17th century

19th century

20th century

John Bunyan

Lewis Carroll

Walter de la Mare

Oscar Wilde

Salman Rushdie

Charles Dickens

J. R. R. Tolkien

Mark Twain

J. K. Rowling

Nathaniel Hawthorne

C. S. Lewis

Louisa May Alcott

Ted Hughes

George MacDonald

L. Frank Baum

Anna Sewell

Edith Nesbit

Edward Lear

Penelope Lively

Charles Kingsley

Jack London

Rudyard Kipling

Eric Knight

Christina Rossetti

A. A. Milne

Robert Louis Stevenson

J. M. Barrie

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Roald Dahl

Susan Coolidge

Keneth Grahame

Sir Henry R. Haggard

Arthur C. Doyle

Charles and Mary Lamb

Dr. Seuss

Thomas Hughes

Joan Aiken

Talbot Baines Reed

Beatrix Potter

Maria Edgeworth

Sue Townsend

Charlotte M. Yonge

Arthur Ransome

Enid Blyton

Philip Pullman

Alan Garner

Jane Gardam

Leon Garfield

John Masefield

Rosemary Sutcliff

Geoffrey Trease

John Rowe Townsend

Vera & Bill Cleaver

E. W. Johns

Laura Ingalls Wilder

T. H. White

Jill Paton Walsh

John Christopher

Cynthia M. Harnett

Charles Hamilton

Ernest T. Seton