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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 |
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