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Aesop

Æsopus by Diego Velásquez, 1739-40.
Joan Aiken

Rod Delroy
Louisa May Alcott

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

Chris Van Allsburg

Author of children's books Chris Van Allsburg (right) and NASA engineer Jennifer Keyes (center) speak with Digital Learning Network host Rachael Manzer during a live videoconference on Nov. 16 at Langley Research Center. Photo by Jeff Caplan.
(nasa.gov)
Hans Christian Andersen

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Laurie Halse Anderson

photo by Becky Rech
Anonymous

K. A. Applegate

Heli12
Nick Arnold

Photo from Nick Arnold
Natalie Babbitt

Used by permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Robert D. Ballard

http://www.oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/edu/oceanage/05ballard/welcome.html
J. M. Barrie

T. A. Barron

Joan Bauer

Miranda H.
Marion Dane Bauer

mariondanebauer.com
L. Frank Baum

Library of Congress
Hans De Beer

Michael Berenstain

A. Scott Berg

Gwenda Blair

Photograph by Matthew W. Stolper
William Bligh

"Midshipman William Bligh"
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Judy Blume

Allison Bottke

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.)
Sandra Boynton

Eye on Books
Gyles Daubeney Brandreth

Photo by Fatimah Namdar
Jan Brett

Raymond Briggs

Jill Briscoe

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
Gwendolyn Brooks

MDCarchives
Sigmund Brouwer

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.)
Jeff Brown

Photo by Dale Hubert ©1999
Marc Brown

Joseph Bruchac

by Krystina Kelley
Laurent De Brunhoff

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008
Ashley Bryan

Library of Congress
Pearl S Buck

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

Chief Mass Communication Specialist Michael W. Pendergrass, 2008.
John Bunyan

Robert Burleigh

Credit: Mark Burleigh
Frances Hodgson Burnett

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Betsy Cromer Byars

Sandra Byrd

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.)
Philip Caputo

Photograph by Stephen Ellis
Eric Carle

Nancy Carlson

Courtesy of Nancy Carlson
Lewis Carroll

Mary Casanova

Courtesy of Mary Casanova
Anton Chekhov

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)
Lydia Maria Child

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

Patsy Clairmont

Lucille Clifton

Esme Raji Codell

Eleanor Coerr

Babette Cole

Joanna Cole

Eoin Colfer

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
COLLODI

Photographer Unknown
Charles Colson

Dan Davis Photography
Barbara Corcoran

Bill Cosby

U.S. Navy photo by Mr. Scott King (cropped for Wikimedia Commons)
Stephen Cosgrove

Katherine Couric

Bruce Coville

With permission from Bruce Coville.
Joy Cowely

Lawrence J. Crabb

Frisco Studio One, Inc.
Stephen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
Creech Sharon

Loren Cunningham

Robin Currie

Photo by the author
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)
Paula Danziger

Paula Danziger at Hammick's Bookshop (Harrow UK)
Tomie dePaola

Charles Dickens

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

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

chitradivakaruni.com
Mary Mapes Dodge

Arthur Dorros

Arthur Conan Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Crescent Dragonwagon

Cornbread Gospels
Sharon M. Draper

Courtesy of Birmingham Alabama Public Library (Flickr)
Dave Dravecky

Alexandre Dumas

Tony Dungy

af.mil
Helen Dunmore

© Jerry Bauer
Jeanne DuPrau

Photo by Alice Cummings
William Durbin

Courtesy of William Durbin
Henry Van Dyke

Henry Van Dyke and wife: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, George Grantham Bain Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ggbain-17998)
Julie Andrews Edwards

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

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.)
Louise Erdrich

Eye on Books
John R. Erickson

Eleanor Estes

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Richard Paul Evans

Eye on Books
Nancy Farmer

Photo by Harold Farmer, provided by publisher
Matt Faulkner

William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Martha Finley

Martha Finley [aka Martha Farquharson] (1828-1909) Buffalo Electrotype and Engraving Co., Buffalo, N.Y.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher

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

Copyright © 2006 by Dana Fleischman
Mem Fox

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Anne Frank

Wikipédia France
Catherine Friend

Courtesy of Author, Catherine Friend
Robert Frost

"Robert Frost, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front." Between 1910 and 1920.
Library of CongressCornelia Funke

