Our Authors and Illustrators

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  • Laura Lacámara

    Laura Lacámara is both an author and illustrator of children’s books. She is a popular presenter at schools, book festivals, libraries, and conferences, and is an active member of the...
  • Megan Lacera k

    Megan Lacera grew up in the suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio, with a book always in her hands. She became a writer and creator of characters and worlds for entertainment companies....
  • Megan Lacera

    Megan Lacera grew up in the suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio, with a book always in her hands. She became a writer and creator of characters and worlds for entertainment companies....
  • London Ladd

    London Ladd graduated from Syracuse University with a BFA in Illustration. He works primarily in acrylic print in a painterly style, for which his picture book illustrations have been highly...
  • Chief Lady Bird headshot: light-skinned native woman wearing brown beanie, glassess, "Land Back" earrings, and two braided pigtails.
    Chief Lady Bird

    Chief Lady Bird is a Chippewa and Potawatomi artist from Rama First Nation and Moose Deer Point First Nation. The first artist to create an emoji for Twitter for Indigenous...
  • Alexandria LaFaye

    A. LaFaye is the author of more than a dozen books, including the Scott O’Dell Award winning novel Worth and the Skipping Stones Honor Book Walking Home to Rosie Lee,...
  • René Colato Laínez

    René Colato Laínez was born in El Salvador. He is an award-winning author who holds an MFA in Writing for Children from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. Críticas has...
  • Jessica Lanan

    Jessica Lanan is an award-winning author and artist from Longmont, Colorado. She’s the illustrator of many children’s books including Lee & Low Books’s The Story I’ll Tell which received two...
  • Sarah Langford

    Sarah Langford is currently a student at Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing. She is especially interested in the health care needs of immigrants and refugees living in United States....
  • Rajani LaRocca

    Rajani LaRocca is the author of many acclaimed novels and picture books for children, including Red, White, and Whole which received the Newbery Honor. She was born in Bangalore, India,...
  • Amelia Lau Carling

    Amelia Lau Carling was born and grew up in Guatemala, the youngest of six children of Chinese immigrants. Surrounded by family and customers in her parents’ general store, she learned...
  • Gwendolyn Lavert

    Dr. Gwendolyn Lavert is an educator and literacy consultant based in Bedford, Texas. She’s the author of more than twenty children’s books including Papa’s Mark, The Music in Derrick’s Heart,...
  • Diane Lawson

    Diane Lawson was born and raised in a spectacularly tiny town in Missouri. She studied medicine at the University of Illinois School of Medicine and did her residency in psychiatry...
  • Georgina Lazaro

    Georgina Lázaro adapted the English text of Alicia and the Hurricane into Spanish. She is a Puerto Rican poet who has written poems that introduce children to Frederico García Lorca,...
  • Dorina Lazo Gilmore

    Dorina Lazo Gilmore-Young grew up in a Filipino-Polynesian-Indian-Italian family in the kitchen with her mama, aunties and grandmas. Today, she loves to create recipes and share stories in the kitchen...
  • Emeline Lee

    Emeline Lee is an author of children’s literature. Her debut picture book, Bonnie’s Rocket, illustrated by Alina Chau and published by Lee & Low Books, is a STEM-friendly story set...
  • Emeline Lee

    Emeline Lee grew up hearing stories about her grandfather’s work on the Apollo 11 moon landing, which inspired her own fascination with science. She studied English literature and environmental sustainability...
  • Dom Lee

    Dom Lee made his picture-book debut with Baseball Saved Us. He grew up in Seoul, South Korea, and went on to illustrate books in both the United States and Korea....
  • Keunhee Lee

    Keunhee Lee is a contributing illustrator for America: My Land, Your Land, Our Land. Dom and Keunhee Lee live in Demarest, New Jersey, with their two children.