Mary Norton (1903–1992)

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1. Mary Norton

   Author of The Borrowers, The Borrowers Afloat, The Borrowers Afield

2. Laura Ingalls Wilder

   Author of Little House in the Big Woods, By the Shores of Silver Lake, Farmer Boy

3. E. Nesbit

   Author of The Railway Children, The Enchanted Castle, The Phoenix and the Carpet

4. Elizabeth Enright

   Author of Thimble Summer, The Saturdays, Then There Were Five

5. Edward Eager

   Author of Half Magic, Magic by the Lake, Knight's Castle

6. Joan Aiken

   Author of The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, Black Hearts in Battersea, Cold Shoulder Road

7. Lynne Reid Banks

   Author of The Indian in the Cupboard, The Secret of the Indian, The Mystery of the Cupboard

8. P. L. Travers

   Author of Mary Poppins, Mary Poppins Comes Back, Mary Poppins in the Park

9. Eleanor Estes

   Author of Ginger Pye, The Moffats, The Middle Moffat

10. Astrid Lindgren

    Author of Pippi Longstocking, Pippi in the South Seas, Pippi Goes on Board

11. E. B. White

    Author of Stuart Little, The Trumpet of the Swan

12. E. H. Young

    Author of William, Jenny Wren, The Vicar's Daughter

13. Robert McCloskey

    Author of Homer Price, Centerburg Tales: More Adventures of Homer Price

14. Terry Andrews

    Author of The Cricket in Times Square, Tucker's Countryside

15. E. L. Konigsburg

    Author of From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth

16. Lucy M. Boston

    Author of The Children of Green Knowe, The Chimneys of Green Knowe, The River at Green Knowe

17. Carol Ryrie Brink

    Author of Caddie Woodlawn, Baby Island

18. Robert C. O'Brien

    Author of Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

19. Winifred Holtby

    Author of The Crowded Street, The Land of Green Ginger, Anderby Wold

20. Marguerite Henry

    Author of Misty of Chincoteague, King of the Wind