Help us find and improve next week's Connection Finder profiles: Children's Authors [closed]

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March 2 is Seuss Day in the US, the birthday of Dr. Seuss, so we're featuring him and other children's books authors in the Connection Finder next week.

Here's who we're getting started on:

Can you help with these profiles, or expand their families? Adding relatives in any direction helps with connections. Every missing relative you add will make our connections to them closer.

Who else should we feature? Do they need a profile?

All profiles we feature need a good biography and a connection to the big tree. We also want each one to have an image, and the image needs to have proper source attribution explaining why it's in the public domain or why we have the right to display it.

We can't feature everyone mentioned (we only have room for eleven per week), but if we don't feature a profile you work on, we may use it sometime in the future. And, of course, all contributions help improve our shared tree.

We'll make a final decision on which ones to feature early next week.

Please reply here with what you're working on so that we don't duplicate our efforts. Thank you!

To help us plan future themes, see the 2022 Example Profile Plans post here.

WikiTree profile: Ted Geisel
closed with the note: Feature: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1381318/which-childrens-author-are-you-most-closely-connected-to
in The Tree House by Abby Glann G2G6 Pilot (731k points)
closed by Abby Glann

We need German and Jewish experts for H.A. Rey (and wife, Margret). 

42 Answers

+7 votes
Stan Berenstain has a profile and picture, but is not connected.
by Susanna Yeakel G2G6 Mach 3 (35.7k points)
Thanks, Susanna.
+6 votes
Eric Carle, Carle -1086, has a profile, picture, and is connected.  The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
by Susanna Yeakel G2G6 Mach 3 (35.7k points)
Thanks, Susanna.
+7 votes
Tomie DePaola has a short profile, no pictures,  and is connected.  Strega Nona, Jamie O'Roarke and the Pooka, The Legend of the Poinsettia, Clown of God,  etc.
by Susanna Yeakel G2G6 Mach 3 (35.7k points)
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+7 votes

Please consider the wonderful Ashley Bryan, who just recently passed away at the age of 98.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bryan-7891

by Jaki Erdoes G2G6 Mach 6 (63.8k points)
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+8 votes

Laura Elizabeth (Ingalls) Wilder (1867 - 1957) for the Little House on the Prairie books. Has picture is connected.

for some international diversity the brothers Grimm? https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Grimm-213 And https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Grimm-212 are connected and have portraits

by Anne Young G2G6 Mach 9 (95.3k points)
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+6 votes

French author famous for his fables Jean de La Fontaine (1621 - 1695) connected and has portrait

by Anne Young G2G6 Mach 9 (95.3k points)
edited by Anne Young
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+6 votes
Norman Bridwell, Bridwell-149, author of the Clifford the Big Red Dog series as well as Clifford, the Small Red Puppy series.  Has a small profile, picture, and is connected.
by Susanna Yeakel G2G6 Mach 3 (35.7k points)
Thanks, Susanna.
+7 votes

Passed away in the past few years:

  • Eric Carle

  • Beverly Cleary

  • Betsy Byars

Others to consider (haven't edited out those living, but it's from a list of most popular 100 children's books:
  • Shel Silverstein
  • Don Freeman
  • Crockett Johnson
  • Arnold Lobel
  • Laura Joffe
  • Margaret Wise Brown
  • Jon Sccieszka
  • Janell Cannon
  • Bill Martin, Jr.
  • Gene Zion
  • Ezra Jack Keats
  • McCloskey
  • Beatrix Potter
  • P. D. Eastman
  • Michael Rosen
  • Stan and Jan Berenstain
  • Janette Sebring Lowrey
  • Munro Leaf
  • Michael Bond
  • Peggy Parish
  • Julia Donaldson
  • William Steig
  • Watty Piper
  • Lane Smith
  • Maurice Sendak
  • Robert McCloskey
  • Ian Falconer
  • Mitsumasa Anno
  • Jon Klassen
  • A. A. Milne
  • Robert Munsch
  • Arlene Mosel
  • Ruth Gannett
  • Mo Willems
  • Albert Lamorisse
  • Divya Srinivasan
  • Philip Stead
  • Richard Scarry
  • Jack Prelutsky
  • Tad Hills
  • Jean De Brunhoff
  • Allen Say
  • Harry Allard
  • Blanche F. Wright
  • Sharon M. Draper
  • Eric Litwin
  • Jane Yolen
  • David Wiesner
  • Barbara Cooney
  • William Steig
  • Drew Daywalt
  • Ezra Jack Keats
  • Wanda Gág
  • Virginia Lee Burton
  • Thacher Hurd
  • Kay Thompson
  • Russell Hoban
  • Graeme Base
  • Jackie French
  • Mac Barnett
  • Alexandra Day
  • Walter Dean Myers
  • Chris Van Allsburg
  • Esther Averill
  • Aaron Becker
  • Virginia Lee Burton
  • Alexis Deacon
  • Jon J. Muth
  • Kadir Nelson
  • Marc Brown
  • Maira Kalman
  • Dennis Lee
  • Taro Gomi
  • Ed Young
  • Michelle Knudsen

