Non-Fiction Authors

Michael Elsohn Ross is the author-illustrator of a number of science and cultural books for children, including Spiderology and A Mexican Christmas.

Author of highly regarded and beautifully illustrated nature books with an Alaskan theme.

Evelyn likes to make learning fun for kids. She writes puzzles, poems, and stories. Thirty-one of her puzzle books have been published. Sample pages of her books are on her site, plus new puzzles every week and more than 40 fun activities which can be downloaded.

Author-illustrator Gail Gibbons is a highly regarded author of children's non-fiction. Recent works include Galaxies, Galaxies!, Groundhog Day!, and Ice Cream, The Full Scoop.

John Malam specializes in non-fiction books for children, particularly books that deal with history or archeology.

A prolific writer, Kelly Milner Halls specializes in children's nonfiction. Her books include Tales of the Cryptids and Mysteries of the Mummy Kids.

Children's author Maryann Weidt specializes in biographies for young readers. Her books include Fighting for Equal Rights (about Susan B. Anthony), Rosa Parks, and Revolutionary Poet (the story of a young slave girl, Phillis Wheatley, in revolutionary Boston who became an internationally famous poet and the first black American to publish a book).

Seymour Simon is an award-winning children's science writer whose books cover the gamut from the human body to the universe. He is part of a collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution to produce a series of his science books in special editions.