JANUARY
January 1
Jeanne DuPrau, 1944
January 2
Isaac Asimov, 1920
Crosby Bonsall, 1921
Jean Little, 1932
January 3
Carolyn Haywood, 1898
J.R.R. Tolkien, 1892
January 4
Jakob Grimm, 1785
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, 1933
January 6
Vera Cleaver, 1919
Carl Sandburg, 1878
Sherlock Holmes, 1854
January 7
Eleanor Clymer, 1906
January 8
Lee J. Ames, 1921
Stephen Manes, 1949
January 9
Clyde Robert Bulla, 1914
January 11
Robert C. O’Brien, 1918
Mary Rodgers, 1931
January 12
Clement Hurd, 1908
Jack London, 1876
Charles Perrault, 1628
January 13
Michael Bond, 1926
January 14
Thornton Burgess, 1874
Hugh Lofting, 1886
January 15
Jenny Nimmo, 1944
January 17
John Bellairs, 1938
Robert Cormier, 1925
January 18
Raymond Briggs, 1934
A.A. Milne, 1882 (Click HERE for 90 facts about Winnie-the-Pooh.)
Arthur Ransome, 1884
January 19
Nina Bawden, 1925
Edgar Allan Poe, 1809
January 20
Joy Adamson, 1910
January 21
Cherith Baldry (one of the group of 3 writers known as Erin Hunter), 1947
January 22
Brian Wildsmith, 1930
January 26
Mary Mapes Dodge, 1831
Shannon Hale, 1974
January 27
Harry Allard, 1928
Lewis Carroll, 1832
Julius Lester, 1939
January 28
Vera B. Williams, 1927
January 29
Christopher Collier, 1930
Bill Peet, 1915
Rosemary Wells, 1943
January 30
Lloyd Alexander, 1924
Michael Dorris, 1945
Polly Horvath, 1957
January 31
Gerald McDermott, 1941
FEBRUARY
February 1
Langston Hughes, 1902
Eve Rice
Jerry Spinelli, 1941
February 2
Rebecca Caudill, 1899
Judith Viorst, 1931
February 3:
Henning Mankell, 1948
Walt Morey, 1907
Joan Lowery Nixon, 1927
February 4
Siobhan Dowd, 1960
Barbara Shook Hazen,
Russell Hoban, 1925
February 5
Patricia Lauber, 1924
David Wiesner
February 7
Charles Dickens, 1812
Fred Gipson, 1908
Laura Ingalls Wilder, 1867
February 8
Anne Rockwell, 1934
Jules Verne, 1828
February 9
Dick Gackenbach, 1927
February 10
Stephen Gammell, 1943
E.L. Konigsburg, 1930
Charles Lamb, 1775
February 11
Jane Yolen, 1939
February 12
Judy Blume, 1938
Jacqueline Woodson, 1963
February 13
Eleanor Farjeon, 1881
Janet Taylor Lisle, 1947
William Sleator, 1945
February 14
Meg Tilly, 1960
George Shannon, 1952
Paul O. Zelinsky, 1953
February 15
Norman Bridwell, 1928
Doris Orgel, 1929
February 16
Roberto Innocenti, 1940
February 17
Dorothy Canfield Fisher, 1879
Andre Norton, 1912
Robert Newton Peck, 1928
Susan Beth Pfeffer, 1948
Virginia Sorensen, 1912
February 18
Barbara Joosse
February 19
Jeff Kinney, 1971
Louis Slobodkin, 1903
February 20
Mary Blount Christian
February 21
Patricia Hermes, 1936
February 23
C.S. Adler, 1932
W.E.B. DuBois, 1869
February 24
Wilhelm Grimm, 1786
February 25
Iain Lawrence, 1955
Cynthia Voigt, 1942
February 27
Florence Parry Heide, 1919
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807
Uri Shulevitz, 1935
