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June Author & Illustrator Birthdays |
| Date | Authors & Illustrators | Have You Read...? See Note 1 |
| 2 | William Loren Katz (1927) | Black Pioneers: An Untold Story |
| 2 | Anita Lobel (1934) | No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War |
| 2 | Helen Oxenbury (1938) | Farmer Duck |
| 4 | Yassi Abolafia (1944) | Harry's Pony |
| 5 | Allan Ahlberg (1938-1995) | Each Peach Pear Plum, An "I Spy" Story |
| 5 | Richard Scarry (1919-1994) | I Am a Bunny |
| 6 | Verna Aardema (1911-2000) | How the Ostrich Got Its Long Neck |
| 6 | Will James (1892-1942) | Smokey the Cow Horse |
| 6 | Geraldine McCaughrean (1951) | The Crystal Pool: Myths and Legends of the World |
| 6 | Cynthia Rylant (1954) | Mr. Putter and Tabby series |
| 6 | Peter Spier (1927) | Crash! Bang! Boom! |
| 7 | Nikki Giovanni (1943) | The Sun Is So Quiet: Poems |
| 8 | Judy Sierra (1945) | The Gift of the Crocodile: A Cinderella Story |
| 9 | Gregory Maguire (1954) | The Good Liar |
| 10 | Maurice Sendak (1928) | The Cricket in Times Square |
| 11 | Satoshi Kitamura (1956) | Sheep in Wolves' Clothing |
| 11 | Robert N. Munsch (1945) | A Promise is a Promise |
| 12 | Rebecca Emberley (1958) | My Colors / Mis Colores |
| 12 | Anne Frank (1929-1945) | The Diary of Anne Frank |
| 12 | Helen Lester (1936) | Hooway for Wodney Wat |
| 12 | Hilary McKay (1959) | Saffy's Angel |
| 12 | Shizuye Takashima (1928) | Child In Prison Camp |
| 13 | Niki Daly (1946) | Jamela's Dress |
| 13 | Alexandra Sheedy (1962) | She Was Nice to Mice |
| 14 | Judith Kerr (1923) | Mog the Forgetful Cat |
| 14 | Michael O. Tunnell (1950) | Mailing May |
| 14 | Laurence Yep (1948) | The Dragon Prince: A Chinese Beauty and the Beast Tale |
| 15 | Brian Jacques (1939) | Redwall series |
| 18 | Pam Conrad (1947) | Call Me Ahnighito |
| 18 | Pat Hutchins (1942) | Shrinking Mouse |
| 18 | Angela Johnson (1961) | Heaven |
| 18 | Chris Van Allsburg (1949) | The Sweetest Fig |
| 18 | Vivian Vande Velde (1951) | Never Trust a Dead Man |
| 20 | Lou Ann Gaeddert (1931) | Friends and Enemies |
| 21 | Robert Kraus (1925) | Where Are You Going, Little Mouse? |
| 23 | Theodore Taylor (1924) | The Bomb |
| 24 | Leonard Everett Fisher (1924) | The Great Wall of China |
| 24 | Kathryn Lasky (1944) | The Librarian Who Measured the Earth |
| 24 | Jean Marzollo (1942) | Pretend You're a Cat |
| 25 | Eric Carle (1929) | The Very Clumsy Click Beetle |
| 25 | Tololwa M. Mollel (1952) | My Rows and Piles of Coins |
| 26 | John Archambault (1959) | Chicka Chicka Boom Boom |
| 26 | Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973) | Christmas Day In the Morning |
| 26 | Walter Farley (1915-1989) | The Black Stallion series |
| 26 | Nancy Willard (1936) | Sailing to Cythera and Other Anatole Stories |
| 26 | Charlotte Zolotow (1915) | Do You Know What I'll Do? |
| 27 | Barry Root (1954) | Old Devil Wind |
| 29 | Antoine de Saint Exupery (1900-1944) | The Little Prince |
| 30 | David McPhail (1940) | If You Were My Bunny |
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