Web Sites of Favorite Kids' Authors

Here is a list of web sites maintained by some popular children's authors. Click on the links and find out how some of your favorite characters were created, download pictures to color, play games, and more.

Let us know what you think of this page. And if you know of authors' sites we haven't included, send them to us and we may include them on our site. You can email David Mello, the Fall River children's librarian.

Frank Asch

Author/illustrator of the Moonbear series   

Avi

Author of Something Upstairs, Crispin and the Poppy series

Jan Brett

Author/illustrator of the The Mitten, Gingerbread Boy, & Hedgie's Surprise

Marc Brown  

Author/illustrator of the Arthur series 

Eric Carle

Author/illustrator of The Very Hungry Caterpillar and others

Kevin Henkes

Author/illustrator of Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse and others

Bernard Most

Author of If the Dinosaurs Came Back

Dav Pilkey                 

Author/illustrator of the Captain Underpants series

Patricia Polacco

Author/illustrator of The Butterfly, Emma Kate and others

J.K. Rowling

Author of the Harry Potter series
Click here for more Harry Potter sites!

Lemony Snicket

Author of A Series of Unfortunate Events

Rosemary Wells

Author/Illustrator of Max's Chocolate Chicken, Max's Christmas, & Nosy Nora

Dan Yaccarino
Author/illustrator of If I Had a Robot, Unlovable, and Oswald

Books by all these authors can be found at the Library.