Jeff Smith, 1960
John Steinbeck, 1902
MARCH
March 2
Leo Dillon, 1933
Dr. Seuss, 1904
March 3
Patricia MacLachlan, 1938
March 4
Meindert DeJong, 1906
David Pilkey, 1966
March 5
Mem Fox, 1946
Howard Pyle, 1853
March 8
Kenneth Grahame, 1859
Trina Schart Hyman , 1939
March 11
Wanda Gág, 1893
Erza Jack Keats, 1916
D.J. MacHale
March 12
Virginia Hamilton, 1936
Carl Hiaasen, 1953
March 13
Diane Dillon, 1933
Ellen Raskin, 1928
Thomas Rockwell, 1933
March 14
Marguerite de Angeli, 1889
March 15
Barbara Cohen, 1932
March 16
Sid Fleischman, 1920
March 17
Kate Greenaway, 1846
Penelope Lively, 1933
Zibby Oneal, 1934
March 18
Susan Patron, 1948
March 20
Mitsumasa Anno, 1926
Ellen Conford, 1942
Lois Lowry, 1937
Bill Martin, Jr., 1916
Louis Sachar, 1954
March 21
Michael Foreman, 1938
Mem Fox, 1946
David Wisniewski, 1953
March 22
Randolph Caldecott, 1846
James Patterson, 1947
March 23
Eleanor Cameron, 1912
March 24
Bill Cleaver, 1920
Mary Stolz, 1920
March 25:
Kate DiCamillo, 1964
Linda Sue Park, 1960
March 26
Robert Frost, 1874
Betty MacDonald, 1908
March 27
Dick King-Smith, 1922
March 28
Byrd Baylor, 1924
March 30
Anne Sewell, 1820
March 31
Andrew Lang, 1844
APRIL
April 1
Anne McCaffrey, 1926
April 2
Hans Christian Andersen, 1805
Ruth Heller, 1923
Emily Rodda, 1948
April 3
Sandra Boynton, 1953
Washington Irving, 1783
April 4
Maya Angelou, 1928
Phoebe Gilman, 1940
Elizabeth Levy, 1942
Johanna Reiss,
Glen Rounds, 1906
April 5
Anthony Horowitz, 1956
Richard Peck, 1934
April 6
Graeme Base, 1958
Barbara Cooney, 1917
April 7
Donald Carrick, 1929
April 8
Trina Schart Hyman, 1939
April 9
Margaret Peterson Haddix, 1964
April 10
David A. Adler, 1947
Eric Knight, 1897
April 12
Beverly Cleary, 1916 Â (Click HERE for 100 facts about this wonderful writer!)
Barbara Corcoran, 1911
April 13
Lee Bennett Hopkins, 1938
Marguerite Henry, 1902
April 16
John Christopher, 1922
Dorothy Lathrop, 1891
Gertrude Chandler Warner, 1890
Garth Williams, 1912
April 21
Charlotte Bronte, 1816
April 22
Paula Fox, 1923
April 23
Anne-Laure Bondoux, 1971
Kristin Butcher, 1951
William Shakespeare, 1564
April 24
Lynn Hall, 1914
April 25
Maud Hart Lovelace, 1892
Alvin Schwartz, 1927
April 26
Patricia Reilly Giff, 1935
April 27
Ludwig Bemelmans, 1898
John Burningham, 1936
Barbara Park, 1947
April 28:
Lois Duncan, 1934
Amy Hest,
Terry Pratchett, 1948
April 29
Ron Roy
Jill Paton Walsh, 1937
April 30
Kit Pearson, 1947
MAY
May 2
Susan Richards Shreve, 1939
May 3
Patricia MacLachlan, 1938
Dodie Smith, 1896
May 4
Beverly Butler, 1932
May 5
Herge, 1907
Leo Lionni, 1910
Scott Westerfeld, 1963
May 6
Judy Delton, 1931
Randall Jarrell, 1914
Leo Lionni, 1910
May 7
Nonny Hogrogian, 1932
May 9
Richard Adams, 1920
Sir James Barrie, 1860
William Péne du Bois, 1916
Eleanor Estes, 1906
Keith Robertson, 1914
