This presentation will help guide students in C970 to select appropriate children's literature to integrate into classroom lessons.

1. A SAMPLING OF
POPULAR AUTHORS
AND
COMMON THEMES IN
CHILDREN’S
LITERATURE

2. PICTUREBOOK AUTHORS
Chris Van Allsburg
Jan Brett
Margarate Wise
Brown
Eric Carle
Tomi Depaola
Kevin Henkes
Christopher Myers
Patricia Polacco
Cynthia Rylant
Maurice Sendak
David Shannon
Mo Willems

3. NONFICTION AUTHORS
Seymour Simon
Joanna Cole
and Bruce
Degen
Gail Gibbons
Jerry Stanley

4. BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR AUTHORS
Jean Fritz
Russel Freedman
Jennifer Fisher
Bryant
Nathan Hale

5. FANTASY AUTHORS
Natalie Babbitt
L.Frank Baum
Roald Dahl
Kate DiCarmillo
C.S. Lewis
Mary Pope
Osborne
J.K. Rowling
J.R.R Tolkien

6. SCIENCE FICTION AUTHORS
Eoin Colfer
Suzanne Collins
James Dashner
Madeline L’Engle
Monica Hughes

7. REALISTIC FICTION AUTHORS
Judy Blume
Betsy Byers
Beverly Clearly
Andrew Clements
Virginia Hamilton
Lois Lowry
Gary Paulsen
Katherine
Patterson
Mildred Taylor

8. HISTORICAL FICTION AUTHORS
Kimberly Brubaker
Bradley
Louise Erdrich
Shirley Hughes
Shelley Pearsal
Pam Munoz Ryan
Lauren Tashis
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Laurence Yep

9. POETRY AUTHORS
Shel Silverstein
Jack Prelutsky
Edward Lear
Naomi Shihab Nye

10. FOLKLORE AUTHORS
Rob Cleveland
Mary Joan Gerson
Ann McGovern
Maria Zemko Tetro
Jerry Pinkney

11. THEME:
TEAMWORK AND COLLABORATION
The Real Boy by Anne Ursu (Fantasy, Grades 5-6)
Stella by Starlight by Sharon Draper (Historical Fiction, Grades 6-8)
City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau (Science Fiction, Grades 4-8)
The Seventh Most Important Thing by Shelley Pearsall
(Realism, Grades 6-8)
A Tale Dark and Grimm by Adam Gidwitz (Folklore, Grades 4-8)
Holes by Louis Sachar (Fantasy, Grades 4-7)
Sylvia and Aki by Winifred Conkling (Historical Fiction, Grades 4-7)
The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
(Animal Fantasy, Grades 5-6)
Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White (Fantasy, Grades 3-5)
The Little Red Hen (Fantasy, Grades 1-3)

12. THEME:
COURAGE IN THE FACE OF INJUSTICE
I’m Not a Number by Jenny Kay Dupuis and Kathy Kacer
(Historical Fiction, Grades 7-8)
I Dissent: How Ruth Bader Ginsburg Made her Mark by Debbie Levy and
Elizabeth Baddeley (Biography, Grades 3-5)
The Story of Ruby Bridges by Robert Coles (Biography, Grades 2-4)
Nasreen’s Secret School: A True Story from Afghanistan by Jeanette
Winter (Biography, Grades 2-4)
A Thousand Never Evers by Shana Burg (Historical Fiction, Grades 3-7)
Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
(Historical Fiction, Grades 4-8)
Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry (Realistic Fiction, Grades 4-8)
The Unwanteds by Lisa McMann (Fantasy, Grades 5-8)

13. THEME:
KINDNESS
Each Kindness by Jacqueline Woodson
(Realistic Fiction, Grades K-2)
The Invisible Boy by Trudy Ludwig
(Realistic Fiction, Grades K-2)
If You Plant a Seed by Kadir Nelson
(Animal Fantasy, Grades K-1)
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
(Fantasy, Grades K-2)
The Lion and the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney
(Fable, Grades K-2)
Wonder by R.J. Palacio (Realistic Fiction, Grades 4-7)

14. THEME:
MAKING A DIFFERENCE
The Dot by Peter Reynolds (Realistic Fiction, Grades K-2)
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
(Science Fiction, Grades 6-11)
New Shoes by Susan Lynn Meyer
(Historical Fiction, Grades 1-2)
World Pizza by Cece Meng (Fantasy, Grades K-1)
Si, Se Puede! / Yes, We Can! Janitor Strike in LA by
Diana Cohn (Realistic Fiction, Grades K-3)
I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
(Autobiography, Grades 5-8)