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July Author & Illustrator Birthdays |
| Date | Authors & Illustrators | Have You Read...? See Note 1 |
| 1 | Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith (1950) | Arctic Hunter |
| 1 | Giles Laroche (1956) | Bridges Are to Cross |
| 1 | Emily Arnold McCully (1939) | Leo the Magnificat |
| 2 | Jack Gantos (1951) | Joey Pigza Loses Control |
| 2 | Jean Craighead George (1919) | Nutik, the Wolf Pup |
| 2 | Anna M. Rich (1956) | Joshua's Masai Mask |
| 3 | Franny Billingsley (1954) | The Folk Keeper |
| 4 | Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) | The Scarlet Letter |
| 5 | John Schoenherr (1935) | Pigs In the Mud In the Middle of the Rud |
| 6 | Kathi Appelt (1954) | Bubba and Beau, Best Friends |
| 6 | Alan Tiegreen (1935) | Ramona's World |
| 7 | Nathan Aaseng (1953) | Navajo Code Talkers |
| 8 | James Cross Giblin (1933) | The Mystery of the Mammoth Bones: and How It Was Solved |
| 9 | Nancy Farmer (1941) | A Girl Named Disaster |
| 10 | Candice F. Ransom (1952) | When the Whippoorwill Calls |
| 11 | Patricia Polacco (1944) | Chicken Sunday |
| 11 | James Stevenson (1929) | Mud Flat Spring |
| 11 | E. B. White (1899-1985) | Charlotte's Web |
| 13 | Marcia Brown (1918) | Stone Soup |
| 13 | Ashley Bryan (1923) | Ashley Bryan's ABC of African American Poetry |
| 13 | Anna Grossnickle Hines (1946) | What Can You Do in the Snow? |
| 14 | Laura Joffe Numeroff (1953) | If You Give a Pig a Pancake (Spanish ed: Si le das un panqueque a una cerdita) |
| 14 | Peggy Parish (1927-1988) | Amelia Bedelia |
| 14 | Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991) | Stories for Children |
| 15 | Clement C. Moore (1779-1863) | The Night Before Christmas |
| 16 | Arnold Adoff (1935) | In for Winter, Out for Spring |
| 16 | Richard Egielski (1952) | The Web Files |
| 16 | Shirley Hughes (1927) | Rhymes for Annie Rose |
| 17 | Chris Crutcher (1946) | Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes |
| 17 | Karla Kuskin (1932) | The Sky is Always in the Sky |
| 18 | Felicia Bond (1954) | If You Give a Moose a Muffin |
| 18 | Jerry Stanley (1941) | Hurry Freedom: African Americans in Gold Rush California |
| 19 | Eve Merriam (1916-1992) | You Be Good and I'll Be Right |
| 19 | John Newbery (1713-1767) | John Newbery and the Story of the Newbery Medal |
| 20 | Mark Buehner (1959) | I Am the Cat |
| 21 | Amy Ehrlich (1942) | Parents in the Pigpen, Pigs in the Tub |
| 22 | Patricia Calvert (1931) | Bigger |
| 24 | Albert Marrin (1936) | Sitting Bull and His World |
| 24 | Nadine Bernard Westcott (1949) | Farm Flu |
| 25 | Ruth Krauss (1901-1993) | The Happy Day |
| 25 | Rachel Vail (1966) | Over the Moon |
| 27 | Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) | Jim, Who Ran Away from His Nurse, and Was Eaten by a Lion |
| 27 | Jessie Haas (1959) | Runaway Radish |
| 28 | Natalie Babbit (1932) | Peacock and Other Poems |
| 28 | Beatrix Potter (1866-1943) | The Tale of Peter Rabbit |
| 29 | Sharon Creech (1945) | Chasing Redbird |
| 29 | Kathleen Krull (1952) | Lives of the Musicians: Good Times, Bad Times (and What the Neighbors Thought). |
| 31 | Lynne Reid Banks (1929) | Adventures of King Midas |
| 31 | J. K. Rowling (1965) | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone |
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