Birthdays of Children's Authors and Illustrators

(& a few other famous people too) Have a party for your favorite author!

January

January 2
Isaac Asimov, 1920
Crosby Bonsall, 1921
Jean Little, 1932

January 3
Tony Chen, 1929
Carolyn Haywood, 1898
J.R.R. Tolkien, 1892

January 4
Louis Braille, 1809
Jakob Grimm, 1785
Phyllis Naylor, 1933

January 6
Carl Sandburg, 1878
Sherlock Holmes, 1854

January 7
Kay Chorao, 1936

January 8
Arthur Ransome, 1884

January 9
Clyde Robert Bulla, 1914

January 10
Remy Charlip, 1929

January 11
Robert C. O'Brien, 1918
Mary Rodgers, 1931

January 12
Clement Hurd, 1908
Charles Perrault, 1628

January 13
Michael Bond, 1926
Albert Lamorisse, 1922

January 14
Hugh Lofting, 1886
Hendrik Van Loon, 1882

January 17
John Bellairs, 1938

January 18
A.A. Milne, 1882

January 19
Edgar Allan Poe, 1809

January 20
Joy Adamson, 1910

January 22
Brian Wildsmith, 1930

January 26
Charles Mikolaycak, 1937

January 27
Harry Allard, 1928
Lewis Carroll, 1832
Julius Lester, 1939

January 28
Vera B. Williams, 1927

January 29
Bill Peet, 1915
Rosemary Wells, 1943

January 30
Lloyd Alexander, 1924

January 31
Gerald McDermott, 1941

February

February 1
Langston Hughes, 1902
Jerry Spinelli, 1941

February 2
Eve Rice, 1951
Judith Viorst, 1931
Pura Belpré White, 1899

February 4
Russell Hoban, 1925

February 7
Charles Dickens, 1812
Laura Ingalls Wilder, 1867

February 8
Anne Rockwell, 1934
Jules Verne, 1828

February 10
Stephen Gammell, 1943
E.L. Konigsburg, 1930

February 11
Toshi Maruki, 1912
Jane Yolen, 1939

February 12
Judy Blume, 1938
Chris Conover, 1950

February 13
Eleanor Farjeon, 1881

February 14
Frederick Douglass, 1817
Paul O. Zelinsky, 1953

February 15
Susan B. Anthony, 1820

February 16
Nancy Ekholm Burkert, 1933

February 17
Robert Newton Peck, 1928

February 19
Jill Kremetz, 1940

February 22
Edward Gorey, 1925

February 23
W.E.B. DuBois, 1869

February 24
Wilhelm Grimm, 1786

February 25
Cynthia Voight, 1942

February 26
Sharon Bell Mathis, 1937

February 27
Uri Shulevitz, 1935

March

March 2
Leo Dillon, 1933
(Dr. Seuss) Theodor Seuss Geisel, 1904

March 3
Suse MacDonald, 1940
Patricia MacLachlan, 1938

March 4
Meindert DeJong, 1906

March 5
Mem Fox, 1946
Thacher Hurd, 1949
Howard Pyle, 1853

March 8
Kenneth Grahame, 1859
Trina Schart Hyman , 1939

March 11
Wanda Gág, 1893
Erza Jack Keats, 1916

March 12
Virginia Hamilton, 1936-2002

March 13
Diane Dillon, 1933
Ellen Raskin, 1928

March 14
Marguerite de Angeli, 1889
Albert Einstein, 1879

March 17
Kate Greenaway, 1846

March 18
Sid Fleischman, 1920

March 20
Mitsumasa Anno, 1926
Lois Lowry, 1937

March 21
Michael Foreman, 1938
Mem Fox, 1946
Margaret Mahy, 1936

March 22
Randolph Caldecott, 1846

March 23
Eleanor Cameron, 1912

March 24
Mary Stolz, 1920
Harry Houdini, 1847

March 26
Robert Frost, 1874

March 28
Byrd Baylor, 1924

March 30
Anne Sewell, 1820

March 31
Andrew Lang, 1844

April

April 1
Augusta Baker, 1911-1998
Anne McCaffrey, 1926

April 2
Hans Christian Andersen, 1805
Washington Irving, 1783
Amy Schwartz, 1954

April 4
Glen Rounds, 1906

April 5
Richard Peck, 1934

April 6
Barbara Cooney, 1917

April 7
Donald Carrick, 1929

April 8
Trina Schart Hyman, 1939

April 12
Beverly Cleary, 1916
Hardie Gramatky, 1907

April 13
Genevieve Foster, 1893
Marguerite Henry, 1902

April 14
Anne Mansfield Sullivan, 1866 (Hellen Keller's teacher)

