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Buzz Aldrin

Neil Armstrong (1969).
Lloyd Alexander

Sherman Alexie

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)
David Almond

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Hans Christian Anderson

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Laurie Halse Anderson

photo by Becky Rech
M. T. Anderson

Library of Congress
Anonymous

K.A. Applegate

Heli12
Philip Ardagh

Courtesy of Allen & Unwin
Mike Artell

Natalie Babbitt

Used by permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Enid Bagnold

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

http://www.oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/edu/oceanage/05ballard/welcome.html
Robert Bateman

Joan Bauer

Miranda H.
Marion Dane Bauer

mariondanebauer.com
Hans De Beer

Michael Bender

Irving Berlin

1948 photograph (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-37541)
Judy Blume

Arna Bontemps

Arna Wendell Bontemps (1902-1973), photographed by Carl Van Vechten, Aug. 15, 1939 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number: LC-USZC2-6356)
Jan Brett

Jeff Brown

Photo by Dale Hubert ©1999
Marc Brown

Joseph Bruchac

by Krystina Kelley
Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

Janan Cain

photo by John Cain for Parenting Press
Eric Carle

Lewis Carroll

Alden R. Carter

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)
Lydia Maria Child

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

choldenko.com
Vicki Cobb

Esme Raji Codell

Joanna Cole

Eoin Colfer

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Sneed B Collad III

Photo by Amy Ratzlaf
Suzanne Collins

Cap Pryor
Padraic Colum

photographed by Carl Van Vechten,
Zizou Corder

Louisa Young and Isabel Adomakoh Young
Bruce Coville

With permission from Bruce Coville.
Sharon Creech

Clive Cussler

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)
Carmen Agra Deedy

Library of Congress
Tomie de Paola

Charles Dickens

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

Wikipedia
Walt Disney

Tony DiTerlizzi

Roddy Doyle

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Jeanne Duprau

Photo by Alice Cummings
JULIE Edwards

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

Louise Erdrich

Eye on Books
Eleanor Estes

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

Photo by Harold Farmer, provided by publisher
Paul Fleischman

Copyright © 2006 by Dana Fleischman
Jo Gibson

murdershebaked.com
Mem Fox

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Debra Frasier

Courtesy of Debra Frasier
Natasha Friend

Photo by Tom Bloom, © 2007
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.
Neil Gaiman

Jack Gantos

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Michael Garland

Jean Craighead George

Photo by Eric Bergman
Mordicai Gerstein

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

Linda Glaser

Photo by Julia Cheng
Morris Gleitzman

Paul Goble

Photo by user Temp07 / Wikimedia Commons
Christopher Golden

Kenneth Grahame

from Wikipedia
John Green

Photo by Christopher Meerdo
Michelle Y. Green

Nikki. Grimes

Courtesy of Nikki Grimes
Brothers 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
Ursula K. Le Guin

Margaret Peterson Haddix

Photo by Kyle Kesselring, Flickr
Matt Haig

photo by Jerry Bauer
Donald Hall

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
Carl Hiaasen

2006 Tim Chapman
Charlie Higson

John Himmelman

Russell Hoban

Photograph courtesy of Lisa Greenstein, 2005.
Michael Hoeye

John Hollander

Jennifer Holm

Library of Congress
Jackie Mims Hopkins

Arkansas Literary Festival 2007, photo by David W. Quinn
Polly Horvath

Mary Howitt

Mary Howitt. Frontispiece from An autobiography (1889)
Victor Hugo

wikipedia
Eva Ibbitson

Paul Jackson

Randall Jarrell

Susan Jeffers

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Angela Johnson

Courtesy of Birmingham Alabama Public Library (Flickr) ~ Photo by Larry O. Gay
Ann Halam

Lynne Fox
Cynthia Kadohata

kira-kira.us
Keiko Kasza

Peg Kehret

Vicki Taylor
Steven Kellogg

P. B. Kerr

Ken Kesey

Elizabeth Cody Kimmel

Dick King-Smith

Jeff Kinney

Rudyard Kipling

Ellen Klages

Suzy Kline

Michelle Knudsen

Gordon Korman

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

A. LaFaye

Courtesy of Alexandra LaFaye
Harper Lee

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-121597
Jay Leno

Pete Souza
Julius Lester

Gail Carson Levine

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
C. S. Lewis

J. Patrick Lewis

Brian Lies

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

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Source: "The world's best poetry," v. 3
(Philadelphia, 1904)
(Project Gutenberg)
Hendrik Willem Van Loon

