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Tony Abbott

Courtesy of the author
Joan Aiken

Rod Delroy
Mitch Albom

Taken at Barnes and Noble on 11-16-06 at book signing by Oklahomabook lady
Randy Alcorn

Photo courtesy of Eternal Perspective Ministries
louisa may alcott

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
David Allen

The David Allen Company
Hans Christian Andersen

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Nick Arnold

Photo from Nick Arnold
Stephen Arterburn

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Baker Publishing Group, copyright © 2008. All rights to this material are reserved. Materials are not to be distributed to other web locations for retrieval, published(see © info.)
Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Natalie Babbitt

Used by permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Julie Ann Barnhill

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J. M. Barrie

John M. Barry

Ken Goldstein
Susan Wise Bauer

William McEwan
L. Frank Baum

Library of Congress
Samuel Beckett

Ruth Beechick

www.mottmedia.com
Mike Berenstain

Holly Black

Daniel J. Boorstin

Library of Congress/Wikipedia
Sandra Boynton

Eye on Books
James Bradley

Secretary of the Navy Gordon R. England presents author James Bradley the Department of the Navy Superior Public Service Award for his contributions in keeping alive the history of the Navy and Marine Corps.
Alan Brennert

Photo: Monica Schwartz
Jan Brett

Tom Brokaw

Photo by David Shankbone, 2007 (Wikimedia Commons)
Charlotte Bronte

Source: "Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women
in Europe and America," by Evert A. Duyckinick
(New York, 1873)
(colored by Jan Arkesteijn)
Emily Brontë

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
Heywood Broun

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Harris & Ewing Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-hec-24997)
Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
Joseph Bruchac

by Krystina Kelley
Ashley Bryan

Library of Congress
Pearl S. Buck

Credit: Arnold Genthe, ca. 1932
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-10297)
T. Davis Bunn

Used by permission of
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Frances Hodgson Burnett

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Jack Canfield

Eye on Books
Eric Carle

Lewis Carroll

Gary Chapman

Geoffrey Chaucer

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Lynne Cheney

White House Photo by David Bohrer (Wikimedia Commons)
Eleanor Coerr

Joanna Cole

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source: "Little journeys to the homes of the great",
by Elbert Hubbard, v. 5 (New York : 1916)
(Project Gutenberg)
Christopher Columbus

Columbus, After a Portrait by Herrer ~ From "History of the United States," E. Benjamin Andrews, 1912
Project Gutenberg
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Lorilee Craker

Used by permission of
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Stephen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
Sharon Creech

Roald Dahl

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, Apr. 20, 1954 (Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, reproduction number, LC-USZ62-116610)
Ken Davis

Tomie dePaola

Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
RH Disney

James C. Dobson

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Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Tony Dungy

af.mil
Timothy Egan

Sophie Egan
John R. Erickson

Eleanor Estes

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Dorothy Canfield Fisher

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Susan Fletcher

Photo by Christy Williams
C. S. Forester

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
E.M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Charles Frazier

Robert Fulghum

©: 2006; courtesy of RobertFulghum.com
Cornelia Funke

CHICKEN HOUSE
Neil Gaiman

Jean Craighead George

Photo by Eric Bergman
William Golding

Kenneth Grahame

from Wikipedia
John Green

Photo by Christopher Meerdo
Michael Green

Used by permission of
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Camilla Gryski

Donald Hall

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
Judith Hann

Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Seamus Heaney

Ernest Hemingway

Lee Samuels,
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
G. A. Henty

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
James Herriot

The World of James Herriot (c) Hambleton District Council
Liz Curtis Higgs

posted by Nikol
Susan Hill

susan-hill.com
Mary Hoffman

© Jess Barber 2004
Wayne Holmes

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Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Angela Hunt

Photo by Ken Rada
Vicki Iovine

Dave Jackson

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Dave and Neta Jackson

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Brian Jacques

Jerome K. Jerome

Stan Jones

James Joyce

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Franz Kafka

MacKinlay Kantor

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-117691
Jan Karon

Carolyn Keene

Mildred Wirt Benson, the first of many to write under the name Carolyn Keene. University Archives. Dept. of Special Collections. University of Iowa Libraries.
Francis Scott Key

Dick King-smith

Stephen King

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Natalie Kinsey-warnock

http://www.kinsey-warnock.com/images/nat&skye.jpg
Rudyard Kipling

MaryAnn F. Kohl

MaryAnn F. Kohl, Bright Ring Publishing, "Bright Ideas for Learning", www.brightring.com
Dean Koontz

