Favorite children's writers?

[rocklobster]

Who are your favorite children's writers? Here are some of mine and the books I liked best by them:

• Astrid Lindgren (creator of Pippi Longstocking)
• Judy Blume (Are You There God? It's Me Margret)
• Lewis Carrol (Alice Through the Looking Glass)
• Roald Dahl (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory)
• Dr. Seuss (The Lorax)
• Hans Christian Andersen (The Snow Queen)
• Shel Silverstein (Where the Sidewalk Ends)
• C. S. Lewis (Narnia)
• Lloyd Alexander (Prydain)
• Madeline L. Engle (A Wrinkle in Time)
• L. Frank Baum (the Oz Books)
• Rudyard Kipling (Jungle Book)

I should also mention that I happen to be a descendant of Laura Ingalls Wilder, the writer of the Little Housebooks.
Note: These are the ones I knew as a child. Some, like J.K. Rowling, I discovered later.

[Lynx]

i dont remeber the author, but i read a lot of the ramona books when i was a kid. also, shel silverstien.

[Warrior 4 Jesus]

C.S Lewis
Robin Jarvis
Roald Dahl
Paul Jennings
Herge

[Tarnish]

Lewis Carroll and Roald Dahl.

[jazz]

ooh! i don't know if anyone else here has read it, but i love the book 'The Little Prince' by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. ah, one of my all time favorites ^^ ..... and the Narnia series, of course.

[MyrrhLynn]

Haha, waaaay too many to name. XD Actually I still read "children's books" sometimes. I love C.S. Lewis, and Lloyd Alexander (the Black Cauldron author), Gail Carson Levine (Ella Enchanted autor) just to name a few.

[EireWolf]

Dr. Suess was, of course, awesome. I read a lot of Shel Silverstein as a kid, and laughed even harder, recently, when I read his book for adults called "Uncle Shelby's ABZs." Madeleine L'Engle is one of my all-time favorites, and of course C.S. Lewis as well. I loved Meredith Ann Pierce's Firebringer trilogy, and am currently re-reading it. I also liked Jane Yolen's Pit Dragon Chronicles. The books that fascinated me the most aesthetically were the Serendipity books, written by Stephen Cosgrove and illustrated by Robin James.

[CreatureArt]

I loved those Serendipity books as a kid, too! I can hardly remember them now and never saw all of them but I reall something about a lamb, and a little purple/pink dragonish/lizard/dinosaur thing.

Perhaps it is just that New Zealand has a strong link with the British but I also really enjoyed a lot of Enid Blyton's books.

As well as that I also loved the Narnia series, Roald Dahl and Paul Jennings (who is one of the many plusses of having Aussies as geographical neighbours!)

[EireWolf]

Check out this link for a list of all the Serendipity books:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/guides/guide-display/-/7NFV8RZ6FJO1/ref=cm_bg_dp_m_1/002-3831920-0689667

[Puritan]

My favorites as a kid would have been:
C. S. Lewis
Frank Baum
Lewis Carrol
Roald Dahl
Madeline L'Engel
and Laura Engels Wilder

But as an adult I discovered J. K. Rowling and Lemony Snicket, and really enjoy their books as well.

[Husse]

C.S. Lewis all the way. I read a conglomeration of books when I was little that were NOT children's books, though, so I can't really comment.

[mitsuki lover]

We used to live in Southwestern Minnesota when I was a kid near where some of the places where Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote about in some of the Little House books.
As far as favorite authors as a kid:
*C.S.Lewis
*J.R.R.Tolkien
*Dr.Seuss
*The couple who wrote the Curious George books
*Beverly Cleary
and as others have said I discovered Harry Potter when I was older.

[TurkishMonky]

some of my favorite books when i was in elementary school were
* beowulf (translated of course),
* a military surplus soldier training book (everything from how to dig pits to * how to use camo to specifications on military weapontry),
* "superbook of battles",
* "Our Universe" (national geographic book),
* encyclopedias,
* Alice in wonderland/through the looking glass by lewis caroll
* the little prince,
* Robin Crusoe by danial defoe
* 20000 leagues under the sea
* the trailblazer series by Dave and Neta Jackson (i have the whole c collection),
* hardy boys,
* sherlock homes by sir arthur conan doyle,
* the american girls series believe it or not,
* a 9th grade literature book my mom had lying around...
and that's all i can remember (im sorry i don't remeber authors for many of those). I wasn't your typical elementary school kid... Also, i didn't read narnia until i was 15, if that surprises some of you.

however, i do remember that after reading "ramona" i despised beverly cleary, and the same went for curious george after watching a badly made cartoon of him... (65% of children's movies need to be burned and buried forever has been my mindset since a young age (i believe i was ready to halfway destroy PBS at age 7))

ok, ok, i'll stop going on a tangent now....