Academic and Educational journals
- Quackenbush, Robert 1929–
- Religion in Children's Literature
- Representations of the Holocaust in Children's Literature
- Roberts, Elizabeth Madox 1881-1941
- Robin McKinley
- Rohmann, Eric 1957-
- Rosa Guy 1925–
- Rose Blanche
- Rosemary Sutcliff 1920–1992
- Rossetti, Christina 1830–1894
- Rowling, J. K. 1966-
- Russell Hoban 1925–
- Scieszka, Jon 1954-
- Scott O'Dell
- Seuss, Dr. 1904-1991
- Shaw, Janet 1937-
- Silverstein, Shel 1932-1999
- Sís, Peter 1949–
- Smalls, Irene 1950-
- Snyder, Zilpha Keatley 1927–