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This is a list of authors who have written non-fiction (informational) books for children. For a discussion of the criteria used to define something as a work of children's literature, see children's literature.

  • Peter Ackroyd (UK, born 1949) – history
  • David A. Adler (US, born 1947) – biographies
  • Agnes Allen (UK) – social history
  • Jules Archer (US, 1915–2008) – US history and politics
  • Philip Ardagh (UK, born 1961) – history, archaeology, mythology
  • Jennifer Armstrong (US, born 1961) – exploration
  • Caroline S. Arnold (US) – nonfiction books about animals, fossils, world cultures, global warming, and life cycles
  • Nick Arnold (UK, born 1964) – science, zoology
  • Russell Ash (UK, 1946–2010) – reference inc. The Top 10 of Everything
  • Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (UK) – Scouting
  • Kelly Barnhill (US) – sewers, medicine
  • Thelma and Corydon Bell (US) – science, weather, time
  • Mary Boone (US) – nature/environment, history, world cultures, pop culture
  • Aliki Brandenberg (US) – history
  • Maria Elizabeth Budden (UK) – history and upbringing
  • Brian P. Cleary (US) – words, measurements
  • Daniel Cohen (US) – UFOs, the occult, ghosts, crypto-zoology
  • Joanna Cole (US) – science
  • Sneed B. Collard (US) – science, biology, conservation
  • Esther Copley (UK) – slavery, Bible natural history
  • Peter Corey (UK) – relationships, psychology, self-help; Coping With...
  • Sara Jane Crafts (US) – songs
  • Terry Deary (UK) – history, true stories
  • Dougal Dixon (UK) – futuristic zoology
  • Dorcas Dole (England) – Quakerism
  • Eleanor Doorly (UK) – history, biography
  • Evelyn Everett-Green (UK) – biography
  • Fanny Fern (US, 1811–1872) – humor, society
  • Mrs. E. M. Field (Ireland) – history
  • Leonard Everett Fisher (US) – colonial American craftsmen, legendary figures
  • Russell Freedman (US) – history and biography
  • Jackie French (Australia) – Australian history, natural history
  • Jean Fritz (US) – US history and legend
  • Anita Ganeri (UK) – geography
  • Gail Gibbons (US) – folklore, zoology, geography, history
  • Roger Lancelyn Green (UK) – myth, folklore, biography
  • Joyce Hansen (US) – African-American history, biography
  • Gerald Hausman (US) – biography, mythology, folklore
  • Gail Hennessey (US) – economics, biography
  • Don Herbert (US) – science
  • Susie Hodge (UK) – art history, practical art, history, science, religion, biography
  • James Janeway (England) – A Token For Children: stories of conversions
  • William Loren Katz (US) – African-American and Native American history
  • Jennie Ellis Keysor (US, 1860–1945) – American literature, art topics
  • Kathleen Krull (US) – biography, music, folklore
  • Poul Lange (Denmark and USA) – simple anatomy (body orifices)
  • Kathryn Lasky (US) – history, biography
  • Julius Lester (US) – African-American history
  • David Macaulay (US) – architecture, technology, design
  • John Malam (UK) – ancient history, archaeology, biography, natural history
  • Jane Marcet (UK) – chemistry, political economy, grammar
  • Mrs Markham (UK, real name Elizabeth Penrose – English history
  • Sandra Markle (US) – science
  • Fredrick McKissack (US) – African-American history, biography
  • Patricia McKissack (US) – African-American history, biography
  • Arthur Mee (UK) – reference, British geography
  • Milton Meltzer (US) – Jewish, African-American and American history, biography
  • Jenny B. Merrill (US) – Bible stories
  • Iain Moncreiffe of that Ilk (UK) – heraldry, royalty, Scottish clans
  • Jim Murphy (US) – US history
  • Darcy Pattison (US) – science, science history, and US history
  • L. du Garde Peach (UK) – historical biography
  • Pickles (pen name of Lisa Tolliver) – educational activity books
  • Ferry Piekart (NL) – cultural anthropology
  • Kjartan Poskitt (UK) – maths
  • Rhoda Power and Eileen Power (UK) – history
  • Charles Ray (UK) – editor of children's encyclopedias, such as Everybody's Enquire Within
  • Upendrakishore Raychowdhury (India) – Bengali
  • Ana María Rodríguez (US) – nature, science, cultures, history, health
  • Acharya Ramlochan Saran (India) – non-fiction Sanskrit, Hindi, Urdu, Maithili, English, Nepalese
  • Helen Roney Sattler (US) – natural history, science and technology
  • Miriam Schlein (US) – animals, space, time
  • Millicent Selsam (US) – biology
  • Elizabeth Missing Sewell (UK) – religion, education theory
  • Bonnie Shemie (US) – history of architecture
  • Katherine Binney Shippen (US) – history, invention, music
  • Seymour Simon (US) – science
  • Marilyn Singer (US) – zoology
  • Armstrong Sperry (US) – history, exploration, ethnology
  • Diane Stanley (US) – biographies
  • Philip Steele (UK) – history, junior biographies, peoples and cultures
  • Dugald Steer (UK) – Ologies
  • Dorothy Sterling (US) – nature, US history, civil rights
  • Shelley Tanaka (Canada) – history, biography, arts, archeology, environment
  • Isabel Thomas (UK) – science
  • R. J. Unstead (UK) – history
  • Anne de Vries (NL) – history and religion
  • Priscilla Wakefield (UK, 1751–1832) – science, recreation and travel
  • Mildred Pitts Walter (US) – African-American history and culture
  • Nadia Wheatley (Australia) – environment and multiculturalism
  • Philip Wilkinson (UK) – history, the arts, religion and architecture
  • Herbert S. Zim (US) – Golden Guides series, nature, science and technology
  • Allan Zullo (US) – survival, true stories, ghosts and sport

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