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March Author & Illustrator Birthdays |
| Date | Authors & Illustrators | Have You Read...? See Note 1 |
| 1 | Barbara Helen Berger (1945) | Grandfather Twilight |
| 2 | Leo Dillon (1933) | To Every Thing There is a Season |
| 2 | Helen Roney Sattler (1921) | The Book of North American Owls |
| 2 | Dr. Seuss (1904-1991) | Oh, The Places You'll Go |
| 3 | Patricia MacLachlan (1938) | Caleb's Story |
| 3 | Suse MacDonald (1940) | Look Whooo's Counting |
| 4 | Peggy Rathmann (1953) | Officer Buckle and Gloria |
| 4 | Dav Pilkey (1966) | The Adventures of Captain Underpants |
| 5 | Mem Fox (1946) | Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge |
| 6 | Thacher Hurd (1949) | Mama Don't Allow |
| 7 | Jane Dyer (1949) | Time for Bed |
| 8 | Kenneth Grahame (1859) | The Wind in the Willows |
| 8 | Trina Schart Hyman (1939-2005) | The Serpent Slayer and Other Stories of Strong Women |
| 11 | Wanda Gag (1893) | Millions of Cats |
| 11 | Ezra Jack Keats (1916) | The Snowy Day |
| 12 | Virginia Hamilton (1936) | The Girl Who Spun Gold |
| 13 | Diane Dillon (1933) | Rap A Tap Tap |
| 13 | Thomas Rockwell (1933) | How to Eat Fried Worms |
| 13 | Gail Owens (1939) | Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Mysterious Handprints |
| 13 | Lisa Campbell Ernst (1957) | Zinnia and Dot |
| 15 | Barbara Cohen (1932) | Molly's Pilgrim |
| 16 | Sid Fleishman (1920) | Bandit's Moon |
| 17 | Keith Baker (1953) | Who is the Beast? |
| 17 | Kate Greenaway (1846) | A Apple Pie and Traditional Nursery Rhymes |
| 17 | Lilian Moore (1909-2004) | My First Counting Book |
| 18 | Douglas Florian (1950) | Insectlopedia |
| 20 | Mitsumasa Anno (1926) | Anno's Journey |
| 20 | Lois Lowry (1937) | The Giver |
| 20 | Bill Martin, Jr. (1916-2004) | Brown Bear, Brown Bear |
| 20 | Fred Rogers (1920-2004) | The Giving Box |
| 20 | Louis Sachar (1954) | Holes |
| 21 | Margaret Mahy (1936) | The Seven Chinese Brothers |
| 21 | Michael Foreman (1938) | Michael Foreman's Playtime Rhymes |
| 21 | David Wisniewski (1953) | Sundiata: Lion King of Mali |
| 21 | Peter Catalanotto (1959) | Dylan's Day Out |
| 22 | Randolph Caldecott (1846) | Ride a Cock-Horse and Other Rhymes and Stories |
| 23 | Eleanor Cameron (1912) | Mushroom Planet series |
| 24 | Mary Stolz (1920) | Emmett's Pig |
| 25 | Betty MacDonald (1908) | Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle |
| 26 | Robert Frost (1874) | Robert Frost (Poetry for Young People) |
| 27 | Dick King-Smith (1922) | Babe, The Gallent Pig |
| 28 | Byrd Baylor (1924) | Everybody Needs a Rock |
| 29 | Suçie Stevenson (?) | Henry and Mudge series |
| 30 | Anna Sewell (1820) | Black Beauty |
| 31 | Beni Montresor (1926) | Belling the Tiger |
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Note 1: Suggested titles range from books for infants to young adult novels. Please check for age-appropriateness. To the best of our knowledge, these birthdates are accurate. If
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