Our Authors and Illustrators
Showing contributors starting with "L" - 21 to 40 of 59 results
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Amy Lee-Tai
Amy Lee-Tai was born in Queens, New York and is of Japanese and Chinese ancestry. She first learned of the internment from her mother and through her grandmother, Hisako Hibi’s... -
Rebecca Leer
Rebecca Leer has been a freelance illustrator for many years. Her illustrations and paintings have been awarded by organizations such as the New York Society of Illustrators, LA Society of... -
Karen Leggett Abouraya
Karen Leggett Abouraya is the author of Hands Around the Library: Protecting Egypt’s Treasured Books, which received the Arab American Book Award and a California Reading Association’s Eureka! Book Award... -
Júlio Leitão
Júlio Leitão was born in Luena, Angola. He came to the United States in 1985 and has taught dance for more than fifteen years. Leitão founded Batoto Yetu, an African... -
Susan Lendroth
Susan Lendroth enjoys telling tales set in the past and has written two previous picture books. She lives in the Los Angeles area with her daughter and an ill-mannered orange... -
Frane Lessac
Frané Lessac has illustrated more than thirty-five books for young readers, several of which she has also written. Born in New Jersey, Lessac later lived on the island of Montserrat.... -
Betsy Lewin
Betsy Lewin and her husband, Ted, have been traveling the world together for decades and have chronicled many of their wide-ranging adventures in books for young readers. In addition to... -
Xiaojun Li
Xiaojun Li is an internationally known children’s book illustrator, earning him awards in China, Japan, and the United States. Other picture books he has illustrated include The Narwhal’s Tusk and... -
Darryl Ligasan
Darryl Ligasan is a native of the Philippines, and now lives in New York City, where he works as an illustrator and designer, and teaches at the School of Visual... -
Margaret Lindmark
Margaret Lindmark was born in San Jose, California, and spent part of her childhood in El Salvador. Since then she has traveled to many Spanish-speaking countries, including Mexico, Costa Rica,... -
Kathleen D. Lindsey
Kathleen D. Lindsey won the New Jersey General Assembly Award for “A Stitch in Time,” a performance highlighting the history of African Americans before and after the Civil War. Sweet... -
Laurent Linn
Laurent Linn was born in Dallas, Texas, and earned an MFA at Syracuse University. He worked on the hit children’s show “Sesame Street” as a puppet and costume designer, winning... -
Lessie Jones Little
Lessie Jones Little was born in North Carolina in 1906 and died in 1986. She began writing in her late sixties and continued to write for the rest of her... -
Lessie Jones Little
Lessie Jones Little was born in North Carolina in 1906 and died in 1986. She began writing in her late sixties and continued to write for the rest of her... -
George Littlechild
George Littlechild is an internationally renowned artist from the Plains Cree Nation. His first book for Children’s Book Press, This Land Is My Land (1993), was the winner of both... -
Sylvia Liu
Sylvia Liu was inspired to write this story by the playful and loving relationship between her children and their Gong Gong. Before devoting herself to writing and illustrating children’s books,...
