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December Author & Illustrator Birthdays |
| Date | Authors & Illustrators | Have You Read...? See Note 1 |
| 1 | Jan Brett (1949) | Town Mouse, Country Mouse |
| 2 | David Macauley (1946) | Building Big |
| 2 | William Wegman (1943) | William Wegman's Mother Goose |
| 4 | George Ancona (1929) | Powwow |
| 7 | Anne Fine (1947) | Up on Cloud Nine |
| 8 | Mary Azarian (1940) | Snowflake Bentley |
| 8 | James Thurber (1894-1961) | Many Moons |
| 9 | Joan W. Blos (1928) | A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-32 |
| 9 | Jean De Brunhoff (1899-1937) | The Story of Babar |
| 9 | Mary Downing Hahn (1937) | Anna All Year Round |
| 9 | Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908) | The Complete Tales of Uncle Remus |
| 10 | Emily Dickinson (1830-?) | The Mouse of Amherst |
| 10 | Mary Norton (1903-1992) | The Borrowers |
| 10 | Ann Turner (1945) | Dakota Dugout |
| 11 | William Joyce (1957) | George Shrinks |
| 12 | Barbara Emberley (1932) | Drummer Hoff |
| 14 | Rhoda Blumberg (1917) | Full Steam Ahead: The Race to Build a Transcontinental Railroad |
| 15 | Terry Trueman (1947) | Stuck in Neutral |
| 16 | Quentin Blake (1932) | The Story of the Dancing Frog |
| 16 | Peter Dickinson (1927) | The Iron Lion |
| 16 | E. B. Lewis (1956) | Dirt on Their Skirts: The Story of the Young Women Who Won the World Championship |
| 17 | Raúl Colón (1952) | A Band of Angels: A Story Inspired by the Jubilee Singers |
| 19 | Eve Bunting (1928) | Flower Garden |
| 20 | Dennis Brindell Fradin (1945) | Ida B. Wells: Mother of the Civil Rights Movement |
| 22 | Jerry Pinkney (1939) | The Last Tales of Uncle Remus |
| 23 | Avi (1937) | Crispin: The Cross of Lead |
| 24 | Lynn Munsinger (1951) | Hooway for Wodney Wat |
| 25 | Ann Nolan Clark (1896-1995) | In My Mother's House |
| 25 | Gennady Spirin (1948) | The Crane Wife |
| 26 | Jean Van Leeuwen (1937) | Oliver and Albert, Friends Forever |
| 27 | Ted Rand (1915) | Nutik, the Wolf Pup |
| 27 | Diane Stanley (1943) | A Time Apart |
| 28 | Cynthia DeFelice (1951) | The Ghost of Fossil Glen |
| 28 | Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard (1927) | Virgie Goes to School with Us Boys |
| 28 | Nancy Luenn (1954) | Nessa's Story |
| 29 | Molly Bang (1943) | Goose |
| 29 | Jan Greenberg (1942) | Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century American Art |
| 30 | Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) | Rikki-Tikki-Tavi |
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