April 16
Dorothy Lathrop, 1891
Garth Williams, 1912

April 19
Richard Hughes, 1900

April 22
Paula Fox, 1923

April 23
William Shakespeare, 1564

April 25
Walter de la Mare, 1873
Maud Hart Lovelace, 1892
Alvin Schwartz, 1927

April 24
Patricia Reilly Giff, 1935

April 26
Lee Bennett Hopkins, 1938

April 27
John Burningham, 1936
Ludwig Bemelmans, 1898
Coretta Scott King, 1927

April 29
Jill Paton Walsh, 1937

April 30
Maria Leach, 1892

May

May 3
Mavis Jukes, 1947
Patricia MacLachlan, 1938
Pete Seeger, 1919

May 4
Don Woods, 1945

May 5
Leo Lionni, 1910
Marie Shedlock, 1854

May 6
Randall Jarrell, 1914
Leo Lionni, 1910

May 7
Nonny Hogrogian, 1932

May 8
Milton Meltzer, 1938

May 9
Sir James Barrie, 1860
William Péne du Bois, 1916
Eleanor Estes, 1906

May 11
Sheila Burnford, 1918
Zilpha Keatley Snyder, 1928

May 12
Edward Lear, 1812

May 13
Norma Klein, 1938

May 14
George Selden, 1929

May 15
Lyman Frank Baum, 1856
Paul Zindel, 1936

May 17
Eloise Greenfield, 1929
Gary Paulsen, 1939

May 18
Lillian Hoban, 1925
Irene Hunt, 1907

May 19
Tom Feelings, 1933

May 21
Virginia Haviland, 1911

May 22
Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859
Arnold Lobel, 1933

May 23
Margaret Wise Brown, 1910
Oliver Butterworth, 1915
Susan Cooper, 1935
Scott O'Dell, 1903
Peter Parnall, 1936

May 25
Martha Alexander, 1920

May 29
Willo Davis Roberts, 1928

May 30
Countee Cullen, 1903
Millicent Selsam, 1912

June

June 1
James Daugherty, 1889

June 2
Norton Juster, 1929
Paul Galdone, 1914
Helen Oxenbury, 1938

June 3
Anita Lobel, 1934

June 5
Franklyn M. Branley, 1915
Richard Scarry, 1919

June 6
Verna Aardema, 1911
Cynthia Rylant, 1954
Peter Spier, 1927

June 7
John Goodall, 1908
Nikki Giovanni, 1943
Gwendolyn Brooks, 1917

June 10
Maurice Sendak, 1928

June 11
Robert Munsch, 1945

June 12
Anne Frank, 1929
Johanna Spyri, 1827

June 14
Laurence Yep, 1948

June 17
James Weldon Johnson, 1871

June 18
Pat Hutchins, 1942
Chris Van Allsburg, 1949

June 19
Patricia Wrightson, 1921

June 23
Theodore Taylor, 1924

June 24
John Ciardi, 1916
Leonard Everett Fisher, 1924

June 25
Eric Carle, 1929

June 26
Pearl S. Buck, 1892
Lynd Ward, 1905
Nancy Willard, 1936
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
Anne Pellowski, 1933

June 29
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, 1900

June 30
Mollie Hunter, 1922
David McPhail, 1940

July

July 2
Jack Gantos, 1951
Jean Craighead George, 1919

July 5
John Carl Schoenherr, 1935

July 6
Robert A. Heinlein, 1907

July 8
James Cross Giblin, 1933
Raffi, 1948

July 9
Betsy Bang, 1912
June Jordan, 1936

July 10
Martin Provensen, 1916

July 11
Patricia Polacco, 1944
James Stevenson, 1929
E.B. White, 1899

July 12
Johanna Spyri,1827
Henry David Thoreau, 1817
Herbert Zim, 1909

July 13
Marcia Brown, 1918
Ashley Bryan, 1923

July 14
Leon Garfield, 1921
Peggy Parish, 1927
Issac Bashevis Singer, 1904

July 15
Walter D. Edmonds, 1905
Clement Moore, 1779

July 16
Arnold Adoff, 1935
Richard Egielski, 1952
Shirley Hughes, 1927

July 17
Warwick Hutton, 1939

July 18
Laurence Housman, 1865

July 19
Eve Merriam, 1916
John Newbery, 1713

July 23
Robert Quackenbush, 1929

July 25
Ruth Krauss, 1911

July 27
Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1972

July 28
Natalie Babbitt, 1932
Beatrix Potter, 1866

July 29
Sharon Creech, 1945

July 31
Lynn Reid Banks, 1929
Robert Kimmel Smith, 1930
J. K. Rowling, 1965

August

August 1
Gail Gibbons, 1944

August 2
Holling C. Holling, 1900
James Howe, 1946

August 5
Ruth Sawyer, 1880

August 7
Betsy Byars, 1928

August 8
Jan Pienkowski, 1936
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, 1896

August 9
José Aruego, 1932
Tove Jansson, 1914
Patricia McKissack, 1944

August 10
Margot Tomes, 1917

August 11
Don Freeman, 1908

August 12
Walter Dean Myers, 1937

August 14
Alice Provensen, 1918

August 15
E. Nesbit, 1858
Brinton Turkle, 1915

August 16
Beverly Brodsky, 1941
Diana Wynne Jones, 1934
Myra Cohn Livingston, 1926
Beatrice Schenk DeRegniers, 1914

