List of children's non-fiction writers

This is a list of authors who have written non-fiction (informational) books for children. For a discussion of the criteria used to define something as a work of children's literature, see children's literature.

Peter Ackroyd (UK, born 1949) – history
David A. Adler (US, born 1947) – biographies
Agnes Allen (UK) – social history
Jules Archer (US, 1915–2008) – US history and politics
Philip Ardagh (UK, born 1961) – history, archaeology, mythology
Jennifer Armstrong (US, born 1961) – exploration
Caroline S. Arnold (US) – nonfiction books about animals, fossils, world cultures, global warming, and life cycles
Nick Arnold (UK, born 1964) – science, zoology
Russell Ash (UK, 1946–2010) – reference inc. The Top 10 of Everything
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (UK) – Scouting
Kelly Barnhill (US) – sewers, medicine
Thelma and Corydon Bell (US) – science, weather, time
Mary Boone (US) – nature/environment, history, world cultures, pop culture
Aliki Brandenberg (US) – history
Maria Elizabeth Budden (UK) – history and upbringing
Brian P. Cleary (US) – words, measurements
Daniel Cohen (US) – UFOs, the occult, ghosts, crypto-zoology
Joanna Cole (US) – science
Sneed B. Collard (US) – science, biology, conservation
Esther Copley (UK) – slavery, Bible natural history
Peter Corey (UK) – relationships, psychology, self-help; Coping With...
Sara Jane Crafts (US) – songs
Terry Deary (UK) – history, true stories
Dougal Dixon (UK) – futuristic zoology
Dorcas Dole (England) – Quakerism
Eleanor Doorly (UK) – history, biography
Evelyn Everett-Green (UK) – biography
Fanny Fern (US, 1811–1872) – humor, society
Mrs. E. M. Field (Ireland) – history
Leonard Everett Fisher (US) – colonial American craftsmen, legendary figures
Russell Freedman (US) – history and biography
Jackie French (Australia) – Australian history, natural history
Jean Fritz (US) – US history and legend
Anita Ganeri (UK) – geography
Gail Gibbons (US) – folklore, zoology, geography, history
Roger Lancelyn Green (UK) – myth, folklore, biography
Joyce Hansen (US) – African-American history, biography
Gerald Hausman (US) – biography, mythology, folklore
Gail Hennessey (US) – economics, biography
Don Herbert (US) – science
Susie Hodge (UK) – art history, practical art, history, science, religion, biography
James Janeway (England) – A Token For Children: stories of conversions
William Loren Katz (US) – African-American and Native American history
Jennie Ellis Keysor (US, 1860–1945) – American literature, art topics
Kathleen Krull (US) – biography, music, folklore
Poul Lange (Denmark and USA) – simple anatomy (body orifices)
Kathryn Lasky (US) – history, biography
Julius Lester (US) – African-American history
David Macaulay (US) – architecture, technology, design
John Malam (UK) – ancient history, archaeology, biography, natural history
Jane Marcet (UK) – chemistry, political economy, grammar
Mrs Markham (UK, real name Elizabeth Penrose – English history
Sandra Markle (US) – science
Fredrick McKissack (US) – African-American history, biography
Patricia McKissack (US) – African-American history, biography
Arthur Mee (UK) – reference, British geography
Milton Meltzer (US) – Jewish, African-American and American history, biography
Jenny B. Merrill (US) – Bible stories
Iain Moncreiffe of that Ilk (UK) – heraldry, royalty, Scottish clans
Jim Murphy (US) – US history
Darcy Pattison (US) – science, science history, and US history
L. du Garde Peach (UK) – historical biography
Pickles (pen name of Lisa Tolliver) – educational activity books
Ferry Piekart (NL) – cultural anthropology
Kjartan Poskitt (UK) – maths
Rhoda Power and Eileen Power (UK) – history
Charles Ray (UK) – editor of children's encyclopedias, such as Everybody's Enquire Within
Upendrakishore Raychowdhury (India) – Bengali
Ana María Rodríguez (US) – nature, science, cultures, history, health
Acharya Ramlochan Saran (India) – non-fiction Sanskrit, Hindi, Urdu, Maithili, English, Nepalese
Helen Roney Sattler (US) – natural history, science and technology
Miriam Schlein (US) – animals, space, time
Millicent Selsam (US) – biology
Elizabeth Missing Sewell (UK) – religion, education theory
Bonnie Shemie (US) – history of architecture
Katherine Binney Shippen (US) – history, invention, music
Seymour Simon (US) – science
Marilyn Singer (US) – zoology
Armstrong Sperry (US) – history, exploration, ethnology
Diane Stanley (US) – biographies
Philip Steele (UK) – history, junior biographies, peoples and cultures
Dugald Steer (UK) – Ologies
Dorothy Sterling (US) – nature, US history, civil rights
Shelley Tanaka (Canada) – history, biography, arts, archeology, environment
Isabel Thomas (UK) – science
R. J. Unstead (UK) – history
Anne de Vries (NL) – history and religion
Priscilla Wakefield (UK, 1751–1832) – science, recreation and travel
Mildred Pitts Walter (US) – African-American history and culture
Nadia Wheatley (Australia) – environment and multiculturalism
Philip Wilkinson (UK) – history, the arts, religion and architecture
Herbert S. Zim (US) – Golden Guides series, nature, science and technology
Allan Zullo (US) – survival, true stories, ghosts and sport

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