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Aylesworth, Jim
55 West Delaware Pl. #407
Chicago, IL 60610
(312) 573-0644
Website: http://www.ayles.com/
Titles: Naughty Little Monkeys, Goldilocks, Burger and the Hotdog, Full Belly Bowl, Tale of Tricky Fox.


Balliet, Blue
Contact Publisher: Charise Meloto
Email: cmeloto@scholastic.com
Website: Unavailable
Titles: Chasing Vermeer


Billingsley, Franny
Email: Frannybillingsley@yahoo.com
Website: http://www.frannybillingsley.com/
Titles: The Folk Keeper, Well-Wished.


Brill, Marlene Targ
Wilmette, IL 60091
(847) 251-4448
Email: marlenetbrill@comcast.net
Website: http://www.midlandauthors.com/brill.html
Titles: Bronco Charlie and the Pony Express, Margaret Knight: Girl Inventor, Diary of a Drummer Boy, Tooth Tales.


Brokaw, Nancy Steele
Bloomington, IL
Website: Unavailable
Titles: Leaving Emma.


Burleigh, Robert
Email: roburleigh@earthlink.net
Website: http://www.scbwi-illinois.org/Burleigh.html
Titles: Langston's Train Ride, By My Brother's Side, Seurat and La Gradne Jatte, American Moments, Into the Woods


Chocolate, Debbi
Website: Unavailable
Titles: Pigs Can Fly, Kente Colors.


Codell, Esme Raji
Website: http://www.planetesme.com
Titles: Sing a Song of Tuna Fish, Sahara Special.


Cooper, Ilene
861 St. Johns
Highland Park, Illinois 60035
(312) 280-5712
Email: icooper@ala.org
Website: http://www.ilenecooper.com
Titles: Sam I Am, Jack: The Early Years of John F. Kennedy, I'll See You in My Dreams, No-Thanks Thanksgiving.


Crimi, Carolyn
Website: http://www.carolyncrimi.com/
Titles: Boris and Bella, Tessa's Tip-Tapping Toes, Don't Need Friends, Outside, Inside.


Darrow, Sharon
Website: http://www.candlewick.com/
Titles: Through the Tempests Dark and Wild: a Story of Mary Shelley, Old Thunder and Miss Raney.


Day, Larry
Website: Unavailable
Titles: Rosa Loves to Read, William's House, Taking Flight, , Pearl Harbor.


Demuth, Patricia Brennan
Website: http://www.eduplace.com/
Titles: Achoo! All About Colds, Johnny Appleseed.


Erlbach, Arlene
Website: http://members.aol.com/niuherb/AErlbach.html
Titles: The Middle School Survival Guide, The Kids' Invention Book, Happy New Year Everywhere, Worth the Risk.


Fleming, Candace
Website: http://www.childrenslit.com/f_flemingcandace.html
Titles: This is the Baby, Ben Franklin's Almanac, Muncha! Muncha! Muncha!, Who Invited You?.


Fradin, Dennis and Fradin, Judith
2121 Dobson Street
Evanston, IL 60202
Email: fradinbooks@comcast.com
Website: Unavailable
Titles: Fight On: Mary Church Terrell's Battle for Integration, Signers: The 56 Stories Behind the Declaration of Independence, My Family Shall Be Free, Ida B. Wells.


Young-Fritz, April
16 Country Oaks Lane
Barrington, IL 60010
(847)277-0346
Email: april@aprilyoungfritz.com
Website: http://www.aprilyoungfritz.com/
Titles: Praying at the Sweetwater Motel.


Geisert, Arthur and Geisert, Bonnie
Website: Unavailable
Titles: Pigaroons, Mystery, Prarie Summer, Giant Ball of String, Nursery Crimes, Roman Numerals I to MM , Haystack.


Gilchrist, Jan Spivey
Website: http://dept.kent.edu/virginiahamiltonconf/Gilchrist.htm
Titles: Me and Neesie, How They Got Over, I Can Draw a Weeposaur and Other Dinosaurs.


