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August Author & Illustrator Birthdays |
| Date | Authors & Illustrators | Have You Read...? See Note 1 |
| 1 | Gail Gibbons (1944) | Soaring with the Wind: The Bald Eagle |
| 1 | Howard Greenfeld (1928) | The Hidden Children |
| 1 | Ann Schweninger (1951) | Amanda Pig, Schoolgirl |
| 2 | James Howe (1946) | Pinky and Rex and the School Play |
| 3 | Alix Berenzy (1957) | Into the Sea |
| 4 | Laurence Anholt (?) | Stone Girl, Bone Girl: The Story of Mary Anning |
| 5 | Reynolds Ruffins (1930) | The Gift of the Crocodile: A Cinderella Story |
| 6 | Frank Asch (1946) | Happy Birthday, Moon |
| 6 | Barbara Cooney (1917-2000) | Island Boy |
| 7 | Betsy Byars (1928) | Ant Plays Bear |
| 7 | Maia Wojciechowska (1927) | Shadow of a Bull |
| 8 | Marjorie Rawlings (1896-1953) | The Yearling |
| 9 | Jose Aruego (1932) | Leo the Late Bloomer |
| 9 | Tove Jansson (1914-2001) | Moomintroll series |
| 9 | Patricia C. McKissack (1944) | Goin' Someplace Special |
| 9 | Seymour Simon (1931) | Snakes |
| 10 | Margot Tomes (1917) | The Soup Bone |
| 11 | Joanna Cole (1944) | Fun on the Run: Travel Games and Songs |
| 11 | Don Freeman (1908-1978) | Corduroy |
| 11 | Steven Kroll (1941) | Oh, Tucker! |
| 12 | Mary Ann Hoberman (1930) | One of Each |
| 12 | Ann M. Martin (1955) | The Doll People |
| 12 | Fredrick L. McKissack (1939) | Black Diamond: The Story of the Negro Baseball Leagues |
| 12 | Walter Dean Myers (1937) | At Her Majesty's Request: An African Princess in Victorian England |
| 12 | Tim Wynne-Jones (1948) | Some of the Kinder Planets |
| 13 | Walter Crane (1845-1915) | Beauty and the Beast, and Other Tales |
| 16 | Matt Christopher (1917) | The Fox Steals Home |
| 16 | Eileen Spinelli (1942) | Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch |
| 17 | Ariane Dewey (1937) | Mitchell is Moving |
| 17 | Myra Cohn Livingston (1927) | Celebrations |
| 18 | Nicola Bayley (1944) | As I Was Going Up and Down |
| 18 | Paula Danziger (1944) | Amber Brown series |
| 18 | Sonia Levitin (1934) | Nine for California |
| 20 | Sue Alexander (1933) | Who Goes Out on Halloween? |
| 21 | Claudia Mills (1954) | You're a Brave Man, Julius Zimmerman |
| 21 | Arthur Yorinks (1953) | Hey, Al |
| 22 | Will Hobbs (1947) | Jason's Gold |
| 25 | Lane Smith (1959) | The True Story of the Three Little Pigs |
| 25 | Virginia Euwer Wolff (1937) | True Believer |
| 27 | Ann Rinaldi (1934) | The Secret of Sarah Revere |
| 27 | Suzanne Fisher Staples (1945) | Shabanu |
| 27 | Sarah Stewart (1938) | The Library |
| 28 | Roger Duvoisin (1904-1980) | Petunia |
| 28 | Kevin Hawkes (1959) | My Little Sister Ate One Hare |
| 28 | Brian Pinkney (1961) | The Adventures of Sparrowboy |
| 28 | Allen Say (1937) | Grandfather's Journey |
| 28 | Tasha Tudor (1915) | A Little Princess |
| 29 | Karen Hesse (1952) | Witness |
| 29 | Joseph Jacobs (1854-1916) | Celtic Fairy Tales |
| 30 | Virginia Lee Burton (1909-1968) | The Little House |
| 30 | Donald Crews (1938) | Inside Freight Train |
| 30 | Laurent de Brunhoff (1925) | The Story of Babar |
| 30 | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) | Frankenstein |
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