Rachel Renee Russell and Nikki Russell

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Monica Brown

Children's Book Author

Duncan Tonatiuh

Award-Winning Children's Book Author & Illustrator

Simon Lovell

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Patricia Polacco

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Alice Schertle

#1 New York Times Best-Selling Children's Book Author

Rita Williams-Garcia

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Nnedi Okorafor

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Jill Santopolo

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Tahereh Mafi

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Yuyi Morales

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Meg Medina

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Beth Clark

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Jon Klassen

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Pam Muñoz Ryan

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Why Fathers Cry at Night: A Memoir in Love Poems, Recipes, Letters, and Remembrances

Laura Numeroff

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Jennifer Nielsen

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Mary Pope Osborne

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Bruce Degen

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Sharon Creech

Sharon Creech is an American writer of children's novels. She was the first American winner of the Carnegie Medal for British children's books and the first person to win both the American Newbery Medal and the British Carnegie.

Lois Lowry

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Gary Paulson

Gary Paulson knows all of the rules of writing, and he is brilliant each time he breaks the rules. He is truly an outdoor adventurer who races in the Iditarod. His life experiences in the wilderness of Canada and Alaska appear on the pages of his books th

Jon Bergmann

Pioneer of the Flipped Class Movement & Bestselling Author of "Flip Your Classroom"; Member of the TED-Education Advisory Board

Rick Riordan

No. 1 New York Times Bestselling Author of the "Percy Jackson and the Olympians" Series, the "Kane Chronicles" and "Heroes of Olympus"

Holly George-Warren

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Terri Blackstock

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Ree Drummond

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