August 18
Paula Danziger, 1944

August 19
Vicki Cobb, 1938
Ogden Nash, 1902

August 21
X.J. Kennedy, 1919
Arthur Yorinks, 1953

August 27
Arlene Mosel, 1921

August 28
Roger Duvoisin, 1904
AllenSay, 1937
TashaTudor, 1915

August 29
Karen Hesse,1952

August 30
Laurent de Brunhoff, 1925
Virginia Lee Burton, 1909
Donald Crews, 1938

September

September 1
Jim Arnosky, 1946
Rosy Guy, 1928

September 2
Demi, 1942

September 3
Sarah Orne Jewett, 1859

September 4
Joan Aiken, 1924
Syd Hoff,1912

September 5
Paul Fleischman, 1952

September 8
Jack Prelutsky, 1940

September 9
Phyllis Whitney, 1903

September 11
Anthony Browne, 1946
O. Henry, 1862
Alfred Slote, 1926

September 13
Roald Dahl, 1916
Else Minarik, 1920

September 14
Edith ThacherHurd, 1910
John Steptoe, 1950

September 15
James Fenimore Cooper, 1789
Tomie de Paola, 1934
Robert McCloskey, 1914

September 16
H.A. Rey, 1898

September 19
Jim Haskins, 1941
Arthur Rackham, 1867

September 21
Taro Yashima, 1908

September 22
Esphyr Slobodkina, 1908

September 23
Jan Ormerod, 1946

September 24
L. Leslie Brooke, 1862

September 26
Johnny Appleseed, 1774

September 27
Paul Goble, 1933
Bernard Waber, 1924

September 30
Edgar D'Aulaire,1898
Alvin Tresselt, 1916

October

October 2
Ernesto T. Bethancourt, 1932

October 3
Robert Lawson, 1892
Munro Leaf,1905

October 4
Donald Sobol, 1924

October 5
Louise Fitzhugh, 1928
Gene Zion, 1913

October 6
Steven Kellogg, 1941

October 7
Alice Dalgliesh, 1893

October 8
R. L. Stine, 1943

October 9
Johanna Hurwitz, 1937

October 10
James Marshall, 1942

October 11
Russell Freedman, 1929

October 13
Arna Bontemps, 1902

October 14
Lois Lenski, 1893

October 15
Barry Moser, 1940

October 16
Edward Ardizzone, 1900

October 17
Alan Garner, 1934

October 18
Ed Emberly, 1931

October 20
David Johnson Leisk
(Crockett Johnson), 1906

October 21
Ursula LeGuin, 1929

October 23
BruceBrooks, 1950
Marjorie Flack, 1897

October 24
Bruno Munari, 1907

October 25
Steven Kellogg,1941

October 27
Enid Bagnold, 1889
Constance Green, 1924
Lillian Morrison, 1917

October 31
Katherine Paterson, 1932

November

November 3
Betty Bao Lord, 1938

November 4
Sterling North, 1906

November 5
Marcia Sewall, 1935

November 5
Armstrong Sperry, 1897

November 9
Pat Cummins, 1950

November 11
Diane Wolkstein, 1942

November 12
Marjorie W.Sharmat, 1928

November 13
Nathaniel Benchley, 1915
Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850

November 14
Astrid Lindgren, 1907
William Steig, 1907
Nancy Tafuri, 1946

November 15
Daniel Manus Pinkwater, 1941

November 16
Jean Fritz, 1915
Robin McKinley, 1952

November 21
Marlo Thomas
Elizabeth George Speare, 1908

November 23
Boris Karloff, 1887

November 24
Frances Hodgson Burnett, 1849
Carlo Collodi, 1826
Yoshiko Uchida, 1921

November 25
Marc Brown, 1946
Mordicai Gerstein, 1935

November 25
Charles Schulz, 1922

November 27
Kevin Henkes, 1960

November 28
Tomi Ungerer, 1931
Ed Young, 1931

November 29
Louisa May Alcott, 1832
C.S. Lewis, 1898
Madeleine L'Engle, 1918

November 30
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), 1835
Lucy Maud Montogomery, 1874
Margot Zemach, 1931

December

December 1
Jan Brett, 1949

December 2
David Macaulay, 1946

December 5
Walt Disney, 1901

December 8
Padraic Colum, 1881
James Thurber, 1894

December 9
Jean deBrunhoff, 1899
Joel Chandler Harris, 1848

December 10
Emily Dickinson, 1830
Rumer Godden, 1907
George MacDonald, 1824
Ernest Shepard, 1879

December 11
William Joyce, 1957

December 14
Rosemary Sutcliff, 1920

December 16
Quentin Blake, 1932
Bill Brittain, 1930
Marie Hall Ets, 1893

December 18
Marilyn Sachs, 1927

December 19
Eve Bunting,1928

December 20
M.B. Goffstein, 1940

December 22
Jerry Pinkney, 1939

December 23
Avi, 1937

December 24
Noel Streatfield, 1920

December 27
Ingri Parin D'Aulaire, 1904

December 29
Molly Garrett Bang, 1943

December 30
Rudyard Kipling, 1865
Mercer Mayer, 1943