Authors / Titles as Wonderful as

Philip Pullman and His Work

Suggested by Child_lit participants and compiled by Janet Zarem, reposted with Janet's permission. -- April 2003

This is the list that resulted from my inquiry for a colleague re:
authors as wonderful as Philip Pullman and Margaret Mahy. Authors, and sometimes titles, follow first. Afterwards I've listed the names of those who contributed. If your name or title or author are missing (it seems like such a short list), I apologize! You know who you are. In the general chaos prevailing these days, it wouldn't surprize me if some information dropped through the cracks. I was seeking, and mostly got, books for middle grade and YA readers.

AUTHORS AND TITLES

Ursula LeGuin: "Earthsea Chronicles"

Robin McKinley: "Blue Sword," "Hero and Crown"

(early) Anne McCaffrey

Sylvia Waugh: "Mennyms" series

Jane Yolen's middle grade and YA novels

T.H. White: "The Once and Future King"

Lloyd Alexander: "The Prydain Chronicles"

David Almond: "Skellig," "Kit's Wilderness"

Anne Fine: "Up on Cloud Nine"

Sylvia Cassedy: "Lucie Babbidge's House," "Behind the Attic Wall"

Geraldine McCaughrean: "Stop the Train"

Cynthia Rylant's books for older children

Wrightson: "Dark Bright Water" series

Dianna Wynne Jones' series

Gregory Maguire

Mervy Peake's "Gormenghast" series

Peter Dickinson

Madeleine L'Engle

Adams: "Watership Down"

Cynthia Voight

Garth Nix

Joan Aiken: "Wolves of Willoughby Chase" series

"The Seeing Stone"

"The Sterkarm Handshake"

Orson Scott Card: "Ender's Game"

Cornelia Funke: "The Thief Lord"

Susan Fletcher: "Shadow Spinner"

Alan Garner: "The Owl Service"

Philippa Pearce: "Tom's Midnight Garden"

Lois Lowry's middle grade and YA novels (the new one, "The Silent Boy"
bowled me over)

Gail Carson Levine

"The Folk Keeper"

Donna Jo Napoli

Eloise McGraw: "Moonchild"

Patricia McKillip: "The Riddle-Master of Hed" trilogy

Patricia Wrede: "The Enchanted Forest" trilogy

Jennifer Armstrong: "Fire-Us" books

Patrice Kindl

Nancy Farmer

CONTRIBUTORS

Jane Wickenden, Megan Isaac, Elise Anne Earthman, Nicholas Glass, Karen Simonetti, Anne Holcolm Paradise, Diane Langston, Monica Edinger, Barbara of the Bluebonnets, Vicky Dworkin, Micki Nevett, Susan Dove Lempke, Doug Mitchell, Clare Ferguson, Jennifer Armstrong (recommending books other than her own), Susan Fichtelberg, Linnea Hendrickson, Jean Hatfield, Ann Dowker, A. Rutledge, Kathryn Graham, and myself[, Janet Zarem.]

Last Updated

April 12, 2003