Thirty-Five Authors and Illustrators
Parents and Teachers Should Know



 
 

Preschool and Kindergarten
 
 
Author/
Illustrator
Book Cover
Title/
date of publication
Artistic media or style/
Literary Genre
Eric Carle
The Grouchy Ladybug
1977
collage
Donald Crews
Truck
1980
 concept books
pre-separated art
Lois Elhert
Color Zoo
1989
cut paper / die cut
Eric Hill
Where's Spot?
1980
 concept books
Tana Hoban
Is It Red? Is It Yellow?
Is It Blue?
1987
photography
Bill Martin, Jr.
Brown Bear, 
Brown Bear,
What Do You See?
1983
collage
Helen Oxenbury
Tickle, Tickle
1986
 representational style
Rosemary Wells
Max's Bedtime
1998
ficiton
 Vera B. Williams
More, More, More Said the Baby: 3 Love Stories
1990
multicultural

 
 

Grades 1 - 3
 
Author/
Illustrator
Book Cover
Title/
date of publication
Artistic media or style/
Literary Genre
Jan Brett
The Mitten
1989
 
pen and ink drawings/
fiction

 
Margaret  Wise Brown
 Once a Mouse
1961
watercolor 
Barbara Cooney
 Miss Rumphius
1982
 watercolor
David Diaz
 Smoky Night
1994
collage 
Leo and Diane Dillon
 Why Mosquitos Buzz in People's Ears
1975
 clean lines, attention to detail, innovative use of color
Eloise Greenfield
 Grandfather's Face
1988
poetry 
Kevin Henkes
Owen
1993
 cartoon style
pen and ink line drawings
Ezra Jack Keats
The Snowy Day
1962
 multicultural
oil paintings & sketches
 Barbara Lavallee
Mama, Do You Love Me?
1991
 watercolors
Leo Lionni
 Little Blue and
Little Yellow
1998
 collage
 David Macaulay
 Black and White
1990
 "show and tell" books/
watercolor
Robert McCloskey
 Make Way for Ducklings
1941
  pencil drawings
Brian Pinkney
and
Jerry Pinkney
 Duke Ellington
1998

The Ugly Duckling
1999

 scratchboard
 

watercolors / acrylics

Patricia Polacco
Babuska's Doll
1994
 mixed media
Peggy Rathmann
Officer Buckle and Gloria
1995
comic style 
with lively colors 
Faith Ringgold
Tar Beach
1991
gouache
(pronounced gwash)
Allen Say
 Grandfather's Journey
1993
 representational style

watercolors

 Maurice Sendak
 Where the
Wild Things Are
1963
pen and ink /
fantasy
David Shannon
No, David!
1998
 expressionism
 Chris VanAllsburg
 The Polar Express
1985
 expressionism
David Wiesner
 Sector 7
1999

Tuesday
1991

watercolors 
David Wisniewski
 Golem
1996

Ducky
1998

 cut paper
Jane Yolen
Owl Moon
1987
 fantasy and
science fiction
Ed Young
 Lon Po Po
1989
 multicultural folktales/
watercolor and pastel
Paul Zelinsky
 Rapunzel
1997
expressionism
oil 

 
 
 

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