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Prolific Authors

who have written the most books on this subject
Louis Untermeyer, 38 books
Jack Prelutsky, 38 books
Myra Cohn Livingston, 34 books
Arnold Adoff, 27 books
Jane Yolen, 23 books
J. Patrick Lewis, 20 books
Nikki Grimes, 19 books
Oscar Williams, 18 books
Frost, Robert, 17 books
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 17 books
Clement Clarke Moore, 17 books
Carl Sandburg, 15 books
Walt Whitman, 15 books
Edgar Allan Poe, 15 books
Lee B. Hopkins, 15 books
Langston Hughes, 14 books
Douglas Florian, 13 books
Emily Dickinson, 13 books
X. J. Kennedy, 13 books
Marilyn Singer, 13 books
Eve Merriam, 13 books
Hall, Donald, 13 books
Rod McKuen, 12 books
Nikki Giovanni, 12 books
Ciardi, John, 12 books

Prominent Publishers

who have published the most books on this subject
Books for Libraries Press, 115 editions
Tandem Library, 113 editions
Macmillan, 104 editions
Greenwillow Books, 75 editions
Oxford University Press, 73 editions
Houghton Mifflin, 71 editions
Scholastic, 68 editions
HarperCollins, 59 editions
Harper & Row, 58 editions
Random House, 54 editions
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 50 editions
University of Michigan Press, 48 editions
Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media, 47 editions
Atheneum, 44 editions
Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 43 editions
Scribner, 43 editions
Doubleday, 42 editions
Sine nomine, 41 editions
HarperTrophy, 39 editions
Little, Brown, 39 editions

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