Author and Illustrator Links

Links to web sites by and about authors, illustrators,  and literary works represented in Crosscurrents of Children's Literature. Many of these sites contain biographies, portraits, and illustrations from literary works, among other resources.

Many of these links were checked on August 23, 2010. Other outdated links will be corrected soon.


Jacob Abbott page by
Deidre Johnson

Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart: Teaching Through the Novel, NEH Edsitement lesson

Aelfric's Colloquy

Aesop's Fables: extensive web site by John R. Long

Louisa May Alcott's house: Orchard House web site, Concord, Massachusetts

Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Aldrich's Tom 

Hans Christian Andersen Annotated Web-o-graphy

Hans Christian Andersen Center, University of Southern Denmark

Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales, an NEH Edsitement lesson

Maya Angelou web site

Maya Angelou biography, Black History Month, Gale Cengage Learning Free Resources

Mitsumasa Anno page in Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site

Antonia Barber at Walker Books (publisher web site)

John D. Batten illustrations in SurLaLune Fairy Tales

L. Frank Baum: article by Linda McGovern "The Man Behind the Curtain: L. Frank Baum and the Wizard of Oz"

L. Frank Baum biography  by W. R. Wright

L. Frank Baum, The Land of Oz, 1904 novel, The Baldwin Online Children's Project

Shonto Begay Gallery

James Berry page at Penguin (publisher web site)

Thomas Bewick: The Web Site of The Bewick Society

Thomas Bewick at The Edmonton Art Gallery

The Official Quentin Blake Web Site

Francesca Lia Block's web site 

Ivan Bilibin illustrations in SurLaLune Fairy Tales

The Art of Ivan Bilibin blog essay by Jennie Renton 2005

Judy Blume's official site

Eleanor Vere Boyle in The Victorian Web

Eleanor Vere Boyle illustrations in SurLaLune Fairy Tales

L. Leslie Brooke illustrations in SurLaLune Fairy Tales

Margaret Wise Brown web site

Joseph Bruchac Storyteller and Writer

Joseph Bruchac page at Children's Literature Network

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Randolph Caldecott web site

Lewis Carroll Society of North America 

Lewis Carroll in The Victorian Web

Angela Carter: Featured Author, New York Times links (requires free sign-in)

Angela Carter interview by Anna Katsavos

Angela Carter tribute by Salman Rushdie

Richard Chase: Annotated Bibliography

The World of Beverly Cleary 

Beverly Cleary Author Profile by Jim Trelease

Lucille Clifton pages, Modern American Poetry Site

Carlo Collodi National Foundation

Carlo Collodi works in Project Gutenberg

Comenius Foundation

J. A. Comenius Museum, Uhersky Brod, Czech Republic

Floyd Cooper page at Children's Literature web site

Floyd Cooper page at HarperCollins (publisher web site) 

Floyd Cooper Illustrator, his web site

The Official Bruce Coville Web Site

Walter Crane page, University of Pittsburgh Library

Walter Crane illustrations in SurLaLune Fairy Tales

Walter Crane in Illuminated Books web site, includes reproduction of Grimms' Household Tales 

George Cruikshank in The Victorian Web

George Cruikshank illustrations in SurLaLune Fairy Tales

Christopher Paul Curtis's web site

Christopher Paul Curtis: The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963 review in Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site

Roald Dahl biography in Roald Dahl Fans.com

The Official Roald Dahl web site

Jeanne Marie Leprince de Beaumont in "Beauty and the Beast" by Terri Windling, The Endicott Studio

The Dickens Project, University of California

Dickens's Hard Times in The Victorian Web

Franklin W. Dixon and Hardy Boys books at BBC.co.uk

Paul Gustave Doré

Gustave Doré illustrations in SurLaLune Fairy Tales

Maria Edgeworth: The Edgeworth Website 

Maria Edgeworth page at Penguin (publisher web site) 

Elizabeth Enright page at Macmillan (publisher web site) 

Louise Erdrich page at HarperCollins (publisher web site)

Louise Erdrich page, Women's History, Gale Cengage Learning Free Resources

Louise Erdrich: The Birchbark House page in Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site