by Jennifer Fulk G2G6 Mach 5 (59.7k points)

It looks like Peggy Parish doesn’t have a profile - here’s her Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peggy_Parish she wrote Amelia Bedelia

Thanks, Jennifer and Liz.
+6 votes

I can’t find her profile (swore she had one) but Junie B Jones author Barbara Park? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Park

by Liz Marshall G2G6 Pilot (111k points)
Thanks, Liz.
+6 votes

There’s also Joanna Cole (wrote the Magic School Bus series) - https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Basilea-1 not connected tho

by Liz Marshall G2G6 Pilot (111k points)
Thanks, Liz.
+6 votes

Judy Blume needs a profile (living tho) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Blume

by Liz Marshall G2G6 Pilot (111k points)
Thanks, Liz.
+6 votes
Reyersbach-1 might be possible to connected to Warburg-10. Warburg-10 daughters husbands father might be Hans Augusto Reys maternal grandmothers brother.

Moritz Moses Warburg → Louise Martha Derenberg-Warburg (his daughter) → Dr. Julius Derenberg (her husband) → Carl Derenberg (his father) → Bertha Windmüller (his sister) → Martha Rosalie Reyersbach (her daughter) → Hans Augusto Rey (her son).
by Axel Svensson G2G6 Mach 2 (21.8k points)
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+5 votes
J. K. Rowling

Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens

Charles Dodgson/Lewis Carroll
by Frank Blankenship G2G6 Pilot (129k points)
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+6 votes

I don't THINK Eugene Field (Sr.) has been mentioned yet... Field-1801

by J Stewart G2G6 Mach 2 (25.1k points)
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+7 votes

E B White (1899-1985) - wrote Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little.  Connected, has photos

by E. Compton G2G6 Pilot (194k points)
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+7 votes

Some others with profiles that may not have been mentioned above and most may add some racial diversity: 

Jerry Pinkney - award winning illustrator who also wrote and illustrated his own books. 

Ashley Bryan - very recently deceased

Lee Maracle - not connected to anyone

Eloise Greenfield - Children's book, biography and poetry writer

Lois Ehlert - Author and illustrator. Profile is connected.

by Erin English Bailey G2G6 Mach 1 (18.3k points)
Thanks, Erin.
+8 votes

One of my favourites as a small child was Richard Scarry , Aesop (umm haven't looked but doubt they are on here!), Enid whos been mentioned and wikipedia link for Heinrich Hoffmann but spent a lot of time reading Ladybird books too not sure if authors  were named.  

by Heather Jenkinson G2G6 Pilot (127k points)
I remember those Richard Scarry books!!!

They were a huge part of my reading day back in the 1970s.

Have not seen any of those books for aaaaages!!!
Thanks, Heather.
+8 votes
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Streatfeild-50

Noel Streatfeild, writer of lovely books about theatre children. Connected, photo, could use more bio.
by Kate Schmidt G2G6 Pilot (121k points)
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+6 votes

Harriet Lothrop/Margaret Sidney wrote the 5 little peppers and how they grew https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Stone-5529

by Liz Marshall G2G6 Pilot (111k points)
Thanks, Liz.
+7 votes

The Bobbsey Twins was written by “”Laura Lee Hope”” which was really the pen name for multiple authors, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Lee_Hope including https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Stratemeyer-2

Gertrude Chandler Warner wrote the Boxcar Children https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Warner-2841

Lucille Clifton https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucille_Clifton

by Liz Marshall G2G6 Pilot (111k points)
Thanks, Liz.

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