Elijah is my 8 year old bibliovore, and here are five of his favorite authors (in no particular order).
#1- Clyde Robert Bulla
The Secret Valley
The Sword in the Tree
Squanto Friend of the Pilgrims
The Chalk Box Kid
Riding the Pony Express
Pirate’s Promise
Viking Adventure
#2- Elizabeth Enright
The Saturdays
The Four-Story Mistake
Then There Were Five
Spiderweb for Two: A Melendy Maze
#3- Thornton Burgess
The Adventures of Prickly Porky
Old Mother West Wind
The Adventures of Old Mr. Toad
The Adventures of Grandfather Frog
The Adventures of Johnny Chuck
The Adventures of Reddy Fox
Mrs. Peter Rabbit
Old Granny Fox
The Adventures of Peter Cottontail
The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk
The Adventures of Buster Bear
Buster Bear’s Twins
Mother West Wind’s Neighbors
The Adventures of Old Man Coyote
Mother West Wind’s Animal Friends
++many more!
#4- Beverly Cleary
Otis Spofford
Socks
Emily’s Runaway Imagination
Henry Huggins
Henry and the Paper Route
Henry and Beezus
Henry and the Clubhouse
Henry and Ribsy
#5- L. Frank Baum
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
The Marvelous Land of Oz
Ozma of Oz
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
The Road to Oz
The Emerald City of Oz
The Patchwork Girl of Oz
Tik-Tok of Oz
The Scarecrow of Oz
Rinkitink in Oz
The Lost Princess of Oz
The Tin Woodman of Oz
The Magic of Oz
Who are your child’s favorite authors?
Thanks for the lists…..my oldest is 7 and I’m always looking for new authors/series to introduce him to. His current favorites are Marc Brown and Mary Pope Osborn.
Thanks for adding to my Amazon shopping cart 🙂
Love the book list and will be finding these authors at the library! Thank you!!!
I’m loving the lists AND even better some are new authors or new books! Thanks!
We love Beverly Cleary too 🙂
SweetPea (dd7) also loves Peggy Parish, Kevin Henkes, Steven Kellogg, and Lois Ehlert.