This list is continually updated, and you may well have favourites of your own which I haven't remembered or come across. It is however the fruits of a lifetime of reading, loving, reviewing (and now writing) children's fiction. If I haven't recommended a book by an author on the list it's usually because it is less good than those that are.

If there is a children's author, British or American, I have left out whom you feel strongly should be included then write to c/o Antony Harwood Agency, 103 Walton St., Oxford OX2 6EB, or ant@antonyharwood.com

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