CHICKEN HOUSE
Wanda Gag

Wanda Gag holding artist's palette, 1916-1917.
Jean Craighead George

Photo by Eric Bergman
Adele Geras

Mordicai Gerstein

By me.(©Pitcherbooks at LT.com)
Nikki Giovanni

Paul Goble

Photo by user Temp07 / Wikimedia Commons
Rumer Godden

Courtesy of Jane Murray Flutter.
Jane Goodall

Photo by Joshua Wickerham / Flickr.
Diane Goode

Peter Goode
kenneth grahame

from Wikipedia
Kate Greenaway

Kate Greenaway in her studio, 1895
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Nikki Grimes

Courtesy of Nikki Grimes
Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, (digital file from b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a40574 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a40574, REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-40235 (b&w film copy neg.)
Jacob Grimm

from Wikipedia
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm from an 1855 painting by Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann. Jacob is on the right
Robin Jones Gunn

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.)
Woody Guthrie

World Telegram photo by Al Aumuller, March 8, 1943
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-130859)
Margaret Peterson Haddix

Photo by Kyle Kesselring, Flickr
Donald Hall

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
Leslie Helakoski

Courtesy of Leslie Helakoski
B. G. Hennessy

Heather Henson

Charlton Heston

Carl Hiaasen

2006 Tim Chapman
Liz Curtis Higgs

posted by Nikol
Eric Hill

James Hilton

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

Russell Hoban

Photograph courtesy of Lisa Greenstein, 2005.
Mary Hoffman

© Jess Barber 2004
E. T. A. Hoffmann

E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) from Wikipedia
Katharine Holabird

Kristi Holl

http://www.kristiholl.com/images/image002.jpg
Jennifer L. Holm

Library of Congress
Victor Hugo

wikipedia
Angela Elwell Hunt

Photo by Ken Rada
Washington Irving

Perry-Castañeda Collection, University of Texas at Austin
Dave 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.)
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.)
Brian Jacques

John Jakes

Randall Jarrell

Susan Jeffers

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Jerry B. Jenkins

Lauren St. John

Angela Johnson

Courtesy of Birmingham Alabama Public Library (Flickr) ~ Photo by Larry O. Gay
James Weldon Johnson

Photo taken circa 1920s
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Cynthia Kadohata

kira-kira.us
Keiko Kasza

Verla Kay

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.
Helen Keller

Library of Congress
Steven Kellogg

Cindy Kenney

M. E. Kerr

Marijane Meaker
Elizabeth Cody Kimmel

Dick King-Smith

Jeff Kinney

Natalie Kinsey-Warnock

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

Jim Kjelgaard

home.sprintmail.com/~charterbus/kjelgaard.htm
Elisa Kleven

Suzy Kline

Gordon Korman

Courtesy of Sharon Aperto, photographer, taken in Valley Cottage, N.Y., Oct. 21, 2006 (all rights reserved)
A. LaFaye

Courtesy of Alexandra LaFaye
Jacob Lawrence

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, July 31, 1941 (Library of Congress, Carl Van Vechten Collection, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-95743)
Wendy Lawton

Edward Lear, 1812-1888

wikimedia commons
Lois Gladys Leppard

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.)
Julius Lester

Gail Carson Levine

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Sonia Levitin

Photo by Rose Eichenbaum
Beverly Lewis

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.)
C S Lewis

Brian Lies

Brian Lies (Pretending to be a bat) ~ Photo by Laurel Keith
Jack London

Credit: Arnold Genthe, circa 1906-1916 (Arnold Genthe Collection,LoC Prints and Photographs Division, LC-G4085- 0411)
Jonathan London

Linda Lowery

Linda in her San Miguel de Allende garden
Lois Lowry

From openfields.org via wikipedia
Max Lucado

Mike Lupica

Dandi

Maurer Photographic Studio
Patricia MacLachlan

Library of Congress
Michelle Magorian

www.michellemagorian.com/
Margaret Mahy

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Catherine Marshall

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.)
James Marshall

Rafe Martin

Jean Marzollo

Carol Matas

Ruth Bonneville
Mercer Mayer

Courtesy of Mercer Mayer
Jesse Leon McCann

Megan McDonald

Library of Congress
Ian McEwan

Eamonn McCabe
McGraw-Hill

McGraw-Hill Building, New York, May 2007, photo by Lampbane
Angela Shelf Medearis

