General Books and Resources on
Writing Children’s Books
The Bloomsbury Guide to Creating Illustrated Children’s Books by D. McCannon
The Canadian Children’s Book Centre
The Way to Write for Children by Joan Aiken
The ABC’s of Writing for Children by Elizabeth Koehler-Pentacoff
Writing Picture Books by Ann Whitford Paul
Picture Books Suggested Reading
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin and Eric Carle
The Snowy Day by Jack Ezra Keats
Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell
Peepo! By Janet and Allan Ahlberg
Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes by Mem Fox and Helen Oxenbury
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury
Hairy Maclary by Lynley Dodd
Dogs by Emily Gravett
Good Night Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
Guess How Much I Love You? by Sam McBratney
The Elephant and the Bad Baby by Elfrida Vipont and Raymond Briggs
I Want My Hat Back by Jon Klassen
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
The Tiger Who Came to Tea by Judith Kerr
The Balloon Tree by Phoebe Gilman
The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson
Rosie Revere, Engineer by Andrea Beaty and David Roberts
The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt
Stella! By Marie-Louise Gay
A Walk in the Park by Anthony Browne
Me and You by Anthony Browne
Silly Doggy! by Adam Stower
Family History Focused
Seven Brave Women by Betsy Hearne
My Mother’s Pearls by Catherine Myler Fruisen
Fancy Nancy Fancy Nancy: My Family History
Maman’s Special Job by Lynn Palermo
Finding an Illustrator
Society of Children’s Book Writer’s and Illustrators
International Society of Children’s Illustrators
Canadian Children’s Book Centre
Middle-Grade Books Suggested Reading
Fudge (series) by Judy Blume
Ramona (series) by Beverly Cleary
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Peterson
Matilda by Roald Dahl
Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
Diary of a Wimpy Kid (series) by Jeff Kinney
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke
The Butterfly Lion by Michael Morpurgo
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (series) by Joan Aiken
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
The Sword in the Stone by T.H. White
Family History Focused
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Young Adult Suggested Reading
Suggested Reading:
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Dear Nobody by Berlie Doherty
The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper
The Mysterious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Northern Lights by Philip Pullman
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
Borderliners by Peter Høeg
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Diary of Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend
Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
Switched by Amanda Hocking
City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver
Set in Stone by Linda Newberry
How To Build a Girl by Caitlin Moran
Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan
Holes by Louis Sachar
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
Midwinterblood by Marcus Sedgwick
Every Day by David Levithan
Family History/Memoir Focused
Anne Frank
The Bronte Sisters
The Family Romanov
Printers
Offset Printers
First Choice Books, Victoria B.C.
Sure Print & Design, Toronto On
On-Demand Printing
Createspace (Amazon)