Lois Lowry

From openfields.org via wikipedia
Max Lucado

Mike Lupica

Patricia MacLachlan

Library of Congress
Margaret Mahy

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
James Marshall

Jean Marzollo

Wendy Mass

Mercer Mayer

Courtesy of Mercer Mayer
Peter McCarty

My Photo (© Pitcherbooks on LT.com)
Geraldine Mccaughrean

Megan McDonald

Library of Congress
Danica McKellar

Angela Shelf Medearis

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Paul F. Burns, V
Greg Mortenson

Tauheed ashraf
Marissa Moss

Jill Murphy

Walter Dean Myers

Lesléa Newman

Photo by Mary Vasquez
Trinka Hakes Noble

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

Alexis O'Neill

Photo by Sonya Sones
Wendy Orr

George Orwell

Author: Branch of the National Union of Journalists (BNUJ). Source: http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/
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
Susan Patron

Gary Paulsen

Eye on Books
Marcus Pfister

Jodi Picoult

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Patricia Polacco

http://www.patriciapolacco.com/pr/polacco_3.jpg
Jack Prelutsky

Library of Congress
DK Publishing

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

Jamie Pullman
Anna Quindlen

Aron Ralston

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Library of Congress, Carl van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-106862 DLC
Hans Augusto Rey

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

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

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

Phyllis Root

Photo by Kelly Povo
Michael Rosen

Photo credit: JK the Unwise (Wikipedia user)
Kennilworthy Whisp

Antoine de Saint Exupery

J.D. Salinger

Carl Sandburg

Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
Photograph by New York World-Telegram & Sun
staff photographer, Al. Ravenna, 1955
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Mari Sandoz

Judith Byron Schachner

Library of Congress
Laura Amy Schlitz

Joe Rubino
Gary D. Schmidt

Calvin College
Julie Schumacher

Credit: David Ellis Photography
Jon Scieszka

Jerry Seinfeld

Jerry Seinfeld (1954- )
Photo by Alan Light, 44th Emmy Awards, August 1992
(Flickr attribution license)
Brian Selznick

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

Wikipedia
David Shannon

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Judy Sheindlin

Maria Shriver

California Office of the Governor
Shel Siverstein

Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

Samuel Francis Smith

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Will, Smith

Photo by Alan Light, 1993 (Flickr)
Lemony Snicket

Michael Huang, October 29, 2006
Jordan Sonnenblick

jordansonnenblick.com
Walter Sorrells

Elizabeth George Speare

Diane Stanley

MDCarchives
Geronimo Stilton

PieterDP
TODD STRASSER

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

Photo by K Tempest Bradford / Flickr
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)
James Thurber

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

US Air Force photo by A1C Russell Scalf, 2005
Lynne Truss

Photo © Barry Lewis
Tasha Tudor

Richard Brown
Megan Whalen Turner

R.E.S.
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
John Updike

Martha Updike
Various

Cesar Vidal

Rafael Robles
J. Viorst

Milton Viorst
Vivian Walsh

J.otto Seibold, c2003.
Gertrude Chandler Warner

Courtesy of Kidsreads.com
Rosemary Wells

Library of Congress
Scott Westerfeld

Photo by Samantha Jones
Gloria Whelan

gloriawhelan.com
E. B. White

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

Library of Congress
Laura Ingalls Wilder

De Smet photographer, name unknown
Laura aged 18, in 1885.
Nancy Willard

2004 Eric Lindbloom
Mo Willems

David Shankbone, September 2007
Jacqueline Wilson

Library of Congress
Henry Winkler

Henry Winkler (Actor) ~ Photo by Alan Light, 1990
(Cropped/Wikimedia Commons/Flickr)
Douglas, Wood

Courtesy of Douglas Wood
JACQUELINE WOODSON

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Patricia C. Wrede

from Wikimedia Commons, uploaded by Dd-b
Laurence Yep

Jane Yolen

Charlotte Zolotow

Markus Zusak

Photo by Bronnwyn Rennix
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