| Name | Publisher | Books |
| Jon Scieszka | Abrams | Frank Einstein and The Robot Army |
| David Ezra Stein | Candlewick | I’m My Own Dog, Dinosaur Kisses |
| Tony DiTerlizzi | Disney | THE SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES |
| Michael Grant | HarperCollins | Messenger of Fear |
| Lauren Castillo | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | The Troublemaker |
| Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket) | Little Brown | Shouldn’t You Be in School |
| Andrea Davis Pinkney | Little Brown | The Red Pencil |
| Lane Smith/Bob O’Shea | Macmillan | Kid Sherrif and the Terrible Toads |
| Anita Silvey | National Geographic | Untamed: The Wild Life of Jane Goodall |
| Jacqueline Woodson | Penguin | Brown Girl Dreaming |
| Jennifer L. Holm | Random House | The Fourteenth Goldfish |
| Raina Telgemeier | Scholastic | Sisters |
| Coe Booth | Scholastic (Push) | Kinda Like Brother |
| Robert Sabuda | Simon & Schuster | The Dragon and the Knight (illustrator) |