Lousie Erdrich page and video interview, Faces of America with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., PBS.org

Louise Erdrich page at Native American Authors, Drexel University

Louise Erdrich's "teaching bookstore" Birchbark Books, Minneapolis

Profile of Tom Feelings by National Conference of Artists of New York

Louise Fitzhugh: Purple Socks, a Louise Fitzhugh Tribute Site

Charles Folkard illustrations in SurLaLune Fairy Tales

Fiona French: illustration from Snow White in New York in Kay Vandergrift's Snow White site 

Harry French and Dickens's Hard Times in Victorian Web

Wanda Gág page in Women Children's Book Illustrators

The Wanda Gág House, New Ulm, Minnesota

Wanda Gág Papers, University of Minnesota Libraries

Priscilla Galloway's web site

Priscilla Galloway page, Annick Press (publisher web site)

Nikki Giovanni's web site 

Samuel Goodrich (Peter Parley) Collection, University of Pittsburgh Library

Kenneth Grahame page at Penguin (publisher web site) 

Kate Greenaway books in Illuminated Books Online, includes copy of complete Under the Window

Kate Greenaway's A Apple Pie, complete reproduction

Kate Greenaway Collection of Frances Hooper, Carnegie Mellon University Library

Grimm Brothers' Home Page, D. L. Ashliman, University of Pittsburgh

Museum of the Brothers Grimm, Kassel, Germany

Grimms' Fairy Tales, National Geographic web site

Virginia Hamilton web site 

Libby Hathorn's web site

Nathaniel Hawthorne in Salem

Nathaniel Hawthorne pages at Eldritch Press, includes book texts

Sarah Henderson Hay Collection, Carnegie Mellon Libraries

Heinrich Hoffmann: 19th Century German stories includes copies of Struwwelpeter with illustrations, in German and English

Isabelle Holland Papers, University of Minnesota Libraries

Mary Howitt web site

Arthur Hughes: Pre-Raphaelite Painter and Book Illustrator

Arthur Hughes in Victorian Web

Langston Hughes pages, Modern American Poetry Site

Langston Hughes and His Poetry, Library of Congress

Langston Hughes biography, Black History Month, Gale Cengage Learning Free Resources

Shirley Hughes at Penguin (publisher web site) 

Shirley Hughes at Walker Books (publisher web site) 

Shirley Hughes Literature Showcase, Arts Council England

Thomas Hughes at Historic Rugby web site

Clement Hurd at HarperCollins (publisher web site) 

Trina Schart Hyman pages at Women Children's Book Illustrators

Trina Schart Hyman page, University of Pittsburgh Library

Roberto Innocenti, Italian illustrator

Joseph Jacobs

Paul Brett Johnson Author/Illustrator

Books by May Justus for Children and Young Adults

Carolyn Keene: An Interview with Mildred Wirt Benson

John Langstaff and the New York Revels

Edward Lear Home Page

Edward Lear, Limericks, and Nonsense, an NEH Edsitement lesson

Ursula K. Le Guin's web site

Madeleine L'Engle official site 

Into the Wardrobe: A C. S. Lewis Web Site

Astrid Lindgren

Astrid Lindgren Swedish web site

Lois Lowry page in Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site

Alison Lurie's web site

George Ella Lyon's web site 

Victor Martinez at HarperCollins (publisher web site)

Mercer Mayer Gallery

All About Mercer Mayer, autobiography page

Enrico Mazzanti, Italian illustrator

Robert McCloskey Interviewed by Anita Silvey, The Horn Book

Edna St. Vincent Millay page in Modern American Poetry Site

L. M. Montgomery Institute

L. M. Montgomery: Anne of Green Gables web site, government of Prince Edward Island

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor at Houghton Mifflin (publisher web site) 

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor page in Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site

Marilyn Nelson's Labyrinth, University of Connecticut

Marilyn Nelson, Connecticut Poet Laureate

Marilyn Nelson reading a sonnet from A Wreath for Emmett Till on National Public Radio

Edith Nesbit Society

Edith Nesbit at Masterpiece Theatre web site

Mette Newth's Home Page

Grace Nichols page, British Arts Council

Grace Nichols page at Penguin (publisher web site) 

