How to use this Page

If you have a favorite children’s or YA author or illustrator and you want your book autographed by them, you can often go to their site and request an autographed bookplate that you can paste inside your book. (For those of you who don’t know, a bookplate is a small label or print with an illustration and a place to write your name that you paste on the inside of a book to show that the book is yours. A bookplate can personalize a book, help ensure that it’s returned to you if you lend it to someone else, bring a good feeling if you like the author (if they’ve signed it) or the illustration.) You’re usually required to send a Self-Addressed Stamped Envelope (SASE) with the correct postage to receive a bookplate from an author.

Not every children’s author or illustrator offers this, but some do.

Here are some who do:

YA/Teen Fiction Authors:

Lara M. Zeises
Cynthia Leitich Smith For fans of Tantalize, Cynthia Leitich Smith is currently offering signed bookmarks, bookplates, and sometimes she tosses in some wolf or bat stickers, too. For any of her other books, Cynthia offers signed bookplates. Cynthia doesn’t require a SASE, but asks that groups send her one address.
Barry Lyga
Meg Cabot
Linda Joy Singleton
Ursula LeGuin
Sylvia Engdahl

Children’s Authors:
Verla Kay
Linda Sue Park

Picture Book Authors and/or Illustrators:
Susan Taylor Brown has a beautiful reading door hanger that you can download and print off; teaching guides; a coloring page; and you can send away for a free autographed bookplate.
Grace Lin
John Segal
Dianne Ochiltree
Ellen Jackson (You have to send the SASE to her publisher, and she doesn’t list the publisher’s address on that page.)
Anna Grossnickle Hines

Know another children’s or YA author who offers autographed bookplates or bookmarks? Let me know.