January March April 3 J. R.R. Tolkien 2 Dr. Suess 29 Ron Roy 4 Phyllis Reynolds Naylor 3 Patricia Maclachlan 5 Jack London 4 Dav Pilkey May 18 A.A Milne 4 Peggy Rathmann 4 Don Wood 19 Edgar Allan Poe 5 Mem Fox 5Leo Lionni 20 Tedd Arnold 6 Chris Raschka 5Scott Westerfeld 26 Shannon Hale 8 Robert Sabuda 10 Christopher Paul Curtis 27 Lewis Carroll 11 Ezra Jack Keats 11 Peter Sis 27 Julius Lester 11 Jonathan London 11 Mike Lupica 29 Rosemary Wells 12 Carl Hiaasen 12 Blue Balliett 30 Lloyd Alexander 12 Virgina Hamilton 14 Eoin Colfer 31 Denise Fleming 13 Ellen Raskin 15 Kadir Nelson 16 Sid Fleischman 15 Paul Zindel 17 Wendall Minor 17 Gary Paulsen 20 Louis Lowry 18 Debbie Dadey 20 Louis Sachar 20 Mary Pope Osborne 21 Lisa Desimini 22Arnold Lobel 25 Kate Dicamillo 23 Margaret Wise Brown 25 Linda Sue Park 29 Andrew Clements

26 Robert Frost 26 Jerry Pallotta February 27 Dick King-Smith 1 Jerry Spinelli 28 Doreen Cronin June 1 Meg Cabot 5 Rick Riordan 1 Langston Hughes 5 Richard Scarry 2 Judith Viorst 6 Cynthia Rylant 5 David Wiesner 10 7 Charles Dickens 11 Robert Munsch 7 Laura Ingalls Wilder 14 Bruce Degen 8 Anne Rockwell 15 Brian Jacques 10 Mark Teague April 18 Chris Van Allsburg 10 E. L. Konigsburg 2 Hans Christian Andersen 24 Kathryn Lasky 11 5 Anthony Horowitz 24 Jean Marzollo 11 Mo Willems 9 Margaret Peterson 25 Eric Carle 12 Judy Blume Haddix 30 David McPhail 12 David Small 10 Richard Peck 12 Jacqueline Woodson 10 David A. Adler July 13 Simms Taback 12 Beverly Cleary 2 Jack Gantos 14 Paul O. Zelinsky 13 Lee Bennett Hopkins 2 Jean Craighead George 15 Norman Bridwell 14 Gary D. Schmidt 11 Patricia Polacco 19 Jeff Kinney 21 Barbara Park 11 E.B. White 23 Walter Wick 22 Eileen Christelow 14 Laura Numeroff 25 Cynthia Voigt 23 William Shakespeare 14 Peggy Parish 28 Megan McDonald 26 Patricia Reilly Giff 14 Brian Selznick 28 Lemony Snicket 28 Harper Lee 15 Clement C. Moore July September November 15 Marcia Thornton Jones 1 Jim Arnosky 2 Alyssa Satin Capucilli 18 Felicia Bond 2 Ellen Stoll Walsh 9 Lois Ehlert 26 Jan Berenstain 3 Syd Hoff 11 Peg Kehret 28 Natalie Babbitt 4 Paul Fleischman 12 Marjorie W. Sharmat 29 Sharon Creech 8 12 Neal Shusterman 30 Marcus Pfister 8 Jack Prelutsky 17 Christopher Paolini 31 J.K. Rowling 13 Ronald Dahl 20 Marion Dane Bauer 13 Mildred D. Taylor 22 Jamie Lee Curtis 14 William H. Armstrong 25 Marc Brown 15 Tomie DePaola 26 Charles M. Schulz 15 Robert McCloskey 27 Kevin Henkes 16 H.A. Rey 29 C.S. Lewis 17 Gail Carson Levine 29 Madeleine L’engle August 18 H.G. Wells 30 Roland Smith 1 Gail Gibbons 21 Hans Wilhelm 30 Mark Twian 1Bill Wallace 24 Jim Henson 2James Howe 24 Wilson Rawls 6 Frank Asch 25 Andrea Davis Pinkney 6 Barbara Cooney 25 Shel Silverstein 7 Betsy Byars 26 Johnny Appleseed 9 Patricia C. Mckissack 29 Stan Berenstain 9 Seymour Simon 30 Elie Wiesel 10 Suzanne Collins 11 Joanna Cole October 11 Don Freeman 1 Julie (Andrews) Edwards 12 Ann M. Martin 4 Donald J. Sobol

12 Fredrick Mckissack 5 David Shannon December 12 Walter Dean Myers 8 Faith Ringgold 1 Jan Brett 16 Matt Christopher 8 R.L. Stine 10 Cornelia Punke 18 Paula Danziger 8 Mike Thaler 19 Eve Bunting 19 Jared Lee 10 James Marshall 23 Audrey Wood 20 Jeff Brown 11 Russell Freedman 24 Sharon G. Flake 20 Judy Schachner 16 Joseph Bruchac 24 Stephenie Meyer 21 Sharon Draper 19 Ed Emberley 24 Lynn Munsinger 23 Melvin Berger 19 Dan Gutman 25 Pan Munozryan 25 Ian Falconer 19 Philip Pullman 30 Mercer Mayer 25 Lane Smith 20 Nikki Grimes 30 Jane O’Connor 25 Virginia Euwer Wolff 23 Laurie Halse Anderson

27 Suzy Kline 23 Gordon Korman 27 Ann Rinaldi 25 Stephanie Tolan 28 Kevin Hawkes 26 Steven Kellogg 28 J. Brian Pinkney 30 Henry Winkler 29 Karen Hesse 31 Katherine Paterson 30 Donald Crews