The Libri Foundation |
January Author & Illustrator Birthdays |
| Date | Authors & Illustrators | Have You Read...? See Note 1 |
| 1 | Marilyn Hirsh (1944) | Joseph Who Loved the Sabbath |
| 1 | John Steinbeck (1902-1968) | The Red Pony |
| 2 | Alma Flor Ada (1938) | Gathering the Sun: An Alphabet in Spanish and English |
| 2 | Jan Slepian (1921) | The Broccoli Tapes |
| 3 | John Walsh Anglund (1926) | Cowboy's Secret Life |
| 3 | Patricia Lee Gauch (1934) | Tanya and Emily in a Dance for Two |
| 3 | Carolyn Haywood (1898-1990) | "B" Is For Betsy |
| 3 | Chris K. Soentpiet (1970) | More than Anything Else |
| 3 | J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) | Lord of the Rings Trilogy |
| 4 | Robert Burleigh (1936) | Home Run: The Story of Babe Ruth |
| 4 | Jacob Grimm (1785-1863) | Rapunzel |
| 4 | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (1933) | Shiloh |
| 5 | Lynne Cherry (1952) | The Great Kapok Tree: A Tale of the Amazon Forest |
| 5 | Betsy Maestro (1944) | The Story of Clocks and Calendars: Marking a Millennium |
| 6 | Vera Cleaver (1919-1992) | Where the Lilies Bloom |
| 6 | Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) | The Huckabuck Family: and How They Raised Popcorn in Nebraska and Quit and Came Back |
| 7 | Kay Chorao (1937) | Pig and Crow |
| 7 | Minfong Ho (1951) | Hush!: A Thai Lullaby |
| 7 | Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) | Zora Hurston and the Chinaberry Tree |
| 7 | John Warren Stewig (1937) | King Midas: A Golden Tale |
| 8 | Nancy Bond (1945) | A String in the Harp |
| 8 | Floyd Cooper (1956) | How Sweet the Sound: African-American Songs for Children |
| 8 | Marjorie Priceman (1958) | Emeline at the Circus |
| 10 | Lloyd Bloom (1947) | When Uncle Took the Fiddle |
| 10 | Remy Charlip (1929) | Sleepytime Rhyme |
| 10 | Christopher G. Knight (1946) | Interrupted Journey: Saving the Endangered Sea Turtles |
| 11 | Robert C. O'Brien (1918-1973) | Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh |
| 11 | Bernice Rabe (1928) | The Balancing Girl |
| 12 | Clement Hurd (1908-1988) | Goodnight Moon |
| 12 | Jack London (1876-1916) | The Call of the Wild |
| 12 | William Munoz (1949) | The Bald Eagle Returns |
| 12 | Charles Perrault (1628-1703) | Puss in Boots |
| 13 | N. M. Bodecker (1922-1988) | Half Magic |
| 13 | Michael Bond (1926) | Paddington Bear |
| 14 | Thornton Burgess (1874-1965) | Old Mother West Wind |
| 14 | Hugh Lofting (1886-1947) | Story of Dr. Doolittle |
| 15 | Satomi Ichikawa (1949) | Bravo, Tanya |
| 16 | Robert Lipsyte (1938) | One Fat Summer |
| 16 | Kate (Katy Hall) McMullan (1947) | If You Were My Bunny |
| 17 | John Bellairs (1938) | The House With a Clock in its Wall |
| 17 | Robert Cormier (1925-2000) | Frenchtown Summer |
| 17 | Janet Stevens (1953) | Tops and Bottoms |
| 18 | Raymond Briggs (1934) | The Snowman |
| 18 | A.A. Milne (1882-1956) | Winnie-the-Pooh |
| 18 | Arthur Ransome (1884-1967) | The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship: A Russian Tale |
| 18 | Alan Schroeder (1961) | Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman |
| 19 | Nina Bawden (1925) | The Real Plato Jones |
| 19 | Pat Mora (1942) | Tomas and the Library Lady |
| 19 | Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) | Edgar Allan Poe (Poetry for Young People) |
| 20 | Keiko Narahashi (1959) | The Magic Purse |
| 22 | Blair Lent (1930) | Tikki Tikki Tembo |
| 22 | Rafe Martin (1946) | The Boy Who Lived with the Seals |
| 23 | Thomas (Allen (1928) | Remember Pearl Harbor: American and Japanese Survivors Tell Their Stories |
| 23 | Katharine Holabird (1948) | Angelina Ice Skates |
| 25 | Debbi Chocolate (1951) | On the Day I Was Born |
| 25 | Roy Gerrard (1935) | Rosie and the Rustlers |
| 26 | Ashley Wolff (1956) | Little Donkey Close Your Eyes |
| 27 | Harry Allard (1928) | Miss Nelson is Missing! |
| 27 | Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland |
| 27 | James M. Deem (1950) | Bodies from the Bog |
| 27 | Susan Guevara (1956) | Chato's Kitchen |
| 27 | Julius Lester (1939) | The Last Tales of Uncle Remus |
| 27 | Jean Merrill (1923) | The Pushcart War |
| 28 | Ann Jonas (1932) | Aardvarks Disembark |
| 28 | Vera (Williams (1927) | "More, More, More," Said the Baby |
| 29 | Sylvia Cassedy (1930-1989) | Lucy Babbidge's House |
| 29 | Christopher Collier (1930) | My Brother Sam is Dead |
| 29 | Bill Peet (1915-2002) | Bill Peet: An Autobiography |
| 29 | Rosemary Wells (1943) | The McDuff Stories |
| 30 | Lloyd Alexander (1924) | The Gawgon and the Boy |
| 30 | Michael Dorris (1945-1997) | Morning Girl |
| 30 | Tony Johnston (1942) | Very Scary |
| 31 | Denise Fleming (1950) | Mama Cat Has Three Kittens |
| 31 | Gerald McDermott (1941) | Coyote: A Trickster Tale from the American Southwest |
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