I love children's book authors.
I've been lucky enough to meet a lot of them.
Do you recognize these children's book authors?
(Answers, from top left, clockwise: Seymour Simon, Gail Gibbons,
Richard Peck, Esme Raji Codell)
Here are ten I wish I had met:
Dr. Seuss (Ted Geissel)
Author and illustrator (The Little House)
Virginia Lee Burton
Amazing artist.
J. R. R. Tolkien
He looks so jolly with that pipe.
Illustrator Quentin Blake
E.B. White,
author of Charlotte's Web
and a brilliant essayist
Beverly Cleary,
author of Henry Huggins
and all the Beezus books,
shown here with the Beezus statue
I visited earlier this summer in Portland, Oregon
William Steig,
author and illustrator
of Shrek and
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
Robert McCloskey,
author and illustrator of
Make Way for Ducklings
and Homer Price
What bookish people would you like to meet?
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Great list. I never pictured Tolkien as being jolly. Nice picture :) Thanks for stopping by.
ReplyDeleteTolkien reminds me of a hobbit in that picture.
DeleteYou panicked me for a moment! Beverly Cleary is still alive at 96! Burton looks very friendly.
ReplyDeleteYes, she's alive and still quite active.
DeleteVery interesting list, I'd love to join your for your meetings with them....
ReplyDeleteWouldn't that be fun?!
DeleteWhat a wonderful list! I've gotten to meet some wonderful authors, but I'd really love to meet Stephen King, Erin Morgenstern, Christopher Pike, (the late) Maeve Binchy, Gail Carson Levine, Sarah Addison Allen and Ann Rule. Tolkien would have been amazing!
ReplyDeleteYes, Gail Carson Levine!
DeleteHow cool that we have Mr Blake in common! I really would have loved to meet Dr. Seuss now that you mention it... I'm sure he'd be very funny and inspirational.
ReplyDeleteI'm always especially interested in those who write and draw.
DeleteI included four 'children's authors' on my list too :-)
ReplyDeleteChildren's authors are my favorites.
DeleteWonderful list - it's lieka time capsule of some of my favorite children's authors :-) I wish I could just sit down with Dr. Seuss and watch him work.
ReplyDeleteMe, too.
DeleteI love your lit people on it I would definately like to meet too :) x
ReplyDeleteEnjoyed your list. Tolkein is on mine, too. I imagine he shows up on a few lists like this.
ReplyDeleteBet he's on a lot of lists.
DeleteWow, great list! So many great authors on there. I thought about including Dr. Seuss in mine, but I also love Quentin Blake and Beverly Cleary.
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by!
I wonder if he'd have been a great guy to meet in real life.
DeleteBest list I've seen all day, nicely done. And thanks so much for stopping by kaye—the road goes ever ever on
ReplyDeleteYours is really a lovely, lovely list :) I'm afraid I don't know many of them (bad, bad reader), but I'm all for Quentin Blake and Tolkien!
ReplyDeleteQuentin Blake is fascinating, isn't he?
DeletePG Wodehouse, EB White, Virginia Woolf.
ReplyDeleteWodehouse is on my someday list.
DeleteTolkien truly would have been a fascinating person to meet. Dr.Seuss would have been great too. I would probably come away with some awesome quotes.
ReplyDeleteThank You for stopping by my blog!
Dr. Seuss would be amazing! :) I was lucky enough to meet Esme at a librarian conference...extremely nice and pretty wonderful.
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I wish I'd met Maurice Sendak!
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