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Aesop

Æsopus by Diego Velásquez, 1739-40.
Louisa M. Alcott

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

Nick Arnold

Photo from Nick Arnold
Peter Christen Asbjornsen

wikimedia commons
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Graeme Base

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Susan Wise Bauer

William McEwan
Pamela Conn Beall

Pamela Conn Beall and Susan Hagen Nipp
Steve Berry

Steve Berry
Benson Bobrick

Lois Wadler
Giovanni Boccaccio

Portrait of Giovanni Boccaccio from Il decameron di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio (Firenze : Ciardetti, 1822).
Jan Brett

Charlotte Brontë

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

Credit: Arnold Genthe, ca. 1932
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-10297)
Eric Carle

Geoffrey Chaucer

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

White House Photo by David Bohrer (Wikimedia Commons)
United methodist Church

Trinity United Methodist Church, Tallahassee, Florida.
Photo by user crownjewel82 / Flickr.
David Clement-Davies

Vicki Cobb

Joanna Cole

Anna Botsford Comstock

Meredith Costain

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Robin Currie

Photo by the author
Edwidge Danticat

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Tomie dePaola

Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Emily Dickinson

Wikipedia
RH Disney

James C. Dobson

Used by permission of
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.)
Arthur Dorros

Frederick Douglass

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Alexandre Dumas père

Ron Edwards

Photo courtesy of Bill Corrie, from the Indie RPG Awards website.
Edward Eggleston

Photo copyrighted by L. Bernie Gallaher, 1912 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-78021)
Susan Fletcher

Photo by Christy Williams
C. S. Forester

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

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1777
Antonia Fraser

Susan Greenhill
George J. Craighead

Photo by Eric Bergman
Linda Glaser

Photo by Julia Cheng
Paul Goble

Photo by user Temp07 / Wikimedia Commons
John Green

Photo by Christopher Meerdo
Val D. Greenwood

I took it myself and own all rights.
James Gurney

© Gurney 2007
Guy John

Author's website
Donald Hall

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
Judith Hann

Geraldine Harris

Geraldine Harris Pinch
Zahi Hawass

Photo taken by Hajor, Mexico City, Aug 2003.
Lucinda Hawksley

lucindahawksley.com
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
B. G. Hennessy

E.D. Jr Hirsch

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Core Knowledge Foundation
John Hollander

Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Dave and Neta Jackson

Used by permission of
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.)
Peter Jennings

Cropped from a photo of Jennings interviewing Eric Bost, Undersecretary of Agriculture (2002).
Helen Keller

Library of Congress
Steven Kellogg

Paul Kennedy

(c)Robert Lisak
Rudyard Kipling

Jim Kjelgaard, Illustrated By Charles Banks Wilso

home.sprintmail.com/~charterbus/kjelgaard.htm
Sally Kneidel

Sally Kneidel, PhD
MaryAnn F. Kohl

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

Gustav Langenscheidt. Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Jill Lepore

Dari Michele
Julius Lester

Abraham Lincoln

Penelope Lively

Jonathan London

Lois Lowry

From openfields.org via wikipedia
Alison Lurie

Photo by Edward Hower
Patricia MacLachlan

Library of Congress
Margaret Mahy

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Jean Marzollo

Geraldine McCaughrean

McGraw-Hill Book Company

McGraw-Hill Building, New York, May 2007, photo by Lampbane
William Holmes McGuffey

Rand McNally and Company

James M. McPherson

Prof. James M. McPherson (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Cheryl Mendelson

Carolyn Meyer

www.readcarolyn.com
Lloyd Moss

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

Walter Dean Myers

Scott O'Dell

Mary Pope Osborne

Tom Marcello, 1977
Iain Pears

Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Jack Prelutsky

Library of Congress
Sergei Prokofiev

Public domain. (Wikipedia)
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
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Library of Congress, Carl van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-106862 DLC
Jane Ray

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
Chris Rice

"A Density of Souls" author Christopher Rice photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Rick Riordan

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Peter Roop

Robert Sabuda

Gary D. Schmidt

Calvin College
David Allen Sibley

Photo by Carolynne Bailey
Shel Silverstein

Nina Simonds

Richard Howard
Peter Sis

Matěj Baťha
Sophocles

Elizabeth George Speare

Diane Stanley

MDCarchives
James Stephens

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

c. 1885
Tanya Stone

Photo by Bonnie Christensen
Adobe Creative Team

Adobe Systems HQ, San Jose, California. Photo by user Coolcaesar / Wikimedia Commons
Time-Life Books

Time & Life Sculpture, Manhattan, New York. Photo by Jeremy Keith / Flickr
P. L. Travers

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

Photo by Napoleon Sarony
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Lynne Truss

Photo © Barry Lewis
Tasha Tudor

Richard Brown
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Walt Whitman

This image was made in 1887 in New York, by photographer George C. Cox
(Wikipedia)
Laura Ingalls Wilder

De Smet photographer, name unknown
Laura aged 18, in 1885.
Melissa Wiley

Photo by Jane Wiley
Nancy Willard

2004 Eric Lindbloom
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Majonaise
Ludmila Zeman

Linda Spaleny
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