Perry Nodelman's web site

Iona Opie at Candlewick Press (publisher web site)

Iona Opie at Walker Books (publisher web site) 

The Ovid Collection, The Metamorphoses, University of Virginia

The Ovid Project: Metamorphosing The Metamorphoses, University of Vermont

Katherine Paterson official web site

Katherine Paterson: Jacob Have I Loved review in Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site

Katherine Paterson Collection, University of Minnesota Libraries

Gary Paulsen web pages at Random House

Gary Paulsen Author Profile by Jim Trelease

Gary Paulsen page at Children's Literature Network

Gudrun Pausewang page at Annick Books (publisher web site)

Anne Pellowski page, Minnesota Web Authors and Illustrators

Anne Pellowski Collection, University of Minnesota Libraries

Philippa Pearce page at Penguin (publisher web site) 

Philippa Pearce: Tom's Midnight Garden review in Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site

Charles Perrault's Mother Goose Tales by D. L. Ashliman, University of Pittsburgh

Brian Pinkney page at Random House (publisher web site) 

Brian Pinkney page at Children's Literature web site

Beatrix Potter's books online (Ohio University)  

World of Peter Rabbit (official UK site, including Beatrix Potter's Lake District house) 

Beatrix Potter page, University of Pittsburgh Library

Jack Prelutsky web site

Jack Prelutsky pages at Scholastic  (publisher web site) 

Arthur Rackham page, University of Pittsburgh Library

Arthur Rackham illustrations in SurLaLune Fairy Tales

Charles Stanley Reinhart in Victorian Web

Gayle Ross, Cherokee Storyteller

Gillian Rubinstein's web site

Maurice Sendak: American Masters, Public Broadcasting Service

Maurice Sendak page, Steven Barclay Agency

Maurice Sendak Papers, University of Minnesota Libraries

Interview with Maurice Sendak, Backstage Lincoln Center

E. H. Shepard page, University of Pittsburgh Library

E. H. Shepard page in The Page at Pooh Corner, James Milne web site

Shel Silverstein web site

Jessie Willcox Smith page, University of Pittsburgh Library

Jessie Willcox Smith illustrations in SurLaLune Fairy Tales

Jessie Willcox Smith page in Women Children's Book Illustrators

The Robert Southey Page at San Antonio College LitWeb

Diane Stanley's web site

Jeanne Steig at Harper Collins (publisher web site) 

William Steig web site by Farrar, Straus, & Giroux

Dramas and Tales by R. Rex Stephenson

Robert Louis Stevenson in The Victorian Web 

James Still Homepage at Colorado State University

R. L. Stine pages at Scholastic (publisher web site) 

Goosebumps pages at Scholastic (publisher web site)

Ann and Jane Taylor: reproduction of Little Ann and Other Poems, illustrated by Kate Greenaway

Ann Taylor Gilbert's Autobiography

Mildred D. Taylor biography at Penguin (publisher web site)

John Tenniel in The Victorian Web

The Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum, Hannibal, Missouri

The Mark Twain House & Museum, Hartford, Connecticut

Mark Twain and American Humor, an NEH Edsitement lesson

Mark Twain in His Times, University of Virginia

Chris Van Allsburg's web site

Chris Van Allsburg page at Houghton Mifflin (publisher web site)

Vivian Vande Velde web site 

Marina Warner's web site

Isaac Watts page in The Cyber Hymnal

E. B. White page at Harper Collins (publisher web site)

E. B. White: Charlotte's Web in Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site

Laura Ingalls Wilder biography, Women's History, Gale Cengage Learning Free Resources

Laura Ingalls Wilder Historic Home and Museum, Mansfield, Missouri

Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum, Walnut Grove, Minnesota

Garth Williams page at HarperCollins (publisher web site)

Diane Wolkstein's web site

William Wordsworth Trust

William Wordsworth biography, Poet's Corner, Gale Cengage Learning Free Resources

Jane Yolen Papers, Children's Literature Research Collections, University of Minnesota Libraries

Jane Yolen's web site

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