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Who were the writers you liked growing up? Mine were:
Whoever ghost wrote Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys books
Roald Dahl
C.S. Lewis
Madeline L'Engle
S.E. Hinton
the ghost writer for Tom Swift
Astrid Lindgren (writer of Pippi Longstocking)

In somewhat chronological order as I grew up until 15:

Hans Christian Anderson, Perrault and Brothers Grimm
Enyd Blyton (Creator of "The Five")
Oscar Wilde (His short tales are amazing)
C.S. Lewis
Richard Adams (From Watership Down's fame, though Shardik is rather awful)
Charles Dickens
Agatha Christie
Ellery Queen
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Edgar Allan Poe
J.R.R. Tolkien

c.s. lewis
ray bradberry

Oh man. Let's see...

Dr. Seuss
Shel Silverstein
Eric Carle
Thornton W. Burgess
E.B. White (Stuart Little is one of the best children's books of all time, hands down)
A.A. Milne (so is Winnie the Pooh)
Robert Louis Stevenson

All of the above are authors of books I read and read again in my early childhood, but if my middle-schoolish years count, the following definitely deserve a mention:

J.R.R. Tolkien
Lois Lowry

The Giver by Lowry and of course, The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit by Tolkien remain some of my favorite books to this day. XD

Stan & Jan Berenstein, Roald Dahl, R.L. Stine, Michael Crichton.
And every preadolescent male ought to read at least a few Hardy Boys novels.

Fiction:
Dr. Seuss
A.A. Milne
Gordon Korman
J.R.R. Tolkien
Astrid Lindgren
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Isaac Aasimov
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Non-Fiction:
Carl Sagan
Isaac Aasimov

When I was in elementary school I read Michael Chrichton And Christopher Rowley. When I was in middle school I read every Brian Jacques book I could get my hands on. It's a bit of a weird switch.

Dr. Seuss (I taught myself to read with Go, Dog, Go!)

Bill Peet (I remember thinking the buildings always looked sad in those books, especially the one where a boy is trying to figure out what he wishes he was. The one about the mountain goat whose antlers wouldn't stop growing also made me shudder, because of the terrified expression on the goat's face.)

Stan and Jan Berenstein (I loved the Berenstein Bears books, because my family at the time was exactly like theirs - mom, dad, older brother, younger sister)

whoever wrote Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel and the one about the snow shovel - Katy or something?

Lois Gladys Leppard (I was obsessed with the Mandie books for years and years, from when I was nine till I was old enough to start fantasizing over the budding romance between Mandie and Joe.)

Jude Watson (He wrote the Jedi Apprentice books - all except the first one. I've read those books a bajillion times; they were practically my life for a year or two before I discovered Tolkien.)

E. Nesbit and Edward Eager (There was a period of my childhood where I read nothing else but these books where children find magic in their backyard. I longed to find a magic coin or carpet myself, but alas! I never did.)

Then in fifth grade, I was thrust into the world of fantasy with Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter.