Arthur Ransome (1884–1967)

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1. Arthur Ransome

   Author of Swallows and Amazons, We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea, Pigeon Post

2. Elinor M. Brent-Dyer

   Author of Eustacia Goes to the Chalet School, Carola Storms the Chalet School, Chalet School Triplets

3. E. Nesbit

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

4. Joan Aiken

   Author of The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, Black Hearts in Battersea, Is

5. Elizabeth Enright

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

6. Rosemary Sutcliff

   Author of The Eagle of the Ninth, The Silver Branch, The Lantern Bearers

7. Noel Streatfeild

   Author of Ballet Shoes, Apple Bough, Far to Go

8. Enid Blyton

   Author of Five Go Adventuring Again, Five Have a Wonderful Time, Go Ahead, Secret Seven

9. Alan Garner

   Author of The Owl Service, Elidor, The Moon of Gomrath

10. Lucy M. Boston

    Author of The Children of Green Knowe, A Stranger at Green Knowe, An Enemy at Green Knowe

11. Diana Wynne Jones

    Author of Charmed Life, Witch Week, The Magicians of Caprona

12. Mary Norton

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

13. Susan Coolidge

    Author of What Katy Did, What Katy Did Next, What Katy Did at School

14. Marcia Brown

    Author of Once a Mouse..., Cinderella, Shadow

15. Antonia Forest

    Author of Autumn Term, End of Term, The Attic Term

16. Rudyard Kipling

    Author of Puck of Pook's Hill, Stalky and Co., Rewards and Fairies

17. Elizabeth Goudge

    Author of The Little White Horse, Linnets and Valerians

18. Philippa Pearce

    Author of Tom's Midnight Garden, Minnow on the Say

19. John Masefield

    Author of The Box of Delights, The Midnight Folk, A Mainsail Haul

20. T. H. White

    Author of Mistress Masham's Repose, The Goshawk, The Master