# 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