May 10:
Christopher Paul Curtis, 1953
John Rowe Townsend, 1922
May 11
Sheila Burnford, 1918
Peter Sis, 1949
Zilpha Keatley Snyder, 1928
May 12
Edward Lear, 1812
Farley Mowat, 1921
May 13
Norma Klein, 1938
May 14
Eoin Colfer, 1965
George Selden, 1929
May 15
David Almond, 1951
Lyman Frank Baum, 1856
Ellen MacGregor, 1906
Norma Fox Mazer, 1931
Paul Zindel, 1936
May 16
Bruce Coville, 1950
Betty Miles, 1928
May 17
Eloise Greenfield, 1929
Gary Paulsen, 1939
May 18
Lillian Hoban, 1925
Irene Hunt, 1907
May 21
Virginia Haviland, 1911
May 22
Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859
Arnold Lobel, 1933
May 23
Margaret Wise Brown, 1910
Susan Cooper, 1935
Scott O’Dell, 1903
Peter Parnall, 1936
May 25
Martha Alexander, 1920
May 26
Sheila Greenwald, 1934
May 28
Susan Fletcher, 1951
May 29:
G.K. Chesterton, 1874
Mary Pope Osborne, 1949
Willo Davis Roberts, 1928
May 30
Millicent Selsam, 1912
May 31
Elizabeth Coatsworth, 1893
Jay Williams, 1914
JUNE
June 1
Doris Buchanan Smith 1934
June 2
Paul Galdone, 1914
Norton Juster, 1929
Helen Oxenbury, 1938
June 3
Anita Lobel, 1934
June 5
Carolyn Meyer, 1935
Rick Riordan, 1964
Richard Scarry, 1919
June 6
Verna Aardema, 1911
Cynthia Rylant, 1954
Peter Spier, 1927
June 7
John Goodall, 1908
June 8
Carolyn Meyer, 1935
Ivan Southall, 1921
June 10
Maurice Sendak, 1928
June 11
Robert Munsch, 1945 (Click HERE for 70 facts.)
June 12
Anne Frank, 1929
Charles Kingsley, 1819
Johanna Spyri, 1827
June 14
Penelope Farmer, 1939
Janice May Udry, 1928
Laurence Yep, 1948
June 15
Brian Jacques, 1939
June 16
Isabelle Holland, 1920
June 18
Pat Hutchins, 1942
Chris Van Allsburg, 1949
June 21
Robert Kraus, 1925
June 23
Theodore Taylor, 1924
June 24
John Ciardi, 1916
Leonard Everett Fisher, 1924
Kathryn Lasky, 1944
June 25
Eric Carle, 1929
June 26
Pearl S. Buck, 1892
Robert Burch, 1925
Walter Farley, 1922
Lynd Ward, 1905
Charlotte Zolotow, 1915
June 27
Lucille Clifton, 1936
James Lincoln Collier, 1928
Lafcadio Hearn, 1850
Helen Keller, 1880
June 28
Esther Forbes, 1891
Bette Greene, 1934
June 29
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, 1900
June 30
David McPhail, 1940
JULY
July 1:
Paul Owen Lewis, 1959
July 2
Jack Gantos, 1951
Jean Craighead George, 1919
Darren Shan, 1972
July 4
Jamie Gilson, 1933
July 6
Louise Erdrich, 1954
Robert A. Heinlein, 1907
July 9
Betsy Bang, 1912
July 10
Martin Provensen, 1916
July 11
Helen Cresswell, 1936
Patricia Polacco, 1944
James Stevenson, 1929
E.B. White, 1899
July 12
Johanna Spyri,1827
Henry David Thoreau, 1817
July 13
Marcia Brown, 1918
July 14
Leon Garfield, 1921
Peggy Parish, 1927
Issac Bashevis Singer, 1904
July 15
Clement Moore, 1779
July 17
Victoria Holmes (one of the group of 3 writers known as Erin Hunter), 1947
July 18
Jane Austen, 1817
July 19
Garth Nix, 1963
