmans

   Author of Madeline

8. Don Freeman

   Author of Corduroy

9. Ezra Jack Keats

   Author of The Snowy Day

10. Judi Barrett

    Author of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

11. Judith Viorst

    Author of Alexander And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

12. Laura Numeroff

    Author of If you give a mouse a cookie

13. Marjorie Flack

    Author of The Story About Ping

14. Janell Cannon

    Author of Stellaluna

15. Tomie dePaola

    Author of Strega Nona

16. Munro Leaf

    Author of The Story of Ferdinand

17. Jon Scieszka

    Author of The True Story of the Three Little Pigs

18. Ed Young

    Author of Lon Po Po

19. Vera B. Williams

    Author of A Chair for My Mother

20. Audrey Wood

    Author of The Napping House