Gile, John
Website: http://www.johngile.com
Titles: Oh, How I Wished I Could Read.


Gilson, Jamie
777 Michigan Avenue
Wilmette, IL 60091
(847)256-6230
Email: jamie@jamiegilson.com
Website: http://www.jamiegilson.com/
Titles: Stink Alley, Bug in a Rug, It Goes Eeeeeeeee!, Wagon Train 911.


Graeber, Charlotte
Website: Unavailable
Titles: Nobody's Dog , Fudge, Olivia and the Real Live Pet.


Gustafson, Scott
Website: Unavailable
Titles: Peter Pan, Alphabet Soup.


Harper, Charise Mericle
Chicago, IL
Website: http://www.chariseharper.com/
Titles: Yes, No, Maybe So, Fashion Kitty , The Monster Show : Everything You Never Knew About Monsters , The Trouble with Normal , Itsy Bitsy the Smart Spider, There was a Bold Lady Who Wanted a Star, When I Grow Up, Imaginative Inventions : the who, what, where, when, and why of Roller Skates, Potato Chips, Marbles, and Pie and more!.
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Hays, Michael
Website: Unavailable
Titles: Boy Who was Generous with Salt, Abiyoyo Returns, The History of Counting.


Hearne, Betsy
Website: http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/~hearne/longbio.html
Titles: Canine Connection , Wishes, Kisses, and Pigs, Who's in the Hall, Listening for Leroy.


Herman, Charlotte
Website: http://www.scbwi-illinois.org/Herman.html
Titles: Memory Cupboard, Max Malone Series, Millie Cooper Series.


Hershenhorn, Esther
Website: http://www.scbwi-illinois.org/Hershenhorn.html
Titles: Fancy That, Chicken Soup by Heart, Confession$ and $ecrets of Howard J. Fingerhut.


Hill, Lee Sullivan
Website: http://www.scbwi-illinois.org/Hill.html
Titles: Schools Help Us Learn, Get Around Series.


Holohan, Maureen
Website: Unavailable
Titles: Broadway Players Series.


Kaye, Rosalind Charney
Website: Unavailable
Titles: Sweet Strawberries.


Lawlor, Laurie
Website: http://www.laurielawlor.com/
Titles: School at Crooked Creek, Magnificent Voyages, Helen Keller: Rebellious Spirit, American Sisters.


Lerner, Carol
5834 S. Harper Ave.
Chicago, IL 60637
(773) 324-6950
or
(219) 324-2630
E-mail:caroldlerner@hotmail.com Website: http://www.scbwi-illinois.org/Lerner.html
Titles: Butterflies in the Garden, On the Wing: American Birds in Migration, My Indoor Garden, Backyard Birds of Summer.


Lichtenheld, Tom
Website: http://www.tomlichtenheld.com/
Titles: Everything I Know About Cars, Everything You Want to Know About Pirates, What are YOU so Grumpy About?.


Luthardt, Kevin
(847) 674-5429
Email: kevinluthardt@sbcglobal.net
Website: http://www.scbwi-illinois.org/Luthardt.html
or
http://www.kevinluthardt.com
Titles: Hats, Larabee, Peep, Mine!.


McElfresh, Lynn
Website: http://homepage.mac.com/lynnmcelfresh/LEM/welcome.html
Titles: Can You Feel the Thunder?.


McGowen, Tom
Website: Unavailable
Titles: Battle for Iwo Jima, African Americans in the Old West, The Alamo, Carrier War: Aircraft Carriers in World War II.


Miller, Mary Jane
Website: http://www.scbwi-illinois.org/Miller.html
Titles: Going the Distance, Fast Forward.


Monsell, Mary Elise
Website: Unavailable
Titles: A Fish Named Yum, Mr. Pin.


Montenegro, Laura
1700 Crain Street
Evanston, Illinois 60202
(847) 328-4175
Email: lauramontenegro@earthlink.net
Website: Unavailable
Titles: A Bird About to Sing.