Charles Lamb

wikipedia
Lamb, Harold

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Kevin Leman

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Gail Carson Levine

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Beverly Lewis

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C. S. Lewis

Abraham Lincoln

Penelope Lively

Sally Lloyd Jones

Frank Loesser

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Maud Hart Lovelace

Minnesota Historical Society
Lois Lowry

From openfields.org via wikipedia
Max Lucado

Mike Lupica

Dandi Daley MacKall

Maurer Photographic Studio
Patricia MacLachlan

Library of Congress
Gregory Maguire

Eye on Books
Jean Marzollo

Anne Mccaffrey

Geraldine McCaughrean

Colleen McCullough

Megan McDonald

Library of Congress
Rand McNally

Peggy Mercer

Peggy at her favorite place on earth, Fernandina Beach, Florida where she spent much of her time growing up.
W.S. Merwin

(c) Matthew Schwart
Dave Meurer

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Carolyn Meyer

www.readcarolyn.com
James A. Michener

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
A. A. Milne

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
John Milton

Margaret Mitchell

L.M. Montgomery

wikipedia
Marissa Moss

Jill Murphy

Richard L Neuberger

U.S. Senate Historical Office
Garth Nix

Marty Noble

Carl Norac

Esby
Sterling North

Photo by C.E. Olson
This image appears courtesy of the Sterling North Society of Edgerton, Wisconsin.
Laura Numeroff

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Amarin
Lindsey O'Connor

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Scott O'Dell

Janette Oke

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Gary Oliver

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Mary Pope Osborne

Tom Marcello, 1977
Will And Ma Osborne

Authors Mary Pope Osborne and her husband Will Osborne read aloud to an ethusiastic crowd of young readers from her book, "American Tall Tales," Monday, April 9, 2007, during the 2007 White House Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn.
(whitehouse.gov)
Linda Sue Park

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
James Patterson

Gary Paulsen

Eye on Books
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

flickr user
mikewade(cropped by uploader)
David Pierce

David Pierce
Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Patricia Polacco

http://www.patriciapolacco.com/pr/polacco_3.jpg
Alice Provensen

DK Publishing

Dorling Kindersley Building, London. Photo by James Cridland / Flickr.
Howard Pyle

Photo by Frances Benjamin Johnston. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-77333
H. A. Rey

portrait of H.A.Rey in early seventies reading to children at Cambridge Adult Education Center by Elsa Dorfman, www.elsa.photo.net
Quentin Reynolds

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Anne Rice

Becket M. Ghioto
Rick Riordan

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Phyllis Root

Photo by Kelly Povo
Michael Rosen

Photo credit: JK the Unwise (Wikipedia user)
J. K. Rowling

Felix Salten

L.J. Sattgast

Jon Scieszka

Walter Scott

From "The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century"
(Project Gutenberg)
Alice Sebold

Credit: David Shankbone, Oct. 2007
Brian Selznick

Credit: Sharon Aperto, Sept. 28, 2008, Children's Book Day, Tarrytown, NY (image use requires permission)
Dr. Seuss

1982, oil on canvas by Everett Raymond Kinstler (Commissioned by the Trustees of Dartmouth College) Image should not be reproduced or distributed without permission of the
Hood Museum of ArtJeff Shaara

courtesy of Jeff Shaara
Michael Shaara

courtesy of Jeff Shaara
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Margery Sharp

George Bernard Shaw

Photo by Alvin Langdon Coburn: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, PH Filing Series
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-7904)
Mary Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Jerry L. Sittser

David Small

Lemony Snicket

Michael Huang, October 29, 2006
Sophocles

Elizabeth George Speare

Johanna Spyri (Translated by H.B. Dole)

Diane Stanley

MDCarchives
John Steinbeck

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NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Hilda Van Stockum

Hilda van Stockum
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe, ca. 1870s-80s (Defense Visual Information Center, War and Conflict CD Collection, ID: HDSN9901775)
Dylan Thomas

Kenneth Thomasma

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J.R.R. Tolkien

Lynne Truss

Photo © Barry Lewis
Various

Judith Viorst

Milton Viorst
Francois Voltaire

C. Peter Wagner

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Lori Walburg VandenBosch

Jill Paton Walsh

Walter Wangerin

Gertrude Chandler Warner

Courtesy of Kidsreads.com
Paul Watkins

Rosemary Wells

Library of Congress
Lisa Whelchel

E. B. White

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Kate Douglas Wiggin

Project Gutenberg
Oscar Wilde

Photo by Napoleon Sarony: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC4-7139)
(cropped)
Laura Ingalls Wilder

De Smet photographer, name unknown
Laura aged 18, in 1885.
Thornton Wilder

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
P. G. Wodehouse

Nicholas Wolterstorff

Herman wouk

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Ludmila Zeman

Linda Spaleny
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