Want to chat with your favorite author? Check out the following sites to see where to send those questions.

Kidsreads.com

http://www.kidsreads.com/authors/write.asp

This site has the publishing addresses for over a hundred of today’s most popular children’s authors.

Still can’t find the writer with whom you are dying to talk? Check out the following individual sites for more information…

C.S. Lewis

http://www.cslewis.org/contact/index.html

This foundation named for the author can help with all the questions young Narnia fans are desperate to get answered.

J.R.R. Tolkien

http://www.tolkiensociety.org/ts_info/contacts.html

The Tolkien family estate will try to answer questions about the “ring”.

Lemony Snicket

http://www.lemonysnicket.com/help.cfm

Although as Mr. Snicket says his, “...investigations usually prevent him from being anywhere near any electronic equipment or postal paraphernalia. If you feel you must send word to him, you can write him at…” the address on this page.

Cornelia Funke

http://www.doublecluck.com/contact.php?PHPSESSID=762a63357ecb00e10f58dd959f50858a

Can’t get enough of Inkheart and Inkspell? Click here to get word to Cornelia Funke about how much you love her work.

Brian Jacques

http://www.redwall.org/dave/fanmail.html

Want to know more about the peace loving animals of Redwall Abbey. Fan mail can be sent to the address found here.

Alvin Schwartz,

Sharon Phillips Denslow,

Emily Rodda,

Erin Hunter,

Patricia MacLachlan,

Will Hobbs

Sharon Creech

Laura Ingalls Wilder

http://www.harperchildrens.com/teacher/aboutus.asp

Harper Collins publishes all of the above mentioned authors’ work. To get in touch with any of them scroll down to the contact us portion of the page and you are on your way.

Jenny Nimmo

Christopher Paolini

Morris Gleitzman

http://www.randomhouse.com/about/contact.html Publicity information

To reach Ms. Nimmo , Mr. Gleitzman or Mr. Paolini, scroll down to the publicity information portion of this page and follow the directions for getting a letter to an individual author.

Matt Christopher

http://www.mattchristopher.com/content/contact.asp

All you sports fans can cheer on your favorite author, Matt Christopher, by contacting him through the address found at the bottom of this page.

Jan Brett

http://www.janbrett.com/

You can also find Jan Brett’s address by scrolling to the bottom of her homepage.

Kate Dicamillo

http://www.candlewick.com/about_cont.html (author/illustrator correspondence)

Can’t get enough of that adorable pooch Winn Dixie? Contact Kate DiCamillo through her publishing company Candlewick Press.

Linda Sue Park

http://www.lspark.com/faq.html

Author of the 2002 Newberry Award Medal Linda Sue Park announces on her site that letters can be sent to her via her publisher Clarion books.

Kathryn Lasky

http://www.kathrynlasky.com/Contact.html

Kathryn Lasky’s homepage has the address to use if you are being held captive by the Guardians of Ga’Hool.

Chris Van Allsburg

Andrew Clements

http://www.hmco.com/contact/author_contact.html

Both Andrew Clements, Massachusetts native, and Chris Van Allsburg,of both Jumanji and Zathura fame, can be reached through their publisher Houghton Mifflin.

Margaret Peterson Haddix

Tony Diterlizzi

Joan Harlow

http://www.simonsays.com/content/feature.cfm?sid=33&feature_id=4099#4b

The three authors mentioned above are all published by Simon Schuster.

Gennifer Choldenko

Jon Scieszka

http://us.penguingroup.com/static/html/aboutus/contactus.html#AUTHORS

Want to know more about the author who would like to write everyday wearing purple polka-dot tights, lucky earmuffs and my old brownie uniform? Drop a line to Gennifer Choldenko using the address found here.

Anthony Horowitz

http://www.anthonyhorowitz.com/contact/index.html

Although Anthony Horowitz has shut down the contact page of his website, he is still accepting letters written the old-fashioned way.

Eoin Colfer

http://www.hyperionbooks.com/contactus.html#contactingauthors