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April Author & Illustrator Birthdays |
| Date | Authors & Illustrators | Have You Read...? See Note 1 |
| 1 | Anne McCaffrey (1926) | The Dragonriders of Pern series |
| 1 | Jan Wahl (1933) | Pleasant Fieldmouse |
| 2 | Hans Christian Anderson (1805-1875) | The Ugly Duckling |
| 2 | Amy Schwartz (1954) | Annabelle Swift, Kindergartner |
| 3 | Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909) | Man Without a Country |
| 3 | Washington Irving (1783-1859) | Rip Van Winkle |
| 4 | Maya Angelou (1928) | Life Doesn't Frighten Me |
| 4 | Johanna Reiss (1932) | The Upstairs Room |
| 4 | Glen Rounds (1906-2002) | Sod Houses on the Great Plains |
| 5 | Richard Peck (1934) | A Long Way from Chicago: A Novel in Stories |
| 6 | Graeme Base (1958) | Animalia |
| 6 | Jerdine Nolen (1953) | Big Jabe |
| 7 | Donald Carrick (1929) | Patrick's Dinosaurs |
| 7 | Alice Schertle (1941) | How Now, Brown Cow? |
| 8 | Susan Bonners (1947) | Panda |
| 8 | Linda Crew (1951) | Fire on the Wind |
| 8 | Trina Schart Hyman (1939) | The Fortune-Tellers |
| 9 | Margaret Peterson Haddix (1964) | Among the Hidden |
| 9 | Joseph Krumgold (1908) | Onion John |
| 10 | David A. Adler (1947) | Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man |
| 10 | Wendy Anderson Halperin (1952) | The Full Belly Bowl |
| 10 | Eric Knight (1897-1943) | Lassie, Come Home |
| 11 | Graham Salisbury (1944) | Lord of the Deep |
| 11 | April Pulley Sayre (1966) | Dig, Wait, Listen: A Desert Toad's Tale |
| 12 | C. W. Anderson (1891-1971) | Blaze and the Forest Fire |
| 12 | Beverly Cleary (1916) | Ramona's World |
| 12 | Barbara Corcoran (1911) | Wolf at the Door |
| 12 | Gary Soto (1952) | Too Many Tamales |
| 13 | Marguerite Henry (1902-1997) | Misty of Chincoteague |
| 13 | Lee Bennett Hopkins (1938) | Home to Me |
| 15 | Jacqueline Briggs Martin (1945) | Snowflake Bentley |
| 16 | Garth Williams (1912-1996) | Home for a Bunny |
| 17 | Dayal Kaur Khalsa (1946-1989) | How Pizza Came to Queens |
| 18 | Evelyn Sibley Lampman (1907-1980) | The Shy Stegosaurus of Cricket Creek |
| 19 | Jon Agee (1960) | Milo's Hat Trick |
| 19 | Javaka Steptoe (1971) | In Daddy's Arms I Am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers |
| 20 | Mary Hoffman (1945) | Boundless Grace |
| 21 | Barbara Park (1947) | The Graduation of Jake Moon |
| 21 | Jane Breskin Zalben (1950) | Beni the Bear series |
| 22 | Eileen Christelow (1943) | The Great Pig Search |
| 22 | Paula Fox (1923) | One-Eyed Cat |
| 22 | Kurt Wiese (1887-1974) | Freddy and the Perilous Adventure |
| 23 | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) | Romeo and Juliet |
| 24 | Bert Kitchen (1940) | Animal Alphabet |
| 25 | Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) | Rhymes and Verses: Collected Poems for Young People |
| 25 | George Ella Lyon (1949) | Come A Tide |
| 25 | Alvin Schwartz (1927) | Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark: Collected from American Folklore |
| 26 | Patricia Reilly Giff (1935) | Nory Ryan's Song |
| 26 | Maud Hart Lovelace (1892-1980) | Betsy-Tacy |
| 27 | Ludwig Bemelmans (1898-1962) | Madeline |
| 27 | John Burningham (1936) | Mr. Grumpy's Outing |
| 27 | Nancy Shaw (1946) | Sheep in a Jeep |
| 28 | Lois Duncan (1934) | Horses of Dreamland |
| 28 | Barbara Juster Esbensen (1925-1996) | Who Shrank My Grandmother's House?: Poems of Discovery |
| 28 | Amy Hest (1950) | In the Rain with Baby Duck |
| 28 | Ben Shecter (1935) | Maggie Marmelstein Series |
| 28 | Suzanne Williams (1953) | Mommy Doesn't Know My Name |
| 29 | Nicole Rubel (1953) | Rotton Ralph |
| 29 | Jill Paton Walsh (1937) | Birdy and the Ghosties |
| 30 | Kirkpatrick Hill (1938) | The Year of Miss Agnes |
| 30 | Dorothy Hinshaw Patent (1940) | Feathers |
| 30 | Janet Morgan Stoeke (1957) | Minerva Louise at the Fair |
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