Our Authors and Illustrators

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  • Nicole Tadgell

    Nicole Tadgell is an award-winning African American illustrator for children. Her luminous, expressive illustrations warmly portray childhood life for children of all races. She has illustrated over twenty picture books...
  • Maryam Tahmasebi

    Maryam Tahmasebi is a freelance illustrator and designer based in Tehran. She’s illustrated six books published in Iran, which have been translated into Korean, Turkish, and Chinese. You can see...
  • Hideko Takahashi

    Hideko Takahashi was born in Osaka, Japan. She earned her BFA at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles and is now a full-time artist. Hideko has illustrated...
  • Sheri Tan

    Sheri Tan is a freelance writer and editor of books for children. She has worked at major publishers in New York City, as well as a publishing house in Singapore,...
  • Youshan Tang

    Youshan Tang grew up in Shanghai, China, and graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts and Peking University with degrees in Chinese art and literature. Since 1980, Tang has...
  • Natasha Anastasia Tarpley

    Natasha Anastasia Tarpley became a writer because she fell in love with words as a child, just like Destiny in her story Destiny’s Gift. The author of three award-winning picture...
  • Don Tate

    Don Tate is an award-winning author, and the illustrator of numerous critically acclaimed books for children. He is the recipient of the Ezra Jack Keats Book Award and the Carter...
  • Gaylia Taylor

    Gaylia Taylor was born in Cleveland, Ohio. She is a retired Reading Recovery® teacher who is pursuing a full-time career writing children’s books. She is the author of Bebop Books’...
  • Debbie Taylor

    Debbie Taylor is a first-time picture book author with a master’s degree in creative writing. She works at the University of Michigan and has had several stories published in children’s...
  • Christine Taylor-Butler

    Christine Taylor-Butler has written more than sixty books for children, including biographies, state histories, and several science and fiction series. She is also the author of the award-winning Sacred Mountain,...
  • Sunshine Tenasco headshot: brown-skinned Native woman with long, black hair and long earrings in front of brick wall.
    Sunshine Tenasco

    Sunshine Tenasco is Anishinaabe from Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg, Quebec, Canada. She is a mom of four kids and a clean water activist. A portion of the profits from her handmade...
  • Stanley Todd Terasaki

    Stanley Todd Terasaki makes his picture book debut with Ghosts for Breakfast, which is based on a similar incident encountered by his mother’s great-great-grandfather. Terasaki has a master’s degree in...
  • The Aguilar Sisters

    The Aguilar Sisters — Guillermina, Josefina, Irene, and Concepción –are Mexico’s most beloved folk art artisans. They learned how to make clay figurines from their mother, and their humorous ceramics...
  • The American Institutes for Research (AIR)

    Established in 1946, the American Institutes for Research (AIR) is a nonpartisan, not-for-profit organization that conducts behavioral and social science research and delivers technical assistance both domestically and internationally in...
  • The Master Artisans of Chigmecatitlán

    Bryant Boucher works around the world as a professional photographer and cinematographer.
  • Raúl the Third

    Raúl the Third is the two-time Pura Belpré award-winning author/illustrator of Lowriders to the Center of the Earth and Vamos! Let’s Go to the Market. His work centers the contemporary...
  • Sherry Thomas

    Sherry Thomas is the author of nineteen novels across multiple genres, including the acclaimed Lady Sherlock mystery series, a YA fantasy trilogy that began with The Burning Sky, and more...
  • Holly Thompson

    Holly Thompson has lived for more than twenty years in Kamakura, Japan, where she likes to gather wakame and observe the harvesting of cultivated wakame. Raised in New England, she...
  • Samantha Thornhill

    Samantha Thornhill is a poet, educator, and children’s book author. Her work has been published in over two dozen literary journals and anthologies. She has taught poetry to acting students...
  • Cheryl Thuesday

    Cheryl “Ras” Thuesday is an illustrator originally from London and who grew up in New Jersey. Her art style and love of vibrant colors are heavily influenced by her Caribbean...