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Hans Christian Andersen

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Nick Arnold

Photo from Nick Arnold
Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
David Baldacci

Library of Congress
Cicely Mary Barker

Dave Barry

Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson

S. Wise Bauer

William McEwan
Ruth Beechick

www.mottmedia.com
Judy Blume

Daniel J. Boorstin

Library of Congress/Wikipedia
Edwin Booth

Mathew B. Brady
Sandra Boynton

Eye on Books
Jan Brett

Emily Bronte

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
Marc Brown

Joseph Bruchac

by Krystina Kelley
Pearl S. Buck

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

Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

Lewis Carroll

Geoffrey Chaucer

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

Photo by Graham Barclay
Mary Higgins Clark

Eye on Books
Eleanor Coerr

Joanna Cole

Christopher Columbus

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

photographed by Carl Van Vechten,
Patricia Cornwell

Jamie Lee Curtis

41st Annual Emmy Awards, photo by Alan Light
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)
Tomie dePaola

Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Mary Mapes Dodge

William Durbin

Courtesy of William Durbin
Gerald Durrell

Julie Andrews Edwards

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

Olaudah Equiano

This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired in the United States and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years or less.
Eleanor Estes

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Matt Faulkner

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

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

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

Jean Craighead George

Photo by Eric Bergman
Margaret George

Alison Kaufman
Jacob Grimm

from Wikipedia
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm from an 1855 painting by Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann. Jacob is on the right
B. G. Hennessy

James Herriot

The World of James Herriot (c) Hambleton District Council
John Himmelman

Russell Hoban

Photograph courtesy of Lisa Greenstein, 2005.
Katharine Holabird

Dorothy Hoobler

Courtesy of Hahchette Book Group
Mary Hooper

Albert E. Idell

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
W. Irving

Perry-Castañeda Collection, University of Texas at Austin
Randall Jarrell

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.
Steven Kellogg

Charles Kingsley

wikipedia
Rudyard Kipling

Anna Kirwan

Erich; trans. Cyrus Brooks Kastner

Erich Kästner with young people, 1954. Image ©
ÖNB/Wien Charles Lamb

wikipedia
Harold Lamb

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

wikipedia
Harper Lee

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-121597
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.)
Gail Carson Levine

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Sonia Levitin

Photo by Rose Eichenbaum
Jack London

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

From openfields.org via wikipedia
Max Lucado

Patricia MacLachlan

Library of Congress
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

Mercer Mayer

Courtesy of Mercer Mayer
Geraldine McCaughrean

Sharyn McCrumb

Colleen Mccullough

Angela Shelf Medearis

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Paul F. Burns, V
Carolyn Meyer

www.readcarolyn.com
A. A. Milne

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

wikipedia
Ross Mueller

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Robert Nathan

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
E. Nesbitt

Edith Nesbit
Richard Neuberger

U.S. Senate Historical Office
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

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)
Dorothy Hinshaw Patent

http://www.dorothyhinshawpatent.com/images/photo_pups.jpg
Richard Peck

Marcus Pfister

Jodi Picoult

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
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.
Howard Pyle

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

c 2004 by John Maggiotto. I am Staton Rabin and this photo is used by me with the permission of the photographer, John Maggiotto of Dobbs Ferry, NY.
John Reed

copyrighted 1914 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-78094)
Kathryn Reiss

Mills College
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)
Don Richardson

Peter Roop

J.K. Rowling

Edward Rutherfurd

Ruth Sanderson

photo by Morgan Robinson
Charles M. Schulz

Photo by Roger Higgins, World Telegram staff photographer
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 ArtWilliam Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Dai Sijie

Jacques Sassier, Gallimard Editions
Louis Slobodkin

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Elizabeth George Speare

Johanna Spyri

Diane Stanley

MDCarchives
Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Amy Tan

Credit: David Sifry, 2008
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.)
Thompson

DisassemblyOfReason, with thanks to reading_fox
Tasha Tudor

Richard Brown
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Sigrid Undset

Louis Untermeyer

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

Jill Paton Walsh

Vivian Walsh

J.otto Seibold, c2003.
Gertrude Chandler Warner

Courtesy of Kidsreads.com
H. G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienEdith Wharton

from Wikipedia
Gloria Whelan

gloriawhelan.com
E. B White

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Laura Ingalls Wilder

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

2004 Eric Lindbloom
Philip Yancey

Randall Olsson
Laurence Yep

Jane Yolen

Ludmila Zeman

Linda Spaleny
Charlotte Zolotow

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