List of Children's Literature Authors - C

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• Meg Cabot - The Princess Diaries, Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls
• Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879–1958) - Understood Betsy
• William Cardell (1780–1828) - The Story of Jack Halyard, the Sailor Boy
• Rosa Nouchette Carey (1840–1909) - Not Like Other Girls, Heriot's Choice
• Eric Carle (born 1929) - The Very Hungry Caterpillar, The Very Busy Spider
• Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass
• Peter Carter (1929–1999) - The Sentinels, Children of the Book, Borderlands
• Charles, Prince of Wales (born 1948) - The Old Man of Lochnagar
• Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343–1400) - Chanticleer and the Fox (from The Canterbury Tales)
• Lauren Child - Charlie and Lola, Clarice Bean series
• John Christopher (born 1922) - The Prince in Waiting series, The Tripods trilogy
• Matt Christopher (1917–1997) - Wild Pitch, The Kid Who Only Hit Homers, Tough to Tackle
• Korney Chukovsky (1882–1969) - Moydodyr
• Pauline Clarke - The Twelve and the Genii
• Beverly Cleary - Ramona Quimby series
• Andrew Clements - Frindle, A Week in the Woods
• Eoin Colfer - Artemis Fowl series
• Suzanne Collins - The Underland Chronicles, The Hunger Games trilogy
• Carlo Collodi (1826–1890) - The Adventures of Pinocchio
• John Amos Comenius (1592–1670) - Orbis Sesualim Pictis Picture Book
• Harriet Theresa Comstock (1860–1925) - Molly the Drummer Boy, Janet of the Dunes
• Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) - The Lost World
• Jane Leslie Conly - Racso and the Rats of NIMH, R-T, Margaret, and the Rats of NIMH, Crazy Lady!
• Susan Coolidge (1835–1905) - What Katy Did series
• Barbara Cooney (1917–2000) - Chanticleer and the Fox, Miss Rumphius
• Susan Cooper - The Dark Is Rising series, The Boggart
• Esther Copley (1786–1851) - Early Friendships
• Zizou Corder - Lionboy series
• William Corlett (1938–2005) - The Magician's House series
• Rachel Cosgrove - The Hidden Valley of Oz
• John Cotton (1585–1652) - Milk for Babes catechism
• Bruce Coville - Space Brat, My Teacher is an Alien, Aliens Ate My Homework, The Unicorn Chronicles, Magic Shop series
• Joy Cowley - The Silent One, Bow Down Shadrach
• Palmer Cox (1840–1924) - The Brownies series
• John Coy - Night Driving, Crackback
• Joe Craig - The Jimmy Coates series
• Sharon Creech - Walk Two Moons, Heartbeat
• Helen Cresswell (1934–2005) - The Bagthorpe Saga
• Richmal Crompton (1890–1969) - Just William
• Michael Cronin - Against The Day series
• Kevin Crossley-Holland - Storm, The Seeing Stone
• Catherine Crowe (1790–1872) - Pippie's Warning; or, Mind Your Temper
• Gabriella Csire - Turpi series
• Judy Link Cuddehe (born 1961) - Forgive Me?, Mom Says I am Just Plain Squirrelly, Flash Light!, Big Al Has a Foul Attitude, The Wondrous Autobiography of Leaf, Erik's Son
• Jane Louise Curry - The Abaloc series, Poor Tom's Ghost, The Egyptian Box, The Black Canary