Reliable Nonfiction Authors

This is a list of reliable nonfiction authors (Thank you to Valerie Bang-Jensen). With the upcoming focus on nonfiction in the common core, it's important to choose more high-quality, high-interest nonfiction:


David Adler
Aliki
George Ancona
Jim Arnosky
Neil Ardley
Bryan Barton
Barbara Bash
Melvin Berger
Rhoda Blumberg
Franklyn Branley
Bruce Brooks
Lynn Cherry
Vicki Cobb
Joanna Cole
Penny Colman
Tomie DePaola
Barbara Esbenson
Margery Facklam
Leonard Everett Fisher
Russell Freedman
Jean Fritz
Jean Craighead George
Gail Gibbons
James Giblin
Ron and Nancy Goor
Brenda Guiberson
John Hackwell
Ron Hirschi
Tana Hoban
Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith
Steve Jenkins
Kathleen Krull
Joe Lasker
Kathryn Lasky
Patricia Lauber
Loreen leedy
Patricia McKissack
David Maccaulay
Hana Matchotka
Sandra Markle
Betsy Maestro
Faith McNulty
Milton Meltzer
Sy Montgomery
Ann Morris
Jim Murphy
Nancy Winslow Parker
Elizabeth Partridge
Dorothy Hinshaw Patent
April Pulley Sayre
Laurence Pringle
Doreen Rappaport
Anne Rockwell
Peter and Connie Roop
Joanne Ryder
Helen Roney Sattler
Judith St. George
Miriam Schlein
Elaine Scott
Millicent Selsam
Seymour Simon
Tanya Lee Stone
Andrea Warren
Robert E. Wells

 ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:

The “Let’s Read and Find Out” Series from Harper Collins (Crowell)

The “Read and Wonder” series from Candlewick Press.

See also Beverly Kobrin’s Eye Openers