Eve Merriam, 1916
John Newbery, 1713
July 22
S.E. Hinton, 1950
July 23
Robert Quackenbush, 1929
July 25
Ruth Krauss, 1911
July 27
Scott Corbett, 1913
July 28
Natalie Babbitt, 1932
Beatrix Potter, 1866
July 29
Sharon Creech, 1945
July 31
Lynn Reid Banks, 1929
Lynne Rae Perkins, 1956
Robert Kimmel Smith, 1930
J. K. Rowling, 1965
AUGUST
August 1
Gail Gibbons, 1944
August 2
Holling C. Holling, 1900
James Howe, 1946
John Wilson
August 3
Mary Calhoun, 1926
August 5
Robert Bright, 1902
Ruth Sawyer, 1880
August 7
Betsy Byars, 1928
Maia Wojciechowska, 1927
August 8
Deborah Ellis, 1960
Jan Pienkowski, 1936
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, 1896
August 9
José Aruego, 1932
Tove Jansson, 1914
Patricia McKissack, 1944
August 11
Don Freeman, 1908
August 12
Ruth Stiles Gannett, 1923
Ann M. Martin, 1955
Walter Dean Myers, 1937
August 14
Alice Provensen, 1918
August 15
Edith Nesbit, 1858
Brinton Turkle, 1915
August 16:
Matt Christopher, 1917
Diana Wynne Jones, 1934
Myra Cohn Livingston, 1926
August 17
Myra Cohn Livingston, 1926
August 18
Paula Danziger, 1944
August 19
Ogden Nash, 1902
August 22:
Will Hobbs, 1947
August 28
Roger Duvoisin, 1904
Allen Say, 1937
August 29
Karen Hesse, 1952
August 30
Laurent de Brunhoff, 1925
Virginia Lee Burton, 1909
Donald Crews, 1938
August 31
Kenneth Oppel, 1967
SEPTEMBER
September 1
Jim Arnosky, 1946
Barbara Smucker, 1915
September 2
Demi, 1942
September 4
Joan Aiken, 1924
Syd Hoff, 1912
September 5
Paul Fleischman, 1952
September 6
Tony DiTerlizzi, 1969
September 8
Jack Prelutsky, 1940
Jon Scieszka, 1954
Spetember 9
Aileen Fisher, 1906
September 11
Anthony Browne, 1946
O. Henry, 1862
Alfred Slote, 1926
September 13
Roald Dahl, 1916
Else Minarik, 1920
September 14
Edith Thacher Hurd, 1910
John Steptoe, 1950
September 15
Agatha Christie, 1890
James Fenimore Cooper, 1789
Tomie de Paola, 1934
Robert McCloskey, 1914
September 16
H.A. Rey, 1898
September 17:
Elizabeth Enright, 1909
September 19
Rachel Field, 1894
Arthur Rackham, 1867
September 21
Taro Yashima, 1908
September 22
H.G. Wells, 1866
Esphyr Slobodkina, 1908
September 23
Jan Ormerod, 1946
September 24
Wilson Rawls, 1913
September 26:
Mark Haddon, 1962
September 27
Paul Goble, 1933
John Marsden, 1950
Bernard Waber, 1924
September 29
Stan Berenstain, 1923
September 30
Edgar D’Aulaire, 1898
Alvin Tresselt, 1916
OCTOBER
October 1
Deborah Hautzig
Paul Yee, 1956
October 3
Natalie Savage Carlson, 1906
James Herriot, 1916
October 4
Robert Lawson, 1892
Munro Leaf, 1905
Donald Sobol, 1924
October 5
Louise Fitzhugh, 1928
David Shannon, 1960
Gene Zion, 1913
October 6
Steven Kellogg, 1941
October 7
Alice Dalgliesh, 1893
James Heneghan, 1930
Robert Westall, 1929
October 8
Barthe DeClements, 1920
R. L. Stine, 1943
October 9
Johanna Hurwitz, 1937
October 10
