James Sterling Tippett (September 7, 1885 in Memphis, Missouri[1] – 1958) was an American educator and children's writer.
In 1922, he left to join the Lincoln School at Teachers College in New York as an instructor and special investigator.
Tippett taught in Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and South Carolina, while continuing to write children's books and edit educational textbooks.
His works include: I Live in a City (1927), I Go A-Traveling (1929), I Spend the Summer (1930), Busy Carpenters (1930), Toys and Toymakers (1931), A World to Know (1933), Henry and the Garden and Stories about Henry (1936), Shadow and the Stocking (1937), Sniff (1937), Counting the Days (1940), and Abraham Lincoln (1951), as well as a series called Understanding Science.
There he served as a visiting professor of education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill until his death in 1958.