Authors and Illustrators

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  • Anastasia Suen

    Anastasia Suen is the author of more than one hundred books for children, including the award-winning Baby Born and Toddler Two, both published by Lee & Low Books, and Up!...
  • Dorothy Sullivan

    Dorothy Sullivan is an award-winning artist whose Cherokee heritage provides much of the inspiration for her work. She was especially pleased to be able to introduce children to traditional Cherokee...
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    Chief Jake Swamp

    Chief Jake Swamp (Tekaronianeken) was a founder of the Tree of Peace Society, an international organization promoting peace and conservation. Chief Swamp delivered the Thanksgiving Address throughout the world, as...
  • Katharine Swanson

    Katharine Swanson is a special education teacher who earned her teaching degree with a focus on mental and emotional disabilities. She currently teaches at Porter Road Elementary in Bear, Delaware,...
  • Jacqueline Sweeney

    Jacqueline Sweeney knew she wanted to be a writer from the time she was in fourth grade. She is now a full-time writer who also finds time to teach poetry...
  • 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,...
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    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.