Author & Illustrator Web Pages

BabySitter Bags

Battle of the Books

Book Awards

Booklists

eBooks

Literature Databases

Popular Characters & Series

Reading Web Pages

Authors & Illustrators Web Pages

For Younger Readers

Tedd Arnold
Sandra Boynton
Jan Brett
Marc Brown
Margaret Wise Brown
Eric Carle
Doreen Cronin
Tomie DePaola
Ian Falconer
Mem Fox
Kevin Henkes
Katharine Holabird
Crocket Johnson
Ezra Jack Keats

Robert Munsch
Laura Numeroff
Patricia Polacco
Beatrix Potter
Peggy Rathmann
Jon Scieszka
Nancy Shaw
Lemony Snicket
Jan Thomas
Chris Van Allsburg
Melanie Watt
Rosemary Wells
Mo Willems
Audrey Wood

Author Web Pages

For Older Readers

Avi
Judy Blume
Michael Buckley
Matt Christopher
Beverly Cleary
Eoin Colfer
Suzanne Collins
Christopher Paul Curtis
Roald Dahl
Jean Craighead George
Kate DiCamillo
Jack Gantos
Dan Gutman
Margaret Peterson Haddix
Mary Downing Hahn
Bruce Hale
Will Hobbs
Erin Hunter
Brian Jacques
Gordon Korman
Madeleine L'Engle
Gail Carson Levine

Lois Lowry
Ann M. Martin
L M Montgomery
Brandon Mull
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Mary Pope Osborne
Barbara Park
Gary Paulsen
Lincoln Peirce
Sara Pennypacker
Dav Pilkey
Johnathan Rand
Rick Riordan
J. K. Rowling
Angie Sage
Brandon Sanderson
Jon Scieszka
Seymour Simon
Roland Smith
Jerry Spinelli
Vivian Vande Velde
Laura Ingalls Wilder

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Authors & Illustrators
Who Have Visited Our Library

2005 David Anthony
2007 Jim Aylesworth
2008 Betty Birney
2005 Mark Crilley
2002 & 2004 Marci Curtis
2005 Charles David
2002 Kate DiCamillo
2010 Deborah Diesen
2006 Alex Flinn
2003 Jack Gantos
2009 Jim Gill
1998 Jamie Gilson
2004 Rhonda Gowler Greene
2001 Mary Downing Hahn
2007 Bruce Hale
2007 Ruth Harper

2008 Pete Hautman
2005 Will Hobbs
2007 Patrick Jones
2006 Jerry Pallotta
2010 Linda Sue Park
2003 Patricia Polacco
2000 Carolyn Reeder
2007 John H. Ritter
2009 Nancy Shaw
1999 Alfred Slote
2004 Roland Smith
2005 Terry Trueman
2006 Vivian Vande Velde
2007 Gloria Whelan
2009 Deborah Wiles
2006 Tom Woodruff

BabySitter Bags

Babysitter Bags are a great resource for anyone who is looking after toddlers and preschool age children. Each green canvas bag contains books, a DVD, and a variety of coloring and activity sheets on a specific theme. Look for the display of Babysitter Bags located in Library Youth Services.
There are more than 20 different themes to choose from:

Bears

Bedtime

Bugs

Cats

Colors

Counting

Cowboys

Dinosaurs

Dogs

Farms

Friendship

Frogs

Games

Garden

Jungle

Medieval Tales

Mice

Monkeys

Movement

Silly Eaters

Snow

Transportation

Under the Sea

eBooks

TumbleBooks
An online collection of animated fiction and nonfiction picture books for young children that they can read or have read to them.

TumbleReadables
An online collection of read-along titles for K-12 students which features adjustable online text and complete audio narration.

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Literature Databases

Use your library card number to get into these resources.

Novelist K-8
Great for book suggestions and figuring out book titles that you can't remember by describing the plot.

Literature Resource Center
For older researchers needing information on literary topics, authors, and their works, book reviews, and more.

Books & Authors
The reader's go-to site for book suggestions, titles, biographies, and more.

Something About the Author
Information about children's authors and illustrators, both past and present.