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May Author & Illustrator Birthdays


Date Authors & Illustrators Have You Read...? See Note 1
2 Mary Quattlebaum (1958) Jackson Jones and the Puddle of Thorns
4 Dom Lee (1959) Heroes
4 Don Wood (1945) King Bidgood's in the Bathtub
5 J. Patrick Lewis (1942) Ridicholas Nicholas: More Animal Poems
5 Leo Lionni (1910) An Extraordinary Egg
6 Ted Lewin (1935) Sunsets of the West
6 Barbara McClintock (1955) Dahlia
7 Nonny Hogrogrian (1932) One Fine Day
8 Helen Griffiths (1939) Just a Dog
8 Milton Meltzer (1915) Ten Kings: And the Worlds they Ruled
9 Sir James M. Barrie (1860) Peter Pan
9 Eleanor Estes (1906) Ginger Pye
10 Caroline Cooney (1947) Face on the Milk Carton
10 Christopher Paul Curtis (1953) Bud, Not Buddy
10 Bruce McMillan (1947) My Horse of the North
11 Peter Sís (1949) Dinosaur!
11 Zilpha Keatley Snyder (1927) Gib and the Gray Ghost
12 Jennifer Armstrong (1961) Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and the Endurance
12 Caroline Feller Bauer (1935) My Mom Travels a Lot
12 Edward Lear (1812) The Owl and the Pussycat
12 Betsy Lewin (1937) Giggle, Giggle, Quack
12 Farley Mowat (1921) Never Cry Wolf
13 Sue Macy (1954) Bull's-Eye: A Photobiography of Annie Oakley
15 David Almond (?) Skellig
15 L. Frank Baum (1856) Wizard of Oz
15 Donna W. Guthrie (1946) The Witch Who Lives Down the Hall
15 Norma Fox Mazer (1931) A, My Name is Ami
15 Paul Zindel (1936) The Pigman
16 Caroline Arnold (1944) African Animals
16 Bruce Coville (1950) My Teacher is an Alien
16 Margret Rey (1906) Curious George series
17 Eloise Greenfield (1929) Honey, I Love
17 Gary Paulsen (1939) My Life in Dog Years
18 Ron Hirschi (1948) Who Lives on the Prairie?
18 Lillian Hoban (1925) A Baby Sister for Frances
18 Ken Mochizuki (1954) Baseball Saved Us
18 Barbara Ann Porte (1943) Harry's Pony
19 Tom Feelings (1933) Soul Looks Back in Wonder
19 Elise Primavera (1955) Moe the Dog in Tropical Paradise
20 Caralyn M. Buehner (1963) Fanny's Dream
20 Mary Pope Osborne (1949) New York's Bravest
21 Beverley Naidoo (1943) The Other Side of Truth
21 Erica Silverman (1955) Big Pumpkin
22 Arnold Lobel (1933) Frog and Toad series
23 Margaret Wise Brown (1910) Goodnight Moon
23 Susan Cooper (1935) The Boggart
23 Marcia Keegan (1943) Pueblo Girls: Growing Up in Two Worlds
23 Scott O'Dell (1898) Island of the Blue Dolphins
24 Diane de Groat (1947) See You Around, Sam!
24 Candace Fleming (1962) Muncha! Muncha! Muncha!
25 Barbara Bottner (1943) Bootsie Barker Bites
25 M.E. Kerr (1927) The Books of Fell
25 Joyce Carol Thomas (1938) I Have Heard of a Land
29 Andrew Clements (1949) The Landry News
29 Eleanor Coerr (1922) Buffalo Bill and the Pony Express
29 Brock Cole (1938) Buttons
29 Stephen T. Johnson (1964) On a Wintry Morning
29 Willo Davis Roberts (1928) The View from the Cherry Tree

Note 1: Suggested titles range from books for infants to young adult novels. Please check for age-appropriateness.

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