Amy Ella Blanchard (June 28, 1854 – July 4, 1926) was a prolific American writer of children's literature.

[6] In 1888 she published her first book, and the first collaboration with Ida Waugh, Bonny Bairns, with the Worthington & Co. firm of New York.

The lithographs were beautifully executed and did full justice to the drawings, which were of a much higher quality than usually appeared in children's picture books.

[6][3] Blanchard and Waugh had neighboring summer cottages at Bailey Island, Maine where they helped organize the construction of a chapel in 1916.

[6][3] She died on July 4, 1926, at Bailey Island from apoplexy; she was found by her maid at the desk, a just-completed poem forecasting her own death in front of her.