Played by Daniel Radcliffe on the big screen, Harry James Potter is one of the most famous wizards of modern times. He just doesn’t know it’s when the story begins. On his tenth birthday, Harry learns that he is a wizard, and joins Hogwarts where he meets Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. Harry Potter is…
Written by the British writer Brian Jacques, Redwall is a series of children’s fantasy novels with anthropomorphic animals (like mice, otters, moles, squirrels, hedgehogs, and more). This is about the inhabitants of Redwall Abbey and the surrounding Mossflower Woods. The Woodlanders and Redwallers go on expeditions, fight monsters, or must fend off hordes of vermin…
Junie B. Jones is a children’s book series written by Barbara Park (1947–2013) and illustrated by Denise Brunkus telling the stories of an outrageously funny kindergartener named… Junie B. Jones! As Scholastic described the series: There’s no one quite like Junie B. Jones. Filled with spunk, sass, and determination, this outspoken firecracker faces each bump…
Garth Richard Nix is an Australian and best-selling author writing in the fantasy genre, specializing in children and young adults. Though he has been a published author since the 1990s, he became a full-time writer in 2001. Now, his books have been sold around the world and have been translated into 42 languages. According to…
Written by Irish playwright Derek Landy, Skulduggery Pleasant is a series of horror/comedy/fantasy novels following the adventures of an undead sorcerer and detective and his partner. This is the story of the 400-year-old detective named Skulduggery Pleasant who is a walking and talking skeleton, and his partner Stephanie Edgley who goes by the name Valkyrie…
Sophie Kinsella has been writing romantic comedies for over two decades. Born in London, Sophie Kinsella has graduated from Oxford University and worked as a financial journalist, before becoming a fiction writer. Her first book was published when she was 26, under her real name, Madeleine Wickham. She found critical and public success and went…
Brandon Mull is a #1 New York Times best-selling author of the Fablehaven, Beyonders, and Five Kingdoms series. Born in 1974, he did several jobs before becoming a full-time writer: he worked as a comedian, a filing clerk, a patio installer, a movie promoter, a copywriter, and briefly as a chicken stacker. Mull dreamed of…
Goosebumps is a series of children’s horror fiction novels by American author R. L. Stine. The series began in July 1992. Like all good stories, the success wasn’t there at the beginning and the adventure almost ended with the sixth book. Soon enough, the public found their way to the Goosebumps series and the rest…
David Baldacci is an American novelist born and raised in Richmond, Virginia. He practiced law in Washington, D.C. for a few years before publishing his first book, Absolute Power in 1996. Soon after, the book got a feature film adaptation followed, with Clint Eastwood as its director and star. Since then, David Baldacci has published…
Dav Pilkey is an American cartoonist, author, and illustrator of children’s literature from Cleveland, Ohio. He started creating characters like “Captain Underpants” in elementary school. He grew up, but the characters stayed with him, but his first book, World War Won, was an allegorical fable inspired by the nuclear arms race. Captain Underpants is a…
Born in 1971, Conn Iggulden is a British author who specialized in historical fiction. He first worked as an English teacher before leaving his position to write his debut novel, The Gates of Rome, the first in a five-part series entitled Emperor and centered around Julius Caesar, from childhood to his death. Iggulden became a…
Magic Tree House is an American series of children’s books written by the American author Mary Pope Osborne and illustrated by Salvatore Murdocca until 2016, after which AG Ford took over. This is the story of Jack and Annie Smith, two normal children from the fictional small town of Frog Creek, Pennsylvania, who are sent…
