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Early Childhood Care Education

Library Resources for Early Childhood Education

Early Childhood Authors & Illustrators

Preschool and kindergarten authors/illustrators

ERIC CARLE – Large creepy crawlers cut from paper of vivid colors always create a happy surprise.

DONALD CREWS – Realistic objects familiar to young children appear in bold graphic images artfully designed.

LOIS EHLERT – Stunning shapes and strong colors capture exciting views in a child's mind.

ERIC HILL – Lift the flaps to play hide and seek games with Spot the dog who disappears under rugs or behind closet doors.

TANA HOBAN – A photographer captures fresh visions of the world through the lens of her camera.

BILL MARTIN JR – Simple sentences and natural rhythmic language patterns (melodies) ring out in the stories that help beginning readers learn how to read.

HELEN OXENBURY – Scraggly children bounce playfully and then clamber onto the comfortable laps of well-padded adults.

ROSEMARY WELLS – Max, an impish rabbit child, has a mind of his own when big sister Ruby tries to boss him around.

 

Grades 1 to 3 authors/illustrators

 

STAN AND JAN BERENSTAIN – A prolific team captures the rhythms of children's language in engaging stories.

JAN BRETT – A meticulous artist weaves subplots and intricate details into creative borders to extend the meaning carried in the central pictures.

MARC BROWN – Marc Brown presents a warm, witty and sometimes poignant look at facing a bully, losing a tooth, or accepting a new baby sister.

MARCIA BROWN – Marcia Brown adapts the art style (woodcuts, intricate cut paper, flamboyant cartoon, delicate watercolor) to enrich the special meaning of each story.

JOANNA COLE – Superb informational books present straight facts in photo essays or combine facts with riotous humor in the Magic School Bus books.

BARBARA COONEY – Gentle stories and beautiful art touch the heart and leave deep thoughts to ponder. New England scenes are especially provocative.

TOMIE DEPAOLA – Tomie tells wonderful Irish and Italian family stories using strong black line and folk-art style.

STEVEN KELLOGG – A heap of comic-strip detail spills from Kellogg's splashy, riotous, color-filled pages and causes children to pore over them.

LEO LIONNI – Deeper meanings permeate Lionni's stories more than the elegant, sophisticated collage and design art might suggest.

JERRY PINKNEY – He paints from live models, often African-Americans, in a realistic style using full-color art and well-crafted scenes.

MAURICE SENDAK – A superb artist whose books invite rereading and whose illustrations beg for repeated viewing.

DR. SEUSS (THEODORE S. GEISEL) – Creative genius whose spontaneous art and lilting lines sing children into reading on their own.

CHRIS VAN ALLSBURG – Van Allsburg gets you to think. He presents something that seems predictable but catches you by surprise when he turns it on end.