Click on a month to see which children's authors* were born during that month.

January | February | March | April
May | June | July | August
September | October | November | December

*If the author's name is underlined, click on it to visit the author's website or biography page!

January

Crosby Bonsall
3 – Alma Flor Ada
3 - J.R.R. Tolkien
4 - Jacob Grimm
4 – Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
5 – Lynne Cherry
6 – Carl Sandburg
12 – Jack London
12 – Charles Perrault
17 – Janet Stevens
18 – A.A. Milne
20 – Ted Arnold
27 – Lewis Carroll
29 - Rosemary Wells
31 - Denise Fleming

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February

1 – Langston Hughes
1 – Jerry Spinelli
2 - Judith Viorst
3 – Joan Lowery Nixon
7- Charles Dickens
7 – Laura Ingalls Wilder
10 - E.L. Konisburg
12 – Judy Blume
14 - Paul Zelinsky
15 – Norman Bridwell
21 - Jim Aylesworth

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March

2 – Dr. Seuss
3 – Patricia MacLachlan
4 - David A. Carter
4 - Dav Pilkey
4 - Peggy Rathmann
5 - Mem Fox
8 – Robert Sabuda
10 – Jack Kent
11 – Ezra Jack Keats
16 – Sid Fleischman
20 – Lois Lowry
20 – Bill Martin, Jr.
26 – Robert Frost

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April

2 – Hans Christian Anderson
4 – Elizabeth Levy
6 – Graeme Base
10 – David Adler
12 – Beverly Cleary
13 – Marguerite Henry
14 – Robert Lopshire
16 – Gertrude Chandler Warner
20 – Mary Hoffman
22 – Eileen Christelow
23 – William Shakespeare
25 – Stuart J. Murphy
27 – Barbara Park

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May

4 - Don Wood
6 – Leo Leonni
10 – Christopher Paul Curtis
16 – Bruce Coville
16 – Margret Rey
17 – Gary Paulsen
18 – Lillian Hoban
20 – Mary Pope Osborne
22 – Arthur Conan Doyle
22 – Arnold Lobel
23 - Margaret Wise Brown
24 – Diane DeGroat

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June

2 – Michael Emberley
2 – Paul Galdone
5 – Richard Scarry
6 – Cynthia Rylant
10 – Maurice Sendak
11 - Robert Munsch
18 – Pat Hutchins
18 – Chris Van Allsburg
25 - Eric Carle
26 – Charlotte Zolotow
30 – David McPhail

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July

1 – Emily Arnold McCully
2 - Jean Craighead George
8 - Raffi
11 - E.B. White
14 - Laura Numeroff
17 – Karla Kuskin
19 – Eve Merriam
20 – Paulette Bourgeois
22 – S.E. Hinton
28 – Beatrix Potter
26 - Jan Berenstain
30 - Marcus Pfister
31 – Lynne Reid Banks
31 – J.K. Rowling

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August

1 - Gail Gibbons
6 – Frank Asch
6 – Barbara Cooney
7 – Betsy Byars
9 – Patricia McKissack
11 – Joanna Cole
11 – Don Freeman
11 – Steven Kroll
16 – Matt Christopher
16 – Beatrice DeRegniers
18 – Paula Danziger
25 – Charles Ghigna
28 – Brian Pinkney
30 – Donald Crews

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September

1 – Jim Arnosky
3 - Aliki Brandenburg
4 – Syd Hoff
7 - Eric Hill
8 – Jack Prelutsky
8 – Jon Scieszka
13 - Raold Dahl
13 – Else Holmelund Minarik
15 – Tomie DePaola
15 – Robert McCloskey
16 – H.A. Rey
21 – H.G. Wells
21 - Hans Wilhelm
25 – Shel Silverstein
29 - Stan Berenstain

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October 

5 – David Shannon
8 – Mike Thaler
10 – Robert D. San Souci
14 – Miriam Cohen
14 – Lois Lenski
19 – Ed Emberley
24 – Barbara Robinson
26 – Steven Kellogg

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November 

9 - Lois Ehlert
12 – Marjorie Weinman Sharmat
13 – Robert Louis Stevenson
14 – William Steig
21 - Audrey Wood
24 – Frances Hodgson Burnett
25 – Marc Brown
25 – Shirley Climo
25 - Steven Krensky
26 – Charles Schultz
27 - Kevin Henkes
29 – Madeline L’Engle
29 - C.S. Lewis

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December 

1 – Jan Brett
5 – Walt Disney
10 - Mercer Mayer
22 - Jerry Pinkney
23 - Avi
25 – Pam Munoz Ryan
30 – Rudyard Kipling
30 – Mercer Mayer

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Lakewood teachers and students, did we omit your favorite author?  Be sure and tell Mrs. Jordan when you see her.  Thanks!