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February Author & Illustrator Birthdays |
| Date | Authors & Illustrators | Have You Read...? See Note 1 |
| 1 | Langston Hughes (1902) | The Dream Keeper and Other Poems |
| 1 | James Prellar (1961) | Jigsaw Jones books |
| 1 | Jerry Spinelli (1941) | Maniac Magee |
| 2 | Mary Casanova (1957) | The Hunter: A Chinese Folktale |
| 2 | Rebecca Caudill (1899) | Did You Carry the Flag Today, Charley? |
| 2 | Deborah Hopkinson (1952) | Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek |
| 2 | Judith Viorst (1931) | The 10th Good Thing about Barney |
| 3 | Walt Morey (1907) | Gentle Ben |
| 3 | Joan Lowery Nixon (1927) | Orphan Train Children series |
| 3 | John Wallner (1945) | Min-Yo and the Moon Dragon |
| 4 | Barbara Bartos-Hoppner (1923) | The Pied Piper of Hamelin |
| 4 | Russell Hoban (1925) | Bread and Jam for Frances |
| 4 | Barbara Shook Hazen(1930) | The Knight Who was a Afraid of the Dark |
| 5 | Patricia Lauber (1924) | Flood: Wrestling with the Mississippi |
| 5 | David Wiesner (1957) | The Three Pigs |
| 7 | Shonto Begay (1954) | Navajo: Visions and Voices Across the Mesa |
| 7 | Charles Dickens (1812) | Great Expectations |
| 7 | Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867) | Little House on the Prairie series |
| 8 | Anne Rockwell (1934) | Only Passing Through: The Story of Sojourner Truth |
| 8 | Jules Verne (1828) | Around the World in 80 Days |
| 9 | Dick Gackenbach (1927) | Poppy the Panda |
| 9 | Alice Walker (1944) | Langston Hughes: American Poet |
| 10 | Franz Brandenburg (1932) | Aunt Nina and Her Nephews and Nieces |
| 10 | Lucy Cousins (1964) | Maisy series |
| 10 | Stephen Gammell (1943) | Old Black Fly |
| 10 | E. L. Konigsburg (1930) | The View from Saturday |
| 10 | James Rice (1934) | Cajun Night Before Christmas |
| 10 | Mark Teague (1963) | Dear Mrs. LaRue: Letters from Obedience School |
| 11 | Jane Yolen (1939) | Young Merlin Trilogy |
| 12 | Judy Blume (1938) | Double Fudge |
| 12 | David Small (1945) | The Gardener |
| 12 | Jacqueline Woodson (1964) | Hush |
| 13 | Eleanor Farjeon (1881) | The Little Bookroom |
| 13 | Janet Taylor Lisle (1947) | The Art of Keeping Cool |
| 13 | William Mayne (1928) | Gideon Ahoy |
| 13 | Simms Taback (1932) | Joseph Had a Little Overcoat |
| 14 | Phyllis Root (1949) | Oliver Finds His Way |
| 14 | George Shannon (1952) | Stories to Solve: Folktales from Around the World |
| 14 | Paul O. Zelinsky (1953) | Awful Ogre's Awful Day |
| 15 | Doris Orgel (1929) | The Devil in Vienna |
| 17 | Michael McCurdy (1942) | Giants in the Land |
| 17 | Robert Newton Peck (1928) | Soup |
| 17 | Susan Beth Pfeffer (1948) | The Year Without Michael |
| 18 | Barbara M. Joosse (1949) | Mama, Do You Love Me? (Spanish ed: ¿Me quieres, mamá?) |
| 19 | Jill Krementz (1940) | A Very Young Dancer |
| 19 | Louis Slobodkin (1903) | The Moffats |
| 21 | Jim Aylesworth (1943) | The Full Belly Bowl |
| 21 | Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve (1934) | Dancing Teepees: Poems of American Indian Youth |
| 23 | C.S. Adler (1931) | That Horse Whiskey! |
| 23 | Walter Wick (1953) | A Drop of Water: A Book of Science and Wonder |
| 24 | Wilhelm Grimm (1786) | The Complete Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales |
| 24 | Uri Orlev (1931) | The Man from the Other Side |
| 25 | Edward Gorey (1925) | You Read to Me, I'll Read to You |
| 25 | True Kelley (1946) | My Dog Toby |
| 25 | Iain Lawrence (?) | The Wreckers |
| 25 | Cynthia Voigt (1942) | Dicey's Song |
| 26 | Colby Rodowsky (1932) | Not My Dog |
| 26 | Judith St. George (1931) | So You Want to Be President? |
| 27 | Florence Perry Heide (1919) | The Shrinking of Treehorn |
| 27 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807) | The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere |
| 27 | Sy Montgomery (1958) | The Man-Eating Tigers of Sundarbans |
| 27 | Uri Shulevitz (1935) | Snow |
| 28 | Megan McDonald (1959) | The Night Iguana Left Home |
| 28 | Donna Jo Napoli (1948) | Three Days |
| 29 | Patricia McKillip (1948) | Riddle-Master Trilogy |
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