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Paul F. Burns, V
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Carolyn Meyer

www.readcarolyn.com
Joyce Meyer

A. A. Milne

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
L.M. Montgomery

wikipedia
Michael Morpurgo

Georges Seguin
Gilbert Morris

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.)
Marissa Moss

Jill Murphy

Patricia J. Murphy

Photo by Lilithcat. Ms. Murphy is on the right.
Bill Myers

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.)
Walter Dean Myers

Trinka Hakes Noble

Carl Norac

Esby
Sven Nordqvist

Soppakanuuna
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
Scott O'Dell

Janette Oke

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.)
Stormie Omartian

Wendy Orr

Mary Pope Osborne

Tom Marcello, 1977
Shane Osborn

(right)
(dodmedia.osd.mil)
Linda Sue Park

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Rosa Parks

Gary Paulsen

Eye on Books
Richard Peck

Lisa Westberg Peters

Courtesy of Lisa Westberg Peters
Marcus Pfister

Gloria Jean Pinkney

Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Richard Powell

Courtesy of BookThink
Jack Prelutsky

Library of Congress
Alice Provensen

DK Publishing

Dorling Kindersley Building, London. Photo by James Cridland / Flickr.
Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Howard Pyle

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

Credit: Christopher David
Raphael

Raphael (1483-1520)
Bronze bust on top of the artist's tomb
at the Pantheon in Rome, by Giuseppe de Fabris
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Jane Ray

Dian Curtis Regan

Kathryn Reiss

Mills College
Adam Rex

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

DisassemblyOfReason, with thanks to reading_fox
Conrad Richter

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-117696
Norman Rockwell

Peter Roop

Diana Ross

Photo by Alan Light, 1990 (Cropped/Flickr)
J.K. Rowling

Patricia H. Rushford

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.)
Marisabina Russo

credit: Gerard Malanga
copyright: Marisabina Russo
Felix Salten

Gary D. Schmidt

Calvin College
Jon Scieszka

Pete Seeger

World Telegram & Sun photo by Fred Palumbo, 1955 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-116961)
Maurice Sendak

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 ArtJane Seymour

Photo by Alan Light (Flickr)
David Shannon

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Janice Shefelman

John Burlinson, March 8, 2008
Maria Shriver

California Office of the Governor
Margaret Sidney

Harriett Mulford (Stone) Lothrop [pen-name Margaret Sidney] (b.1844), Buffalo Electrotype and Engraving Co., Buffalo, N.Y.
Shel Silverstein

Francesca Simon

Louise Simonson

Luigi Novi
Peter Sis

Matěj Baťha
David Small

Cynthia Leitich Smith

Library of Congress
Lemony Snicket

Michael Huang, October 29, 2006
National Geographic

Jordan Sonnenblick

jordansonnenblick.com
Elizabeth George Speare

Johanna Spyri

Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Geronimo Stilton

PieterDP
Catherine Stock

Todd Strasser

Todd Strasser, pen name Morton Rhue (photo credit: Effi Schweizer, March 9, 2006)
Lee Strobel

Joni Eareckson Tada

Christine Harder Tangvald

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.)
Mark Teague

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Mike Thaler

mikethaler.com
Ernest L. Thayer

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

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.)
James Thurber

Photo by Fred Palumbo, New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-112049
Time-Life Books

Time & Life Sculpture, Manhattan, New York. Photo by Jeremy Keith / Flickr
J.R.R. Tolkien

P.L. Travers

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Jamie Langston Turner

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.)
Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Photo By Benny Gool, www.en.wikipedia.com
mark twain

from Wikipedia
Various

Jules Verne

from Wikipedia
Photo by Félix Nadar (1820-1910)
Judith Viorst

Milton Viorst
Phil Vischer

Lori Walburg VandenBosch

Vivian Walsh

J.otto Seibold, c2003.
Walter Wangerin

Gertrude Chandler Warner

Courtesy of Kidsreads.com
retold and illustrated by Jane Wattenberg

photo by Andrea Scher
H. G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienRosemary Wells

Library of Congress
Gloria Whelan

gloriawhelan.com
E. B. White

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

Project Gutenberg
Oscar Wild

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.
Margaret Wild

Melissa Peterson

Photo by Jane Wiley
Nancy Willard

2004 Eric Lindbloom
Mo Willems Mo Willems

David Shankbone, September 2007
Douglas Wood

Courtesy of Douglas Wood
Jacqueline Woodson

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Dan Yaccarino

Laurence Yep

Jane Yolen

Paul Zindel

Charlotte Zolotow

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