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Celebrate
These Favorite
Author
Birthdays
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| Do you share your special day with a creative
writer or illustrator? Check out this calendar to find your birthday month. New authors will be added every few months. |
| Many authors are featured with some of their most
famous books. Click any one of the books to find out more about them. We have each of these books in our library for you to read and enjoy. If you would like help finding one in the library, please ask. We'll be glad to help you. |
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| Birthday Calendar |
 January |
16th Kate McMullan  29th Rosemary Wells    |
February |
1st James
Preller    
11th Jane Yolen      12th David Small 13th
Simms
Taback
 
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 March |
2nd Dr. Seuss       
22nd Denys Cazet    4th Dav Pilkey  
 
5th Mem Fox    
11th Ezra Jack Keats          |
 April |
2nd
Hans Christian Anderson 10th David A. Adler       12th Gary Soto |
| May |
5th Leo Lionni     12th Betsy Lewin        20th Mary Pope Osborne   
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| June |
10th Maurice Sendak    16th Jennifer L. Holm     |
| July |
3rd
Laurie Keller 13th Marcia Brown 
 26th Jan Berenstain   28th Beatrix Potter |
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August |
7th Coleen Salley 
25th Ian Falconer 
  30th Virginia Lee Burton |
| September |
15th Tomie dePaola       15th Robert McCloskey   16th H.A. Rey     |
| October |
10th James Marshall 19th Dan Gutman       
26th Steven Kellogg 
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| November |
2nd Alyssa Satin Capucilli  14th William Steig      27th Kevin Henkes     |
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December |
18th Mrs. Marchiniak   (Alright, so
she's not an author yet...
but maybe someday!) |
| Many
more author and illustrator birthdays can be found at these kid-safe
websites: http://kids.nypl.org/reading/childrensauthorbirthdays.cfm http://www.frsd.k12.nj.us/barleylibrary/lib/authors/authr4.htm |
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