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Neil Gaiman is an immensely popular English author of science fiction and fantasy short stories and novels, graphic novels, comics, and films. Notable works include The Sandman comic series, Stardust and American Gods.

Nikki Grimes is an author, poet, lecturer and educator. The author of more than two dozen books for children, she has described writing as her first love and poetry as her greatest pleasure. She is the author of many award-winning books for children and young adults, including the novel Jazmin's Notebook, a Coretta Scott King Award Honor Book.

The author of Speak and Fever 1793, Laurie Halse Anderson has created pages about her life, works (including picture books and books for teens), and her own web site recommendations.

Brandon Dorman had the honor of hitting the New York Times Bestseller list in 2007 along with Jack Prelutsky as the illustrator/writer team behind The Wizard, a picture book in rhyme.

Teodora Sirko is a freelance illustrator specializing in graphic design, illustrations for children’s books, especially.

Book reviews, author interviews and bios, press releases, industry news and much more on both children's and YA books.

Features hard-to-find book lists about a wide variety of topics, including potty training, cumulative tales, non-traditional gender roles, wordless books, books for accelerated readers, and books on different cultural holidays. Also standard book lists, such as Caldecott winners, Newbery honorees.

The Children's Book Council named James E. Ransome (past recipient of the Coretta Scott King Award for Illustration) as one of seventy-five authors and illustrators everyone should know.

Don Tate is an illustrator of children's books and educational products, including Black All Around (Author: Patricia Hubbell) which celebrates the many things in our world that are the color black.

Cute site where kids are given a prompt to draw something on-screen. Pictures can be saved and added to the site's online archives for viewing by others.