From John Agard to Jacqueline Wilson, Quentin Blake to J.K. Rowling, this book allows you to meet the people behind the stories, poems and illustrations that fill your school and your children's lives. It includes the lives, works, addresses and web sites of over 120 writers and illustrators.

A guide based on a 1997 survey of popular children's book authors provides biographical sketches and selected bibliographies for such writers as Beverly Cleary, Lois Lawry, Lewis Carroll, Mary Downing Hahn, and C.S. Lewis.

Featuring seventy-five autobiographical vignettes by such authors as Eric Carle, Beverly Cleary, Lois Lowry, and Maurice Sendak, a reference offers more than eight hundred short articles covering every aspect of children's books, their themes, and their creators. 25,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo.