List of children's non-fiction writers
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) - history
- David A. Adler (USA) - biographies
- Jules Archer (USA) - US history and politics
- Philip Ardagh (UK) - history, archaeology, mythology
- Jennifer Armstrong (USA) - exploration
- Nick Arnold (UK) - science, zoology
- Russell Ash (UK) - reference inc. The Top 10 of Everything
- Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (UK) - Scouting
- Lionel Bender (UK) - science, natural history, medicine and technology
- Tristan Boyer Binns (UK) - history, science and biography
- Aliki Brandenberg (USA) - history
- Maria Elizabeth Budden (UK) - history and upbringing
- Brian P. Cleary (USA) - words, measurements
- Daniel Cohen (USA) - UFOs, the occult, ghosts, cryptozoology
- Joanna Cole (USA) - science
- Sneed B. Collard (USA) - science, biology, conservation
- Esther Copley (UK) - slavery, Bible natural history
- Peter Corey (UK) - relationships, psychology, self-help. Coping With...
- Terry Deary (UK) - history, true stories
- Dougal Dixon (UK) - futuristic zoology
- Eleanor Doorly (UK) - history, biography
- Leonard Everett Fisher (USA) - colonial American craftsmen, legendary figures
- Jean Fritz (USA) - US history and legend
- Russell Freedman (USA) - history and biography
- Jackie French (Australia) - Australian history, natural history
- Anita Ganeri (UK) - geography
- Gail Gibbons (USA) - folklore, zoology, geography, history
- Roger Lancelyn Green (UK) - myth, folklore, biography
- Richard Gunn (UK) - road transport
- Gail Hennessey (USA) - economics, biography
- Don Herbert (USA) - science
- Susie Hodge (UK) - art history, practical art, history, science, religion, biography
- James Janeway (UK) - A Token For Children: stories of conversions
- William Loren Katz (USA) - African-American & Native American history
- Kathleen Krull (USA) - biography, music, folklore
- Poul Lange (Denmark and USA) - simple anatomy (body orifices)
- Kathryn Lasky (USA) - history, biography
- Julius Lester (USA) - African-American History
- Mark Levesley (UK) - science
- David Macaulay (USA) - architecture, technology, design
- John Malam (UK) - ancient history, archaeology, biography, natural history
- Sandra Markle (USA) - science
- Cotton Mather (USA) - A Token for the Children of New England: stories of conversions
- Arthur Mee (UK) - reference, British geography
- Milton Meltzer (USA) - Jewish, African-American and American history, biography
- Iain Moncreiffe of that Ilk (UK), heraldry, royalty, Scottish clans
- Neil Morris (UK) - history, geography, general reference and information
- Jim Murphy (author) (USA) - US history
- L. du Garde Peach (UK) - historical biography
- Pickles (pen name of Lisa Tolliver) - educational activity books
- 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 (USA) - nature, science, cultures, history, health
- Acharya Ramlochan Saran (India) - non-fiction Sanskrit, Hindi, Urdu, Maithili, English, Nepalese
- Helen Roney Sattler (USA) - natural history, science and technology
- Miriam Schlein (USA) - animals, space, time
- Millicent Selsam (USA) - biology
- Seymour Simon (USA) - science
- Marilyn Singer (USA) - zoology
- Armstrong Sperry (USA) - history, exploration, ethnology
- Dugald Steer (UK) – Ologies
- Philip Steele (UK) – history, junior biographies, peoples and cultures
- Dorothy Sterling (USA) - nature, US history, civil rights
- Shelley Tanaka (Canada) - history, biography, arts, archeology, environment
- R. J. Unstead (UK) - history
- Anne de Vries (NL) - history, religion
- Nadia Wheatley (Australia) - environment, multiculturalism
- Philip Wilkinson (UK) - history, the arts, religion, architecture
- Herbert S. Zim Author of the Golden Guides series, and many other books on nature, science, and technology
- Allan Zullo (USA) - survival, true stories, ghosts, sport
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