James Marshall, 1942
October 14
Lois Lenski, 1893
October 16
Edward Ardizzone, 1900
October 17
Alan Garner, 1934
Robert Jordan, 1948
October 18
Ed Emberly, 1931
October 20
Gennifer Choldenko, 1957
October 21
Ursula LeGuin, 1929
October 23
Bruce Brooks, 1950
Marjorie Flack, 1897
Gordon Korman, 1963
October 24
Barbara Robinson, 1927
October 25
Andrew Clements, 1949
Steven Kellogg, 1941
October 27
Constance Green, 1924
October 29
Nancy Werlin, 1961
October 30
Eric Kimmel, 1946
Sydney Taylor, 1904
October 31
Katherine Paterson, 1932
NOVEMBER
November 3
Monica Hughes, 1925
Betty Bao Lord, 1938
November 4
Kate Cary (one of the group of 3 writers known as Erin Hunter), 1967
Karen Cushman, 1941
Sterling North, 1906
November 7
Armstrong Sperry, 1897
November 8
Bram Stoker, 1847
November 10
Kate Seredy, 1899
November 11
Peg Kehret, 1936
November 12
Marjorie W. Sharmat, 1928
November 13
Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850
November 14
Astrid Lindgren, 1907
Carol Matas, 1949
William Steig, 1907
Nancy Tafuri, 1946
November 15
Daniel Manus Pinkwater, 1941
November 16
Ann Blades, 1947
Jean Fritz, 1915
Robin McKinley, 1952
November 17
Christopher Paolini, 1983
November 19
Elizabeth Cleaver, 1939
November 20
Marion Dane Bauer, 1938
November 21
Elizabeth George Speare, 1908
November 24
Frances Hodgson Burnett, 1849
Carlo Collodi, 1826
Sylvia Engdahl, 1933
Eric Wilson, 1940
Yoshika Uchida, 1921
November 25
Marc Brown, 1946
Mordicai Gerstein, 1935
November 26
Doris Gates, 1901
Charles Schulz, 1922
November 27
Kevin Henkes, 1960
November 28
Tomi Ungerer, 1931
Ed Young, 1931
November 29
Louisa May Alcott, 1832
Madeleine L’Engle, 1918
C.S. Lewis, 1898
November 30
Mark Twain, 1835
Lucy Maud Montgomery, 1874
Roland Smith, 1951
Margot Zemach, 1931
DECEMBER
December 1
Jan Brett, 1949
December 2
David Macaulay, 1946
Christina Rossetti, 1830
Harve Zemach, 1933
December 4
Munro Leaf, 1905
December 5
Laura Ingalls Wilder, 1886
December 6:
John Reynold Gardiner, 1944
Jim Kjelgaard, 1910
December 9
Jean deBrunhoff, 1899
Mary Downing Hahn, 1937
December 10
Emily Dickinson, 1830
Cornelia Funke, 1958
Rumer Godden, 1907
George MacDonald, 1824
Mary Norton, 1903
Ernest Shepard, 1879
December 14
Rosemary Sutcliff, 1920
December 15
Ann Nolan Clark, 1896
December 16
Quentin Blake, 1932
Bill Brittain, 1930
Peter Dickinson, 1927
Marie Hall Ets, 1893
December 18
Marilyn Sachs, 1927
Alison Uttley, 1884
December 19
Eve Bunting,1928
December 20
M.B. Goffstein, 1940
December 22
William O. Steele, 1917
December 23
Avi, 1937
December 24
Stephenie Meyer, 1973
Noel Streatfield, 1920
December 27
Ingri D’Aulaire, 1904
December 28
Carol Ryrie Brink, 1895
Emily Neville, 1919
December 29
Molly Garrett Bang, 1943
E.W. Hildick, 1925
December 30
Rudyard Kipling, 1865
Mercer Mayer, 1943