Lynne Rae Perkins is an American writer and illustrator of children's books.

Her novel Criss Cross, winner of the 2006 Newbery Medal,^[1] is a book of vignettes, illustrations, photographs, and poems about a group of four small-town teenagers.

Perkins' picture book Home Lovely was a runner-up for the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award. Her novel All Alone in the Universe was named an ALA Notable Book, a Booklist Editor's Choice, a Bulletin Blue Ribbon Book, and a Smithsonian Magazine Notable Book for Children.^{[citation needed]}

• Home Lovely, (New York: Greenwillow Books, 1995)
• Clouds for Dinner, (New York: Greenwillow Books, 1997)
• All Alone in the Universe, (Scholastic Books, 2000)
• Georgie Lee, illustrator, book by Sharon Phillips Denslow, (New York: Greenwillow Books, 2002)
• The Broken Cat, (New York: Greenwillow Books, 2002)
• Snow Music, (New York: Greenwillow Books, 2003)
• Criss Cross, (New York: Greenwillow Books, 2005)
• Pictures from our Vacation, (New York: Greenwillow Books, 2007)
• The Cardboard Piano, (New York: Greenwillow Books, 2008)
• As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth, (New York: Greenwillow Books, 2010)
• Seed by Seed (Illustrator), (New York: Greenwillow Books, 2012)
• Nuts to You, (New York: Greenwillow Books, 2014)
• Frank and Lucky Get Schooled, (New York: Greenwillow Books, 2016)
• Violet & Jobie in the Wild, (New York: Greenwillow Books, 2023)

• https://lynnerae.com/