Murphy, Patricia J.
E-mail: murphypjl@aol.com
Titles: Exploring Space with an Astronaut, Investigating Insects with a Scientist, Hearing, Sight, Smell, Taste, Touch, Around and Around, Push and Pull, Up and Down, Canada Day, Election Day.


Neimark, Anne
Website: Unavailable
Titles: Myth Maker: J.R. Tolkien, The Life of Woody Guthrie.


Nikola-Lisa, W.
Website: http://www.nikolabooks.com/pages/165074/index.htm
Titles: My Teacher Can Teach - Anyone, Setting the Turkeys Free, Summer Run Risin, To Hear the Angels Sing.


Okorafor-Mbachu, Nnedi
Chicago, IL
Website: http://www2.uic.edu/~nokora1/
Titles: Zahrah the Windseeker.


Pevsner, Stella
Website: http://www.midlandauthors.com/pevsner.html
Titles: Sing for Your Father, Su Phan, Is Everyone Moonburned but Me?.


Poole, Amy Lowry
Website: http://www.lowry-poole.com
Titles: How the Rooster Got His Crown, The Ant and the Grasshopper.


Raczka, Bob
488 Longfellow Avenue
Glen Ellyn, Illinois 60137
(630) 790-4057
Email: abraczkas@comcast.net
Website: http://www.scbwi-illinois.org/Raczka.html
Titles: More Than Meets the Eye, No One Saw: Ordinary Things, Art Is.


Robinet, Harriette
Website: http://www.hgrobinet.com/
Titles: Walking the Bus-Rider Blues, Twenty Horses, Missing from Haymarket Square.


Robinson, Fay
Website: Unavailable
Titles: Creepy Beetles, Halloween Crafts, Christmas Crafts.


Roemer, Heidi Bee
Email: HRoemer@gmail.com
Website: http://www.HeidiBRoemer.com
Titles: Come to My Party and Other Shape Poems.


Rohmann, Eric
Website: http://www.randomhouse.com/kids/catalog/author.pperl?authorid=26010
Titles: My Friend Rabbit, Time Flies, Prairie Train, Pumpkinhead.


Rosales, Melodye
Website: http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr/mtai/rosales.html
Titles: Leola and the Honeybears, Minnie Saves the Day.


Ruby, Laura
3330 North Nottingham
Chicago, Illinois 60634
(773) 205-4221
Email: lauraruby@lauraruby.com
Website: http://www.lauraruby.com/
Titles: Lily's Ghost.


Santucci, Barbara
1085 Whispering Pines Way
Rockford, Illinois 61114
(815) 885-3695
Email: bgsantucci@juno.com
Website: http://www.barbarasantucci.com/bscontact/
Titles: Loon Summer, Anna's Corn.


Schurfranz, Vivian
Titles: Message for General Washington.


Tarpley, Natasha
Website: Unavailable
Titles: Destiny's Gift, Joe-Joe's First Flight, Bippity Bop Barbershop.


Timberlake, Amy
Website: http://www.amytimberlake.com
Titles: That Girl Lucy Moon, The Dirty Cowboy


Turner, Glennette Tilley
Website: http://www.scbwi-illinois.org/Turner.html
Titles: Follow in Their Footsteps.


Walker, Sally M.
Website: Unavailable
Titles: Fossil Fish Found Alive, Early Bird Physics, Rays.


Walton, Darwin
18W725 13th Street
Lombard, Illinois 60148
(630) 620-1915
Email: jdmwalton@aol.com
Website: http://www.scbwi-illinois.org/Walton.html
Titles: Dance, Kayla!.


Welch, Sheila Kelly
Website: http://shadowplay.userworld.com/sheilawelch/
Titles: A Horse For All Seasons.


Wolff, Patricia Rae
Website: http://www.scbwi-illinois.org/Wolff.html
Titles: New Improved Santa.


 
 
      
   
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